Global warming seems to have lost its panache with some liberals. "More drilling! The polls demand it!" they cry.

But it's good that Gore can now push on Obama where it will actually accomplish things. GO AL!

A good speech with lots of recommendations that would be politically popular - investment in electric grids, jobs in the automotive industry producing electric vehicles, pledges for retraining for those no longer in the coal industry.  A sign of the urgency of the challenge is the open-mindedness to nuclear power as a part of a carbon-free electric system.  

A local "independent" news station just had an editorial filled with right wing talking points about oil drilling.  The editor sounded just like Rush Limbaugh, blaming Democrats for everything, of course...

The media is so in the tank for the republicans... there is no way congress is going to stand up for this issue when they capitulate towards everything else...

We need to hit back hard on these lies... but, how?

I was away for a few days and just noticed that Obama "picked up" another 15 electoral votes on the map.

Wait until he's all over the news hobnobbing with world leaders and eating with the troops in Iraq. McBush will be lucky to hang onto AZ.

Great work...Al Gore is great at getting his point across unlike some Dems.

gee, why couldn't he have run. he was actually my first choice, and when I accepted he was not gonna run, I went with Hillary. But I shoulda seen he was never gonna run this year, have to go against the Clintons his old bosses, or put his reputation on the line so he can get called a racist by his opponents as Obama's crew did to Clinton.

I wish this had be a joint speech. Obama should have been with Gore on this one. This is the kind of leadership America requires to survive! GO AL!

I get shouted down when I suggest that Al Gore is the only real choice for VP.  Obama wants the most qualified person... well, here's the only guy who is literally overqualified.

Al Gore:

Of course the greatest obstacle to meeting the challenge of 100 percent renewable electricity in 10 years may be the deep dysfunction of our politics and our self-governing system as it exists today. In recent years, our politics has tended toward incremental proposals made up of small policies designed to avoid offending special interests, alternating with occasional baby steps in the right direction. Our democracy has become sclerotic at a time when these crises require boldness."

I think Al Gore is doing a lot more good outside of politics than he would if he were back in.  Now he can focus on his one true passion and he doesn't have to worry about offending anyone.  I would be truly disappointed if he were to become the VP.  We need him more right where he is.

As much as I'd like to see this come to pass, it's WAY more difficult than the Apollo project.  Achieving an engineering success with a blank check is a much simpler thing than overcoming the inertia involved in restructuring the entire energy infrastructure of a nation the size of the US.