I posted earlier about the GOP veepstakes race, and I’m still guessing it’ll be Lieberman, Huckabee or Jindal. But lately I’ve been really stumped as to who Obama will/should pick for his running mate, and dreading the thought that he might pick Hillary Clinton or someone banally malicious from her circle like Evan Bayh.
Today it hit me that Al Gore would be my fantasy pick. Why not? Obama could promise him that he could spend most of his time on global warming. People are much more sympathetic to Gore as time has passed and he’s won all the prizes ‘n’ such. Plus, it would reassure a lot of people who are worried about Obama’s experience level.
In other news, I read today that Obama is quickly moving to reshape the DNC to match at least one of his campaign promises: no more campaign donations from national lobbyists. This is a great first step, but probably more of an matter of appearances than anything. It’s not retroactive, and not too many future donations would be rejected anyway. I love his moves towards greater transparency and accountability in politics and government, however. There was news somewhere today that McCain was signing on to the Obama/Coburn bill that would require better reporting on government spending; I love to see this kind of bipartisanship.
Gah, I’ve been very policy-oriented lately. Fluff and nonsense coming soon, I promise.
Please, no Gore. That’s just a red flag to a bull. For better or worse, he is a thoroughly demonized figure, and has too much brand identity & negative baggage, much as does HRC. He’d attract too much frivolous media attention away from the centre ring.
No more Gore.
Just sayin’.