Robert Reich would make an interesting choice for VP, wouldn't he?

[MrCoffee]

Not that it would ever happen, but a guy can dream.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. I've always liked him.

Knowledgeable and witty. I hope Obama puts him in his cabinet (no, not a short joke).

[Lasher]

2. I'm thinking of Secretary of Labor

But he would be cool in any position.

[scheming daemons]

3. Standing next to Obama, the height discrepancy would look like this:

[tigereye]

4. love that guy!

that would be really interesting.

[Perky]

5. How about Domestic Policy Czar given Edwards is ummm not going to get it.

The caricature with Obama would be amusing but he has no natural constituency.

But he is awfully smart and well reasoned. the problem is that he is an academic and academics typically are no good at running bureaucracies

[foo_bar]

6. he ran for Governor of MA, didn't make it past the primary

He's a progressive even by Massachusetts standards, although his losing might have had more to do with the commonwealth's "machine" politics (if not the halo effect associated with height) not to mention the prospect of becoming the first Jewish governor ahead of one Shannon O'Brien (I come from Jewish/Irish Boston roots, so I sort of understand why Nimoy's character was half-Vulcan and had issues with self-loathing). So yeah I'd vote for him in a heartbeat but he was considered a little "intellectual" even by MA standards, where "intellectual" is a code word for one of many potential epithets. But it would be an amusing gauntlet-slap:

On Friday, Robert Reich formally endorsed Barack Obama, a decision that was greeted as noteworthy since Reich was an old Oxford chum of Bill Clinton’s and served as the 42nd president’s first labor secretary. He also scored a date with a young Hillary Rodham back in 1966, when, as the freshman class president at Dartmouth, he asked Hillary, his counterpart at Wellesley, to meet him for “a presidential summit” in Hanover. (There was no second date.)

http://www.observer.com/2008/served-cold-reich-versus-clinton-bradley-versus-corzine