President 2008 Watch: Al Gore Says He is OUT

US President George W. Bush’s administration is a “renegade band of right-wing extremists”, former US vice president Al Gore, said in an interview with a British newspaper.

ASSociated Press: Gore says don’t count on a 2008 run

Al Gore, the Democrats’ nominee for the White House in 2000, says he has all but ruled out running for president in 2008, saying the best use of his time is to educate people about global warming.

“I haven’t made a Sherman statement, but that’s not an effort to hold the door open. It’s more the internal shifting of gears,” said Gore, referring to Civil War-era general William Tecumseh Sherman. “I can’t imagine any circumstances in which I would become a candidate again. I’ve found other ways to serve. I’m enjoying them.”

“I honestly believe that the highest and best use of my skills and experience is to try to change the minds of people in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world about this planetary emergency that we simply have to confront,” Gore said.

“I have no plans to be a candidate for president again,” he said. “I don’t expect to ever be a candidate for president again. I haven’t made a so-called Sherman statement, because it just seems unnecessary, kind of odd to do that.”

Hillary Clinton is relieved.

The LEFT is disappointed.

Flap is ambivalent because Al Gore is a LOSER.

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