Obama names Caroline Kennedy to help pick vice president

Thursday 05th June, 06:45 AM JST

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skipthesong at 12:08 PM JST - 5th June

I have been hearing that perhaps James Webb may be on the short list for Veep. I personally would like Richardson - he is like me, but that really is the only thing I like about him. Don't know much more.
Tatanka at 12:40 PM JST - 5th June

Whoever picks Oprha will win!
RomeoRamenII at 02:06 PM JST - 5th June
Three reasons why hillary will never be obama's veep:
1. She will not want to be on a losing ticket.
2. She wants to be in position to run in 2012 against an incumbent President McCain who's already hinted that he'll be only a one-term president.
3. Jimmy Carter says it would be a bad idea as the combined negatives of obama and hillary would sink the ticket.
RR
GW at 03:14 PM JST - 5th June

Hilary wud be a terrible choice for VP, its just too hard for rivals to come together so shortly after their campaigns, but even if she cud step in later(impossible I know) I just cant see her siting back, she wud always trying to grab the limelight & causing all kinds of problems
Sarge at 04:48 PM JST - 5th June

236.com has Obama's VP short list leaked to the press, which is funny, but McCain's VP short list leaked to the press is even funnier:

Colin Powell - pro - will go to war when you ask him to con - real gullible!

Rudy Giuliani: pro - gets votes from hicks who think he's president con - pro-queer con - dresses all queer con- talks all queer

Condi Rice: pro - Black vote con - Too hot! I would spend all day imagining her wearing nothing but a copy of the McCain-Feingold Bill!...Mmmmmm
skipthesong at 04:56 PM JST - 5th June

Condi Rice! I would be willing to bet, if Condi is picked as a running mate of McCain, they would win. I happen to think she is one of the most intelligent woman in the US. Came from humble beginnings, witness KKK attacks and seen her little friends die. She lived and walked through the Civil Rights marches of the 60'. However, it would still be hard to beat Obama as he does have a rock star status. Has there ever been a candidate who could sell out stadiums?

Does anyone know if a candidate can pick a running mate from a different party? If they could, I would hope that Condi Rice gets picked.
Sarge at 05:07 PM JST - 5th June

Bill Richardson's on Obama's short list because he can get the votes of:

Hispanic-Americans who are aware he is Hispanic

Hispanic-Americans with Anglo names

Cuban-Americans who don't realize Richardson is Mexican-American

Muslims who think Richardson is Arab

People who are pleasantly plump
Sarge at 05:11 PM JST - 5th June

Skip - Unfortunately Condi is too smart to get involved any further in politics. I would have voted for her in a New York minute.
skipthesong at 05:28 PM JST - 5th June

Cuban-Americans who don't realize Richardson is Mexican-American" We are a small community, regardless of distances. We are well aware of Richardson being "half" Mexican. Mind you, just like Europeans have their issues with each other Hispanics do too. We all look at Mexico like another Big Guy on the block just like some countries look at the US as the big bully, Mexico is that for us and there is a lot of resentment! I personally like Richardson, and I don't really have a problem with him except that he really chummys up to the wrong people as La Raza has flipped on their main issues and he has been somewhat bought by them. La Raza is one very wealthy organization these days. That is my only issue with him though.

Unfortunately Condi is too smart to get involved any further in politics." Well, then we are going to lose one of the best statespeople we ever had. I do hope she reconsiders and does run one of these days.

Again, my question to the experts out there - can a candidate from one party select another person from another party and run together? I am not finding the answer because I can't get to google.
super delegate at 05:36 PM JST - 5th June

What about Cindy Sheehan as Barack Obama's running mate?

She looks so lonely - wh'appened?

http://sfcitizen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/img_7852a.jpg
RomeoRamenII at 08:38 PM JST - 5th June

Obama names Caroline Kennedy to help pick vice president

Smells like Uncle Teddy nepotism. So much for "change".

Just confirms that the liberal wing of the democrat party is pulling obama's strings.

RR
Sarge at 10:06 PM JST - 5th June

Also on Obama's short list:

Any old white dude -

pro - votes!

con - tendency to burn when in direct sunlight
WhiteHawk at 11:22 PM JST - 5th June

SezWho2:

In Kennedy's case, one can argue that what really broke the back of the Soviet Union was the US commitment to and success in putting a man on the moon. Reagan is often given credit for making the stirring speech at the wall, but the wall was already collapsing under the weight of Soviet poverty and failure to keep pace.

Interesting bit of selective history there. You completely left out Reagan's arms race and tried to credit the 1969 moon landing for the cause of the U.S.S.R.'s collapse in 1991.

Norpinhead, Gore is not a true Southerner. Yes, he represented Tennessee (technically) and he lives near me now, but he was raised and schooled in D.C. and is stuck in that mindset.

skipthesong:

I personally would like Richardson - he is like me, but that really is the only thing I like about him. Don't know much more.

Skip, don't fall into the Identity Politics trap. Look what it's already done to your party's primary race.

Sarge, Giuliani is far too anti-2nd-Amendment to help McCain in the general. In fact, his lawsuit against gun manufacturers was only kicked out of the courts a few weeks ago.

RomeoRamenII:

Smells like Uncle Teddy nepotism. So much for "change".

True. No matter how gullible his supporters, Obama is nothing but the same old Jimmy Carter/Teddy Kennedy disaster, repackaged in a guilt-reducing wrapper.
WhiteHawk at 12:20 AM JST - 6th June

Hey RR, it gets worse. One of the others in Obama's VP committe was heavily involved with Clinton's pardon scandals.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D913E16O0&show_article=1
SezWho2 at 06:07 PM JST - 6th June

WhiteHawk,

No, I did not leave it out. What I am saying is that it can be argued that the spending campaign that Kennedy started in the moon race was the seed of Soviet destruction. Just as Reagan had his moment in saying "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," Kennedy had his in saying, "Ich bin ein Berliner."

Kennedy was not a particularly great leader, but he was not "all showmanship" as you have claimed. If anyone was "all showmanship", it was Reagan. Showmanship was what he knew how to do. It was the essence of his life. He had his moments of leadership but he was not a particularly great leader either except in the mythology of Reaganites.

If anyone here is engaging in selective history, I would say it is you. To dismiss Kennedy as being all showmanship is to pretend that he was not instrumental in the missile crisis, that his administration did not move against organized crime and that his administration did not, finally, move to establish civil rights for all Americans. There is no honor in and nothing to gain from gratuitous slander.