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Obama Asked about Obama-Gore '08 Ticket
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ABC News Sunlen Miller Reports: How Does an Obama-Gore Ticket Sound? Don't Hold Your Breath.
Democratic Senator of Illinois Barack Obama put to bed that question from a voter who donned a t-shirt reading, "Obama and Gore: Experience and Youth, Obama and Gore: Wisdom and Truth."
The supporter asked the '08 presidential hopeful if he would consider taking "the wind out of Hillary’s sails" by asking Nobel prize winner former Vice President Al Gore to be his running mate before the primaries.
"I can promise you that as president I will have him involved in our administration in a very senior capacity in his role," Obama responded that, "having won the Nobel peace prize and an Oscar that being Vice President again would be probably a step down for him."
Obama laughed that the voter would have made a good campaign manager.
Echoes of the previous election were also brought up at the same town hall in Dover, New Hampshire. A woman wanted to know how Obama would avoid getting swift boated and being "turned by the Republicans into a minstrel show."
Obama admitted that everyone was traumatized by what happened in the 2004 with Senator John Kerry but that his candidacy is different, "I don’t worry about getting swift boated. I guarantee you they will go after me, I mean they already started."
The Senator said he would have a different strategy to deal with attacks, "You have to respond forcefully, you have to respond immediately - and you have to respond truthfully. And we are prepared for whatever they throw at me and we will come right at them. "
Ready for battle Obama finished, "I played basketball and I’m skinny but the people I play with will tell you I don’t mind going down low and throwing elbows."
October 24, 2007 in Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (116)
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LOL!!! Now thats a losing ticket for sure. Gore is a Joke. I'm sure Osama would like gore on his ticket so they could raise taxes off of Gores warming fantasy.
Posted by: sponkos | Oct 24, 2007 9:45:00 PM
"Nobel peach prize"???
Somehow I doubt that came out of Obama's mouth. Haven't the interns at ABC gone back to school by now?
Posted by: Frank | Oct 24, 2007 9:46:25 PM
There will be no Obama administration so who cares.
Posted by: Brian | Oct 24, 2007 9:58:35 PM
Mmm, Nobel Peach Prize... *salivates*
Posted by: Chris | Oct 24, 2007 10:04:09 PM
Gore's "warming fantasy"? You, my friend are the one living a fantasy!
Posted by: Just the facts | Oct 24, 2007 10:11:48 PM
An Obama-Gore ticket (or an Obama campaign with significant Gore involvement) would shred apart any Republican ticket that ran against it. Too bad the Democrats are going to be so stupid as to bypass this possibility in favor of Bush II - Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Posted by: sss33 | Oct 24, 2007 10:12:35 PM
Gore has a following on the far left, but he would doom and already doomed campaign. Gore's pathetic attempts to brand global warming as undoubtedly man made with the oh so convincing 'consensus' is sad and will blow up in his face. Consensus means nothing in the world of science and engineering and there are just as many scientists who disagree with Mr. Gloom and doom as those who have come to a 'consensus'.
As far as the Swift Boat thing? OH please, whine me a river. The dems cannot stand to have their own tactics used against them and cry foul while doing the exact same thing. Funny, you'd think if the Swift Boaters were lying the empty suited Kerry would have sued for liable and slander... so apparently, there's a hint of truth to what they say. Odd that the often promised and never delivered records of Kerry never were produced, huh?
Posted by: DJH | Oct 24, 2007 10:23:00 PM
Why do people even bother taking to osama obama. He has not class and does not even cover his heart with his hand when hear the pledge. It is most likely because he follows the koran and wants to destroy America, just like the loser gore. Why doesn't Gore debate those who say humans never caused global warming. BECASUE HE KNOWS HE IS FULL OF MUSH AND HATRED FOR AMERICA!!!! GWB
Posted by: Frankenstien | Oct 24, 2007 10:32:48 PM
A Obama/Gore ticket would be the same as a Junk Science/GW ticket!.... both have no experience with the truth and no credibility with realiity!
Posted by: Albert Spear | Oct 24, 2007 10:35:41 PM
Getting "Swift-Boated"?
I guess they mean telling the truth about yet another cranky sore-loser.
I never understood why Kerry had such a problem with people telling the truth about him......
Posted by: Phizz | Oct 24, 2007 10:36:40 PM
Then the conservative prayed on his kness "Oh PLEASE YES! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Obama and Gore in '08!"
Posted by: JJ | Oct 24, 2007 10:40:11 PM
Yeah, this article isn't very well written.
"Obama laughed that the voter would have made a good campaign manager."
Must have been an interesting laugh.
Posted by: winger | Oct 24, 2007 10:44:58 PM
Are all these comments from the Bush kool aid drinkers? I guess so.
Posted by: s. geddes | Oct 24, 2007 10:48:50 PM
This one isn't from a Bush kool aid drinker, but the Democratic Party better hope it doesn't nominate Hillary or Obama, at least if we want to win the general and hold the Congress. We need a unifier who can work on both sides of the aisle to pass Democratic priorities while not selling the countries soul. That unifier is Joe Biden.
Posted by: John, Dem - Des Moines | Oct 24, 2007 10:54:31 PM
Warming IS a fantasy if you assert HUMANS are causing it.
Posted by: JM01234 | Oct 24, 2007 11:01:43 PM
Sponkos is the perfect example of how that Obama/Osama gaffe by Romney was carefully calculated and evil. This is how they win. They prey on your fears, your prejiduce and your hate. They use the worst traits of you to distract you while they gather wealth and the power to gather more.
Posted by: Waleeg | Oct 24, 2007 11:12:16 PM
"having won the Nobel peach prize ...."; yes, I'd say!
Posted by: tc | Oct 24, 2007 11:12:55 PM
Well I wasnt sure about Obama but now I am! Holy Mackel Andy!
Posted by: WRD | Oct 24, 2007 11:20:19 PM
Waleeg...you're really Bob Dylan..right?
Posted by: spiralgyro | Oct 24, 2007 11:23:26 PM
How does a Romney/Huckabee ticket sound ? I'd say ti would be a winner.
Posted by: DanNC | Oct 24, 2007 11:28:15 PM
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