Al Gore's expected to speak in Washington today and he'll tie together global warming, energy and national security to draw the big picture-- we need to get off of oil.
Gore could really accomplish his goals with the vice presidency. He could be a non-traditional vice president. That's not to hard to imagine in an Obama administration. I'd like to see Arnold Schwarzenegger as energy czar.
It also occurred to me yesterday that Colin Powell could be Obama's vice president choice. It seems the attention has been drawn away from Powell. When people talk about Powell now it's that he's talking to Obama and McCain to see who he should back.
WaPo: Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.
The Nobel Prize-winning former vice president said fellow Democrat Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain are "way ahead" of most politicians in the fight against global climate change.
Rising fuel costs, climate change and the national security threats posed by U.S. dependence on foreign oil are conspiring to create "a new political environment" that Gore said will sustain bold and expensive steps to wean the nation off fossil fuels.
"I have never seen an opportunity for the country like the one that's emerging now," Gore told The Associated Press in an interview previewing a speech on global warming he planned to give Thursday in Washington.
