No, he’s not getting into the race himself (despite fervent but completely unfounded hopes and expectations that he’d show up as the nominee at the convention), but he’s getting involved finally. The former Veep is endorsing Barack Obama, and you can bet this is going to cause some ripples.
Al Gore says he is backing Barack Obama and will do whatever he can to help him get to the White House.
In a letter to be e-mailed to Obama supporters, Gore says Obama has united a movement over the past year and a half.
The former vice president also asks for donations to help fund Obama’s effort — the first time he’s asked members of his Web site AlGore.com to contribute to a political campaign.
It was a bit of a mystery why Gore took so long to put his hand in, but really isn’t that hard to understand. Clearly he thought Clinton was not going to win, or that she shouldn’t, and he wasn’t about to come out and endorse the opponent of the family he’s so close to. So he just sat back and decided to endorse whoever won.
Given Gore’s current celebrity, hopefully this will give Obama another boost amongst Dems who were all jaded after Clinton didn’t win the nomination.
Categories: 2008 election
I speak in hyperbole a lot on here, talking about things blowing my mind or giving me a nosebleed, but by and large I’m just embellishing. This, however, is no joke. I got a legitimate headache after seeing this.
President Bush has delivered an ultimatum: catch Bin Laden before his term ends.
The Special Boat Service (SBS) and the Special Reconnaissance Regiment have been taking part in the US-led operations to capture Bin Laden in the wild frontier region of northern Pakistan. It is the first time they have operated across the Afghan border on a regular basis.
The hunt was “completely sanctioned” by the Pakistani government, according to a UK special forces source. It involves the use of Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles fitted with Hellfire missiles that can be used to take out specific terrorist targets.
One US intelligence source compared the “growing number of clandestine reconnaissance missions” inside Pakistan with those conducted in Laos and Cambodia at the height of the Vietnam war.
We’re within three months of the seventh, the seventh anniversary of 9/11, and suddenly Dubya decides it’s high time to catch the guy who was responsible for it. What’s really painful though, is the reasoning. This one’s going in bold because you cannot skip it.
“If he [Bush] can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place,” said a US intelligence source.
Not “if bin Laden is captured, the world will be a safer place”, no. It’s if he can capture bin Laden, he can claim he left the world a safer place.
This man has no shame. Absolutely no shame. He doesn’t give two shits about bin Laden for the years following the attacks, but when he’s about to leave office all of a sudden he really, really wants to get ‘im. Not to protect the world, not to bring a murderer to justice. Just to salvage his own reputation.
Categories: 9/11 · bin laden · bush
