Oct 10 2007
Gore poised to win Nobel Peace Prize, but his real prize still waits
I’ve been predicting this for a year now, and the moment is upon us. I note that the article makes a lot of the same predictions I have been making.
THE environmental campaigner Al Gore is being tipped as a favourite to win the Nobel peace prize in Oslo this Friday in a controversial move that could place saving the planet above saving people from war and conflict.
Gore, a former American vice-president and failed presidential candidate, has reinvented himself as the “Goracle” with a rock star following after presenting last year’s Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, about the dangers of climate change.
“A prerequisite for winning the Nobel peace prize is making a difference and Al Gore has made a difference,” said Boerge Brende, a former Norwegian environment minister who nominated Gore and Watt-Cloutier.
Gore spent last year assessing whether he ought to run for the White House in 2008, teasing his supporters by saying, “I haven’t completely ruled it out”, and prompting observers to keep a close eye on his girth for signs that he was slimming for a presidential bid.
Some commentators in America, including the British writer Christopher Hitchens, believe he could use a Nobel win to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
“Can he stand to watch another Clinton walk away with a nomination that could have been, or could still be, his?” Hitchens asked.
His supporters think he will sit it out, but with his ego so inflated with his Million Dollar award, it may be that he cannot pass it up.
And he would be hard to beat, drawing on his faux leadership via the GW issue, but also stimulating the left with the thought of a “do over” of the 2000 election.
We will see.
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One Response to “Gore poised to win Nobel Peace Prize, but his real prize still waits”
Well he and the UN Panel are sharing the prize. They will be working together on their plans for the big project. What a team. He is usless and they are usless, a good start.