What do you all think about Gore as VP?

[proud2BlibKansan]

[TahitiNut]

1. He should be given ambassadorial role for the environment, imho.

There's a LOT of international cooperation needed on the environment.

Reading "Assault on Reason" right now ... and I'm very impressed. His counsel should be embraced.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. I would sure like to see him in the cabinet

He has so much to offer the country.

[Muttocracy]

15. UN Ambassador given international nature of environmental dynamics and impact of

international affairs on the environment.

[Forkboy]

2. Great, but I really, really don't see it happening.

I think Al is very happy doing what's he doing, and he may be having a far bigger impact right where he is.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. I got an email from a friend in DC

She said he is the #1 candidate being talked about on the Hill.

[Forkboy]

11. I can imagine.

I think he'd attract of ton of people beyond what Obama already is doing. But no matter how much they talk it's still up to Al and I think he's happier than he's ever been. He sure seems it at least. He seems happy, comfortable, and he's getting his message out there in ways a VP wouldn't be able to. As VP he'd have other issues to deal with which would take away from his mission for the environment. I don't think he wants it, but I could be wrong.

[jobycom]

3. He was a great one. nt

[lutefisk]

6. Underappreciated at the time, for sure. . . n/t

[jobycom]

17. It's funny, but when I first signed on DU shortly after the 2000 election

Gore was treated about like Hillary is now. I left the site for a while, then came back. My earliest posts were defending him against all the same BS that Clinton is getting hit with now.

One gets tired.

Gore is too good for this nation. Let Obama find someone else we can all be ungrateful towards. This is the party that destroys its heroes, and Gore is above that, now.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Not going to happen

he was already VP once. He wouldn't want it again. He's said himself that he has no interest in anything less than the Presidency SHOULD he return to politics, but he really has no interest in returning to politics, either.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Excellent choice, don't think he's interested, don't think it'll happen. I'd like to see

his brains, knowledge, and experience on the environment utilized in some fashion, though.

[Captain Angry]

9. How's that line go about always the bride's maid?

No. I can't see it.

He has more important things to do than hang out in the senate in case of a tie vote. :-)

[Hippo_Tron]

10. Why all of this enthusiasm for retired politicians

First Sam Nunn and now Gore.

With all due respect to President Gore, it's obvious that he's taken on the role of elder statesman and there's really no reason to bring him back into the fray.

[CreekDog]

12. If Obama can get someone more well known and more well liked than Clinton as VP

it's more over for her. if he can pick someone that her supporters would simply say "wow".

Gore is that type of pick, but who else?

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. There aren't many people more well-known than Clinton, but there are a lot more well-liked.

[CreekDog]

19. popularity and stature? anybody?

I can only come up with Gore.

[Spider Jerusalem]

24. Well-known national figures are rarely selected for the vice-presidency.

[Raine]

13. Like it but he will never do it

he's been there and done that and after being in with Clinton and all those scandals there's no way he'd ever do it again.

[mikelgb]

14. Well... I think we WAS a good veep....

was

[George_Bonanza]

16. Why the hell would he want to be VP again?

[Solon]

20. He shifted far too much to the left since 2000 to be acceptable by Obama...

plus I don't think he wants to be in electoral politics again. He may take an appointed position, then again, maybe not as well. He seems to be doing fine now.

[kster]

21. Al Gore or Dennis Kucinich, if Obama wants to take a walk on the wild side

Now that Dennis Kucinich has finished first in a major survey of Democratic activists, perhaps Democratic party bosses and their media acolytes will have to back off their efforts to marginalize him.

No, Kucinich's top-place finish in the Democracy for America online survey that attracted serious attention from major campaigns and drew more than 150,000 voters does not mean the anti-war congressman from Ohio is on a fast track to the nomination. But it does mean that Kucinich is displayed an ability to attract meaningful support from the party's activist base and that his "Democratic-wing-of-the-Democratic-Party" message has appeal.

Kucinich did not secure the 66-percent of the vote required to gain an official endorsement from DFA, the group founded by supporters of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid and their allies on the party's left flank. But he easily bested the other candidates and the unannounced "contender" who led in the early voting, former Vice President Al Gore.

The final totals were:

Kucinich 31.97% 49364

Al Gore 24.77% 38242

Former Senator John Edwards 15.6% 24078

Senator Barack Obama 13.86% 21403

Senator Hillary Clinton 4.21% 6504

SNIP... It is no secret that the powers that be in the party leadership and the boardrooms of the major networks have fixated on Clinton as the likely nominee. Nor is it any secret that the party and media bosses would prefer to drop Kucinich from the roster of Democratic contenders who must be invited to join debates and participate in major events such as the Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. Gravel was excluded from the most recent Democratic debate at Drexel University and moderator Tim Russert did everything he could during the course of that debate to read Kucinich out of the running.

All the more reasons for Obama to pick Kucinch.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=249126

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. I can go along with that!

:bounce:

[MiniMe]

22. He already had that job, I doubt he is interested and I doubt Obama will offer it

[Bread and Circus]

23. That's like a page asking a titan to be his errand boy.

[Eurobabe]

26. Do you really think after watching RECOUNT

that Gore has any stomach left for American politics?

I don't, let the man be -- he's found his passion.