Not Your Sweetie

Draft Al?: The Carthage Courier will run a full-page ad Wednesday asking

former Vice President Al Gore to run for president in 2004. The group
that paid for the ad, Grassroots Democrats, also has a Web site urging
Gore to reconsider his December decision – which he announced on CBS
News' "60 Minutes" - not to run for the Democratic nomination again. The

group says that it has plans in the works to organize pro-Gore Democrats

in Iowa and New Hampshire to help draft the former vice president.

In a release Tuesday about the ad, the group says it "does not expect or

request a response from Al Gore in the immediate future. His was an
extremely difficult decision that will not change overnight. What Gore
supporters do hope is that the former vice president will keep his
options open as we near the primary season in 2004."

We've said it before and we'll say it again: Weirder things have
happened." says CBS News