Posted on 08/22/2008 9:45:25 PM PDT by hole_n_one
Breaking on CNN
See new McCain ad!
“Now Mac needs to pick Palin.”
Actually I think McCain should pick someone who is similar in experience to himself and Biden. Then the contrast with Barack’s youth and inexperience will be heightned. Think about it- three wizened veterans and one young, inexperienced dumbbell.
I think Obama just handed the presidency to McCain, this depends of course on who McCain picks as his veep.
Trying to be objective as possible, I honestly don’t understand nor see the value for the Dems in this pick.
Thank you, Barack Hussein Obama. You just helped team McCain.
Wow, Slow-Joe Biden, the man who proves that ANYBODY can be in high government. This guy is in the position that he is and he isn’t coherent enough to explain his position on what the cafeteria should serve for breakfast.
I heard Biden was the only one who said yes.
wheres that sound byte of Biden saying about 7-11s and Indian accents.
YES! ;)
I don't think George Clooney and the word "smart" could accurately be written in the same sentence...without a "not" in front of it.
since Clooney is glued to obambi as his top adviser, he may have pushed for Joe - then of course, maybe he was too busy for last minute advice. After all, he's getting together that soiree, at $10,000 a plate, for obami to take place during the Republican Convention.
This dinner of fancy Dans is going to take place in - Switzerland.
Yep. That's going to impress Middle America.
Clooney has been trying to break into politics for some time. It seems he may be positioning himself for a plum slot on the obambi admin., where he can gain political prominence with visions of becoming the "Democrat Ronald Reagan" down the line...
My gut reaction to this pick plus some of the other information that has come out including a couple of people turning down Obama would lead me to believe that Biden certainly wasn't his first choice.
Just what we need: two senators running our country. Senators who have never run a business, a town, a county or a state...
When did the American people decide "no experience necessary" was a part of the President's Job description?
I think Obama's grand plan to have this announcement be the leading story for the 5/6pm o'clock news went awry because some of the people higher on the list than Biden turned him down.
Karl Rove on now with the Friends saying that Joe was an “adult” pick but he’s full of gaffes and long-winded answers. However, he agrees with Sam Donaldson that the VP is not who we vote for. Karl also mentions that Joe voted for the Iraq war. He thinks that this pick just makes Barry look inexperienced. Also—Karl says this pick should not make McCain change his mind on a VP.
Karl Rove just said on Fox that since Obama says McCain has bad judgment for his vote on the Iraq war...how will he spin that with hairplugs, who also voted for the war?
LOL! I guess we know enough now, with that ad at the top of
our ping pages!
I think it is a brilliant find!
Or that he was MORE afraid of being Arkancided, perhaps?!
Actually, Bayh was his first choice, but according to a know-it-all acquaintance in Bayh’s offices, Bayh retracted his acceptance last minute after he received pressure from Hilary.
And Obambi has sand in the gears.
““since she has 5(?) kids and a husband, she can debate”
Why anyone would be considering Palin is beyond me. She has little experience, and is a virtual unknown. Just like the kid Pawlenty. Putting Palin or Pawlenty up against an old blustering hand like Biden in the VP debate would be like sending someone with a knife to a gunfight. It’s time to haul out the big gun of debaters, which is Romney. Romney could go head to head or toe to toe if you’d prefer, with Biden, and poke Biden full of holes. It would be logic versus illogic. Reason versus mild insanity, rationality versus irrationality. Romney would decimate Biden, make mincemeat out of him. Pawlenty would be a joke, Ridge couldn’t hold his own in a debate, Palin along with Pawlenty is a no-name featherweight, and Bobby Jindhal, although I love him, is also too young, too inexperienced, and also took himself out of contention anyhow.
This will be a test to see how smart McCain is. And also whether he thinks with his head and treats politics as the business that it is, or thinks with his heart and chooses one of his buddies who are unacceptable to the base, namely Joe Lieberman (Dem, liberal except on defense), Tom Ridge (pro-choice), Rudy Guiliani (pro-choice) or Lindsey Graham (another “maverick” just like McCain, we don’t need two of them). If McCain picks one of these guys, I sit home as McCain would have proven to me that he is too much the maverick, too contrarian, too disdainful of the Republican base, and is thus too politically stupid to be President. You just don’t rub it in the face of those that brung you to the dance.”
I agree 100%. Romney is the only mentioned possibility that would kick Biden’s butt in a debate.
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