Obama on OBAMA-GORE 2008

[Perky]

Obama: Role for Gore if He Wants

By HOLLY RAMER
Associated Press Writer


DOVER, N.H. (AP) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama says Al Gore would play a key role in his administration if he wants one, but he won't say whether he'd ask him to be his running mate.

After listening to Obama address a crowded community center Wednesday, a voter asked him to consider naming Gore as his running mate before the nomination is decided "as a way to take the wind out of Hillary's sails."

The voter even proposed a campaign slogan: "Obama and Gore: Experience and Youth. Obama and Gore: Wisdom and Truth."

Not so fast, came Obama's reply.

The Illinois senator said Gore would be involved in his administration in a "very senior capacity, if he's willing" but joked: "I will also be honest with you: having won the Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar, being vice president again would probably be a step down for him." :rofl:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA_GORE?SITE=CATOR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-10-25-11-13-01

[book_worm]

1. Yes, Obama or anybody can't just "name" Gore as his VP

it has to be something he (Gore) wants to do. I seriously doubt that if Gore isn't going to run for president that he would consider being VP again.

[Dawgs]

2. Agree. The question/comment was stupid in the first place.

[Colobo]

3. Gore should endorse Obama ASAP.

[Pirate Smile]

6. Andrew Sullivan agrees with you.

Obama-Gore?
25 Oct 2007 12:03 pm

Let the speculation begin. I think Gore realizes that Obama is the only candidate who can break out of the brutal, polarizing, calculating, post-Vietnam syndrome and actually talk to all the country in clear ways about what practically we need to do at home and in the world. Gore would instantly erase the inexperience question over Obama; Obama would instantly erase the stylistic drawbacks of the Gore persona. The three big issues for me in this election are the war, the Constitution, and the environment. A Gore-Obama combo would be extremely hard to beat if those are your concerns.

Gore, moreover, knows what the Clintons would take us back to perhaps better than anyone else. He knows the paranoia of their operation, the Cheney-like secrecy they crave, the pathologies within our political culture they would instantly reignite, the danger that they will breathe new life into a hopefully dying Christianist movement. But the Clinton machine is in full throttle. If Gore wants to help provide an alternative, he needs to intervene before Iowa. He needs to endorse Obama. For the sake of his country.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/10/obama-gore.html

[bunkerbuster1]

7. Sully is frequently idiotic

And given Sully's love for The Bell Curve, he probably favors Gore on the ticket to whiten it up.

[autorank]

4. OMG - reality testing time.

But it takes a huge ego to run for president so he gets a pass on this one;)

[madinmaryland]

5. Obama would make a good VP choice for Gore.

Gore/Obama-08!!1!!

It would be a lot better choice than Lieberman!