This probably isn't anything, but I was musing around the Democratic National Convention's announced list of speakers (seen here) and noticed one very glaring exception: former Vice President Al Gore. Granted, the full slate of Thursday speakers hasn't been announced, and Josh rightly points out that Gore would be a prime person to introduce Obama, but it's still something to think over. You would assume that somebody who apparently is "likely to star at [the] convention" (c/o Reuters UK) would be one of the first announced, and most publicized, speakers.
Yet here we are, exactly two weeks before Obama is to accept the Democratic nomination, and one of the party's elder statesmen is not on the agenda. In 2004, former Georgia Senator Max Cleland introduced John Kerry. This appearance was announced at least 12 days before the start of the convention (see here). The start of this year's convention is but 11 days away, and an announcement has to be made soon.
If Gore is not slated for any of those Thursday spots, that would lead me, and probably many others, to the obvious conclusion here. It's unlikely, and has been denied by Gore himself before, but could an upset VP pick be in the making?
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Gore certainly would be a very intriguing choice - he has both the benefit of being experienced (more so than any other possible VP choice), and of not being identified too strongly with Washington (thanks to his climate crusades post 2000). However, someone is bound to bring up the "old Clinton White House battles" theme. I think (and I'm certainly not the first to say this) that Gore is very likely pick for an Obama administration Secretary of Energy or some other high-level climate change/energy related position.
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