Carter supports Gore run for president

GASTONIA, Ga., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Friday said he would support former Vice President Al Gore for president after Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Carter, who won the peace prize in 2002, told a crowd at a bookstore in Gastonia, Ga., he is ready to back Gore in a presidential race, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer said. Gore, 59, who narrowly and controversially lost the 2000 presidential race to George W, Bush, was named a co-winner of the Nobel Prize jointly with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change.

Carter said he told Gore he would support him if the former Tennessee senator tosses his hat into the ring in the Democratic primaries when he called to congratulate him on winning the Nobel Prize.

Carter is on a tour for his latest book "Beyond the White House: Waging peace, Fighting Disease and Building Hope."