June 11, 2008

Carville: Gore Should Be Obama's Veep

@ 6:10 pm by Andy Barr

James Carville, former strategist to President Bill Clinton, is pushing former vice president Al Gore's name to be Barack Obama's vice president.

"I would ask Al Gore to serve as his vice president and energy czar," Carville said on CNN.

Carville said picking Gore would "send a signal to the world, the American people, the Congress, to everybody that America is getting serious about this horrendous problem that we face."

Archived under: Campaigns, News, Presidential Campaigns
Tags: Al Gore, Barack Obama, James Carville

20 Comments »

1. That's what we need - two tax and spend liberals combined with "the sky is falling" treehugger.
   Some combo!

   Comment by John Croix — June 12, 2008 @ 8:46 am

2. Al Gore would be the worst possible choice. Either he has deliberately lied about CO2 or he is too stupid to understand the science.

   The fact is that there is an 800 year lag between rising temperatures and rising CO2. Why? It is because it takes about 800 years for the SUN to warm the oceans enough to give up its CO2.

   Comment by Ken Kesler — June 12, 2008 @ 8:47 am

3. Global Warming is a hoax. Yes humans cause pollution (that word from the '70's that doesn't get used much), but humans don't have any influence over CO2, other than by breathing. A moderate volcano eruption has more influence on the climate than anything that man has done so far. Al Gore would be a great choice for Veep on the ticket. That would pretty much guarantee the Presidency for McCain.

   Comment by Kevin Maher — June 12, 2008 @ 9:39 am

4. Wow, this must be the correct choice for VP. Look how it has the Republicrank bloggers all stirred up already, and it was just a trail balloon.

   One complication: Why should Gore take the same job he already had twice? Where's the incentive? Unless it's to make the over-fed, under-brained right wingers suffer cardiac arrests from their hissy fits.

   Comment by Red Green — June 12, 2008 @ 9:52 am

5. It does not matter who Obama picks! The only way he is losing is for John McCain too somehow become relevant which is highly unlikely, of somehow he gets Jesus Christ on the ticket with him or somehow brings Ron Reagan back from the grave, which would make McCain Christ himself!

   Comment by JusticeForAll — June 12, 2008 @ 10:23 am

6. I'm awful suspicious of all this global warming fear, but I do think Gore could make a good VP choice.

   Comment by Jason — June 12, 2008 @ 10:34 am

7. Posts 1-3 totally amaze me. They do not grasp the concept one bit on CO2 and man. MAN is creating the CO2 from the fossil fuels that had stored that CO2 for 500 million years or more(but these folks likeley believe the earth is only 6,000yrs old anyway). It's now being released by man's combustion (cars, trucks, power plants, forest fires, lawn mowers etc.). The gas is released in COMBUSTION of the oil, gas and coal we use, not the oceans' release. The oceans BUFFER the CO2 by ABSORBING it. Here, the seas' buffering effect is being cut down by the TEMPERATURE RISE of the atmosphere. Idiots.. But, no, they don't care. These nits are too concerned about playing with their SUV's, snowmobiles, power boats and such. Their lazy-ass lardbutts are killing our planet. GORE for VP. McCain is lame.

   Comment by JAG — June 12, 2008 @ 10:34 am

8. OMFG I can't believe how unbelievably wrong Ken and Kevin are!

   First of all, Ken, there may be an 800 year lag between rising temperatures and rising CO2, I honestly have no idea, but the converse is not equally true. In other words, there is not such a lag between rising CO2 and rising temperatures. It might take the SUN 800 years to warm the oceans enough to give up its CO2, but we have millions of vehicles and hundreds of coal power plants that are emitting CO2 everyday, we don't need the SUN to do it.

   Which brings me to Kevin there…"humans don't have any influence over CO2, other than by breathing." Seriously!? Seriously? Do you drive a car? Do you use electricity? Do you buy any products or do you live in a cave and just breathe? And another thing, CO2 is not pollution, it's a greenhouse gas.

   The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) concluded:
   - Warming of the climate system is unequivocal.
   - Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (human) greenhouse gas concentrations.
   - The probability that this is caused by natural climatic processes alone is less than 5%.

   This is not a hoax, and it is not something manufactured by Al Gore. I just can't believe that there are still people out there who want to play partisan politics with this issue.

   All that being said, Al Gore is not a good choice for Vice President, although a cabinet position would be good.

   Comment by Brandon P — June 12, 2008 @ 10:50 am

9. ONLY hilliary Clinton should be VP…….she has more grit,brains,fortitude and knowledge than ALL rePUGlicans and 90% of dems.

   Comment by jeanetra ott — June 12, 2008 @ 11:01 am

10. I love the idea but I hate the messenger.
    If Obama could somehow get Gore to run as his veep McCain might as well just pack it in.
    This would be the true Dream Team.

    Comment by Beson — June 12, 2008 @ 11:05 am

11. if hilary were vp obama would have to hire someone to taste his food, they would have to have a guard to make sure bill never got near the kitchen. what is frightening is the first three commentators are allowed to vote.

    Comment by p5 dyer — June 12, 2008 @ 11:19 am

12. I can't believe all you people who actually believe that MAN , has the capability, or even the ability to change/control/alter the climate!!!!!

    Perhaps that's why a few years the culprit was OZONE! And before that it was FREON!! And before that it was HAIRSPRAY/PROPELLANT!! In between those major scares was the loss of the rain forests, the rapid release of methane gasses by cattle!!
    And, yes, this is all just as ridiculous as it sounds!! The result of all this hype has been to eliminate exploration for oil, failure to build desperately needed refineries, failure to build nuclear power plants, or even hydroelectric dams!!
    And people wonder why they're all of a sudden paying $4-4.50?gal. FOR THE SAME GASOLINE THAT COST LESS THAN $2/GAL 3 YRS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by billybob — June 12, 2008 @ 11:25 am

13. Gore for president; Obama for press secretary.

    Comment by MJC — June 12, 2008 @ 11:26 am

14. haha…John Croix uses the tax and spend sound bite. Republicant's must have forgotten the 9 trillion dollar debt this administration has run up! May I suggest reading!

    Comment by Paisano — June 12, 2008 @ 1:04 pm

15. Been there, done that.

    Gore has said he is having too much fun being a rock star to take a step down back to politician.

    Not surprised Carvele wants a member of the Clinton Mafia in the White House, but I ask the Political Strategist, what large swing state would this get Obama? As far as "sending a message", that sounds like preaching to the choir. The people who vote on this are not about to vote for McCain.

    Comment by Bruce Williams — June 12, 2008 @ 2:33 pm

16. Al Gore pushed NAFTA. Took our jobs…remember? Obama is the change candidate. So….Al Gore doesn't make sense. Neither does James carville.

    Comment by molly — June 12, 2008 @ 2:57 pm

17. If Obama had Hillary as VP he WOULDN'T have to taste his food (as long as she was banished to the Naval Observatory). She'd be great assassination insurance. Nothing in this world frightens the hard Right or Left more than a Clinton restoration.

    But Gore as VP? It makes some kind of sense, but does Obama want a Veep with an agenda? Or just a "you die, I fly" kind of guy? Justices Stevens or Ginsburg may not survive the next four years, and we'll need people with some heft in that job. And Gore is NOT "the Clinton Mafia".

    Comment by Pulaski — June 12, 2008 @ 6:51 pm

18. Ah, there’s one born every minute. If CO2 is causing the Earth to get warmer why has the global temperature been dropping for the last ten years while the CO2 level has been rising? These slick politicians are selling you global warming dopes a bridge in Brooklyn and you are voluntarily handing over your hard earned money, freedoms and liberties to these crooks.

    Here’s a graph of solar cycles vs. temperature……

    http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/essifigure2.png

    Here’s a graph of CO2 vs. temperature……

    http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Since_2002.jpg

    Which lines up better against temperature, solar or CO2?

    Comment by Brute — June 12, 2008 @ 7:37 pm

19. If anyone would do research, they would realized that the planet right now is in the middle of an ICE HOUSE, the last time the Earth's average temperature was this low was in the Silurian (roughly 450 million years ago). Learn your geo history before you blab about the effect humans have.

    Comment by jamh — June 12, 2008 @ 11:09 pm

20. and there are a lot more things that effect the climate on a global scale, some rapidly some slowly. example the position of the continents, how active mid ocean ridges are, how much land is covered with ice vs. land vs. ocean, the earth's orbit and ellipticity, the earth's tilt, and the list goes on and on. Carbon emmisions are just one part of the global climate picture

    Comment by jamh — June 12, 2008 @ 11:12 pm

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