Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, said he doesn’t intend to run for the presidency in 2008.

“I don’t have plans to be a candidate again,” Gore said in a televised interview with Norwegian broadcaster NRK shown today that was filmed at his home in Nashville, Tennessee. “I’m involved in a different kind of campaign, a global campaign to change the way people think about the climate crisis.”

A group called Draftgore.com urged Gore, 59, to run for president in a full-page advertisement in the New York Times on Oct. 10. The ad said 136,000 people had signed its petition. The frontrunners in the race to be the Democratic candidate are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Gore won the popular vote for president in 2000, then lost the presidency to George W. Bush when the Supreme Court ordered the end to a recount in Florida.

source: bloomberg

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