(CNSNews.com) - Vice President Al Gore may lack the votes he needs to become president - of Harvard!
Tuesday's Boston Globe reports that Gore, a Harvard alumnus, has been nominated by at least four people to serve as president of the University when Neil L. Rudenstine steps down next summer.
But even if Gore is interested in the job - and he hasn't said he is - the newspaper quotes Harvard officials as saying he may not get it anyway. Robert Stone, Jr., a senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, is quoted as saying that Gore will be "seriously" considered, but "I rather doubt he'll get it. He doesn't have the academic and intellectual standing."
Gore is among 500 people nominated for the job, but many people suspect he's not through with national politics yet. "Does he want to spend his time raising money and mediating among all the deans, or will he be laying the groundwork for 2004?" said James Pfiffner, a professor at George Mason University's Center for the Study of the Presidency.
HENCH adds: Oh, Gore is through with politics alright, whether he thinks so or not. This is the only article I could find about him, and he'll drop off the radar quicker than Dukakis or Mondale did. Dems discard their losers with brutal efficiency. Once January 20th hits, you'll never hear Al's name again, unless it's in regards to an indictment. By the way, notice they didn't say "Harvard Grad" but "Harvard Alumnus?" He dropped out after flunking out of law school. Now THERE'S a guy you want to set an example for a prestigious University by being it's President....NOT!
FLASH! UPDATE!
Al Gore is in the running for the presidency of Harvard University - but he won't make the grade because he lacks "the academic and intellectual standing," Harvard's search committee chair said yesterday.
"He'll go into our pool and be considered seriously," said Robert Stone, chairman of the Harvard Corporation.
"I rather doubt he'll get it. He doesn't have the academic and intellectual standing," Stone told The Boston Globe.
The vanquished 52-year-old vice president - who graduated from Harvard in 1969 with honors - is one of 500 people nominated to succeed Neil Rudenstine, who plans to step down this summer.
Stone said that while Gore "has served the nation with great distinction" and is a staunch supporter of science and technology, he is unlikely to be tapped as the next president of Harvard because he's never worked in academics.
"It is true that the vice president is one of among some 500 nominees whose names have been recommended to the search committee," Stone said in a statement.
"At the same time, the committee continues to focus its attention on academic leaders who have spent much of their careers working in the educational-research domain."
Vice presidential spokesman Jim Kennedy said Team Gore is "not commenting on any rumors about the vice president's future."
Other Washington figures, including Lawrence Summers, the secretary of the treasury and former Harvard economics professor, are seen as more likely for the prestigious post.
However, sources told the Globe the front-runner for the position is Harvey Fineberg, the university's provost.
Joseph S. Nye, dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, said the university was more likely to hire a nonpartisan person than Gore.
Gore is "an extremely bright man who has a Harvard degree, and you can't get much better experience," Nye said.
"But he hasn't been in the academic world."
HENCH adds: "But he hasn't been in the academic world." Correction. He hasn't been in the REAL World!
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