Posted on 09/11/2008 1:44:48 AM PDT by tomymind
IT'S WIDELY ACCEPTED now that Barack Obama would be better off if he'd picked Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate instead of Joe Biden. Obama had his reasons, particularly his discomfort with her as his actual vice president if he's elected. Still, Obama sacrificed a stronger ticket by rejecting Clinton.
Absent Hillary, the contest between Obama-Biden and the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin is throwing the Democrats into disarray. The consequences of Obama's veep decision appear mostly to favor McCain. And if Obama had picked Hillary? Here are a few of the differences.
No Palin. Okay, McCain might have picked her anyway. He was looking for a running mate who would help him shake up the campaign. And Palin has delivered spectacularly on that. But choosing her would have seemed far less of a game-changer had Obama picked Clinton. Palin would have been merely the second female running mate in 2008. And her appeal to those who had voted for Clinton in the primaries would have been reduced if not nullified altogether. As a result, the prospects of the other potential game-changers McCain was considering--Democratic senator Joe Lieberman and pro-choice ex-Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge--would surely have risen. And while it's unknowable whether McCain would have picked Palin if Obama had gone with Clinton, selecting Palin would have been a lot less likely.
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“Unfortunately, the Senate has not lived up to its’ responsibilities....”
hmmm...mash here...
http://www.articlev.com/repeal_the_17th_amendment.htm
“Our forefathers anticipated “socialism”.
That’s a provocative thought. Collectivism existed in various forms throughout human history. I believe the Founders clearly understood totalitarianism, a product of socialism, and despised the practice and wrote of the stench of dictatorship in our Declaration of Independence. They just didn’t have the word “socialism” available for use or they might have penned something like “Socialism Sucks!” but in a much more eloquent way.
As I said, your statement is provocative but I don’t want to think too hard this early in the morning.
:-) (I think the coffee is ready!)
I should think that if the proposed scenario that is chugging about slightly under the radar about Hillary to replace an “ailing biden” soon, that she would become a female “also ran”.
Seems to me that Palin has stormed the scene sufficiently to put “female no matter who” in such a position.
Hillary would take a number of votes from McCain/Palin, but insufficiently to warrant her joining up with loser “O”. People celebrate a winner, not a loser, and “O” is showing us what a loser he is recently.
It seems to me that it would be charitable of Clinton to join with the loser “O” at this time in the run. Not going to happen IMO, for the Clinton’s charity starts at home.
They set up the constitution to not allow it.
The constitution had to be changed to allow the income tax, the original constitution did not allow the income tax.
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -- Benjamin Franklin.
You are spot on. Obama is stuck with Slow Joe.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Obama has to BIG of an ego... There is now way he will take Hillary as VP.. He has no respect for women, and will never admit a woman helped him into the White House...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
What was this danger against which the Senate must guard!
Madison explained "An increase in population will of necessity increase the proportion of those who will labour under all the hardships of life, and secretly sigh for a more equal distribution of its blessings. These may in time outnumber those who are placed above the feeling of indigence. According to the equal laws of suffrage, the power will slide into the hands of the former."
As soon then, as the poor could outvote the rich, they would make plans for a more equal distribution of wealth.
Well, maybe his chances of getting elected, not his chances of surviving plane crashes/walks in the park.
Unless you count the used underwear that Billy Jeff "gave**" to charity.
It truly was the gift that kept on giving.
(**Gave = sold for tax write off.)
I think history will show that Obama’s failure to pick Hillary as VP was a strategic blunder on par with Hitler not neutralizing Britain and opening up the eastern front.
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