With Bloomberg saying he won't run for president, a similar announcement by Nunn is sure to follow. Some great advice to Obama from Hamilton Jordan.

A 12-05-07 post quoted Sam Nunn expressing his frustration over Iraq:

"A fiasco, which we've basically mishandled in all directions. We'll get over it, because we're a strong country, and we're indispensable in the sense that we're the [world] leader. But right now, it's going to take at least 10 years to rebuild U.S. credibility."

The previous post noted that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is not going to run for president.

I take it as a given that we can rest assured that the possibility of Nunn running -- which he always emphasized was "a possibility, not a probability" -- has gone from a possibility to a definitely not.

This frees him up to be a part of the Obama administration, something that would be great for America.

Hamilton Jordan has recent article in Newsweek that mentions Nunn becoming Secretary of State for Obama. Of course we remember Jordan was a top adviser to President Jimmy Carter during the 1976 campaign and later served as Carter's White House Chief of Staff. Jordan writes:

What if Obama, in the next 30 to 60 days:

* Says he will name Independent Mike Bloomberg as his "domestic czar," given broad authority and charged with reconciling our country's fiscal mess with our domestic needs and opportunities. Bloomberg is a highly talented leader and visionary who has been tremendously successful in business and in politics. Bloomberg deserves a much larger stage to perform on. He might or might not want the portfolio of Secretary of Treasury, but having a person of his experience on the Obama team would reassure Wall Street and reinforce Obama's message of bringing all Americans together, regardless of party affiliation, to bring about change.

* Says he will name mainstream Democrat Sam Nunn, highly respected former senator and expert on defense issues and foreign policy (who has traveled the world for the past decade trying to contain the spread of nuclear weapons) to be his choice for Secretary of State. Here is a man who can go toe to toe with John McCain on any defense or foreign policy issue and enjoys the respect and admiration of foreign leaders around the world.

* Says he will name retiring Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel, from Nebraska, war hero, successful businessman and thoughtful critic of the Iraq War, to be his Secretary of Defense to rebuild our nation's military power.

Sooner rather than later Sen. Obama must challenge McCain's view of U.S. interests in the world and convince general election voters that he has the means and the talent to implement his coherent vision and strategy. And he must buttress himself from attacks that will inevitably challenge his foreign policy bona fides. Who better to do it than an A-team of extremely experienced, competent, and tested professionals?

Suddenly the dynamics would change. It would no longer be the war hero versus the young community organizer and attorney. It would be John McCain and an old view of the world versus Team Obama—the best minds and combined experiences in U.S. politics—advocating Obama's new vision of U.S. political, military and economic interests in the world.

Listen up Obama. You are close to winning the nomination, and your primary campaign operation has been truly brillant. But the above is some of the best advice that you might ever receive about how to assure that we win the general election in November.