Gravel: serving in Clinton or Obama cabinet "a waste of time"

I think he has some relevant points here. I am no fan of Hillary, I don't trust Edwards (even though I'll probably vote for him ultimately, if my state's delegates are still up for grabs - otherwise it's Kucinich for me - because he least he has the right rhetoric re: the corporatocracy, something I am not really hearing articulated from the other candidates), and I am suspicious of Obama's "unknown quantity" factor - I honestly can't tell whether he's a typical politician who will "compromise" with evil or whether he is just pretending to be conciliatory to win.

I think Gravel represented the anger of the most cynical (or maybe I'd say "realistic") politically-aware among us during the early debates, and I was sad to see him go, although I disgree with his Flat Tax plans, and he reminds me of Warren Beatty.

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http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/22887

EXETER, N.H. — After Barack Obama captured the vote of thousands of students in Iowa on the way to his commanding victory, former Senator Mike Gravel stood before a few dozen students a Phillips Exeter Academy here on Sunday night with his own message of change.

But unlike Obama, it isn’t catching on among many students. And Gravel offers a reason why.

“A lot of young people, they’re sophomoric, and they haven’t really thought very much,” he said in an exclusive interview with the News. “And so they’re into celebrity. These are the people that follow Paris Hilton and Britney Spears — and they follow Obama.”

It has been a frustrating few months for Gravel, who said he has been talking about change for months. He said he is “totally” disappointed with the other Democratic candidates in the race.

“It’s as phony as a nine-dollar bill,” says Gravel, a former Democratic senator from Alaska. “They took focus groups, and the focus groups said that people want change. Are they talking change, other than articulating the world?”

He shook his head.

“People say, ‘Who will you support? None of them.”

Would he serve in an Obama or Hillary Clinton cabinet?

No. “It’d be a waste of time,” Gravel said.

The former senator — who was not allowed to participate in ABC’s Democratic debate on Saturday night — vowed that he will stay in the race regardless of his performance today. But he said he hopes to get five to ten percent of the vote.

but he is wrong to say this. We need him more than ever in whatever administration of whomever wins this. Would it be a waste of time for him to lend his authority to any effort to end the war in Iraq? I don't think so.

I just wish he and Kucinich had teamed up to push the progressive message.

Always has and always will. :loveya: