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Gore to Appear With Obama

Monday 16 June 2008

by: Jeff Zeleny  |  The New York Times

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Former Vice President Al Gore will appear in Detroit Monday night to endorse Senator Barack Obama.
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    Flint, Michigan – Former Vice President Al Gore will appear in Detroit tonight for his debut campaign appearance with Senator Barack Obama, extending an endorsement and urging all Democrats to rally behind the party's fall ticket.

    "A few hours from now I will step on stage in Detroit, Michigan to announce my support for Senator Barack Obama," Mr. Gore said in an e-mail sent to his supporters. "From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected President of the United States."

    Throughout the long Democratic primary, Mr. Gore talked frequently to Mr. Obama. But tonight's rally at the Joe Louis Arena in downtown Detroit marks the first time they will appear together on the same stage. The endorsement was announced – on Mr. Gore's terms – to supporters on his vast e-mail list.

    "I've never asked members of AlGore.com to contribute to a political campaign before, but this moment and this election are too important to let pass without taking action," Mr. Gore said. He added, "Over the past 18 months, Barack Obama has united a movement. He knows change does not come from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or Capitol Hill. It begins when people stand up and take action."

    The decision to stage the appearance in Michigan underscores the importance of the state for Mr. Obama. It was also in Michigan where former Senator John Edwards unveiled his endorsement of Mr. Obama in a surprise setting.

    "Over the next four years, we are going to face many difficult challenges - including bringing our troops home from Iraq, fixing our economy, and solving the climate crisis," Mr. Gore said. "Barack Obama is clearly the candidate best able to solve these problems and bring change to America."

  

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Obama and Gore......Sounds

 Tue, 06/17/2008 - 05:09 — Anonymous (not verified)
Obama and Gore......Sounds like a winning ticket to me.

All I hear from Barack Obama

 Mon, 06/23/2008 - 19:54 — Anonymous (not verified)
All I hear from Barack Obama is rhetoric and the candidate's theme word, "change". But I never hear how this supposed "change" is going to happen. I have yet to hear even the start of an utterance that would commmence an answer and solution, to any one of the United States teeming problems. Mr. Obama stirs up his crowd into a euphoria of high hopes by getting a fireside chant going, "change." However, Mr. Obama has failed to even provide us, the people, with a simple first stage/s of a solution to any one of America's crowding issues. All Obama has is a campaign catchphrase, and Gore is simply chanting the catch phrase too,jumping into the bandwagon. Hey Obama how about giving the American public an answer or stance on H.R.676, the initiative for a true single payer health-care system...just for starters. Then maybe dabbling a little with that tiny "irrelevant" issue of Kucinich's Article of Impeachment against Pres. Bush. (Thanks Kucinich for picking up the slack of the three branches of our government and our next president, whomever that individual may be in January. Truly it was you who should be the leading candidate now followed by being voted into office.) No, instead the logic for a solution and the truths of America's skeletons are forced out the door to make room for a catchy campaign slogan. A slogan the public is falling for in hopes of covering up this countries historical crimes of humanity; and possibly to cover our own individual hatreds or preconceived notions, or whatever inner-flaws we shoulder and carry in each individual. No, "change" is not a promise. It is not even a "maybe." All it is, is a campaign slogan and/or catchphrase, so that the public can associate the word, change, and its core-meaning with Obama's face or name, without any proof of or solid answers of striving for change. The catch-phrase like this candidate is empty and without any substance or essence; just a simple ploy. Well, I know of catch-phrase too Obama..."Eat my Shorts."