What about Al?
Posted May 15, 2008 8 :40 AM
There is a rumor among those close to the Obama camp that this weekend
will bring a big endorsement for the Illinois Senator.
We can scratch John Edwards off that list, he is yesterday's news.
Probably the only thing 'bigger' than Edwards would be former Vice-
President Al Gore -- who will be in Pittsburgh this Sunday (May 18) to
give the commencement speech at Carnegie Mellon University.
Gore, after his unsuccessful run for president in 2000, took an
environmental path, rather than political, and has become a cult-like
figure among the left and environmentally correct.
Since 2000, Gore has shared the Nobel Prize with the United Nations'
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, authored two best-selling
books on the environment ("Earth in the Balance" and "An Inconvenient
Truth"), with the latter earning him an Academy Award in its form as a
do***entary.
Leading up to the race for the race for the Democratic nomination,
Gore was a teaser candidate. Never officially saying a definitive,
"No," he became the speculator's dream if all else failed with Sen.
Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama or John Edwards.
To date, he has not offered his endorsement to the last man/woman
standing, but all bets are on Gore choosing Obama. Gore would more
than likely not chose Obama for his delegate count, superdelegate
count or the fact that the media has called Clinton out before she has
left. Gore would choose Obama for two reasons: Obama's 'change'
candidacy and the speculation that there is no love lost between Gore
and the Clinton family.
Speaking to re****ters last night as he boarded his plane for Chicago,
Obama said he was not really pu****ng Gore for an endorsement. "I'd
love to have it, but when you've won the Nobel Peace Prize, making an
endorsement politically is maybe a step down."
Gore endorsed early for the 2004 presidential race for the Democratic
nominee by backing then frontrunner and 'change' candidate Howard Dean
in late 2003.
A Gore endorsement for Obama -- especially done in the battle ground
state of Pennsylvania where he lost to Clinton -- would be the perfect
backdrop for Obama's presidential campaign.
It's the same setting that John Kerry used in 2004 to announce John
Edwards as his running mate for the Democratic ticket.
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