Obama's vows to us -- and to his kids

On his final leg of a six-day tour that crisscrossed Pennsylvania, Sen. Barack Obama made two huge promises:

First, that, if elected, he would consider giving former vice president and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore a Cabinet-level position to address global warming, and second, when the primary campaign is over, he will give his two daughters, Malia and Sasha, a dog.

Both vows were made at a town hall meeting in Wallingford, about an hour outside Philadelphia.

But Obama started off his day giving prepared remarks at the AFL-CIO constitutional convention being held at the downtown Sheraton.

Last August, the AFL-CIO leadership decided against a unanimous …