Gore won’t play official role in Obama’s administration

Articles — By forcechange on November 13, 2008 6:20 pm

Pundits have been speculating whether Al Gore would be taking a place in the Obama administration.  We wondered this week if Gore might be in line to be Obama’s secretary of state?  Others have speculated that Obama might create a new position of “climate czar” and name Gore to the role.  This was further supported by the fact that Obama’s transition chief, John Podesta, has advocated such a position, and Obama has previously indicated he would like to put Gore in his government.

However, speculation over his role in the Obama presidency seemed to end when Gore’s spokeswoman stated “Former Vice President Gore does not intend to seek or accept any formal position in government.  He feels very strong right now that the best thing for him to do is to build support for the bold changes that we have to make to solve the climate crisis.” 

As we guessed previously, Gore must feel like he can do more good from where he is right now, answering to nobody, than in a governmental position where he has to answer to everybody.

According to the Washington Times, with Gore out of the running, former Clinton EPA chief Carol M. Browner, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, are all considered frontrunners to take on this role.