LONDON, May 31 (UPI) -- The current U.S. adminstration is a "renegade band of right-wing extremists," former Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore said Wednesday.
In an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper, Gore delivered a scathing attack on the administration of President George W. Bush.
Rejecting suggestions that his politics had headed to the left since losing the court battle over the 2000 presidential election, he said: "If you have a renegade band of right-wing extremists who get hold of power, the whole thing goes to the right."
Gore, who is in Britain promoting An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary and book on the climate change crisis that he warns "could literally end civilization," refused to explicitly rule out running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
But, he said, he did not "expect to be a candidate" for president again. Asked if any event could change his mind, he says: "Not that I can see."
Gore's true feelings towards a potential bid for the Democratic nomination -- for which former First Lady Hillary Clinton is widely tipped as favorite -- remains unknown.
Time magazine reported over the weekend that the former vice-president was telling key fundraisers they should feel free to commit to other potential candidates. It quoted unnamed Democratic sources as saying that Gore had also been instructing the fundraisers to "tell everybody I'm not running."
The full interview with Gore, which was conducted jointly with Channel 4, is to be broadcast in Britain Saturday.
