Say It Isn’t So!

Al Gore says he's all but ruled out a run for the Democratic nomination in 2008.

"I haven't made a Sherman statement, but that's not an effort to hold the door open. It's more the internal shifting of gears," said Gore, referring to Civil War-era general William Tecumseh Sherman. "I can't imagine any circumstances in which I would become a candidate again. I've found other ways to serve. I'm enjoying them."

Gore referred to Sherman's famous words upon retiring from the Army in 1884, which put to rest talk of a presidential run: "If nominated I will not run; if elected I will not serve."

Gore, in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week," stopped short of issuing such an equivocal statement. But he said his time is best spent educating people on heat-trapping gases raising the Earth's surface temperature. He's promoting "An Inconvenient Truth," a film that chronicles his intricate slide shows on global warming.

Sen. Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting record), D-Del., who is planning a run in 2008, said Gore would be a strong candidate if he decided to enter the race.

"He would be viable, and he would be welcome," Biden said on "Meet the Press" on NBC. "It would add to the debate in this party to have him."

Darn it. What am I going to do with all these penguin pictures? It just isn't fair, I tell you.