Al Gore

{| class="toccolours" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; text-align:left; clear:right" |+ style="margin-left: inherit; font-size: larger;" | Albert Arnold Gore Jr. |- | align="center" colspan=2 | |- ! Order: | 45th Vice President |- ! Term of Office: | January 20, 1993 –
January 20, 2001 |- ! Preceded by: | Dan Quayle |- ! Succeeded by: | Dick Cheney |- ! Date of Birth | March 31, 1948 |- ! Place of Birth: | Washington, DC |- ! Wife: | Tipper Gore |- ! Profession: | Journalist, Businessman |- ! Political party: | United States Democratic Party |- ! President of the United States: | Bill Clinton |} Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an United States United States Democratic Party politician who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He U.S. presidential election, 2000 in 2000 following Bill Clinton's two four-year terms, but was defeated by the United States Republican Party candidate George W. Bush in a closely contested election. While Gore won the popular vote, Bush won the majority of U.S. Electoral College to become President. Electoral votes are allocated by the results in the individual U.S. state, while the popular vote refers to the total number of ballots cast. Because the close vote in the state of Florida was disputed in court, many Americans believe Gore was the rightful winner of the electoral vote as well. Gore currently serves as President of Current TV, Chairman of Generation Investment Management, and sits on the board of directors of Apple Computer. He is also considered by many political pundits to be a front runner for the 2008 Democratic nomination if he decides to run. == Early and personal life == === Family === Gore was born in Washington, DC to Albert Gore, Sr. and Pauline LaFon Gore. Since his father was a veteran Democratic senator from Tennessee, Al Gore Jr. divided his childhood between Washington, DC and Carthage, Tennessee, Tennessee. During the school year, the younger Gore lived in a hotel in Washington, where he attended the Sheridan school, and later the elite St. Albans School; during summer vacations, he lived in Carthage, where he worked on the Gore family farm. In 1965, Gore enrolled at Harvard College, where he majored in government. His roommate (in Dunster House) was actor Tommy Lee Jones. Gore graduated from Harvard in June of 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1970, Gore married Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson (Tipper Gore), whom he had first met many years before at his high school senior prom (St. Albans School in Washington, DC). They have four children: Karenna Gore (born August 6, 1973), married to Drew Schiff; Kristin Gore (born June 5, 1977); Sarah Gore (born January 7, 1979); and Al Gore III (born October 19, 1982). The Gores also have two grandchildren: Wyatt (born July 4, 1999) and Anna Schiff. The Gores now reside just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, USA, and own a small farm near Carthage, Tennessee. The family attends New Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Carthage. ==Vietnam War service== ===Vietnam and journalism=== Although opposed to the Vietnam war, on August 7, 1969, Gore enrolled in the United States Army to participate in the Vietnam War effort. After completing training as a military journalist, Gore shipped to Vietnam in early 1971. He served as an Army war correspondent until May 24 of that year, slightly less than two years after he enlisted. : For more information on Gore's Vietnam service, see: [http://www.evote.com/index.asp?Page=/news_section/2000-07/07052000Gore2.asp], [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A44095-1999Dec28¬Found=true], [http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e644.htm], as well as further information below. After returning from Vietnam, Gore spent five years as a Journalist for the ''Tennessean'', a newspaper headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. During this time, Gore also attended Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Law School, although he did not complete a degree at either. Gore's mother was a member of Vanderbilt Law School's first class to accept women. === Military service === Gore served in the Army from August 1969 to May 1971. The chronology of his military service is as follows: * August 1969: Enlisted at the Newark, New Jersey recruiting office. * August to October 1969: 8 weeks of basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey * Late October 1969 to December 1970: Fort Rucker, Alabama, on-the-job occupational training at the Army Flier newspaper. * January 1971 to May 1971: field reporter in Vietnam, part of the 20th Engineer Brigade, stationed primarily at Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon. * May 24, 1971: Discharged, after granting of early discharge request, as part of general troop reductions. Gore stated many times that he opposed the Vietnam War, but chose to enlist anyway. Some observers have noted that Gore could have avoided Vietnam in a number of ways. Gore considered all these options, but said that his sense of civic duty compelled him to serve. Some have suggested that Gore already foresaw that military service might be advantageous in his future career in politics. During the 2000 presidential election, some conservatives accused Al Gore of insufficient military service, because he was "only" a journalist and spent only five months in Vietnam, which some sources have characterized as "less than half the standard 12 month Vietnam tour." Although this is true, Gore served in the Army only 75 fewer days than the standard two-year term. Gore was not shipped immediately to Vietnam after completing basic training, spending most of his term in Fort Rucker. Because Gore was a journalist, he was never exposed to front-line combat, and some allege that his famous father's influence helped him to obtain this position. However, others argue that any man who enlisted with a Harvard degree had a good chance of being assigned a support specialty rather than an infantry position. Once in Vietnam, some also allege that Gore received special treatment as a former Senator's son (Gore Sr. lost the 1970 election, and was no longer a Senator by the time Gore arrived in Vietnam). According to combat photographer H. Alan Leo, Gore was protected from dangerous situations at the request of Brigadier General Kenneth B. Cooper, the 20th Engineer Brigades Commander. Leo stated that Gore's trips into the field were safe, and that Gore "could have worn a tuxedo." These remarks seem to contradict Gore's public statements that he "walked through the elephant grass" and "was fired upon." For his part, Gore has stated that he knew Leo but rarely traveled with him in Vietnam, and that he never felt that he was being given special protection. On the other hand, Leo's testimony is that Cooper gave the orders before Gore arrived, so Gore would not know about them. The question of whether Leo frequently traveled with Gore or not still has not been conclusively answered. ==Early political career== [[Image:GoreSenate.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Al Gore speaks during a congressional hearing in the 1980s.]] In the spring of 1976, Gore quit law school to run for the United States House of Representatives, in Tennessee's Fourth District. Gore defeated Stanley Rogers in the Democratic primary, then ran unopposed and was elected to his first Congress of the United States post. He was re-elected three times, in 1978, 1980, and 1982. In U.S. Senate election, 1984 Gore did not run for the House; instead he successfully ran for a seat in the United States Senate, which had been vacated by Republican Majority Leader Howard Baker. Gore served as a Senator from Tennessee until 1992, when he was elected Vice President. In 1988, Gore ran for President but failed to obtain the Democratic nomination, which went instead to Michael Dukakis. On April 3, 1989, Gore's six-year-old son Al Gore III was nearly killed in an automobile accident while leaving the Baltimore Orioles opening game. Because of this and the resulting lengthy healing process, his father chose to stay near him during the recovery instead of laying the foundation for a presidential primary campaign against eventual nominee Bill Clinton. Gore started writing ''Earth in the Balance'', his book on environmental conservation, during his son's recovery. ''Earth in the Balance'' became the first book written by a sitting senator to make ''The New York Times'' best-seller list since John F. Kennedy's ''Profiles in Courage''. While in Congress, Gore was a member of the following committees: U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services (Defense Industry and Technology Projection Forces and Regional Defense; Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence); U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (Communications; Consumer; Science, Technology and Space- chairman 1992; Surface Transportation; National Ocean Policy Study); U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Printing; U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee; U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. ==Vice Presidency== Bill Clinton chose then-United States Senate Al Gore to be his running mate on July 9, 1992. After winning the U.S. presidential election, 1992, Al Gore was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993. Clinton and Gore were re-elected to a second term in the U.S. presidential election, 1996. During his time as Vice President, Al Gore was mostly a behind the scenes player. However, many experts consider him to be one of the most active and influential Vice Presidents in U.S. history. One of Gore's major accomplishments as Vice President was the ''National Performance Review'', which pointed out waste, fraud, and other abuse in the federal government and stressed the need for cutting the size of the bureaucracy and the number of regulations. His book later helped guide President Clinton when he down sized the federal government. [http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/speeches/interego.html] In 1993 Gore debated Ross Perot on CNN's Larry King Live on the issue of free trade. He is widely believed to have won the debate hands down, and public opinion polls taken after the debate showed that a majority of Americans agreed with his point of view and supported NAFTA. Some claim that this performance may have been responsible for the passing of NAFTA in the United States House of Representatives, where it passed 234-200. [http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/initiatives/reinventing_government.html] As Vice President, Gore instituted a federal program calling for all schools and libraries to be wired to the Internet. This was a culmination of work that he had started several years before. While serving in the Senate, Gore had introduced legislation which called for the creation of a new federal research center for educational computing to support an "information systems highway". [http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/initiatives/technology.html] This later served as the tenuous basis for mocking from his opponents that he'd claimed to have "invented the Internet". During Gore's tenure as Vice President, he was a strong proponent for environmental protection. While a senator working on his book ''Earth in the Balance'', Gore had traveled around the world on numerous fact finding missions.[[Image:AlGoreKyoto2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Vice President Al Gore speaks at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and urges the passing of the Kyoto Treaty.]] On Earth Day 1994, Gore launched the worldwide GLOBE program, an innovative hands-on, school-based education and science activity that made extensive use of the Internet to increases student awareness of their environment and contribute research data for scientists. The insight he gained on issues such as global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer, and the destruction of rain forests is said to have played a major role in policy making for the Clinton administration. In the late nineties, Gore strongly pushed for the passage of the Kyoto Treaty, which called for reduction in green house emissions. [http://web.archive.org/web/20001207090900/www.algore.com/speeches/speeches_kyoto_120897.html], [http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/initiatives/environment.html] Because of President Clinton's inexperience and Gore's service in Vietnam and in the Senate, Clinton would often look to Gore for advice in the area of foreign policy. Gore was one of the first to call for action to remove Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic from power in 1998. Gore also supported Operation Desert Fox, the bombing campaign against Iraq in response to Saddam Hussein unwillingness to cooperate with UN inspectors. [http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/initiatives/foreign_policy.html] During the Clinton/Gore administration, Americans enjoyed relative peace and a surging economic growth, largely related to the accompanying "internet revolution". At the end of their term in office, although it is debated to what extent their policies were responsible, Clinton and Gore could point to a number of economic accomplishments, which include [http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/initiatives/economy.html]: [[Image:Algoreyasser.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Vice President Al Gore works along side President Clinton in trying to negotiate a Middle East peace plan with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.]] * More than 22 million new jobs * Highest homeownership in American history * Lowest unemployment in 30 years * Paid off $360 billion of the national debt (although total national debt at the end of the administration was still approximately $1.5 trillion dollars higher than at the beginning) * Lowest poverty rate in 20 years * Higher incomes at all levels * Converted the largest budget deficit, up to that time, in American history to the largest surplus * Lowest government spending in three decades * Lowest federal income tax burden in 35 years * More families own stock than ever before Upon the end of his tenure as Vice President, Gore was widely considered one of the most active, powerful, and popular Vice Presidents in US history. ==2000 presidential election== [[image:Goreconvention.jpg|thumb|200px|Al Gore and running-mate Joe Lieberman at the 2000 Democratic National Convention.]] After two terms as Vice President, Gore ran for President of the United States. In the Democratic primaries, Gore faced an early challenge from Bill Bradley. Bradley withdrew from the race in early March 2000 after Gore won every primary election. In August 2000, Gore surprised many when he selected United States Senator Joe Lieberman to be his vice-presidential running mate. Lieberman, who was a more conservative Democrat than Gore, had publicly blasted President Clinton for the Monica Lewinsky affair. Many pundits saw Gore's choice of Lieberman as another way of trying to distance himself from the scandal-prone Clinton White House. Lieberman was also the first Jewish nominee on a major party's national ticket. During the entire U.S. presidential election, 2000, Gore was neck and neck in the polls with United States Republican Party Governor of Texas George W. Bush. On election day, the results were so close that the outcome of the race took over a month to resolve, highlighted by the premature declaration of a winner on election night, and an extremely close result in the state of Florida. The race was ultimately decided by a razor thin margin of only 537 popular votes in Florida -- an astonishingly close margin out of some 105 million votes cast nationwide. Florida's 25 electoral votes were awarded to George W. Bush only after numerous court challenges. Al Gore publicly conceded the election after the Supreme Court of the United States in ''Bush v. Gore'' voted 7 to 2 to declare the ongoing recount procedure unconstitutional, on the grounds that it was not being carried out statewide, and 5 to 4 to ban further recounts using other procedures.[[Image:Gore_Debate.jpg|thumb|200px|Al Gore makes a point during a presidential debate during the 2000 election as George W. Bush looks on.]] Gore strongly disagreed with the Court's decision, but decided that "for the sake of our unity of the people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession." He had previously made a concession phone call to Bush the night of the election, but quickly retracted it after learning just how close the election was. Following the election, a subsequent recount conducted by various U.S. news media organizations indicated that Mr. Bush would have won using the partial recount method of 4 strongly Democratic areas advocated by Mr. Gore, but that Mr. Gore would have won given a full recount of the state. [http://www.bushwatch.com/gorebush.htm][http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/florida.ballots/stories/main.html]. The Florida election has been closely scrutinized since the election. Several irregularities are thought to have favored Bush; others may have given Gore an edge. Irregularities on the Bush side included the notorious Palm Beach "butterfly ballots", which produced an unexpectedly large number of votes for third-party candidate Patrick Buchanan, and a purge of some 50,000 alleged felons from the Florida voting rolls that included many voters who were eligible to vote under Florida law. Many Bush supporters, however, believed that an unfair advantage was given to Gore when all major news networks, early on, prematurely projected Gore as the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes at 7:52 PM Eastern Time. This happened before the polls closed in 10 small Florida counties in the heavily Republican western panhandle which are in the Central Time Zone, and thus closed at 7 PM Central Time (8 PM Eastern). Some have thought that this depressed the pro-Bush vote in that area -- although none have shown any proof that voters who were at home and saw the networks call the election failed to go vote in the last 8 minutes. [http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/02/02/cnn.report/cnn.pdf] During the numerous recounts (which made the phrase "hanging chads" infamous in the American vocabulary), there were also allegations of both pro-Bush and pro-Gore tampering by low-level operatives in the controversial counties. [http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/11/26/230955.shtml] It is unclear what effect, if any, this may have had. And while the Gore camp, fought (with some success) to keep overseas absentee votes out in counties thought to be pro-Bush, Bush operatives similarly (albeit wihile drawing less attention to their efforts) prevented the counting of overseas absentee votes in strong Democratic counties. Both sides contended that the votes were cast after election day, and since many of the envelopes did not have cancelled stamps, it was not clear when the votes were cast. Reports later surfaced that many overseas voters attempted to vote only after learning of the closeness of the Florida vote. The list of possible controversies, in fact, is so long that we will undoubtedly never know with absolute certainty who "should" have won the election. Some commentators still see such irregularities, and the legal maneuvering around the recounts as casting doubt on the legitimacy of the vote; as a matter of law, however, the issue was settled when the Congress of the United States accepted Florida's electoral delegation, only after a challenge to the Florida electors was presented in the congressional chambers on January 6, 2001 by members of the Congressional Black Caucus who could not secure the signature of one Senator to bring the challenge to a debate. Concern about the possible disenfranchisement of voters in the Florida vote led to widespread calls for electoral reform in the United States, and ultimately to the passage of the Help America Vote Act, which authorized the United States federal government to provide funds to the states to replace their mechanical voting equipment with electronic voting equipment. However, this has led to new controversies, because of the security weaknesses of the computer systems, the lack of paper-based methods of secure verification, and the necessity to rely on the trustworthiness of the manufacturers whose employees also count those votes. Although Gore won the nationwide popular vote by more than 500,000 votes, receiving the most votes of any Democrat in U.S. history, he lost the election by five electoral votes (with one DC Elector, pledged to Gore, casting a blank ballot to protest the District's lack of representation in Congress). Gore lost his home state of Tennessee, making him the first presidential candidate since South Dakota Democratic Senator George McGovern in 1972 to lose his home state in a presidential election. For more information on Al Gore's 2000 campaign, see: Al Gore presidential campaign, 2000 For more information on the 2000 election, see: U.S. presidential election, 2000 For other information, see: Al Gore controversies == Post vice-presidency == === Private citizen === [[Image:Goreharvard2.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Al Gore re-emerges in 2001 as a visiting professor with a beard.]] Following his election loss, a bearded Gore accepted visiting professorships at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Middle Tennessee State University, University of California Los Angeles, and Fisk University. In late 2001, Al Gore became a Senior Advisor to Google Inc. and Vice Chairman of Los Angeles-based financial firm Metropolitan West Financial LLC. Following the November 5, 2002 midterm elections Gore re-emerged into the public eye with a 14-city book tour and a well-orchestrated "full Gore" media blitz which included a pair of policy speeches. On September 23, Gore delivered a speech on the impending 2003 invasion of Iraq and the War on Terrorism that generated a fair amount of commentary. Less than two weeks later, on October 2, he made a speech on Bush's handling of the economy to the Brookings Institution. Also, during this time period Gore guest starred on several programs such as The Late Show with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live, appearing much more relaxed and funnier as a private citizen than he did while holding public office. [[Image:Goresnl.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Al Gore hosting ''Saturday Night Live'' along side ''The West Wing (television)'' stars Martin Sheen and John Spencer.]] In 2003 Gore joined the board of directors of Apple Computer. On the political front, Gore kept his promise of staying involved in public debate when he offered his criticism and advice to the Bush Administration on key topics such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq, USA Patriot Act, and environment issues, most notably global warming. Gore also continued to visit campuses across the nation lecturing on issues such as race, media, and democracy. On April 10, 2004, Gore met with the 9-11 Commission in private to give his testimony on what his administration did to prevent terror attacks. In a statement after the three-hour session, the commission said he was candid and forthcoming, and it thanked him for his "continued cooperation." [http://asia.news.yahoo.com/040409/ap/d81rfbt80.html] In the summer of 2004, Gore teamed up with MoveOn.org, to promote the new scientific fiction film, The Day After Tomorrow (movie). Although Gore said the movie was a far-fetched example of global warming, he said the movie would escalate public debate on the issue. In May 2005, Gore was awarded a lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet. The Webby Awards, which are widely hailed as the ''Oscars'' of the web, "wanted to set the record straight" about Al Gore and the Internet once and for all. Tiffany Shlain, the awards' founder and chairwoman said, "It's just one of those instances someone did amazing work for three decades as congressman, senator and vice president and it got spun around into this political mess," Shlain said. ==== Television network ==== On May 4, 2004, INdTV Holdings, a company co-founded by Gore and Joel Hyatt, purchased cable news channel NewsWorld International from Vivendi Universal. The new network will not have political leanings, Gore said, but will serve as an "independent voice" for a target audience of people between 18 and 34 "who want to learn about the world in a voice they recognize and a view they recognize as their own." "This is not going to be a liberal network or a Democrat network or a political network in any way, shape or form," Gore said. Other reports say that Gore hopes that the channel will help change the tide of "consolidation and conglomeratization" of the media by leading the change to "democratization." The news network is said to be a combination between CNN and MTV and would try to reach young viewers in the 18-24 age group. NewsWorld International is currently seen in 19 million homes across the country and features 24-hour international news programming provided by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which will continue to produce news content for Gore's new network. On April 4, 2005, the former Vice President and business partner Hyatt announced that they have changed the name of the network from INdTV to Current TV. The new television network will launch worldwide on August 1, 2005, and will feature various "pod" segments. These "pod" segments are videos between 5 seconds and 15 minutes, and are designed by the network's viewers. Viewers will also be able to pick their favorite videos and get instructions on the Internet on how to construct and their own segments. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7433219/site/newsweek/] It was also announced that Current will team up with Google to provide twice-hourly updates on popular web searches. [http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/seo-news/topic-3212.htm] ==== Investment firm ==== In late 2004, it was announced that Al Gore had launched and will chair an investment firm to seek out companies taking a responsible view on big global issues like climate change. Gore's group, Generation Investment Management, was created to assist the growing demand for an investment style which can bring returns by blending traditional equity research with a focus on more intangible non-financial factors such as social and environmental responsibility and corporate governance. === 2004 presidential election === Initially, Al Gore was touted as a logical opponent of George W. Bush in the 2004 United States Presidential Election. "Re-elect Gore!" was a common slogan among many Democrats who felt the former Vice President had been unfairly cheated out of the presidency, on the grounds that he had won the popular vote and (in the opinion of many) should have won the Electoral College vote. On December 16, 2002 however, Gore announced that he would not run in 2004, saying that it was time for "fresh faces" and "new ideas" to emerge from the Democrats. When he appeared on a ''60 Minutes'' interview, Gore said that he felt if he had run, the focus of the election would be the rematch rather than the issues. Gore's former running mate, Joe Lieberman quickly announced his own candidacy for the presidency, which he had vowed he would not do if Gore ran. [[Image:AlGore2004.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Al Gore at a Democratic rally with Presidential nominee John Kerry and Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards.]] Despite Gore taking himself out of the race, a handful of his supporters formed a national campaign to "political draft" him into running. However, that effort largely came to an end when Gore publicly endorsed Governor of Vermont Howard Dean (over his former running mate Joe Lieberman) weeks before the first primary of the election cycle. There was still some effort to encourage write-in votes for Gore in the primaries by a different group of Gore supporters who were separate from the draft movement. Although Gore did receive a small number of votes in New Hampshire and New Mexico, that effort was halted when John Kerry pulled into the lead for the nomination. Gore's endorsement of Dean was helpful to the latter in legitimizing him in the eyes of the establishment faction of the Democratic Party, but it also led the media to dub Dean as the clear front-runner, with the result that his opponents devoted more of their emphasis to opposing him. On January 15, 2004, Al Gore gave a major policy address in New York City on climate change and the Bush administration's approach to the environment. Accompanied by slides and projector, Gore slammed the Bush administration's attitude towards global warming saying, "There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere." (However, that day happened to be the coldest day in New York City history. The cold weather in New York helped make this speech especially Al Gore controversies#Global warming speech.) On February 9, 2004, on the eve of the Tennessee primary, Gore gave what many consider his harshest criticism of the president yet when he accused George W. Bush of betraying the country by using the 9/11 attacks as a justification for the invasion of Iraq. "He betrayed this country!" Mr. Gore shouted into the microphone. "He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place." Gore also urged all Democrats to unite behind their eventual nominee proclaiming, "any one of these candidates is far better than George W. Bush." In March 2004 Gore, along with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, united behind Kerry as the presumptive Democratic nominee. On April 28, 2004, Gore announced that he would be donating $6 million to various Democratic Party groups. Drawing from his funds left over from his Al Gore presidential campaign, 2000, Gore pledged to donate $4 million to the Democratic National Committee. The party's Senate and House committees would each get $1 million, and the party from Gore's home state of Tennessee would receive $250,000. In addition, Gore announced that all of the surplus funds in his "Recount Fund" from the 2000 election controversy that resulted in the Supreme Court halting the counting of the ballots, a total of $240,000, will be donated to the Florida Democratic Party. In his speech, Gore stressed the importance of voting and having every vote counted, a point that foreshadowed the 2004 U.S. election voting controversies. On May 26, 2004, Gore gave a highly critical speech on the Iraq crisis and the Bush Administration. In the speech, Gore demanded Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, and Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone all resign for encouraging policies that led to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners and fanned hatred of Americans abroad. During the fiery speech, which lasted more than an hour, Gore called the Bush administration's Iraq war plan "incompetent" and called George W. Bush the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon, who resigned the office of the presidency in 1974 following the Watergate scandal. Gore also decried the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, saying, "what happened at that prison, it is now clear, is not the result of random acts of a few bad apples. It was the natural consequence of the Bush Administration policy." As the first major speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Gore held himself out as a living reminder that every vote counts. "Let's make sure not only that the Supreme Court does not pick the next president, but also that this president is not the one who picks the next Supreme Court," said Gore. Gore directed remarks to supporters of third-party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, who abandoned the Democratic Party four years ago, asking them, "Do you still believe that there was no difference between the candidates?" On October 18, 2004, Al Gore delivered his final major policy speech of the 2004 political season. In an hour long presentation, Gore concluded that, "I'm convinced that most of the president's frequent departures from fact-based analysis have much more to do with right-wing political and economic ideology than with the Bible." ===2008 presidential election=== Although the Vice President maintains that he has no intention to run for political office again, he has also said that he cannot rule it out completely. Therefore, on November 3, 2004, several groups launched an effort to try to influence the former vice president to seek the presidency in 2008. In January of 2005, several sources reported that Gore was considering running in 2008. Wikipedia:as of April 5, as of 2005, Gore has not yet made any comments on any of the group's efforts. On April 27, 2005, Gore gave an hour long speech lambasting the GOP's effort to do away with the legislative filibuster. In response to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who for weeks has repeated threats to impose the "nuclear option" if Senate Democrats did not stop blocking judicial nominees via the filibuster, Gore said, "Their grand design is an all-powerful executive using a weakened legislature to fashion a compliant judiciary in its own image. The Senate has confirmed 205 or over 95 percent of President Bush's nominees. Democrats have held up only 10 nominees, less than 5 percent. Compare that with the 60 Clinton nominees who were blocked by Republican obstruction between 1995 and 2000. What is involved here is a power grab," Gore said. Gore also took aim at what he called "religious zealots" who claim special knowledge of God’s will in American politics. He went on to say, "They even claim that those of us who disagree with their point of view are waging war against ‘people of faith.’ How dare they!" This was Gore's first major policy speech of 2005 and also the first one since the defeat of Democratic hopeful, John Kerry, in late 2004. == Views and controversies == Al Gore's views are roughly those of a populist liberal. Gore is now a strong supporter of legalized abortion on demand, free trade, and tax cuts to affect personal behavoir and tax increases to expand Government's influence and revenue base. He was a vocal opponent of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Republican attempts to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the US Constitution. Though Gore has gradually moved politically further left into the mainstream of the Democratic Party, he was once a moderate-to-conservative lawmaker. Early in his career, he was Pro-Life; his Congressional voting record was rated by one source as 84% anti-abortion. Through the late 1980s, Gore maintained that abortion destroyed innocent human life. He had adopted a pro-choice position by 1988, when he sought the Democratic presidential nomination. Conservatives have criticized his change as stemming from expedience rather than conviction. Gore has also been involved in a number of controversies. His statements on issues such as the 'creation of the internet,' and the environment had been cast in the popular media as either disingenuous or politically radical. Gore claimed he could not be held legally accountable for illegal fundraising at a Buddhist temple and illegal use of his Government office and telephone for political fundraising (violations of the Hatch Act) because there was "no controlling legal authority" - an apparant reference to the law's never having been tested in the US Supreme Court. He apparantly succeeded with this defense as he was never charged with the crime. ==External links== ===General sites=== *[http://www.algoresupportcenter.com/ Al Gore Support Center 2008 - The Home of Hardcore Gore Supporters] *[http://www.algore-08.com/ Al Gore '08 - Organize, Discuss, Act] *[http://www.current.tv Current TV] *[http://www.patriotsforgore.com/ Patriots for Al Gore PAC] *[http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/VP.html The Official NARA Online Office Of Vice President Gore (1993-2001)] *[http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/Accomplishments/ Clinton-Gore Administration Accomplishments] * [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/goremain100399.htm The Life of Al Gore - Washington Post] *[http://www.issues2002.org/Gore.htm Al Gore on the Issues] *[http://www.freemedia.at/Boston_Congress_Report/boston3.htm A New Approach for a New Century, International Press Institute World Congress, April 2000] *[http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Al_Gore.php Political Donations Made by Al Gore] ===Recent speeches by Al Gore=== *[http://s8.invisionfree.com/Al_Gore_Support/index.php?showtopic=2474&st=0&#entry7932723 Gore Slams GOP's Efforts To End Filibuster] *[http://www.xpatusa.com/Al_Gore2.htm Gore Charges The Bush Administration With A Failed Presidency] *[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/26/politics/campaign/26TEXT-GORE.html Gore's Remarks At The 2004 Democratic Convention] *[http://s8.invisionfree.com/Al_Gore_Support/index.php?showtopic=100 Gore Says Bush Lied To Push For War In Iraq] *[http://www.moveonpac.org/gore/ Gore Calls for the Resignation of the Bush Team] *[http://www.moveon.org/front/gore.html Gore Speaks on the Use of "Fear" in Politics] - [http://algoresupport.proboards19.com/index.cgi?board=newsalerts&action=display&num=1076373683&start=0 (another version)] *[http://www.moveon.org/gore3/speech.html Gore Speaks on Global Warming and the Environment] *[http://www.moveon.org/gore/speech.html Gore Calls for the Repeal of the Patriot Act] *[http://www.moveon.org/gore-speech.html Gore Blasts Bush for Mis Leading America] *[http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/02/02-09gore-speech.html Gore Speaks On The Build Up To War With Iraq and The War On Terror] *[http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/gore/gore100202sp.html Gore Speaks On Matching our Nation's Economic Course to Our Current Realities] ===Al Gore's Current=== *[http://www.current.tv Official website of the television station Current] ===Al Gore and the Internet=== * [http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.htm Snopes analyzes the statement that Gore claimed to "invent" the Internet] * [http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.Al.Gore.and.the.Inte.html An Examination of the Origins of the "Al Gore invented the Internet" Memo] - Bad Link? * [http://www.politechbot.com/p-01394.html Full Text of Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn's Email on Gore and the Internet] * [http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,18390,00.html A Wired News Piece on Al Gore's Claimed Contribution to the Internet] ===Al Gore myths and media bias=== * [http://www.algoresupportcenter.com/goretruth.html Gore Myths Page] * [http://www.eriposte.com/media/bias/media_bias_gore.htm Media Bias Against Al Gore Exposed] Al Gore 1948 births Vietnam War veterans Apple employees Baptists Politics and technology People from Tennessee Nashvillians

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''Old discussions have been archived:'' * /discussion archive * /discussion archive2 * /discussion archive3 * /discussion archive4 * /discussion archive5 * /discussion archive6 ''(/discussion archive6 still has room for additional sections. Please archive there before starting a new archive page.)'' ---- == edits by JWoodman == Recent edits were by me, my first contribution to wikipedia, hope it's appreciated. Just noticed the account creation option after making edits. Brief summary of changes: 1) Margin of 537 votes on which the election hung out of approx 105 million was astonishingly close. 2) Article presented only one side of the significant controversies surrounding the election and the recounts. 3) Statement was made that if a statewide recount had been made, Gore "would have" won the election. The cited source does NOT state OR support this conclusion; it states very clearly that Gore "MIGHT" have won. Huge difference there. == Frontrunner for 2008? == From intro: "He is also considered by many political pundits to be a front runner for the 2008 Democratic nomination if he decides to run." I haven't seen this opinion expressed anywhere, and I don't think history really supports it. Unless this has some backing, I think it should be removed. --User:Twinxor 03:40, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC) * History doesn't support it? Maybe you need to read up: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/pb20031211.shtml Opinions on Gore in 2008: http://s8.invisionfree.com/Al_Gore_Support/index.php?showtopic=1301 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36053 http://s8.invisionfree.com/Al_Gore_Support/index.php?showtopic=1487 Also, there have been other columnists and pundits who have said that if Gore was to run, he would be the frontrunner. I think it is common logic to realize that. If he and Hillary were both to run, they each would be frontrunners. Notice, the sentence did not say the frontrunner, but a frontrunner, which is gramatically correct. User:ChrisDJackson * [http://www.pollingreport.com/2008.htm Al Gore at 2% in Gallup Pole] == Please see == Al Gore presidential campaigns and add any useful information you have. It's basically just a stub right now. Thank you. == January 15, 2004 speech == Mean temp was lower in 1968,'94 - check [http://www.noaa.gov noaa.gov] tables. Minimum temperature isn’t displayed at (that part of?) the site, did reach its minimum in 1957 indeed and was 2^oF on January 15, 2004 (according to [http://wunderground.com Weather Underground] (an amusingly named site) — which is, yes, why climate change/catastr. cc is more the issue than is global warming. Emphasizing the latter inapplicable, at best misleading, terminology does seem to make one a cheap target without doubt. User:Schissel‐User_talk:Schissel 15:43, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC) : User:Lumidek commented that "Nope, there were no colder days than Jan 15. If you want to add a similar comment, please post your sources on the talk page. Otherwise it's clear that you made it up." in response to a change I made to the paragraph about the January 15, 2004 speech. I did not make this up, but based my changes on the above comment by User:Schissel. However, I realize that his sourcing in the above may not be sufficient, so I'm going to be more specific. : According to [http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KNYC/2004/1/17/DailyHistory.html Weather Underground's page for January 17, 2004 in New York City], January 17, 1977 had a low of -2 �F. : According to [http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KNYC/2004/1/18/DailyHistory.html Weather Underground's page for January 18, 2004 in New York City], January 18, 1982 had a low of 0 �F. : According to [http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KNYC/2004/1/19/DailyHistory.html Weather Underground's page for January 19, 2004 in New York City], January 19, 1994 had a low of -2 �F. : I believe that this demonstrates that there were colder days than January 15, 2004 within the previous 47 years. — User:DLJessup 02:40, 2004 Dec 26 (UTC) Whoops, I misinterpreted (time for me to reread that, yes. Ah. 'The coldest day in New York City in decades'. No, that it was not. I suppose to be charitable, it may have felt that way, though I hadn't been in NY City for a few weeks at the time. Equally irrelevant either way.) what was being said, actually (egg on face..) I thought that all that was being claimed, was that this was the coldest January 15 (measured by lowest temperature) in 47 years. (For which I know of no evidence but would be interested. If measured by mean temperature, instead of lowest temperature, it's not true, for which see evidence at noaa.gov, going to their climate data for NY City.) User:Schissel‐User_talk:Schissel 02:52, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC) Comment general but also for Mr. Jackson... As to the adding of a long section that still should best go under/link to Global warming controversy I can only say for myself that I should think adding a response to the Washington Times article, that they were simply factually mistaken, is enough for this article. That their charges were also irrelevant, (I happen to agree there. And egomaniac that I am, nevertheless that is also irrelevant, no?) can be pointed out — and debated too.. — in the other article, not in the one on Al Gore... User:Schissel‐User_talk:Schissel 15:35, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC) : Comment for Mr. Lumidek and Mr. Jackson: I have tried to construct the most npov paragraph I could, in the face of an incredibly annoying, partisan edit war. : Mr. Jackson: I realize that you are fervent believer in global warming and that you regard the attacks on this speech as cheap. I suspect that a disinterested reader who read this paragraph would come away with the impression that the attacks were, at the very least, factually challenged. Nonetheless, this event got about as much attention as anything Gore did between dropping out of the race and the Democratic National Convention, so it is deserving of coverage. Personally, I think that it makes some of Al Gore's foes look rather bad. (For somebody who elsewhere complains about the threat of having your content destroyed, you certainly seem awfully quick to remove other people's content.) : Mr. Lumidek: Could you please refrain from attacking global warming here? If you want to add evidence against the hypothesis, there is an article, Global warming controversy, for it, just as, if Mr. Jackson wants to discuss temperatures and ocean currents, he should take his text there. : — User:DLJessup 04:14, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC) == Global warming, haha == No contribution, just a comment to an edit summary: "We are not putting about the coldest day crap. That is right wing propoganda. Anyone who knows about Glob. Warming knows that is part of the process." Yeah, true, but then again, some of us feel that global warming itself is left wing propaganda, so good job with that one. --User:Golbez 19:13, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC) * The little comment about the speech being given on one of New York's coldest days will not be added. Not only is it irrelevant, but it is right wing propoganda. That is exactly what the Republicans sent out in a press release refuting his speech back in January. I will not let this article be overcome with peacock sentences that have a political leaning. Here is the evidence that it is right wing: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36624 http://www.cnsnews.com/Politics/Archive/200401/POL20040115e.html User:ChrisDJackson It did happen to be one of the coldest days, its a fact, how can that be propoganda? == Page size == I know this has been discussed before, but that discussion in now in Talk:Al Gore/discussion archive2, so I'd like to bring it up again. This page is now 42KB, well above the 32KB recommended for a page. I attempted to split off the Vice Presidency section, but that only shrank the page by 5KB. Additionally, the real space hog is the 2000 Presidential election. There currently exists an article, Al Gore presidential campaign, 2000 which covers this topic. Most of the information here is duplicated there. Why can't we simply move any non-redundant content there and convert the 2000 Presidential election section to ''See Al Gore presidential campaign, 2000.'' — User:DLJessup 22:12, 2004 Dec 25 (UTC) : No, this page is fine. It doesn't matter what size it is. You are the only person to even complain about this. We don't need to continue to add erroneous statements or shave the article of it's in depthness. I have worked very hard on this page and I will not let you destroy its' content. User:ChrisDJackson ::That's not entirely your call to make; the 32kb advised limit exists for a reason. Furthermore, it's somewhat good form - it seems better, usually, to have multiple lengthy articles on a subject, rather than one �berlengthy article. However, I rarely see a major reason to snip an article because it's gotten a little large. If it were, say, 70kb, then there'd be a definite case for splitting it out into sub-articles. Please don't be so defensive about it; this can be discussed. Personally, I don't see a major reason to split it at this moment. However, if the information is ''duplicated'' in another article, perhaps it should be excised. --User:Golbez 22:44, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC) :::By the way, Chris, I realized I sounded a bit.. gruff in my previous comment there. I just meant you shouldn't be so defensive about any ideas of what to do with the article, and yes, you have done a good job with it. --User:Golbez 01:31, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC) Mr. Jackson, I am not the only person to complain about this. As you will note from my previous comment, the size of the article ''was'' discussed in March 2004 — which you know, because you participated in that discussion. Moreover, the wiki itself complains about articles that get over 32KB in size, which is why I noticed the problem in the first place. I am definitely not trying to destroy content. I am trying to relocate content and remove duplication of content. What is the point of having a really in-depth discussion of Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign here when there is already an article specifically discussing Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign? It's much better to keep all this information in one place, if only so that the reader doesn't have to shuttle back-and-forth between that article and this just to get all the facts. Finally, putting on my spelling and grammar nazi hat: neither of the "its" in your comment should have an apostrophe. "In depthness", insofar as it is a word or phrase, should be hyphenated. — User:DLJessup 23:27, 2004 Dec 25 (UTC) :I agree. When an article gets over 32k, it should be split unless there is a very good reason not. I don't see any such reason here. Cutting off some of the election campaign stuff in Wikipedia:summary style, as long as it is all duplicated in the election article, sounds like a reasonable way to do it, but count me neutral as far as exactly how the article should be cut down. User:TUF-KAT 01:44, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC) ::Many of our articles about leading public officials go over 32kb. George W. Bush is at 57kb, and Gore's predecessor as the Democratic nominee, John Kerry, is at 67kb. I don't see a problem with the Gore page. If it were to be cut down, the way to do it is to craft a summary of a particular topic that's covered elsewhere, rather than excising it entirely, and deciding exactly what goes into the summary can be a time-consuming and disputatious process. User:JamesMLane 03:53, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC) :::Bush and Kerry should be trimmed just the same. The reason is probably because it is indeed time-consuming and disputatious -- and, of course, Gore, Kerry and Bush are disputatious topics in and of themselves. But still it needs to be done, and we shouldn't be discouraging someone from trying. I agree entirely with you on how to do it. User:TUF-KAT 04:59, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC) ::: You are right James. Alot of public official pages are over the 32kb. No one rarely complains, however, every now and then we have a someone have the bright idea of having spin off articles and such. All this does is cause trouble and dilute the page's great content. You know, there is a reason why this Al Gore article has soared all the way to the top of every search engine on the web--people like the way it is layed out and like the content. People don't like going to a million different pages to find what they are looking for, they want a central page with all the info on it. Please leave it the way it is. User:ChrisDJackson 05:00, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC) Please try not to save your editing until you are truly done, nice job but 8-10 edits in a row with only a comma or period deletion difference is ridiculous. == Counting every vote == JamesMLane, be sure that counting every vote was not important in 2004. If it were important in 2000, this time was different. Kerry would have to count every vote plus 4 million more votes ;-) to make a difference. --User:Lumidek 04:45, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC) : Wrong, Ohio is a perfect example of where it was important to count every vote. Couting votes does not just include those that were cast and count, but those in dispute that were thrown out for various reasons. Also, perfect example was in Washington's governor race. Mrs. Gregoire would have lost if it would have not been for the counting of the 700 votes in King County. Now, she is ready to assume the governship next month because the were counted. When Al spoke about counting every vote, he wasn't just talking about in the Presidential election, but in every general election. User:ChrisDJackson == January 15, 2004 speech (again) == ~~Over several revisions, I had come up with the following paragraph, which I believe to be as balanced and npov as possible:~~ : On January 15, 2004, Al Gore gave a major policy address on climate change and Bush administration policy. The speech was gien in New York City, which hit a low of 2 �F on that day. Critics, such as the ''Washington Times'', gleefully claimed that Gore was giving a speech on "global warming" on Manhattan's coldest day in 47 years. Indeed, this was the coldest ''January 15th'' since 1957, but colder temperatures had been observed on days other than January 15th in the intervening years. (For instance, January 17, 1977 hit a low of -2 �F.) Moreover, proponents of global warming claim that extreme temperatures, both cold and hot, are to be expected from the global warming phenomenon. (Please see Global warming controversy for a detailed discussion of this claim.) This paragraph has repeatedly been excised by User:ChrisDJackson. First, I'd like to get some feedback from the community about the paragraph itself. Should this paragraph appear in this article? If not, why not? While I fully expect that I will hear from Mr. Jackson, I would also like to hear from others in the community. I have other questions, but they can wait until I get some feedback on this question. After writing my previous three paragraphs, I learned that my paragraph still survives, but is located in Al Gore controversies. This is a good change, and therefore I struck out the above three paragraphs. — User:DLJessup 05:39, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC) I said over and over I was moving it to the controversies page were it belongs. Maybe if people would actually listen to me for a change instead of just dismissing it. Anyway, good job on the writing. User:ChrisDJackson 01:18, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Recent edits by 67.82.3.41== I would like whoever is removing the reference in election 2000 to the challenge of the Florida electors to stop doing so. It is a crucial part of election 2000 and I believe it needs to be included. Didn't you see Fahrenheit 911? It is truth the the Congressional Black Caucus stood up in the congressional chambers to challenge the Florida electors. It is truth that not one Senator's signature could be garnered to sign the challlenge. It is truth that the lawsutis were initiated by George W. Bush. It is truth that the Florida electors counted were not the original set of electors sent to Washington. It is truth that there was outrage about disenfranchisement of blacks. It was not just an "abnormality," it was fraud, as was shown when the NAACP had to settle out of court with Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris which is also a fact not included here. Why do you insist on sugarcoating the facts of this heionous act? Is not an encyclopedia supposed to tell the truth? And yes, I am an anon user and I prefer to stay that way. Thank you. (unsigned contribution from User:67.82.3.41) :Your edits are being reverted because they appear to violate the WP:NPOV policies of Wikipedia. The way things work here is that many people with many different views are contributing, and the only way to proceed is to have a strict policy that the article does not take any point of view itself, but outlines all points of view on an issue. You've done the right thing in coming to the Talk page to discuss them. :Perhaps others can better take the dispute further. I'll give one example: With regard to the standards of vote counting in Florida, when you write "Al Gore would have won if most of the methods were adopted" as opposed to "some", this sounds like an attempt to say that Gore should have won. The actual number of methods is in reality irrelevant: the fact is that some of the standards would have led to a Gore victory, and some to a Bush victory. Also, while you're welcome to contribute as an anon, it's always best to sign your contributions so that people can identify you. Do this with four tildes (~) and the software will automatically translate. User:Dbiv 18:29, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::If the amount of methods is irrelevant, why do mention it at all then? The press said he would have won if most of the methods were adopted, as did the NORC consortium count.That is not taking it from any view but TRUTH. Where are your sources to back the original comment then? I don't see them noted anywhere here. Telling the facts as they happened is representing no point of view but the truth. I will keep putting thay truth here as long as it keeps being removed. You want links to support it, I'll provide them, but don't assume I am taking this from any angle but as it happened. I would also appreciate you not posting my IP address publicly, as you do not have my permision to do so. ::[http://www.zeppscommentaries.com/Politics/NORC.htm] According to the NORC count(which I will post), Gore would have won using MOST of the methods employed. It is FACT, not a political opinion. The fact you won't acknowledge that tells me something. [http://www.failureisimpossible.com/essays/norcdata.htm] ::(unsigned contribution from User:67.82.3.41) :::With regard to your IP, you do have a choice. If you want to hide your IP, you can get an account. If you don't want an account, you will be identified by your IP. In any case your IP is readily available to anyone who wants it, simply by looking at the page histories of anything you edit. :::You are not the first and will not be the last to strongly believe that your interpretation of the facts is absolutely truth. I think we all do that sometimes. However that doesn't mean that it will be acceptable on Wikipedia. Please read the NPOV page to which I provided a link above. Having links to support statements is neither here nor there: where the facts are in dispute, the article can't take sides. :::I haven't stated my own politics here. If you look at my user page you'll see I'm based in the UK and I don't comment on US politics in terms of endorsing any party. User:Dbiv 22:02, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::::Your statements are not fact unless you can back them up here. ::::(unsigned contribution from User:67.82.3.41) :::::You cannot hide your IP on Wikipedia unless you get an account: see Wikipedia:Why create an account?#Identity implications. Please also read User talk:67.82.3.41. User:Dbiv 22:20, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) Why should I have to discuss this, when you say people (plural) have reverted my edits, without showing any reason WHY or discussing it themselves? I am being treated biasedly here. This encyclopedia is for anyone to edit articles. How then can a rule be broken if users are allowed to edit? You have also given me NO substantiated reason as to why I cannot include historical fact regarding the challenge to the electoral votes in this section. You have already taken it upon yourself that my edits will be given NO consideration by your unfriendly responses. Check your facts regarding the challenge to the Florida electors that took place in 2001. Check your facts regarding how the electors were chosen. Check your facts regarding the outcome of the recount. I won't even waste my time anymore trying to tell truth here. It is obvious you and all who run this page are only out to make a sugarcoated version of this event. I will then look elsewhere to find people who post this historical event truthfully. I will also tell anyone who wants an acccurate depiction of this election to not look here. ::::::Biased? There's a whole page about 2004 election irregularities here, wrong year, but you get the idea. When I'm at a computer I own (I'm at work at the moment, just using a few moments before my session begins) I can even give you the link if you can't find it by then. The solution is reasonably simple. Get an account, since people are understandably suspicious of anonymous posts; document and give the documentation; learn and follow the site rules; then we're on the way to having a discussion. Also, use ~~~~ (or three tildes) to sign your posts, please? User:Schissel : User_talk:Schissel 14:55, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC) == Running in 2008? == Will he run for president in 2008? --User:Relaxation 18:54, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC) :There is zero chance Gore is going to run, and even less of a chance that he would be nominated. He may put out some feelers just for fun, but Gore is not even a blip on the politcal radar. I question why there's even a section documenting an event that may or may not occur in the future. If there was actually some evidence that Gore was planning a bid for the Whithouse in '08 then the fact that he is making plans could be included. But as it is the section says very little other than "Gore could run in '08." Even if the section is kept, it should be written in a way that would still make sense if it was being read in 2009 whether or not Gore had run. The last sentence with it's "Gore has not yet..." is the problem IMO. == Futurama == On Futurama, Al Gore had his Vice Presidential Action Rangers. The episode also ended with him playing D&D with Gary Gygax as a "10th level Vice President". This might not be the most appropriate thing to add to the page though. User:129.110.240.1 07:50, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Political Action Committees== How does tying an article to a PAC committee website seeking political donations add to the concept, value, or nature of an encyclopedia? How does removal of such links constitute vandalism? User:Johnwhunt 18:29, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC) From Wikipedia: "Vandalism is indisputable bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. The largest quantity of vandalism consists of replacement of prominent articles with obscenities, namecalling, or other wholly irrelevant content. Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism. Apparent bad faith edits that do not make their bad faith nature explicit and inarguable, are not considered vandalism at Wikipedia." Jpgordon, I ask again - how is deleting PAC committee websites vandalism? User:Johnwhunt 15:26, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) :I don't think that this edit was vandalism, since as far as I can tell there's a good-faith dispute. I think that the Al Gore Support Center and the others go far beyond merely being "website[s] seeking political donations". Each of them has more detailed information about Gore, which is one of the circumstances under which an external link is appropriate. Calling them "campaign" sites, however, is potentially misleading, given that Gore has not announced any campaign for 2008. I've left the links in but removed that subheading. While I was at it, I converted all the "External links" subheadings into normal Wikipedia format, so that they show up in the table of contents. User:JamesMLane 18:06, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) Thanks, James, for the comment. It was not vandalism, and I, in case you couldn't tell, bristled at the suggestion. However, I still believe it is inappropriate for an article to link onto a PAC or other donation site. From Wikipedia: What Wikipedia is not: Wikipedia is not a soapbox, a chatroom, discussion forum, or vehicle for propaganda and advertising. Therefore, Wikipedia articles are not: 1. Propaganda or advocacy of any kind. Of course, an article can report objectively about such things, as long as an attempt is made to approach a neutral point of view. You might wish to go to Usenet or start a blog if you want to convince people of the merits of your favorite views. Of course, it seems this dictum is more often honored in the breech. :-)) User:Johnwhunt 21:13, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Internet== I think the link to Snopes should be removed. It claims to debunk the "rumor" that Gore claimed credit for the internet, but what it actually does is quote Gore: ::During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. And then procedes to try to spin Gore's quote into not saying what it obviously says. : I don't think that the link to Snopes should be removed. While the article itself should be NPoV, we should try to get as diverse a collection of sources as possible. That being said, I think that the description that appears in the link is PoV, since it claims that Snopes successfully debunks that Gore claimed to have invented the Internet, which clearly is disputable. — User:DLJessup 22:46, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC) User:165.247.205.243 :Good work, I tried to find the original from the Gore/Lieberman site but it was dead. It should, however be labeled ''A New Approach for a New Century'' Major Foreign Policy Speech 30 April 2004, to distinguish it as such. One would not know where to go on the page to find Mr. Gore's foreign policy positions as such at the time. Thx User:Nobs 03:21, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Current == The section on the TV network "Current" should be updated. BBC Link with more info: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4411905.stm == Abortion on demand == "Abortion on demand" is a GOP buzzword. It doesn't belong in the article. "Supports legalized abortion" is more NPOV. Gore is no more aggressively pro-choice than any other mainstream Democrat. --User:Saucy Intruder 19:41, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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