Posted on 12/28/2003 1:42:55 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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Sure am glad I didn't plan to spend New Years in the Phillipines!
Meanwhile, Fox just showed our troops in Kabul, Afghanistan...they hauled a wad of Christmas lights up to the top of a flagpole, then slowly dropped it just before midnight. It was funny!
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Dubya and Laura must be just about heading out for their sunrise walk at the ranch. God be with both of them this year!
Saw a pol. pundit yesterday that said he thinks Dean will pick Graham for VP. He said that Dean and Graham have gotten very close lately.
I've also heard John Lewis because Lewis is the granddaddy of civil rights. (?)
I really don't see Dean picking Graham (although I have crossed my fingers, I'd like to see the dem party here in FL take another smack!) because after his surgery he doesn't seem to be all there.
God forbid Dean should be elected and fill the WH full of freaks. I'm sure the gays that are helping Dean would be of the militant variety.
With that kind of backing he'd win the hard left but the center left would probably run screaming to vote republican.
Ugh, it must be awful. 19 more days? Hang in there!
If the GOP demonstrates sufficient cajones to bring this to everyone's attention, it can use this to win back the Reagan Democrats, e.g., the steelworkers and other union guys who are really Republicans, if they'd just admit it to themselves.
"I'm scared to death that this guy just says anything. It feels like he's undergone some kind of a political lobotomy here."
Robert Novak column on Dean's gaffes
We forgot about this tidbit:
In June, Dean dismissed Graham's presidential candidacy, saying he wasn't a "major" rival for the nomination, though Dean later said he was sorry for the remark.
But then there's this:
Later Dean said, in reference to a question about a running mate, "I'm going to pick somebody with defense and foreign policy experience.... The fact is, it's a resume problem. I need to plug that hole in my resume. And I am going to do that with my running mate" Graham could certainly help Dean there. After all, Graham was the former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
In some ways, Dean, should he get the nomination, will have limited options. He'll want to "plug the hole" in his resume by tapping someone with foreign policy experience, but he'll also, no doubt, want someone who opposed the war in Iraq. Considering all the mileage Dean has gotten out of the war, he can't very well turn around and pick a running mate who supported the invasion.
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Dean would be safe with a Lewis pick, Lewis didn't support the war did he? But then Lewis doesn't come with 27 electoral votes.
I shoulda asked Santa Claus for a Dean/Clark ticket, now that would be fun!
Black? Foreign policy experience? Opposed the Iraq war?
Dean's gonna pick Colin Powell!
U.S. President George W. Bush kisses nine-month-old Liana Flores as her mother, Jackie, looks on, as he arrives at Falfurrias, Texas to spend the day hunting, January 1, 2004. Bush, who left his Crawford ranch for the first time in a week, was to meet with his father, George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State James Baker for quail hunting, at the El Tule Ranch in remote Brooks County, Texas. REUTERS/Mike Theiler
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea Clinton, watches the New Year's Day Junkanoo parade with an unidentified companion from a private enclosure as the parade makes its way along Bay Street in downtown Nassau, Bahamas Thursday, Jan. 1, 2004. The annual street festival draws thousands of Bahamians and tourists to the streets in the early morning hours and continues on into the first day of the new year. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)
HAPPY NEW YEAR MR. PRESIDENT....YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD....
U.S. President George W. Bush waves to the press as he arrives at Falfurrias, Texas, to spend the day hunting, January 1, 2004. Bush, who left his Crawford ranch for the first time in a week, was to meet with his father, George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State James Baker for quail hunting at the El Tule Ranch in remote Brooks County, Texas. REUTERS/Mike Theiler
The NY Times has a problem with this - Bush's "secret" dinner plans - but no problem with the White House so zealously guarding Clintoon's privacy, i.e., his medical conditions?
Happy New Year daisyscarlett!
The press is still snippy over having to spend holidays and the summer in Crawford. And they're not pleased with the inevitability of another four years. heh heh heh!
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