Green! Green! What better color to associate with Al Gore’s efforts to save the world from itself - right?

Actually, Gore is engaged in the world’s most successful marketing scheme of all time. The investment money is pouring into bank accounts of corporations built around “Going Green” - and boy are they.

 These bio-fuel and green technology firms could be poised to take off, Gore told his audience.

“Here are just a few of the investments I personally think make sense,” he said during the March 1 presentation. “I have a stake in these so I’ll have a disclaimer there.” (See Video)

Gore’s admitted stake in those companies comes from his partnership in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). Gore joined the firm last November, forging a partnership between KPCB and the London-based Generation Investment Management, a firm Gore chairs, and which steers investments in green and “sustainable” companies.

This month, KPCB announced it has invested $500 million into start-up “green growth” companies, and another $700 million into more established greentech, information technology and life science ventures.

The seed money is intended to “grow” the companies so they can be publicly traded. Both funds are closed to further investment. Last week, Generation Investment Management reportedly closed a $683-million “Climate Solutions Fund” to further investment.

The firms, with similar goals, differ in that GIM focuses mostly on public equities, while KPCB focuses on startup or expanding companies that haven’t gone public yet.

Yep - the Sham Master Flash is right smack in the middle of all of this “publicly traded” and “going public”. The industry is about YOU paying more for everything in order to be earth conscious, while GORE flies around the world in private jets to tut his new product. Fear is the most complete marketing tool and Al Gore wields it well.

There is your inconvenient truth, you sheep.

Al Gore is not running for POTUS - and I can’t tell you how happy that makes me. However, maybe the irony of this article will be a strong to you as it it is to me.

You see, although Al Gore is not running for POTUS and does not seem interested in the role anymore, there is a faction of Loopies who are working to “Draft Gore” into the race.

Supporters of Al Gore are making their latest push on television.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – A national grassroots organization seeking to draft Al Gore to run for president is making its latest appeal on television, launching a thirty-second ad Friday that urges supporters to make a last-ditch effort to convince the former vice president to throw his hat into the White House race.

“Imagine what tomorrow can be,” the DraftGore.com ad’s narrator says. “Imagine a renewed world, an end to the war in Iraq, imagine Al Gore as president — Call him. Write him. Seize the moment.”

The ad also notes Gore opposed the war in Iraq in 2002 and won a Nobel Peace Prize last month for his efforts to bring attention to the issue of global warming.

The spot is set to air for three days on the New Hampshire station WMUR as well as CNN nationally. The ad has to convince Gore quickly however, at least if he wants to compete in the Granite State — New Hampshire’s deadline to get on the presidential ballot is Friday.

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What is probably most interesting is the approach here.

Remember last year when the Democrats were pushing to institute a draft for the American military because they claimed that only socially and economically challenged kids were serving in the military. The draft, they said, would level the playing field. What they didn’t think through was the effect this would have on a professional, all-volunteer military. However, when pushed by Republicans to actually VOTE for the draft, the Democrats backed down and wailed and wrung their hands at the unfairness of the Republican tactic to make them put their money where their mouth is.

Now, take the 08 Presidential Race - Draft Gore, if successful, will turn the Democrat’s already diluted, unidentifiable party platform into a circus. Al Gore is no more qualified to be a presidential candidate than he is to be a Nobel prize winner (having benefited from the work of scores of scientists - another story). Draft Gore is exactly what the Democrat party DOESN’T need right now, because they are looking for credibility (In all the wrong places) after having accomplished so very little since regaining the majority. With so little to hang their collective hat upon, adding such an unstable element to the race is not in anyone’s best interest.