If Al Gore was president....

[The1calledTKE]

If Al Gore was president...

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[Rudey]

If Al Gore was president, even the Democrats would all have become Republicans.

-Rudey

[ann.coulter2]

Monday, Jan. 15, 2007 12:40 a.m. EST

Al Gore: I'm Not Running for President

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said on Monday he would not run in the next presidential race, despite rumors that he might build on the higher profile created by his environmental campaign to do so.

Asked whether he had plans to stand in the 2008 election, Gore ruled it out, adding: "I'm involved in a different kind of campaign."

During a visit to Japan to promote his award-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" ...

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...25.shtml?s=icp

[DeltAlum]

I believe him as much as I believe any other politician who says she/he "is not" running.

Heard it all before.

[RU OX Alum]

everyone in politics wants to be president, that is like being a boxer and saying "i don't want a title fight" you want the title fight whether or not you are too old to train for one is another question


even Gilmore is running, and no one here can figure out why

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

everyone in politics wants to be president, that is like being a boxer and saying "i don't want a title fight" you want the title fight whether or not you are too old to train for one is another question


even Gilmore is running, and no one here can figure out why

It is called Egomanicia!

I ran for a public official job twice. Thank god I did not win!!!!!!!!!!!

Some one asked me why I was running for city council of KCK?

Told them it was a moment of stupid and $50.00!

[shinerbock]

Coulters earlier article about global warming from like 2 weeks ago was much better than that one.

[ann.coulter2]

Late Friday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tried to get Senate Republicans to allow former Vice President Al Gore to stage a global warming concert on Capitol grounds. But Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) objected to Reid's request, and the resolution authorizing the concert, for now, remains stuck in the Rules and Administration Committee.

[ASUADPi]

The teacher in me wonders if Gore were president would I be putting up with the craptastic law called NCLB?

Methinks not.

[RU OX Alum]

no one who thinks that capitol building would be a good place for a concert should be president

he might try to have the afterparty at a library or something, god, how boring. He finally comes up with something cool (concerts are cooler than documentaries....they just are) and lames it up by wanting it to happen at congress.

But I don't know, maybe someone boring should be president.

[shinerbock]

Al Gore is nuts. He took that whole losing thing pretty hard.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by ASUADPi

The teacher in me wonders if Gore were president would I be putting up with the craptastic law called NCLB?

Methinks not.

I don't know. We had a Democratic governor in Georgia whose educational reforms were as intense: end of course test in every class in high school, teacher evaluation based on student performance, the end of tenure.*

He lost his re-election bid to a Republican guy who while he hasn't increased funding as much as some folks want and wasn't able to give teachers a raise a few years when state revenue was down, has pushed for small raises two years in a row, created a Master teacher distinction with a 10% incentive, and for two years now pushed for each teacher to get a $100 gift card that we could decide how to spend. $100 bucks isn't much, but it's more than anyone has ever given us before.

I don't think Al would have been especially bad, but I don't know that you can assume that he wouldn't have screwed around with education reform just because of party affiliation. (Forgive me for that assumption if your comment was based on considerably more than that.)


*Some of these "reforms" don't bother me, and some of the problems with NCLB are what the states and local systems did trying to comply with the law itself.

[ASUADPi]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

I don't know. We had a Democratic governor in Georgia whose educational reforms were as intense: end of course test in every class in high school, teacher evaluation based on student performance, the end of tenure.*

He lost his re-election bid to a Republican guy who while he hasn't increased funding as much as some folks want and wasn't able to give teachers a raise a few years when state revenue was down, has pushed for small raises two years in a row, created a Master teacher distinction with a 10% incentive, and for two years now pushed for each teacher to get a $100 gift card that we could decide how to spend. $100 bucks isn't much, but it's more than anyone has ever given us before.

I don't think Al would have been especially bad, but I don't know that you can assume that he wouldn't have screwed around with education reform just because of party affiliation. (Forgive me for that assumption if your comment was based on considerably more than that.)


*Some of these "reforms" don't bother me, and some of the problems with NCLB are what the states and local systems did trying to comply with the law itself.

Oh totally fine

I definately agree that he probably would have screwed with education reform, I just have a feeling NCLB wouldn't have come to play with Gore as president. But who knows. Unfortunately we are stuck with it and I don't see it going away anytime soon (as much as I would love for it to go the way of the dinosaur but that is a WHOLE other thread )