Draft Gore 2008 PAC

[A recent posting to the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) mailing list. It is interesting how broadly Al is referenced as having something to do with something important. I've removed the author's contact information, leaving just the "what if" from deep in the heart of network operator country, where we all know how much Al did for the net. ebw]

A number of people have bemoaned the lack of any IPv6-only killer-content that would drive a demand for IPv6. I've thought about this, and about the government's push to make IPv6 a reality. What occurred to me is there is a satellite sitting in storage that would provide such content:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triana_(satellite)

Al Gore pushed for this satellite, Triana, to provide those on earth with a view of the planet among its scientific goals. The Republicans referred to it as an "overpriced screen saver," though the effect even of just the camera component on people's lives and how they treat the planet could be considerable.

By combining the launch of Triana with feeding the still images and video from servers only connected to native IPv6 bandwidth, the government would provide both a strong incentive for end users to want to move to IPv6, and a way to get the people of this planet to stop from time to time and ponder the future of the earth.

Of course getting this done any time soon would require getting the present administration to reverse its bias against Triana and global warming. But it seemed to me an interesting way to advance two goals in synergy.

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Suzie Madrake, our initial Communications Director prior going to a paid full-time position as CD in the Philly mayorial race, writes:

I was on a local TV show this morning to talk about the Draft Gore movement. The host was surprised to hear both from me and the other Gore supporter that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton weren’t real worries for Gore backers.

“If Gore announces, it’ll be a tsunami,” the Gore guy said.

I agreed. “If Gore runs, it will suck most of the money and the attention his way,” I said. I said I’d spoken to campaign staffers who say many of them took jobs with the understanding that if Gore announces, they’re leaving to work for him.

A Republican consultant who appeared with us said he didn’t think Gore would present a major problem for the Republicans, but you could tell his heart wasn’t in it.

After the show, the Draft Gore worker and I went out to the local diner. As the waitress prepared to take our order, she pointed to his “Draft Gore” button and said, “Is that a Gore button?”

“Yep. Do you want one?” he said. He fumbled around in his pocket and handed it over.

“Oh my God, I would absolutely love it if Al Gore ran. He’s really the only one running on either side that I want,” she gushed. “I really hope he does run.”

See, Al? This time, America knows we need you. Run, Al, run.

Jim Capozzola died today. He was 44 years old, and funny and a good writer and gay and the constant and loving companion of a bulldog. And he was our friend.

Much of his works in the blog form are at The Rittenhouse Review, a Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture.

I'd like to write that the news of Libby's commutation caused him to die laughing, but it was a lack of health care that killed him, an undiagnosed illness and the accidental combination of a minor blow to the head and an anti-coagulant.

James Martin Capozzola received the 2002 Koufax Award for Best Post for "Al Gore and the Alpha Girls" (published November 25, 2002). Capozzola's record in the Koufax Awards includes two additional nominations for 2002 (Best Blog and Best Writing), three nominations for 2003 (Best Blog, Best Series, and Best Writing), and two finalist nominations in 2004 (Best Blog and Best Writing).

We're re-linking to Jim's post because if you think about Al Gore differently this summer than you did in the summer of 2002, when most Dems had co-sponsored the USA Patriot Act, and were lining up to co-sponsor the Homeland Security Act of 2002, and were pre-voting "correctly" in the final quarters of the phoney Iraq disarmament crisis, its probably because Jim wrote this piece and the light went on for the rest of us.

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Who of the current field can compare with Al Gore in terms of experiance, stature, credibility and electability? I say no body even comes close but in the time between now and primary season literally tons of money and talent will be committed to useless efforts for people who might blow the election with a verbal gaff or a skeleton from the closet.
Al Gore has done this before and he can do it again better than anyone else. Somebody please tell me why I am wrong!

The second DDOS of note. Again, on the order of 100 machines in Europe and Asia conducted a modest "./"

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Already posted at BooTrib and dKos... (none / 0)

In response to your identical posts over there, but, what the heck, I'll do it here again.