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Are you ready for Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore? Update: Good news — Bill to heal the world if Hillary’s elected

posted at 12:28 pm on October 5, 2007 by Allahpundit
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I sure am. They’re going to give it to him eventually; let’s just get it over with so that I can stop writing the same dumb post every six months or so.

Serious question about the Goracle: should we hope that he jumps in to challenge Hillary? The bigger her lead gets the less inclined he’ll be to do it lest he descend from Mt. Sinai only to find that she’s already got 51% locked up. But he’ll have big Mo if he wins the Nobel and there are already movements afoot to draft him. There’s also reportedly no love lost between him and the Glacier, so he might take it at his chance to finally eclipse the Clintons. What I can’t decide is whether a bruising primary fight between the two of them would be good or bad for conservatives. It’ll force Hillary to tack further left, which will give us more ammo for the general, but it’ll also help her sharpen her game when she might otherwise be inclined to sleepwalk for awhile. Exit question: Should he get in or not?

While you mull that, here’s what Junk Science has had to resort to by way of getting him to debate global warming. The Heartland Institute isn’t having any luck, either. I’d love to see Newt challenge him, if only for the marquee value, but they’d probably end up agreeing more often than not.

Update: See, here’s why I’m hoping that he does jump in. It’ll set up a pissing match between him and Billy Jeff to decide, once and for all, which of them is the true global Messiah.


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I don’t think these things really mean much anymore. If they would nominate both Al Gore and Rush Limbaugh for Nobel Peace Prizes, then obviously they’d pick anyone.

MadisonConservative on October 5, 2007 at 12:32 PM

I am pretty sure that Levin started a campaign to draft s Rush nomination, lots different than the commitee picking the Goracle outright.

bbz123 on October 5, 2007 at 12:35 PM

The bigger Hillary’s lead gets, the bigger he gets! Is there enough food on the planet to stisfy him? He needs the cash from the Nobel Prize to buy groceries!

bopbottle on October 5, 2007 at 12:36 PM

Please…stop..this…post…life…force…being…sucked…from…the…planet…aaarrrrgggg.

Brian on October 5, 2007 at 12:37 PM

Well, Yassir Arafat and Jimmah Carter are past winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

so that gives you an idea how relevant and meaningful the Prize has truly become.

I am just waiting for the Hugo Chavez and Ahmadinejad nominations to inevitably float in over the transom…

Always Right on October 5, 2007 at 12:38 PM

Please run Al, pretty please…..

omnipotent on October 5, 2007 at 12:38 PM

MadisonConservative on October 5, 2007 at 12:32 PM

Don’t forget Yasser Arafat.

amerpundit on October 5, 2007 at 12:44 PM

You think we could get them to change the name of it to “The Nobel Prize for Socialism?” At least then it’d be honest.

Farmer_Joe on October 5, 2007 at 12:44 PM

(Obligatory Frisky Dingo) Hey, if curing Global Warming can get Killface the Democratic nomination then it can certainly get it for Gore. :P

CorinthianJest on October 5, 2007 at 12:46 PM

Nah, Al waited too long if he had any plans of jumping in. The Goracle peaked already, his blatant hypocrisy on the environment and conservation, and some of his overselling of Global Warming(and the damage that’s done to people’s interest in GW) is actually hurting his reputation with some of the Alvengelicals.

Bad Candy on October 5, 2007 at 12:47 PM

Oh mighty Goracle put me out of my misery by putting yourself out of my misery

Defector01 on October 5, 2007 at 12:49 PM

Having Al run, while sounding good, is too scary to contemplate. IF he won we would be in even worse shape then if Billary got in.

Limerick on October 5, 2007 at 12:58 PM

Have you considered that maybe the guy really does not want to run for President anymore?

He was in politics for what, 20-25 years, failed at securing his ultimate dream in 2000 in what must have been a pretty bruising experience from his perspective. Then he was forced to discover that there was a life outside the Federal Government, a life that can be a pretty good one.

Here he is, seven years on, and he has won an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Nobel is not outside the realm of the possible. Global climate change, his favorite issue, is gaining more and more acceptance even in this country. Meanwhile the other guy, the one who ended up being President in 2000, is stuck with a bungled war, a distressed economy, a disoriented GOP and a 29% approval rating.

Maybe, just maybe, he likes where he is in life and he just doesn’t want all the crap that comes with being (and particularly running for) President.

Just a thought.

factoid on October 5, 2007 at 1:07 PM

Maybe, just maybe, he likes where he is in life and he just doesn’t want all the crap that comes with being (and particularly running for) President.

factoid on October 5, 2007 at 1:07 PM

Maybe, or maybe he’s just full of $#!t.

Rick on October 5, 2007 at 1:13 PM

factoid on October 5, 2007 at 1:07 PM

ROTF

Limerick on October 5, 2007 at 1:15 PM

Is it just me, or is Al Gore literally morphing into the Manchurian Candidate? His eyes are looking more and more Oriental and less and less Caucasian. Like in this picture.

Buy Danish on October 5, 2007 at 1:17 PM

Bubba as our “Goodwill Ambassador to the World.”

Sure.

They thought so highly of us when the Iranians blew up the Khobar Towers.

And the first World Trade Center attack was no doubt done to express profound appreciation.

Those two African embassies that got vaporized? Words just can’t capture the statement of admiration that was.

That hole in the side of the USS Cole? We love ya, baby!

Yup, when Bubba was in charge, you could just Feel the Love. Group hug, everyone! Hey, Mohammed, what’s that bulge under your vest…?

Spurius Ligustinus on October 5, 2007 at 1:21 PM

Global climate change, his favorite issue, is gaining more and more acceptance even in this country.

factoid on October 5, 2007 at 1:07 PM

Perhaps, but in the U.K. they have figured out that he is nothing but a propagandist!

Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore’s controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday.

The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of ‘brainwashing’ children with propaganda by showing it in the classroom.

Stewart Dimmock said the former U.S. Vice-President’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is unfit for schools because it is politically biased and contains serious scientific inaccuracies and ’sentimental mush’.

Buy Danish on October 5, 2007 at 1:21 PM

I’d love to see him run. It would be quite entertaining. But he won’t. He’s too weak. He knoweth the wrath of the Clinton machine all too well to have the ‘nads to go up against it.

Brat on October 5, 2007 at 1:21 PM

I don’t think these things really mean much anymore. If they would nominate both Al Gore and Rush Limbaugh for Nobel Peace Prizes, then obviously they’d pick anyone.

MadisonConservative on October 5, 2007 at 12:32 PM

The Nobel Prizes havent been worth the paper they were printed on since Arafat was awarded the Nobel Peace Piece Prize.

doriangrey on October 5, 2007 at 1:24 PM

Sure, jump in Al. Now that the British courts have labled your “documentary” as biased, you will have to answer questions about it on the campaign trail. He has little chance of defeating Her Thighness, but it may be an opportunity to have him be forced to anwer questions about “global warming” or look silly if he refuses.

BTW, Rush’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination has been a joke from the start. He is doing to show how the whole thing has become a farce.

Mallard T. Drake on October 5, 2007 at 1:29 PM

The HildeBeast would “kneeCap” him, just as she will anyone between her and the White House. Don’t underestimate the lengths to which the Clinton Crime syndicate will go to get even more power.
Once she is POTUS, Bubba will grab Secretary General of the UN and together they will run the world.
Lucky us.

mountainmanbob on October 5, 2007 at 1:29 PM

What would be fun to watch is all of the people who insisted that Fred! waited too long before announcing his candidacy suddenly fawning over what a brilliant strategy Gore has used by holding off as long as he did before announcing.

wiserbud on October 5, 2007 at 1:31 PM

Great debate. It’s nice to hear from actual experts for a change.

High Desert Wanderer on October 5, 2007 at 1:31 PM

I find the reports of “no love lost between him and the Glacier” quite credible. Hilly the First Lady was probably convinced she was the country’s “#2″, right behind ol’ Billy in the succession lineup, which had to be seriously annoying to the actual VP.

mojo on October 5, 2007 at 1:33 PM

Maybe, just maybe, he likes where he is in life and he just doesn’t want all the crap that comes with being (and particularly running for) President.

I don’t buy that for a second, and I’m not saying that to be contrary; my impression is he wants it as badly as ever, and that’s a lot. He could let the “I used to be the next president” gag die, but he doesn’t. And the slobbering at his Capitol Hill appearance had to be gratifying.

Seriously? I think he has some unresolved father issues. And he keeps flitting around the issues, sucking the sap as far as it takes him and then moving on. You’d think he’d be happy to be where he is. Plus, if he doesn’t run, he can always believe he won.

Look, I really dislike Gore. But I don’t wish him ill, and I really think he should get into therapy. He and Rosie.

saint kansas on October 5, 2007 at 1:33 PM

Mallard T. Drake on October 5, 2007 at 1:29 PM

You know what I love the most about the British Courts story – the case was brought by a lorry driver.

The outcome marks a partial victory for Mr Dimmock, who had accused the ‘New Labour Thought Police’ of indoctrinating youngsters by handing out thousands of Climate Change Packs to schools.

Mr Dimmock, a lorry driver from Dover with children aged 11 and 14, said at the outset of the hearing: ‘I wish my children to have the best education possible, free from bias and political spin, and Mr Gore’s film falls far short of the standard required.’

Power to the people!

Buy Danish on October 5, 2007 at 1:36 PM

Gore’s not totally useless.

How else will we know if there’s global warming in HELL?

JiangxiDad on October 5, 2007 at 1:36 PM

(Obligatory Frisky Dingo) Hey, if curing Global Warming can get Killface the Democratic nomination then it can certainly get it for Gore. :P

CorinthianJest on October 5, 2007 at 12:46 PM

Killface is so much cooler than Al Gore could ever dream of being. Plus being able to heal up from an RPG to the chest is nice.

Al Gore is just the assclown’s assclown, and no amount of unearned awards is ever going to make up for him losing the big one fair and square.

ReubenJCogburn on October 5, 2007 at 1:38 PM

I find the reports of “no love lost between him and the Glacier” quite credible.

mojo on October 5, 2007 at 1:33 PM

There can only be one Manchurian Candidate dontcha know, and Hillary is has already cast herself as Angela Lansbury.

Maybe Al could play Odd Job in the next James Bond movie.

Buy Danish on October 5, 2007 at 1:39 PM

The Nobel Peace Prize, didn’t Jimmy Carter win one too? Seems to me this prize goes to the biggest leftist promoting the most politically correct cause, so naturally Gore wins hands down. Elitist love big liars, YAWN, nothing new about that.

I thought this article in the news today, where Al Gore refuses to debate global warming with the Heartland Institute, was much more interesting. I sent Allah the story but apparently he didn’t agree.

Maxx on October 5, 2007 at 1:41 PM

OOps… my apologies to Allah…. now I see he DID indeed link the story I mentioned above.

Maxx on October 5, 2007 at 1:48 PM

Thanks for the link, AP.

I’ve come around today myself. Just give it to him now and be done with it.

Doubt he’ll go away after that, but we can always hope.

JammieWearingFool on October 5, 2007 at 1:49 PM

Hey, it’s JammieWearingFool… as namechecked on Rush!

I knew him back when.

saint kansas on October 5, 2007 at 2:06 PM

Spurius Ligustinus on October 5, 2007 at 1:21 PM

LOL! Thanks.

Miss_Anthrope on October 5, 2007 at 2:10 PM

Hoping for Gore over Hillary? Like hoping for a heart attack over cancer?

petefrt on October 5, 2007 at 2:11 PM

Al Gore refuses to debate global warming with the Heartland Institute

Don’t forget that Gore debated Chimpy McBushitler, the dumbest man on the planet…an incoherent imbecile…and lost.

He knows he sucks in a debate format and has nothing to gain. Besides, every single scientist on earth agrees with him; just ask him.

saint kansas on October 5, 2007 at 2:12 PM

With Hillary Clinton the frontrunner in the race for the Democrat presidential nomination, Mr Clinton said a win for her would be “great for the entire world.” No, it would only be great for Hill & Bill, who think they represent the entire world.

“I would love it,” he told BBC Radio 4 this morning. “She would be a great president and I would be the happiest person on earth if she got elected.” Dream on BJ, she’s never going to forget about your womanizing, president or not.

Asked what job he would do he said: “I probably would be most useful to her doing something to try and restore America’s standing in the world and build more allies and get us to work together again.” Who said: “I tried, and I tried, and I tried, but I failed”. I think he’s talking about working with OBL & Company, known allies of the Democrats.

He said America had “squandered” the support it received after the Sept 11 terror attacks in 2001 and damaged relationships by waging war in Iraq, withdrawing from the Kyoto climate treaty and by withdrawing military aid from Latin America. That’s funny, Billy Jeff talking about “squandering” away support. We all remember why he lost his support. It was that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.

“There was a period after 9/11 when we decided on a go-it-alone, our-way-or-the-highway approach, which I think really alienated a lot of the world,” he said. Yeh numbnuts, we went it alone … with the approval of the House, the Senate, and the UN.

“Most Americans – at least most American policy-makers, including a lot in the Republican Party – didn’t agree with this course.” Liar, Liar, Liar. Throwing out the “Most Americans” mantra again, followed by the obligatory “a lot” in the Republican party. People with brains are on to you, and the same BS put out by your fellow Democrats.

He said his fellow countrymen are now “more concerned than ever” about America’s standing in the world. We’re standing tall and have taken the fight to our enemy, idiot. While you may conveniently ignore it, the surge happens to be working, Big Time.

Mr Clinton, 61, said that Iran is now the “toughest problem” faced by the US, and that it was up to the current president and his successors to find a solution to the threats posed by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Brilliant observation Bill … we need to do something. No Sh1t.

But he joked that he would have little chance of altering his wife’s thinking if she was elected, adding: “It wouldn’t work – it never has.” Rule #1 for Bill back in the White House: “Behave yourself and I might let you watch.”

Mr Clinton also used the interview to praise Gordon Brown, who he said had the potential to be “a great Prime Minister”. And Billy Jeff has the potential to “tell the truth” someday.

fogw on October 5, 2007 at 2:35 PM

I would fear either in the white house. Gore terrifies me with his environmental BS

Aggie85 on October 5, 2007 at 2:52 PM

The inevitable, inevitably doesn’t happen

Entelechy on October 5, 2007 at 3:44 PM

Hey, it’s JammieWearingFool… as namechecked on Rush!

I knew him back when.

saint kansas on October 5, 2007 at 2:06 PM

Yes, it’s me. As fate would have it, I missed 15 minutes of the show Thursday, including the spot where he mentioned me.

JammieWearingFool on October 5, 2007 at 3:59 PM

JWF,

Thanks for the link to Irena Sendler. What an incredible story.

If only she were an enviro-wacko Bush hater who watched her carbon footprint she’d be a shoe-in for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Buy Danish on October 5, 2007 at 4:24 PM

Hey AP. Love the Gore pic you used. Gore unmasked. It reminds me greatly of this:

http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00660/Bundy1.jpg

Before I’m castigated (I hate it when that happens) for my intimation of the obvious similarity between the pics, let me explain. Bundy was the world’s ultimate narcissist. Gore, and Democrats, also tend towards narcissism. One striking feature of narcissism is a public face fashioned to garner support, love, admiration, for the private self inside which desperately needs such support, love, and admiration. It’s a mask, a public facade. The pic I linked to of Bundy, that’s very celebrated, since it’s one of the few and perhaps only visual records of his mask coming off showing the person within. Is it possible some of those so concerned about global warming are most interested in showing they care so they can be admired and pump themselves up inside? I think so. If that pic of Gore is the real Gore, I’d prefer he consider treatment for himself rather than requiring us to adopt the Kyoto protocols.

Paul-Cincy on October 5, 2007 at 4:43 PM

Shouldn’t that picture of Algore on the home page be over the folsom street story?

peacenprosperity on October 5, 2007 at 5:09 PM

He better get it quick since his false science claims are melting faster than the ice caps.

I love that picture.

Hening on October 5, 2007 at 8:55 PM

Arafat gets a Peace Prize. Now Algor. Seems like something shiny from a gumball machine has more meaning these days…

trigon on October 5, 2007 at 9:13 PM

Come to think of it, Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan have them, too. That extends the contestant pool to idiots and corrupt idiots.

trigon on October 5, 2007 at 9:25 PM

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