The Green Quote: Al Gore’s Delayed Reaction Endorsement
Filed under: politics — Michael d'Estries @ 8:50 am
June 17th 2008
“We know this will never happen, but hopefully Al will tell us tonight why he didn’t endorse somebody when it WOULD HAVE MEANT SOMETHING. Like in February.
Then again, think of it from his perspective. In his forseable role as Captain Planet, he’s going to need to work with whomever would be president, so why burn a bridge with a nomination. But isn’t Al big enough now (is that a Nobel in your pocket?) that he doesn’t have to worry about such petty political matters.”
–San Francisco Chronicle’s Joe Garofoli on Al Gore’s late endorsement of Barack Obama last night.
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This thinking is silly. Gore is a very intelligent guy, as is Obama. I think the way they have handled the endorsements has been brilliant. To me, a Gore endorsement says that Obama has made some kind of commitment to work on the problems we face. The corporations have always had a HUGE problem with Gore(and as a result, with us) and he rarely gets good press.
i think it was a wise move on both their parts to delay an endorsement. think about it: if obama had ended up in his current position WITH an endorsement, all his naysayers would be harping on “oh well, he ONLY got this far b/c AL GORE endorsed him!!” i think it was a good move to let obama find his footing and make it to this stage without the powerhouse gore–but now that they’re together, YAY!!!!