Al and Tipper Gore to separate

AP

Former Vice President Al Gore famously embraces wife Tipper Gore on stage at the Democratic National Convention in 2000.

From MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell and Adam Verdugo
NBC News confirms that after 40 years of marraige Al and Tipper Gore are separating. The Gores have nothing further to add to statement and will not have anything more to say. They ask for privacy at this time.

A source close say it was a mutual decision. The Gores said it was "a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration." Both are still living in Nashville.

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So.

    Reply#1 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 1:12 PM EDT
    dan-405104Deleted

    OK, so they have nothing more to say7 about it...............I'll wait for her book to come out. lol

      Reply#3 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 1:25 PM EDT

      Hilarious that on my local news it was headlined as "Political Blockbuster!" WTF?

        Reply#4 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 1:27 PM EDT

        I'm sorry for anyone to go through a divorce, and I really like both of them a lot so I know this could not have been easy for either of them - after 40years that would be difficult for anyone.

        I also noticed that george & laura bush are having some trouble in their marriage. I'm sad for them too, although I have to be honest and say I'm not supprised as much about them, they just never looked comfortable with each other to me.

          Reply#5 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 2:04 PM EDT

          Way to go Tipper It took you 40 yrs but you finally realized how Crazy as hell the guy is!!! Phony eventually shows through even after 40 years!! I have always respected Tipper but for Big Gay Al I am a fellow Tennessean and I am personally emberrassed to claim Hypocrite Nazi Al Gore!!

            Reply#6 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 2:43 PM EDT

            What's wrong with you? Why don't you put your personal prejudices aside and have some compassion?

              #6.1 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 3:22 PM EDT
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              What a shame. I admit to be completely surprised because to my knowledge, there were never any rumors that things weren't going well. They always seemed to be kindred spirits. Goes to show we never know.

              Unlike Union Baby, TN, I haven't heard anything about the Bush's so guess I'm out of the loop.

                Reply#7 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 2:43 PM EDT

                What a shame after 40 plus years...has to be something really big to destroy a 40 year marriage, I wish them both well.

                  Reply#8 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 3:01 PM EDT

                  Last night, PBS ran a special on the Civilian Conservation Corps, CCC. I had seen it before but not just after we have the worst oil disaster in US history. FDR established the CCC to provide jobs, food and a roof over the heads of young people during the Great Depression; it was also designed to restore the country's natural resources that had been so badly depleted, nearly destroyed and damaged. FDR and the CCC were environmentalists before there was such a thing. Forests had been destroyed, farm land used up and blowing away. The first time I saw it, I was reminded of the American Indians who respected Mother Earth and its creatures; they took only the buffalo they needed, they fished and hunted for what they needed; they did not use up the land or pollute the water. White men came along and slaughtered buffalo to near extinction. We chopped down the trees and farmed the land until it could produce no more. Some of it was because we didn't know about rotating crops, or soil errosion or at least we did not learn what the "savages" could have taught us. It seems we're very good at using things up until they're gone.

                  Al Gore may be easy to ridicule and mock but he believes that we are destroying the planet and maybe we should listen. Even if he's wrong, what is the harm in using our resources wisely, in establishing renewable wind and solar energy, in limiting emissions, and what is wrong with wanting clean air, clean water. When John McCain was still a maverick, even he believed that working to protect what we have is important for our children and grandchildren regardless of whether or not global warming is man made. It doesn't matter whether it is real, what matters is that we respect and protect the beauty we have and the bounty that is Mother Earth. The oil disaster proves how fragile it is.

                    Reply#9 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 3:25 PM EDT

                    So much for 'growing old' together...  What a shame... 

                      Reply#10 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 3:29 PM EDT

                      Unfortunately this will be the new piece to distract from the BP catastrophe, and the GOP's blatant disregard to taxpayer protections.

                        Reply#11 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 3:32 PM EDT

                        Wonder who will get the carbon coupon book? Oh well she should run away for him before the mass trials of Progressive traitors for treason. bahahahahaha

                          Reply#12 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 3:36 PM EDT

                          This is none of our business. Who really cares.?

                            Reply#13 - Tue Jun 1, 2010 3:37 PM EDT

                            Greg P. How did the GOP get involved ? I thought this was a news release. But you are correct this sad story will probably lessen the focus of the press on the total lack of concern Obama has for the oil spill and the invasion of the illegals.

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