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Politics : President Barack Obama

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To: geode00 who wrote (861)2/10/2007 9:37:30 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
Al Gore's Oscar surprise?

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A week from tomorrow night, Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," is a mortal lock to win the Oscar for Best Documentary. Academy Awards voters have a habit of picking movies that they think reflect well on them -- movies that showcase favorite causes ("Crash"), tell the stories of America's victims ("Dances With Wolves") or illustrate how the people who live between the coasts are philistines ("American Beauty"). A computer programmed to design a movie that hits all of Hollywood's buttons could not have done better than Gore did with his lecture/sermon/harangue on global warming.

So what will Gore do when he steps to the podium with a worldwide audience in the hundreds of millions? There's growing buzz in political circles that he just might .... announce he's running for president. You can't beat the Oscar broadcast for a high-profile stage for such an announcement. It would make Arnold's announcement on Jay Leno's show seem like small potatoes.

Posted by Chris Reed at February 10, 2007
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