would you vote for al gore if he lost 50 lbs? or under any circumstances?

even if what he did say in reference to inventing the internet was misinterpreted, he lately DID say, since i read it, that cigarette smoke contributes to global warming! that is like saying that your flushing your disposable plastic contact lenses down the toilet is your contribution to the buildup of toxic waste!

i think that ms. nothoughtpolice is also referring to america's obsession with glamour as per advertisements, and as it applies even to how a politician LOOKS, since the camelot era, that of jack kennedy. he had the looks, he had brains, he wanted to end the war in viet nam, he had the debutante wife, jackie o, and he had the money that his old man robbed others of in the depression. i think that part of the hysteria over his assassination was due to his "good looks," even though i personally don't think he was so handsome.

i don't think a president needs good looks or a gym membership to be a good president. i think that he needs to not listen so much to his advisors. i think that a president loses touch with his constituents' needs and wants once he takes office and does not read the letters addressed to him, but that others do, only summarizing what they say. i think that when a president of this country, which is a country founded on the necessity of a "GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE" quits listening to the people that he showed he cared about during candidacy, that he becomes jaded. his advisors are advised by their advisors. those advisors are advised by their advisors, and down the line, until the advisors are really the big business lobbyists. so then, in essence, the president is paying more attention to big business than he is to the people's needs, the people that elected him.

let's face it: al gore just is too stupid to sit in the oval office. he dropped out of law school and flunked divinity school. how dumb do you have to be to do that?

in addition, you should look up how he is one of the biggest hypocrites we have ever seen in public, having written An Inconvenient Truth, all about OUR abuse of energy resources, when he, living and partying in his mansion in TN, uses more energy in one month than do most american households in an entire year.

here is the link (look underneath the ad, or else you can't read the report):

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm

i am getting tired of glamorous, lying, hypocriful politicians who write books and who never faced combat where they saw their friends blown to smitereens (and who also use their influence to keep their children away from war) or who are inherently inept but just happen to be popular, or who, due to ex presidents' affiliation or other political affiliation, standing on podiums, shaking the common man's hand, and kissing babies, wide smiles on their faces, promising to represent us, we, the people, getting into office, where they suddenly forget just why they were elected. they were elected based on the beliefs of the american public. we PAY them and all their cronies to represent US, not to represent their own interests or those of big business. but they follow the money. they all do. they are a disgrace.

al gore could look like mr. universe but i'd never vote for him, because he is dumb and arrogant and will abuse his fame as an author all the while he abuses power sources that he tells all of us to cut back on. what would he do to the white house budget for electricity and heat? how many times would he fly around in airforce one without good reason, burning up more fuel?

although george bush, jr. is disrespected because he got us into a war that has proven to be without merit (to the best of our knowledge, since i do think there may be WMD buried in sands in iraq, but may never be found now that mr. saddam badman has gratefully gotten hung), you have to consider that he was a newly elected president, the leader of the most powerful nation on the planet, when the islamic crazies decided to abuse the resources that our welfare system gave to them, learning how to fly commercial airplanes into the WTC and trying to hit the sears tower in chicago and the white house (!!!) committing acts of war upon the united states of america. we have given money to nations all over this planet, and what do we get?

we need to be cautious of leaders, but we need more to be cautious of our enemies, who would destroy and kill us. i do not think gore has a large enough brain to know that immediate action would have to be taken against terrorists and other maniacs that are out to destroy us. i think if he were prez when we got attacked again (bound to happen), he may babble on about energy consumption rather than risk losing popularity!

To answer your question and not provide my political preferences, America loves the body beautiful. Plain truth. A more svelte Gore would have a better chance. The media has always been obsessed with the weight of the president...and generally follows his eating habits. Remember Clinton???

I would vote for Al Gore. he clearly has the other side scared enough that they put so much effort into pushing the lie that he claimed to "invent" the internet.

His book on global warming has done much to convince the public to put more effort into conservation, again, prompting a huge and false rebuttal against things he never said.

I expect his new book coming out this month will go a long way towards clearing the air. I am looking forward to reading "The Assault on Reason", and perhaps you should, too.

http://www.amazon.com/Assault-Reason-Al-Gore/dp/15...

I'd vote for Al Gore if he ended up with the nomination. After the experience of the last six years, this moderate Independent may never vote for another Republican again. I couldn't care less how much the man weighs, that means zip to me. I'm pretty sick of the weight obsession in this country in general.

Ahem...

There is not a circumstance that presents itself in the realm of earthly possibilities that would allow me to vote for Mr. Gore.

Fat, skinny, ugly, fair, liar (inconvenient and otherwise), makes no difference to me. He may have done well as a clinton sycophant, and that's all he is to me. Mr. Gore in the President's chair would spell disaster for this country, as sure as Mr. hillary clinton in the same chair surely would.

N O ! think back to november 1999, i suspect him of complicity. at the absolute best, he was complacent. with a half million more votes he allowed george bush to take the whitehouse! a coup d' etat in america. and look at the results. he shares the responsibility for 6,000 dead americans! (3000 in nyc and 3000 in iraqistan). he wouldn't step up to the plate, or he couldn't; same thing in the world of international politics. no tiene cajones.

today america is hated internationally in a way unprecedented, with gore in office we would be the laughing stock of the world.

I would vote for him when he:

1) Comes up with stuff I agree with

2) He practices what he preaches (have you seen his energy bill?!?)

I'd vote for a green triangle person if they had an agenda and views I agree with. I could care less what they look like. This is the Presidential election-not a beauty contest.

I would vote for him under any circumstances if he was the Democratic candidate on the presidential ticket; although, I do intend on voting for Kucinich in the primaries.

Hmm, maybe if Al Gore told the truth, then I could vote for him but I do not believe he could tell the truth for an entire day so I do not have to worry about voting for him.

At this point, I think I would vote for him even if he gained

another 50.