President Obama!  Doesn’t that have a nice ring to it?  How about Governor Barkley?  Yes, I said Governor Barkley — Governor Charles Barkley that is!  It seems the retired NBA player is considering running for office in Alabama in 2014.  According to a recent interview, Barkley said, “I can’t screw up Alabama.  We are number 48 in everything, and Arkansas and Mississippi aren’t going anywhere.  With me at the helm of the state, there would be no place to go but up.”

Barkley went on to say his top priority would be education. “All the way education … the public school system in this country is the worst it has ever been and what that does is [that hurts] crime, it hurts the judicial system,” Barkley said. The Alabama native goes on to say: “You know if you don’t give people education and hope, they become criminals. They get involved in drugs. So we have got to fix the public school system. I think we need to make these neighborhoods safer. And the third thing, you have got to give people economic opportunity. America for far too long has a small group of people who have got all the money and then we got a bunch of poor people who have no money. And because we have killed the public school system they can’t get the education to make money, and that is just not right.”

Hmmm.  Let me be the first to say that I am not a fan of Charles Barkley.  In my opinion, he is extemely overbearing.  But, maybe that’s the type of person the state of Alabama needs at its helm.  I live not too far from Alabama and the people I’ve come in contact with are very low key.  And that’s one description that will never be associated with Charles Barkley – low key!  What do you think?  Would Sir Charles make a good governor?