The Campaign / Obama would tap Gore for Cabinet

Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday he would give Al Gore, a Nobel Prize winner, a major role in an Obama administration to address the problem of global warming.

[Nelson Muntz]

Nice move Mr. Obama, hitching your wagon to a person who was proven to be a bigger liar that Mrs. Clinton.

HAH HAH!

[James Kasal]

The whole idea of man made cathostrophic global warming is falling apart. We need to move away from polarizing people like Al Gore and move towards more common sense conservation.

How about plans to reduce energy use in order to save money - everyone wants to save money! How about reducing litter and illegal dumping to promote clean parks and clean drinking water - I'm pretty sure everyone can agree on that! Where we run into problems and backlash is when we are being told that the earth will be destroyed if we don't change the lightbulbs we use and/or buy Al Gore's carbon credits. Let's teach the concept of good stewardship without all the doom and gloom created by the THEORY of man-made global warming. It does not seem that many people respond well to "do it, or else" threats.

[Whos your nanny]

I didn't know the federal government had a Department of Nonsense and Disinformation!

[HUH]

James, Good post. "Common Sense" is the key. Now we have to try to pass on the lesson's we have learned from our mistake's to the younger folk's without becoming nut jobs. Again "COMMON SENSE"

[Fanny Aasberg]

Please list your degrees and other credentials when you provide your scientific insights. It will help uninformed readers interpreting your comments.

[Keen Media Observer]

Gore? That just about drives the final nail in the Prez race coffin for al-Obammy.

Phonies pick other phonies.

Misery-makers hang around other misery-makers.

[Hmmmmmm]

I think we shouldn't discount the possibility that dropping such a plum into Al Gore's lap may not have really been Obama's idea after all. It is the nature of politics, in both parties, that when you vote to elect an individual you are also empowering the party apparatus that placed him or her on the ballot for you. Whichever candidate wins, favors will be owed, and debts will be collected. I recently finished reading an account of how President-elect Lincoln, barely off the train from Illinois, was besieged by patronage-seekers and others of the party faithful who had helped to get him elected. This is nothing new. I'll bet even Thomas Jefferson had to cut his share of back-room deals.

[Common Sense]

Whos your nanny wrote:

I didn't know the federal government had a Department of Nonsense and Disinformation!

Until you came along, we didn't!

[first lady BILL]

Bill Clintons advice:

"Now, one of Clinton's laws of politics is this. If one candidate is trying to scare you and the other one is trying get you to think, if one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope."

--Bill Clinton, 2004

If you want to see the video, it's posted on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch...

[Keen Media Observer]

Hmmmmmm wrote:

I think we shouldn't discount the possibility that dropping such a plum into Al Gore's lap may not have really been Obama's idea after all. It is the nature of politics, in both parties, that when you vote to elect an individual you are also empowering the party apparatus that placed him or her on the ballot for you. Whichever candidate wins, favors will be owed, and debts will be collected. I recently finished reading an account of how President-elect Lincoln, barely off the train from Illinois, was besieged by patronage-seekers and others of the party faithful who had helped to get him elected. This is nothing new. I'll bet even Thomas Jefferson had to cut his share of back-room deals.

I'd be most happy to receive patronage.:)

[Red Ryder]

if you tap Gore, sap would come out.he is a wooden, earth token god.

[Keith]

The always arrogant Obamy assumes Al would want to play subserviant to him.

[Mighty Wurlitzer]

Attention wingnut chorus! There is a misspelling on page 3 of today's talking points. Please correct it so we do not look ignorant.

[Dark people]

After reading this headline.......
Why does the movie titled "Dumb and Dumber" come to mind??? Let's ponder a moment shall we.

[Iconoclast]

Obviously, there are a lot of Republicans here.

Al Gore is actually a very intelligent and hard-working individual. I'll admit that he exaggerated a bit in his case against Global Warming, but only a troglodyte would still deny that anything needs to be done about the issue.

I think Vice President Gore would make an excellent Secretary of State. Of course, he would have made a much better president, but that's an issue for historians to debate.

[Keith]

Iconoclast wrote:

Obviously, there are a lot of Republicans here.
Al Gore is actually a very intelligent and hard-working individual. I'll admit that he exaggerated a bit in his case against Global Warming, but only a troglodyte would still deny that anything needs to be done about the issue.
I think Vice President Gore would make an excellent Secretary of State. Of course, he would have made a much better president, but that's an issue for historians to debate.

Exaggerated a bit!! He downright lied!! He said New York City would be under 20 feet of water by the end of the century!! He should have stuck to inventing the internet. Of course he is intellegent. He is selling carbon credits to those foolish enough to purchase them.

[Red Ryder]

What kind of post?

Corner post? Fence post? Scratching post? Compost?

How about "Secretary of Seals". Congress creates a cabinet level position that requires the Secretary of Seals to try to stop the clubbing of the baby seals and walruses in Canada each spring. With a bit of luck someone with a club will see old Al for the rogue walrus he is.(Bam! Bam! Bam!)

The "Ministry of Silly Hypotheses" would work too.

[Red Ryder]

Obama is Smokin'
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/...

Last August, I ran into Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, outside the Senate chamber in the Capitol.
This was before the Obama surge, before he had omnipresent Secret Service agents...
Frankly, he reeked of cigarettes.
Obama ran off before I could ask him if he'd just snuck a smoke, so I called his campaign.
They denied it. He'd quit months before, in February, they insisted.
They reported back that he had told them he hadn't had a cigarette since he quit.
Except….last night on MSNBC's Hardball, Obama admitted that his attempt to wean himself from the vile tobacco weed had not been entirely successful.
It's not a big deal in the scheme of things -- the war on Iraq, a major economic crisis -- indeed, it's miniscule. Hardly worth mentioning.
Except that I don't like feeling that I wasn't being dealt with honestly.
And as much as citizens who are suspect of the media might scoff at such a notion, many of us consider ourselves to be your representatives to help make sure our leaders are telling us the truth, and leading the country down a path we're confident is the right one.
(Corny, I know.)
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...

Since leftists seem to now regard cigarette smokers as among the world’s worst monsters, it’ll be interesting to watch the cognitive dissonance on this particular front.

[A Troglodyte]

Iconoclast wrote:

Obviously, there are a lot of Republicans here.
Al Gore is actually a very intelligent and hard-working individual. I'll admit that he exaggerated a bit in his case against Global Warming, but only a troglodyte would still deny that anything needs to be done about the issue.
I think Vice President Gore would make an excellent Secretary of State. Of course, he would have made a much better president, but that's an issue for historians to debate.

Global Warming... er... Climate Change...

Nothing needs to be done about it because it is a scam.

[Red Ryder]

***Gore's global-warming hype a big cash scheme ***

http://www.hutchnews.com/Columns/witti

When you've got Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson agreeing on Gorebull warming you know “Thar’s gold in them thar hills.”