We’re still waiting for that Sherman statement…. From a report in the Daily Telegraph (Hat tip, Big Orange’s anoodle):

Friends of Al Gore have secretly started assembling a campaign team in preparation for the former American vice-president to make a fresh bid for the White House.

Two members of Mr Gore’s staff from his unsuccessful attempt in 2000 say they have been approached to see if they would be available to work with him again.

One of his former campaign team said: “I was asked whether I would be available towards the end of the year if I am needed. They know he has not ruled out running and if he decides to jump in, he will have to move very fast.

“He hasn’t asked them to do this, but nor has he told them not to.”

Among the senior officials not yet committed is Michael Whouley, who was national field director for the successful Clinton-Gore 1992 presidential campaign, national campaign manager for Mr Gore when he stood for re-election as vice-president in 1996, and then a senior adviser to Mr Gore in 2000.

The Big Dog thinks Gore might run:  Read more 

Two Oscars, in fact:

“An Inconvenient Truth,” which turned Gore’s lectures on the threat of global warming into a highly touted theatrical release, won the Academy Award for best documentary feature Sunday night.

Singer Melissa Etheridge also received the Oscar for best original song, “I Need to Wake Up,” which was written for the movie.

And the teaser:  Read more 

Bloomberg (and not Reuters):

Gore has said he hasn’t ruled out making another run for president, but he doesn’t “expect” to launch a campaign. He made the comments during a visit to Australia in September, where he was promoting his film.

Oddly, the video that accompanies the Reuters story includes no mention either way of Gore’s 2008 plans, expected or otherwise.

Oh, and MyDD says he isn’t enthusiastic about drafts. Two words:  Read more 

I have never pretended to be a capitalist. But I respect reality, and I get the fact that I’m in a tiny minority and must function in a society that believes we should all have to work for someone else in order to eat. But I really, truly don’t understand honest, old fashioned, greedy capital people who fail to take my money from me when I’m practically begging to give it to them:

An Inconvenient Truth $1,750,000 +16.3% 404 +282 $4,331 $6,406,000

Mission: Impossible III $1,183,000 -60.8%
1,002 -906 $1,180 $130,003,000  Read more 

Gore makes a major speech and calls Bushit, describing the current US administration as “a renegade band of rightwing extremists.”

And—I know this will surprise you—our “liberal,” “left-leaning” “free” press gives the story not one single column inch of coverage. Zip, zilch, nada.

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Atrios makes note that

On Wednesday an inconvenient truth was the #11 movie in the country despite being in only 4 theaters, earning $78,994 ($19,749/theater). The #10 movie was showing at 1,265 theaters, earning 117,000, or $92/theater.  Read more 

We all make mistakes. We all have moments of cowardice, or when we fail to do what’s right because it’s harder. Sometimes, those acts (or inactions) have more serious consequences than we imagine at the time. When we fail, what’s most important is that we learn from our mistakes, and that we’re conscious and thoughful of them in the future. It’s a hard, hard thing for a man in our society to admit that he was wrong:

Does he, like many Democrats, think the election was stolen?

Gore pauses a long time and stares into the middle distance. “There may come a time when I speak on that,” Gore says, “but it’s not now; I need more time to frame it carefully if I do.” Gore sighs. “In our system, there’s no intermediate step between a definitive Supreme Court decision and violent revolution.”  Read more