Obama Attorney General: Deval Patrick?

UPDATE 11/18:

President-elect Barack Obama has named Eric Holder as his choice for attorney general. Read more about Holder's selection here or for the latest on Obama's cabinet, check out Huffpost's Obama Cabinet Big News Page.

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Obama's good friend Deval Patrick, currently the governor of Massachusetts, has been mentioned as a possible Attorney General in an Obama administration. The American Bar Association recently profiled Patrick's chances of being the next Attorney General:

Obama and Patrick aren't just friends. They swim like a two-fish school. Both had fathers who deserted them as youngsters. Both are spellbinding orators and Harvard Law grads. And when Obama appropriated some of Patrick's lines and manners into his speeches, the shared words and constructions were quickly acknowledged as the collaboration of friends.

Patrick clerked for a judge in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, worked as an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and served in the Clinton administration as assistant attorney general in the civil rights division. Patrick has an extensive history of rights-related litigation, but he's also served as general counsel for two major corporations--Texaco and Coca-Cola. Although he is only halfway through his term as governor, many believe he would be one of Obama's top choices for AG, and Patrick would be hard-pressed to decline if asked.

Comments

[Scholar in Training]

I think it is extremely likely that Patrick is our next AG, based on what I'm hearing: http://www.acouplethings.com/blog/2008/11/jamie-gorelick-for-attorney-general-bogus/

[Steambomb]

Deval sounds good. If he takes the job I suggest he fire every one of the United States Attorneys in every state to remove republican moles. We need a De-Bushification.

[Capano]

I agree, Steambomb...and that also goes for Judas-Joe LIberman, the GOP mole, water boy, brown noser!

[SHOPARAZZI]

im all for deval or janet.

im just wondering who press secretary will be. with facetious optimism, i'd like to take a stab at it. how about paul begala or donna brazile.

btw, is gore not being vetted or considered for the sec'y of energy post?