Al Gore on Olbermann

Another good one

Posted by David Roberts at 10:32 PM on 29 May 2007

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Al Gore was on Keith Olbermann's show today. He took a while to get rolling, but it heats up toward the end of the first segment. Here's part one:

Here's part two:

(thanks LL!)

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Just couldn't help it, could he?

Y'know, I love Keith, and I get that people are going to ask Gore about The Question, but he just couldn't stop pushing, could he?

by plum at 3:03 AM on 30 May 2007

Meanwhile, there's an election being decided

The pace of the 2008 election is incredible--we will likely know the nominees on Feb 6, 2008.

Thought this was a VERY interesting analysis of the candidates by someone who thinks global heating and Iraq are the top issues.

http://www.skirsch.com/politics/president/comparisonFull. ...

The 5% Project

by JMG at 10:42 AM on 30 May 2007

Gore to be Administrator of EPA?

Assuming arguendo a Democratic victory in 2008, and that Gore doesn't run, how best would the Democratic administration use Gore and his immense influence on matters environmental?

Perhaps appointing him to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and actually elevating that position to the level of a cabinet officer.

Putting aside the question of whether Gore would accept such a nomination, what better way is there to put his experience to work? We haven't had a strong EPA administrator since I remember. Browner (under Clinton) was not particularly effective as a leader, and Whitman in GWB's first term was marginalized by the other officials and non-environmental interests in the administration. The current administrator, Johnson, has proven, like many of his fellow administration officials, to be little more than a functionary, and not much of a leader in the Bush EPA.

What would an EPA led by a forceful advocate like Gore (or, perhaps, RFK Jr.) look like? How could four or eight years of an environmental-driven policy change the landscape as we now know it? What signal would that send to the country, to industry, and to the world?

by polycrit at 11:11 AM on 30 May 2007

Think Bigger

How about UN Secretary General Gore?

by gmunger at 1:07 PM on 30 May 2007
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nix the Secretary-General idea.

Ban Ki-moon of South Korea is Secretary-General until December 2011, and he can be renewed for a second five-year term.

Furthermore, it is an accepted practice of the U.N. Secretariat that the Secretary-General of the U.N. cannot be a national of any of the permanent members of the Security Council.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Secretary-Gen ...

by polycrit at 2:45 PM on 30 May 2007

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