Reply: I am deeply honored: By Al Gore

10-12-07 @8:43 PM PST

Congratulations ~ Whether this ever actually gets to Senor Al Gore or not, I am glad that you received the Nobel Peace Prize. The past is gone, the future is coming, but all we really have to work with and work on is in the here and now of connected reality.

In 2000, a indecisive good man with his own imperfections lost the U.S. Presidency and an evil idiot, whom I refer to as Fuhrer Bush, won and ushered in an era of blatant mature fascism inside the United States, along with the Iraq-nam fiasco and numerous violations of well known internactional law.

Being a reactionary fool, Fuhrer Bush, his Oval Office Cabal and certain fanatical flunkeys has helped to radicalize the whole world against the failed state of the U.S. government and its awesome military killing machine in ways that the divided so-called left-wing movement in Amerika never has been able to do. The Lord works in mysterious ways, the Devil works in devious ways.

The people's collective struggle for true democracy, justice and total liberation will gain more and more mass power from its unified struggles as time goes by. Time is still on our side, along with billions of people on a global scale without a mass voice for now. It is true that ultimately the challenges of our struggles are moral and spiritual ones, not simply a political-military ones. Yet noble powers will come from our continued struggles once we unite with our real friends, come togehter on the common denominator of and for humane rights and attack our real enemies in order to rid the global climate of powerful evil ones.

You wrote: "The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level."

Let us continue to wage just struggles in order to raise consciousness ever upward among the masses and transform the world in order to create true and lasting Peace on Earth.

Venceremos! We Will Win!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta-de-Aztlan
Sacramento, Califas, Aztlan

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Related Article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/us/politics/12cnd-future.html?hp

October 12, 2007

Gore Gains Power as Well as Prize

By ELISABETH BUMILLER and JIM RUTENBERG

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — Al Gore's seven-year journey from loser to laureate began in bitterness, settled for a time into self-imposed exile and led him in the end to rediscover his voice on climate change.

The question now is what he will do with the prestige and attention that came to him with the Nobel Peace Prize. The answer appears to be that he will neither embrace nor reject another quest for the presidency, but harness the speculation about his intentions to become a more formidable force on environmental policy and a power within the Democratic party.

Mr. Gore's close friends and advisers said today that he had no desire to be drawn into the race but that he saw the clear advantage of leveraging the acclaim. The clearest expression of his true feelings, they said, was his brief statement of thanks for the prize in an appearance in Palo Alto, Calif., where he talked about planetary politics and uttered not a word about the kind unfolding in Iowa and New Hampshire.

"This obviously turns everybody toward the presidency, but I think he's saying what he means," said Paul Begala, a political adviser in the Clinton White House who prepared Mr. Gore for his 2000 presidential debates against George W. Bush. "He knows there's a Democratic field that Democrats are happy with, and that they don't need a white knight riding in."

Democrats also said that Mr. Gore's entry into the messy world of politics would undermine the stature that comes with the prize as well as his role as a wise man and conscience among many liberals. "Why would he run for president when he can be a demigod?" said Representative Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois Democrat who was a top aide in the Clinton White House. "He now towers over all of us because he's pure."

Michael Feldman, a strategist for Mr. Gore who was meeting with him today, also said that Mr. Gore was not entering the 2008 race. "He's focused on trying to solve the climate crisis," he said. Ron Klain, a senior adviser to Mr. Gore when he ran for president in 2000, echoed Mr. Feldman.

The speculation that Mr. Gore would win a Nobel Peace Prize began soon after the success of "An Inconvenient Truth," his Oscar-winning documentary on global warming. But Mr. Gore's close aides said they did not believe the Nobel Prize would come to him as soon as this year. When his phone failed to ring early this morning, Mr. Gore assumed he had been passed over. He and his wife, Tipper, then turned on CNN to see who had been awarded the prize, only to learn that it was he.

Although he shared the award with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it was in many ways a personal victory for Mr. Gore, one achieved beyond the shadow of the disputed election of 2000 and outside the orbit of the couple to which he has been linked for so long as a partner and a rival, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Like Mr. Gore, Mr. Clinton has dedicated his post-White House career to global good works, and has himself been mentioned as a possible Nobel winner some day; this was one prize Mr. Gore got first.

Mr. Gore's moment of acclaim also came just as Mrs. Clinton has solidifed her position as the perceived front-runner among the Democratic presidential candidates. Officials with Mrs. Clinton's campaign said in interviews today that they had no expectation that Mr. Gore, who was vice president for eight years under Mr. Clinton, would enter the race. Mrs. Clinton's campaign Web site was devoted to Mr. Gore's Nobel win, featuring a flattering photograph of the former vice president and a banner headline, "Congratulations!"

Still, James Carville, a strategist for Mr. Clinton who is informally advising Mrs. Clinton's campaign, said of her top political aides: "They're not an operation that believes very much in chance, and I'm sure that they've got contingencies."

Most analysts said that it was not impossible for Mr. Gore to start a credible run for the presidency at this late date, but that it was certainly a challenge, especially given that the leading Democratic candidates have already built formidable war chests and organizations in the early voting states.

If he were to make a run he would have to formally commit to it in a matter of weeks. The filing deadline for candidates in New Hampshire is Nov. 2; it is a relatively easy process requiring a signature and a $1,000 registration fee. Mr. Gore's supporters could still begin a write-in campaign on his behalf if he does not meet that deadline, but it is unclear how successful that would be without a declaration of candidacy from Mr. Gore.

In Iowa, Mr. Gore's relatively small band of committed followers are prepared to push him as a candidate in as many caucus rooms as they possibly can, but that effort will similarly be difficult without a go-ahead from Mr. Gore.

Even former President Jimmy Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, weighed in this morning. "I've called Al Gore and urged him to run for president so many times," he said on NBC's "Today." "He finally told me the last time, 'President Carter, please do not call me.' "

There is an assertive sense of vindication among Mr. Gore's close associates, who remembered the days when Mr. Gore's devotion to the environmental issue earned him the derisive nickname Ozone Man from George H.W. Bush during the 1992 election, when Mr. Gore was running as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee. Mr. Gore's advisers also remembered the lonely days after the Supreme Court ruling in 2000 resulted in Mr. Bush's presidency, and Mr. Gore, who won the popular vote, was derided by many Democrats for running what they said had been a lackluster race.

"Nobody wanted to pay attention to him anymore," said Donna Brazile, who managed Mr. Gore's 2000 campaign. "But they'll pay attention to him now."

One person close to Mr. Gore, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that at this point Mr. Gore would take no affirmative steps to secure his place on state ballots. But, this person said, neither Mr. Gore nor his staff had been paying close attention to the ballot drives and indicated they had not realized that some of the initiatives could theoretically lead to what they have portrayed as unwanted slots on state ballots.

In contrast to other Nobel peace prize winners in recent years, Mr. Gore is a multimillionaire who has built a media and high-tech empire around himself and his environmental work. He is an adviser to Google, sits on the board of Apple and is the chairman and cofounder of Current TV, a cable network with 38 million subscribers. He receives up to $175,000 per speaking appearance, although he waives or reduces his fee for some nonprofit companies and schools. Fast Company magazine has estimated his net worth at more than $100 million.

Laurie David, a producer with Mr. Gore of "An Inconvenient Truth," said she regularly asks him whether he will run for president and he responds as coyly to her as he does publicly. "I've brought it up a million times and he always pretends like his cell phone's not working," she said.

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Al Gore <AlGore@algore.com> wrote:

Dear Peter, I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis--a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level. My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis. Thank you, Al Gore You can unsubscribe from this list at any time. View our Privacy Policy

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