This is very exciting!  I haven't donated for about a month. I think it's time to do so in honor of this endorsement.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FinallY!!!!

Oh and I heard he will put his hat in the VP ring as well.

j/p of course, I want to stick it to Gore that he was the best VP in our history and should get that title twice.

Not a surprise at all.  Who else is he going to endorse at this point?

Great news! Runningmate rumors possibly begin tonight???

Clearly this is a slap in the face of Hillary Clinton.

How is this news?  Who else would Gore endorse?

McCain?

But it is interesting that the campaign asked for donation though links like 3-4 times.  Hillary never begged for money like this.  

I'm saving my money for Hillary in 2012, when REAL change will happen in this country.

This is the second big endorsement in Michigan. Obama likes to make news in Michigan - to let folks there know that he thinks they're important.

This is going to make Hillary stronger.  

but it strikes me as oddly un-Al Gore-like with it's heavy emphasis on SEND MONEY, stated 1st, and then restated several times more. It seems a rather tacky introduction for an endorsement of this magnitude.

and John Edwards, he had the good grace to wait until the end of the primary season to do so. He's choosing the good route, of uniting, or attempting to do so, not dividing like Richardson did.

Are people in this thread actually complaining about a Gore-Obama speech tonight?  What would make some of you happy?

What is Al Gore agreed to be Obama's running mate, with the caveat that he would resign after the first year in Office so Obama could appoint someone else to be voted on by the Senate?

The idea being to reassure voters that Gore would be around to help Obama get his feet under him for the first year and then Gore would leave the office.

It sounds crazy, but it might actually be attractive to Gore in a way. he's not locked iht being VP for 8 years (or 4) and he would help Obama get elected as directly as possible.

I donated.  I want to have it be known that I expect Obama to take up the mantle for evironmental concerns, and what better way to send that message than sending my contribution through Al Gore.

... I know why he waited, and respect it, but Gore knew as well as anyone who was going to win this thing; it was a supreme act of respect for Hillary Clinton that he waited until it was over.

Smart to do it now, if waiting was his plan; it's been a very slow political news week; hopefully he can be the driving story on Olbermann and control a news cycle or two.

I've always been in favor of a Gore VP spot; it would unite the Democrats behind Obama quite strongly, and nobody would be concerned about whether or not he'd passed the "commander-in-chief test" because he'd already won enough votes to be president once.

Furthermore, there's very little that Repbulicans could credibly attack him on that hasn't been already seen and judged.

I realize that it probably would never happen... but Obama has to make the offer at least.

glad he woke up and decided to come to the party

I kept thinking that the primary would be over when Gore endorsed somebody. Which he never did. That was probably right. But there were times when I found myself thinking, "Why can't he just flip a coin and get started with the laying on of hands already?"

No way he's going to be VP. There's nothing in it for him. Even if the job is more active than it used to be, it's still the position that Truman said was worth no more than a bucket of warm piss.

Aside from that, there are other, tactical reasons he wouldn't want to do it. Gore's tactical position is similar to that of Richard Nixon after he lost a closely-fought battle to Kennedy, largely because he'd failed to grasp the media environment and got blown out by a friendlier face. A lot of people thought he was done. Eight years later he re-emerged, still pushing the same mess, but cleaner, more telegenic, more energetic -- and he won. Gore "lost" a tight one largely because he seemed stiff and swotty, disappeared, reemerged from the wilderness a quicker and more exciting presence. I thought he was going to run this year, honestly, and he probably would have waltzed to the nomination if he had.

Anyway, apprenticing himself to a man nearly 20 years his junior just seems like a step down, and it may damange any chances he has in eight or (God forbid) four years. Besides, who wants go go down in history as "America's longest-serving #2"?

Not for anything, why is this news?  

"I know it's meant to be joke, but let's let this go.  We're on the same side now remember." Agree.