Google CEO Searches "Barack Obama + Me + Cabinet Position"

Salon.com reports that Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is out on the hustings* for Barack Obama. But why?

The Obama campaign has suggested that it plans for a cabinet-level Chief Technology Officer, and Salon suggests that Schmidt is angling for the job.

Schmidt's support for Obama is vital to lock up the state of Northern California, which, in addition to not being a state, favors Obama by only 700 percentage points. And the appointment could help Google as well…

"Given Google's prominence as the preeminent all-around tech company that everyone is trying to beat (or join), it stands to reason that the company would favor a tech-savvy administration."

A Tech Czar would be a great step in addressing issues like bot nets, cyberterrorism and how I can get the scanner to work on my printer.

Things that Might Happen with Eric Schmidt on Board…

* West Wing will be inundated with young staffers wearing "Got Root?" tee-shirts drinking decaf spirulina mochachinos

* An air hockey table will be brought into the Situation Room

* Finding hidden congressional earmarks will be made easy with Porkgle

Things that Will Definitely Not Happen with Eric Schmidt on Board…

* All White House documents switched over to Google Docs

* Smitten with the whole democracy thing, Google rethinks whole China deal

* Software engineers will put down The Fountainhead and consider participating in an actual form of government

The McCain camp has responded by promising to declare a War on Technology.

* If you don't know that word you should take a break from Googling "Paylin" and "NSFW" and look it up.