Obama's Top VP Choices
Via Huffington Post, here are Obama's current top choices for Vice President:
Top Tier:
- Jim Webb
- Hillary Clinton
- Bill Richardson
- Joe Biden
- Brian Schwietzer
Worth Watching:
- Janet Napolitano
- Sherrod Brown
- Chuck Hagel
- Wesley Clark
- Kathleen Sebelius
- Tom Daschle
Honorable Mention:
- Michael Bloomberg
Aside from Hillary and Wes Clark, not a star among them. If Joe Biden, Chuck Hagel or career prosecutor turned Governor Janet Napolitano make the grade, I'll be rethinking my support the Democratic ticket. If it's Hillary, Clark, or Richardson, he keeps my vote.
Are any a dealbreaker for you?
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Will Thomas at HuffPost and
Will Thomas at HuffPost and Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft must be smoking the same weed as Chris Matthews and friends, to imagine Hillary Clinton on the list.
Earth to Mars: (a) Whoever Obama picks will not be Hillary Clinton; (b) Obama is not dealing with us, necessity is. If Obama picks none other than Satan as his running mate, which he very well might, it will remain necessary to vote for Obama and work from there. That's how bad the situation is in which we find ourselves. I don't like it, but that's how necessity works.
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By chemoelectricJuly 2, 2008 - 4:01amLeave Hillary off the List are you Crazy!!!
Why would hillary give up a close race to the convention unless she was promised the VP slot which might
not be a bad choice for her.
She would be silly to give up the race otherwise.
No male candidate trailing so closely would have quit under the pressure.
Again, she was given the VP slot in exchange for stopping her campaign.
You idiots our there can soak up that silly media story that her campaign ran out of money like the same idiots that were told that Iraq had WMD.
Our party leaders forced her out of the race for party unity....yeah right.
The same weak leadership that couldn't succeed in forcing GW out of Iraq succeeded in forcing the first serious female candidate out of the race for president of the United States...makes you want to leave the party if that was the case.
So with hillary out of the race, did it help party unity....NO...it allowed Obama to move away from his devoted supporters. You know the ones that were young and educated!!!
Do you really think that Obama would have made these recent shifts to the political center if he was still fighting hillary for the nomination?
Yeah...the party unity was not for the democratic base, but for the special corporate interest of this country.
With the recent Obama political shifts.....how many now really believe he would have stood up to a very strong bush in 2002 over the war resolution vote!!! Yeah right!!!!!
But wait, could those superdelegates that supported Obama stay with him now that he is shifting closer to the political center.
Obama is the John Kerry of 2004 that promised democratic primary voters that he would fight bush and we know how that story ended.
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By KvnRJohnso407July 2, 2008 - 5:43amIdiots?
Come on... none of really know what's going to happen, so ease up on the "idiot" crap. Perhaps you are right, but I seriously doubt it. She got out because it was clear she could not possibly win without totally screwing things up for the next election... and, the money had already shifted to the presumptive winner. In my opinion, picking Hillary is a real longshot for two reasons: he has no reason to want to work with her after her sleazy, race-baiting tactics, and because adding a divisive figure (whether deserved or not) to a ticket that is already testing new waters would take away more votes than would be gained.
The vast majority of her supporters will come around (only an "idiot" would vote for McCain in protest) once they stop feigning outrage...
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By itsbeezJuly 2, 2008 - 10:31amMcCain wants to be Obama's VP
It's his only chance.
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By f u bush2July 2, 2008 - 7:10amObama is Sounding Like a Conservative
Lionel commented on this a little while ago. Obama is sounding more conservative than McCain.
He supported Scalia's opinion that ignores the first clause of the Holy Second Amendment.
He decried Kennedy's opinion that said that the death penalty is an Eighth Amendment violation in crimes against individuals where the victim did not die.
And now he's pandered to the Evangelicals by saying he's in favor of continuing Bush's Faith Based Initiative program.
What's next, extension of tax cuts for the wealthy?
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By blogbobJuly 2, 2008 - 9:51amBy blogbobJuly 2, 2008 - 9:51am
I have two thoughts on Obama's latest strategy.
1. The comments about Moveon.org were probably done at the request of the Clintons. Obama probably had to negotiate pretty hard and make some concessions if he was going to get Hillary to help him.
2. The over cautious democratic campaign strategists that have given us the stiff and woody Al Gore and John Kerry were backing Hillary. She has the same scripted, boring delivery we saw from the last two democratic presidential candidates. Obama was fresh and stood out. Now those people are freed up and probably shifted over to help Obama. The "professionals" are polishing him off. Look at how much better Gore speaks now that he is away from those people.
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By f u bush2July 2, 2008 - 10:57amFor me the deal breaker
For me the deal breaker would be Hillary Clinton. I think that would be brown-nosing to the extreme. Let her become president on her own merits, not as a bone thrown to her to pacify the DLC right-wing democrats.
Chuck Hagel is pretty high on my list, even if he is a Republican.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower
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By MichtouJuly 2, 2008 - 11:33amFrankly
I think the tiers are reversed. Webb is too new. He'd be great for Hillary or Biden but not Obama who is already fighting uphill on the experience thing. Hillary is a deal breaker for many. Biden is reluctant. Richardson not enough charisma. Scweitzer not enough recognition factor.
Missing from the list - Ed Rendell.
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By gt6July 2, 2008 - 12:30pmBy gt6July 2, 2008 - 12:30pm
There's a reason that Eddie shouldn't be on anything but the shit list.
http://blog.pennlive.com/pennsyltucky/2008/02/ed_rendells_color_problem....
Seriously, fuck him.
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By Guy FawkesJuly 2, 2008 - 3:05pmReluctant?
In a dance around the issue sort of way.
He's consistently said, "don't ask me, but I won't say no if you do".
That's not exactly reluctant.
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By SidenWithBidenJuly 3, 2008 - 7:04amNone of these are dealbreakers
Some are just not very good choices. Napolitano and Sebelius are probably the worst i've seen yet. They don't compliment Obama at all.
Frankly, it doesn't take a genius to see that Joe Biden is the absolute best pick for Obama. Absolutely no candidate in this election, with no exceptions had more experience and knowledge in both domestic and foreign affairs.
Some would argue that Hillary Clinton would give Obama the white catholic vote, citing her popularity in Pennsylvania.
Joe Biden is a white catholic from Scranton PA who talks straight to people and is the furthest thing from an elitist washington insider. He doesn't even LIVE in washington. If he made it as far as PA in the primaries, he would have blown both Clinton and Obama away.
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By SidenWithBidenJuly 3, 2008 - 7:03am