Al Gore: More evidence of "stealth campaign" on his own blog?

Before all of those who have firmly committed to candidate jump on me for reading more into this than is there, let me be clear about where I stand. I will vote for whoever our nominee is. I have my second and third choices. But I firmly believe that Al Gore would be the best president at this time in our history. He may or may not run. He may or may not win. But he would be the best President right now. He has been against the war in Iraq from the start. He would bring the troops home now. He is in favor of single payer health care for all. And he would make the climate crisis priority one, as it should be.

And he has a blog. And he writes it himself. So that's where I looked to see if I could glean any insight into what he might be thinking. And look at what I found. Oh, you'll have to do the jump for that one.

If he is running or going to run or even thinking about the possibility of running, he going to run what others have called a "stealth campaign", and it is going to be uber stealthy. I've read "Assault on Reason" and the long, detailed and highly entertaining article in this month's "Vanity Fair." Gore wants nothing to do with the traditional political campaigning. He is done with media consultants, issue consultants, campaign consultants. He knows more about marketing today than any of them. He is not going to allow himself, his stand on issues, or his message, to be subject to the kind media distortions that happened 2000. No way. And that makes me think that he is most likely disinclined to ever run again. HOWEVER, he is doing something. According to Vanity Fair "what has changed is that he now speaks directly to the public; he has neither the patience nor the need to go through the media."

I found http://blog.algore.com which is actually on his site, http://algore.com. If you skip the signup page, there is a link at the top to "journal" aka his blog.

And this is what I found:

Done More? September 27, 2007 : 3:56 PM

On Friday a friend of mine forwarded me an e-mail from Martin McGuiness, special assistant to the president for legislative affairs. At this point, we expect the White House to spin every issue to its advantage, but this quote in Mr. McGuiness's email stood out:

"This administration has done more for the environment and addressing energy security and climate change than any other in history."

While the claim that George Bush has done more to address climate change than any administration seems ridiculous, I am always willing to welcome converts to our movement. If this administration has finally come around on the climate crisis, then now is the time for them to take action.

Let's join together and demand that the Bush Administration commit to an international treaty that would cut CO2 by 90%.

The truth is that far from having the best record on the climate crisis, this administration would rank at the very bottom. Remember, this was the White House that hired an energy lobbyist to censor the scientists authoring the government's climate reports.

Immediately upon taking office, George Bush rejected the Kyoto Accord that called for only a 7% cut in CO2 below 1990 levels. He claimed, with no basis in fact, that the treaty would damage the U.S. economy. And in April, 2005, the Government Accountability Office determined that George Bush's climate program "lacks a major component required by law: periodic assessments of how rising temperatures may affect people and the environment."

In addition, the White House worked to prevent any international progress on solutions to the climate crisis at both the G8 and APEC summits this summer.

However, his advisor is now claiming, "This administration has done more for the environment and addressing energy security and climate change than any other in history."

Tell President Bush that it's time to promote real solutions to the climate crisis and support an international treaty that will reduce CO2 by 90%.

That sure sounds like something you'd find on a candidate website, doesn't it?

Is he going to run? Part of me thinks no way is he going to give up what he's creating with Current. Taken with what he shares in the Vanity Fair article and his contempt for what the traditional media has become, it is obvious that Current is his way to take back the media for the people. And for those of us who have read "Assualt on Reason," this is as important to him as the issue of global warming.

We all know that Daily Kos is the next step beyond blogs. We post diaries and break news and create news. We choose what stories we want to be featured by recommending them. Now add some video, and put in on TV and that's what Gore is dong with Current. Citizen journalists on television.

BUT Gore is making some very traditionally political statements and making them directly to us. Current.com relaunch is scheduled just days after the Nobel is going to be announced. And Gore then posts three candidate-like positions. I don't believe in coincidences. This is exactly what I would expect if he were planning to run fro POTUS this time, right down to the "unprofessional" look and feel of his Current.com clips.

BTW, check out all the features at Current.com. I am loving it. It's like DailyKos and Frontline had a kid. Go sign up and start cross posting everything there, too. You don't need to do the video.

Gore has experience and credibility in science, technology, international relations, military, government agencies, energy and environment. He knows how to get things done now, as he did during Katrina. With a few phone calls he chartered two planes to rescue 270 people from Charity Hospital. No one else did that. Hillary didn't. Even Bill didn't.

We are in the middle of a war no one wants but no one can really see how to get out of. We are facing a global climate crisis which could result in mass extinctions and millions of deaths from disease, starvation, flooding, and wars over vanishing resources. This crisis is almost upon us. The melting of the Arctic Ice this summer has scared everyone who is paying attention. The estimates have gone from all gone in 50 years to all gone in 5 years.

Gore has a noble streak a mile wide. He understands in the very core of his soul about public service. He knows what he can do to lead us away from the brink.

I'm gonna be watching his blog real close the next few weeks. He may not jump into the early primaries. This is what a columnist in Business Week thinks

Al Gore, in my estimation, has a bigger brand than Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. If you were Al Gore and saw the ridiculous exchanges between Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Richardson, Gravel. Kucinich, Dodd and Biden, why would you sully your brand by getting into a situation where you are expected to show up at these small beer debates still populated by people with no shot at the nomination. Al Gore mixing it up with noisemakers like Kucinich and Gravel after winning a Nobel Peace Prize?

The system is now rigged to pretty much prevent Gore from running. To get in now and subject himself to the nonsense between now and the primaries would lower is soaring brand power. He wouldn’t, I think, be able to dodge all the debates before the primaries. Or could he?

I wish I knew what he was thinking. He's planning something, but I'm don't share his gift of prescience.