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Media Rooting for Al Gore in 2008
Many reporters are hoping Al Gore decides to seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2008 – despite his insistence that he will not run. After his recent testimony before Congress on global warming, the New York Times called Gore "a heartbreak loser turned Oscar-boasting Nobel hopeful globe-trotting pop culture eminence.” And Howard Kurtz wrote in the Washington Post: "What a difference seven years and two Oscars make.” Kurtz notes: "It’s the mere possibility that he might run for president again that is tantalizing the same media establishment that was long dismissive of Gore. In fact, many reporters seem to be rooting for Gore to jump in and ignoring his repeated denials that he has any such intention. But if he did take the leap, the honeymoon would end in nanoseconds.”
Story Continues Below John Harris of The Politico is one member of the press who appears to want the 2000 presidential loser to get in next year’s race. "He is not raising money . . . He has said repeatedly that he has no plans to run. Shouldn’t we take him at his word?” Harris writes. "Not yet, we shouldn’t. The logic of psychology and even history suggests that Gore should run.” At the moment Gore’s legacy rests on two opposing facts, according to Harris. On the plus side, Gore is now seen as a visionary for warning about global warming way back in 1992, and for warning in 2002 that the coming Iraq war would turn into a disaster.
On the negative side, Harris writes: "From the perspective of people who believe, as nearly all Democrats do, that the Bush presidency has been a historic debacle, no Democratic politician is more culpable for these consequences than Gore himself. A more poised, focused and self-confident campaign surely would have won the election and not just the popular vote in 2000.
"Both Gore’s success in perceiving issues and his failure as a political leader powerfully suggest an unfinished career.”
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