Gore loses to Clooney. Hillary doesn't want to run.

Swiss Billionaire, Nicholas Hayek, announced yesterday that he chose George Clooney to sit the board of his new energy company, rather than Al Gore.

The company, which will develop environmentally friendly techniques for car motors, batteries and other devices, is aimed at reducing CO2-emissions in energy consumption, Hayek said in an interview with daily Berner Zeitung.

Now Clooney is a very good choice, but Al Gore would seem to the more logical selection, except for this:

"First I hesitated between Al Gore and Clooney," said Hayek. But he didn't chose Al Gore because it was still unclear whether he was running for presidency of the United States and therefore might have accepted the post as a mere public relations exercise, Hayek told the newspaper

And what about Hillary? On the jump.

Hillary, in "The Unique Voice of Hillary Rodham Clinton," billed as "A Portrait In Her Own Words," said it quite clearly.

"I don't want to run for office," the then-first lady said bluntly. And, despite all the spinmeisters patrolling Pennsylvania Avenue, she sounded as though she meant it.

and

"People have always talked to me about running, since high school," she said some years ago. "I have too many other things I'm interested in -- my life, my daughter. But I like to be part of solving problems, like to see things happen."

Okay, the book quoted here is from ten years ago, but still she said it and was quite clear about it.

I wouldn't have believed Hillary for one second. I still have trouble believing her. Gore, on the other hand, I do believe. He has no plans to run right now. That's it. He has literally made to plans for a presidential run, as in mapping out a campaign strategy or hiring a campaign manager because he's not running....as of right now. So what is it about his non plans that made Hayek, "hailed as the saviour of the Swiss watch industry in the 1980s and a driving force behind the Smart car", chose George Clooney rather than Al Gore?