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February 28, 2007
Al Gore Taps the Internet
From the man accused of taking credit for inventing the internet, a new political crusade is heating up to fight global warming.
Fresh off his Oscar winning power-point presentation, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore launched a chain email lobbying effort this week to pressure Washington into heeding his documentary's warning: time is running out for the world to reverse climate change. The email has a link to Gore's Web site.
THE IDEA IS: Every recipient who gets his email forward it to ten friends. No doubt, the effort will explode exponentially and create a shock and awe capable of making Washington take notice -- especially when Gore unloads those emails before Congress on March 21. (No word about whether the will be printed on recycled paper.)
Will this be a prelude to another bid for the White House? A number of prominent netizens predicted in Rolling Stone that the Democratic nomination would be his for the taking:
"If Howard Dean could raise $59 million on the Internet," says (veteran Democratic consultant Bill) Carrick, "the mind boggles as to what Al Gore might do." Joe Trippi, who managed Dean's campaign, believes Gore could raise as much as $200 million on the Internet: "Gore may have more money than anybody within days of entering the race."
Then again, Gore may have his eye on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. That would be a first for him. He already sort of, kind of, maybe won one presidential bid in 2000.
Posted by davidphinney at February 28, 2007 12:27 PM
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