LONDON - Former US vice-president Al Gore reiterated in an AFP wire report that he does not intend to run for president in 2008 -- not entirely ruling out doing so further in the future. The wire service's interpretation of his quote, however, is misleading.
AFP's headline: "Gore rules out 2008 US presidential run."
His statement came a day after the Associated Press filed a report that Gore supporters, including the top policy adviser from his 2000 presidential run, met in Boston to discuss urging Gore to run.
Gore, now an environmental campaigner, ran for president in 2000 against George W. Bush, but lost the race amid a bitter dispute over electoral votes in the state of Florida.
He said: "I don't have plans to be a candidate again and though I haven't... completely ruled out any possibility of running at some point in the future I don't expect to and cannot perceive circumstances in which I would."
Gore was speaking alongside Virgin chief Richard Branson at the launch of the Virgin Earth Challenge, a 25-million-dollar science and technology prize to encourage a viable technology to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
Gore served as vice president in the Democratic administration of Bill Clinton.
LONDON - Former US vice-president Al Gore reiterated in an AFP wire report that he does not intend to run for president in 2008 -- not entirely ruling out doing so further in the future. The wire service's interpretation of his quote, however, is misleading.