Sorry, next president. Al Gore is not available to be your interior secretary, or secretary of state, or whatever.
"I won't accept a cabinet post regardless of which of the three candidates wins the presidency," Gore said yesterday.
"I am looking for a way to bring about change in other ways," the former vice president and former Democratic presidential candidate said. Gore is in Rome to present the Italian version of his Current Media Inc.'s Current TV channel.
He is one of the superdelegates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are courting to try to secure the Democratic nomination.
I don't think so, but either way, there's no turning back on full equality for everyone.
Arnaud Desplechin's wrenching "Christmas Tale" gets a lukewarm reception at Cannes despite its cast of French superstars. But it might just be a dysfunctional-family masterpiece.
More than 1,000 videos were submitted to MoveOn's "Obama in 30 Seconds" contest, only one was rejected -- now it's surfaced on the Internet, and the group is apologizing.
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