iGnore
The Prophet serve the Anointed One? Not likely. Does the mountain come to Mohammed? OK, bad choice of analogies. Boston Herald:
Political strategists say it’s a near impossibility that Al Gore, a Nobel Prize winner, former vice president and Hollywood darling, would ever serve in Barack Obama’s cabinet, should the Illinois senator win the White House.
“It’s hard to imagine that Al Gore would accept any position in any administration after already having been vice president, having run for president, won an (Oscar), a Nobel Prize,” Mary Ann Marsh, a Democratic political strategist, told the Herald this morning. “You just can’t see it.”
Marsh’s musing comes just a day after a presumptive Obama said he’d make Gore his global warming guru in his administration.
“I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem,” of global warming, Obama said during a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
Marsh called Obama’s announcement a “political gesture” to further ingratiate himself with Gore, whose endorsement is one of the most sought after in the Democratic race for the nomination.
“The most Obama can hope for is that (Gore) will support him as a superdelegate,” she said.
Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton are battling it out in Pennsylvania this month as the April 22 primary, with 187 delegates at stake, approaches.
Republican strategist Holly Robichaud said this is one of the few times she agrees with her Democratic counterpart, Marsh.
“A former vice president doesn’t go into a cabinet,” she said.
Lessee, any former vice presidents in any cabinet posts over the last 200-odd years? I dunno. It’s not like being Clinton’s No. 2, a heart beat away though he was, is that exalted. But the basic point that Gore’s already too big for his biblical robes is well taken. Nobel, Oscar. Leading global doomsayer. Invented the … never mind. It’s pretty astonishing that guy is being heralded as the 2nd coming, but he is, and he would need to be a very special position all his own.
Ambassador to the Warmening Globe. Viceroy of Global Warmth, something like that. More likely heading some special commission or study group so he can tell Obama what to do, without being told what to do, without being responsible for what is done, and without Obama having to do it. That could work. Because if Obama hasn’t figured it out already … and that “yeah, sure, why not” was vague enough … then sooner or later he’ll figure out he doesn’t want to deal with that ego in every cabinet meeting any more than he wants to deal with any Clinton co-presidency.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:30 am on Thursday, April 3, 2008
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April 3rd, 2008 at 5:24 pm
He Who Must Not Be Middle Named is the messiah and the Goreacle is his profit.
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Algore in the Barry O! cabinet. Hmmm
Minister of Inconvenient Truth?
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Even if Gore accepted, and Barry lost the election, how could he handle the rejection a second time? Forget global warmening, he might start advocating nuclear war next time around.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Al Gore is already Pope of the Church of Global Warming. The best Obama can hope for is to kiss his ring.