Better Know a Presidential Administration: Al Gore

Al Gore is every liberal's fantasy candidate. He is one of the most experienced democrats currently running around, and he has reinvented himself as a avid environmentalist in recent years. Depending on who you ask, he should be the president right now, and he is famed now by winning Academy Awards and being up for the Nobel prize. An Al Gore administration is going to be combination of big name democrats, Clintons friends, and Obama's friends.

Unfortunately for us, Gore is dodging his candidacy very well. Why he is doing this, we'll never know since Gore has spent his entire life involved in politics and it is highly unlikely he just decided he was done. He is young, and still has a lot left in him. Maybe he could even reinvent politics?

President: Al Gore: It is so late in the game right now that Gore has to rush in if he wants to have a chance. There has to be backdoor negotiations with Richardson and some of the lower tier candidates to back out as soon as he enters. Edwards will be done if Gore actually enters the race, and I am pretty sure Obama knows that if Gore enters the race, he will eventually end up as Gore's running mate. Hillary Clinton and him are headed for an inevitable war over who was better in the 90's. Personally, I didn't see Al Gore selling himself out to the people he fought against for a cause for 10 years so Gore Will come out of that unscathed and we will see a president from Tennessee. (Oddly Fred Thompson replaced Gore in the state, so either way we might have a Tennessee President)

Vice President:

Barack Obama: A Gore/Obama ticket is my dream ticket. Gore is experienced, charismatic and good on the issues while Obama is one of the most amazing down to earth speakers I have ever heard and it would be ridiculous not to assume he would be the Vice President. The only other logical person would be Hillary Clinton, but I am almost positive she would spend her Vice Presidency running for the presidency and completely ignore any pressing issue.

Secretary of State:

Bill Richardson: I have outlined the reasons why in Hillary, Obama, and Edwards entries, but once again this is an experienced politician with extremely diplomatic tendencies. He can speak to foreign leaders without causing international crises.

Secretary of Defense:

John Mccain: Mccain's career is pretty much finished, but he would make a good secretary of defense in a Democratic administration. Why, you ask? Well, he is open-minded and he can propose things to the president and have it get watered down so we wouldn't have to worry about major problems occurring because of stupid vendettas.

UN Ambassador: Either former president would be a good choice. Carter has written book after book about the world, spoke to the UN, helped out good causes and Clinton has started doing that too in between not having sexual relations with that woman. They'd both be universally accepted at the United Nations. However, Jimmy Carter is getting old so the probability of it being Clinton ranges around 75-80%

Attorney General:

Joe Biden: Joe Biden has a tendency to speak his mind, plus he is a trained lawyer. He is just what the Justice Department needs to fix itself after it was destroyed by George Bush. I wouldn't be surprised if this justice Department also was filled with the likes of Patrick Fitzgerald, Joe Biden Jr, and various other honest lawyers from either party who opposed what Bush and Gonzalez managed to do.

Secretary of the Treasury:

Robert Rubin: He was the treasury secretary during Clintons Presidency, and is currently waiting in the wings for the likes of Al Gore to run for president. Also, he is all over Wall-Street so someone who understands the workings of the financial world would be helpful here, rather than corporate CEO's who want to benefit their company.

Homeland Security -

Joe Lieberman: This man has managed to piss of the liberal elite to no end by voting his conscience and not his party. He was essentially disowned by the left, but he's not conservative enough for the right. He's been rumored to be Secretary of Defense no matter what party is elected president and he's prominent enough to make a huge splash. Al Gore is one of the few democrats who has no burned his bridges with Joe Lieberman, so Lieberman serving in this or the SecDef role would be very fitting for the affluent senator from Connecticut.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs -

John Warner: He is a World War 2/Korean war vet who served as Secretary of the Navy 35 years ago and has served as a Senator in Virginia for the proceeding 28 years. He is planning on retiring in 2008, and given his moderate stances, his willingness to work with the other side, and his opposition to torture, I can see Gore reaching across the aisle to help out the Veterans.

White House Press Secretary:

Leon Panetta: Same thing as Clintons administration, although Panetta would start off here and ride his way into a cabinet level position by the end of Gore's first term. He is already rumored as being on the short list for the Vice Presidency.

Chief of Staff:

Sylvia Burwell: She is one of the people who travels around with Gore trying to help him out where he goes. In addition to this, she works for the Bill Gates foundation and is probably a very good person.

National Security Advisor:

Richard Clarke: This is another kick in the face of the Bush administration. Appoint the man who exposed Bush as having an obsession with Saddam Hussein to do what he is good at is the best possible idea.

Secretary of Interior -

Dick Gephardt, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich: I have a feeling this spot is going to be filled with a bottom tier presidential candidate or someone who ran in 2000 or 2004. All the rumored people for the job fit this description and that is how I came to this conclusion.

Secretary of Commerce -

Roy Neel: Gore's former Chief of Staff, from Gore's home state, and who has worked as a lobbyist to the Commerce department for a few years now. As sad as it makes me, this looks likely. Oh well, not every appointment can be perfect.

Secretary of Health and Human Services -

Hillary Clinton: Hillary would be better off taking on this position and trying to fix the national health care system, which is what she started out trying to do under her husbands administration. It would be hilarity if she spent 8 years doing research and buddying up with the industry she is actually trying to destroy.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development -

Henry Cisneros: Bill Clinton's appointed HUD secretary, and currently one of the most influential real estate agents in the country. Appointing an experienced person like that only makes sense.

Secretary of Transportation -

Howard Dean: His 4 year term as head of the DLC is up in 2008 and Gore should reward this man with a cabinet level position. Dean has already come out in support of a Gore candidacy and given that Dean has moveon.org and democracyforamerica behind him, Gore would be an instant fundraiser.

Secretary of Energy -

Ralph Nader: This would be the greatest fuck you to the polluting energy industry that Gore could possibly do. Nader has spent his life trying to fix problems in this country and being appointed to the spot where he gets to tell people who have shat all over him what to do, would be the ultimate payback for him and the greedy energy industry.

Secretary of Education - Head of the NEA: Unless Gore decides to throw John Edwards a cabinet seat to calm him down from his never-ending presidential run, I see him throwing up whoever is head of the teachers union or some teaching association to this place.