Would a President Obama Nominate John Edwards for Attorney General?

Posted by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review at 2:25 PM on January 27, 2008.

Rumor has it he would, but it could also just be Robert Novak making mischief.

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This could just be Robert Novak making mischief:

Illinois Democrats close to Sen. Barack Obama are quietly passing the word that John Edwards would be named attorney general in an Obama administration.

Installation at the Justice Department of multimillionaire trial lawyer Edwards would please not only the union leaders supporting him for president, but organized labor in general. The unions relish the prospect of an unequivocal labor partisan as the nation's top legal officer.

It's considered bad luck, or maybe hubristic, for primary candidates to start naming cabinet officials so the Obama campaign has been mum about Novak's story.

Funny thing about this is, my friend and fellow political junkie, M. Tuttle, an Obama supporter, mentioned this possibility to me over lunch more than a month ago.

Tagged as: attorney general, novak, obama, edwards

Jon Ponder is regular blogger for the Pensito Review