Posted on 07/26/2008 6:12:13 AM PDT by Paige
Barack Obama's vice presidential search team has floated the name of a member of President Bush's first-term Cabinet, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, as Obama's running mate. The search committee, now led by Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder, raised Veneman's name — among others — in discussions with members of Congress, two Democrats familiar with the conversations said.
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Fat chance he would pick her. Trial balloon by the drive by’s...
Is Obama starting to act like Stuart from Madtv? “Hey, look what I can do...”
You put it much more politely than I would have. I was thinking more along the lines of, “throw it against the wall and see what sticks,” LOL!
Apparently he needs constant attention. But her name makes me wonder just how much of our money he intends to send to Africa.
Too bad Goebbels, Himmler, Speer, etc. aren’t available!
Who???
Why would he choose a woman? That would only give hillary one more excuse to assassinate him, and he just doesn’t need to dangle that kind oif carrot in her face.
Just sayin.
I agree, fat chance, iow, no chance.
Barry the Sock Puppet is incapable of independent thought....or at least independent thought that isn’t either 3rd World Marxism or written on a teleprompter. His whole “moving beyond politics” is such a scam. ALL his influences and mentors have been radical leftists, not one even moderate in the bunch. You really think he’ll nominate an unknown Republican?
She is even less qualified than he is.
Maybe the point to the story is that the Hillbots are so mad that he needs to choose a woman. But since he won’t take HRC, he can’t take a Dem so that leaves him grasping for a GOP-woman. As you can see from this trial baloon, he’s literally take ‘any GOP woman, anyone at all;
This just come out today? Wikipedia has a big bio on her , and mentions several times that she might be his running mate.
Yep, that will fix his "gravitas" issue.
Why would they think she’d be interested in being a Dems VP? The article mentions several times that she clashed with democrats and environmentalists during her tenure.
You can’t have Veneman without “enema”.
al obama is not going to chose a female.
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