Will John McCain be the Republican in Barack Obama's cabinet?

The Telegraph, London, UK ^ | 2008-11-12 | Toby Harnden

[rabscuttle385]

It's standard fare for a president to make a bipartisan gesture by including one member of the opposing party in his cabinet - just as it's always the case (lest we forget) that every president-elect vows to change the tone in Washington and reach out magnanimously to his vanquished opponents.

But John Podesta, the former Bill Clinton former chief of staff who's spearheading the transition for the 44th president, said today that there would be independents and Republicans in Barack Obama's cabinet and "not just at a token level".

[NFHale]

“..I didn’t get a tricycle as a child....that is why I’m a mean old conservative today....... I have issues.....:o)..”

Hell, we were so poor all I got was the damned KICKSTAND for the bike, and Paw said “PRETEND the rest of the bike is there.”

And I was GRATEFUL to have a sidewalk for the kickstand! SUre was tough...pedalling twelve miles to school...uphill...BOTH ways...

(Don’t stop me...I’m on a roll...)

[NFHale]

Dude...we're GUYS...it doesn't take much to entertain us... It's the way we're made... As for the Boogeyman issue...We all know there's no need to get SNOTTY about it.... HA!

[Gilbo_3]

I wonder if it makes them any more miserable to know that we're moving on and simply enjoying ourselves now that we've issued the electronic version of a proper ass whooping?

thats the beauty of it, we ARE confident in our beliefs/faith/principles and will be 'ok' with the outcome, whether we HAVE TO FIGHT for it[ this thread is one bloodLESS battle], or whether God just gives US a reprieve [and the libtards go on a complete feeding frenzy amongst themselves]... our serenity is definately their misery...

[calcowgirl]

I've been married a long time and have several children, and they wouldn't agree with your asinine and leftist notions either. They're a hateful bunch too, let me tell you! :-)

Your kids sound like they have their heads screwed on right. I hope they have lots of children, too!

[Gilbo_3]

almost forgot yer ping...

[Squantos]

Roll ?

All we had wuz hard tack and beans and rusty water that passed off as Tea !......:o)

[Squantos]

I think that all that was being pointed out before she got “discovered”........:o)

Stay safe !!

[NFHale]

“..road apples..”

I’ll settle for HALF the horse, nothing less...and it BETTER be the INPUT end, NOT the OUTPUT end...

I believe that’s fair...and we’re all about fair...because fair is fair, and what’s fair is fair...

[Squantos]

Well Obama is a horses ass.........:o)

[calcowgirl]

I KNOW the boogeyman exists...I have post-nasal drip...I’ve SEEN the boogeyman and he terrifies me instantly...You might even say it’s a “PHLEGMatic” response...

Do you read a lot of Stephen King? ;-)

[NFHale]

Water??? You had WATER?

Damn...We had to drink castor oil..and we were THANKFUL we had it...

Was absolute HELL on the toilet, though...

[calcowgirl]

SoapGirl reminds me a LOT of calcowgirl in the way that they apply logic to liberals and cause their mishapen little brains to short circuit. :-)

Okay... I'm lost. Who is soapgirl?

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[Gilbo_3]

Kinda like my OLDtimer farmer friend up the road...

says back in the depression they ate cereal with a fork, that way they could pass the bowl of milk down to the next kid...

BTW, itSNOT fair that mommy put me on the potty chair backwards when i was a tot, made it a b!tch to steer the bigwheel later...

I want a new bigwheel, eventually we'll have to eat the ponies in 'obamaville'...

[Gilbo_3]

hh’s baby girl, prolly more conservative than most on this forum...

[NFHale]

“Pulling Posts”

Actually, it’s probably BETTER to leave those posts intact, rather than pulling them; it really shows the nature who these people are. Give them enough rope, so to speak...

Blocking the address from further posting would probably be better. But then again, censoring is what the other side does...

Conundrum!

[calcowgirl]

Hell, we were so poor all I got was the damned KICKSTAND for the bike, and Paw said “PRETEND the rest of the bike is there.” And I was GRATEFUL to have a sidewalk for the kickstand! SUre was tough...pedalling twelve miles to school...uphill...BOTH ways...

ROFL!

(Don’t stop me...I’m on a roll...)

YES, you are! My family is wondering why I'm lauging so hard in here at the computer. LOL.

[Gilbo_3]

'family friendly' website, trash should be taken out...leaves much to the individual imagination to what the trolls said...

maybe 'comment by "...." removed by moderator' would let everyone at least know who the offender is [was] ???... and we could catalog those 'hateful' replies for future reference...

[Squantos]

I won’t be insulted.......

[NFHale]

“..does that mean Obama really ISN’T a decent person?..”

Only if I don’t get my pony...and it better be a pusilanimous Painted Palomino named Pistolero...

Ahh!! Again, Alliteration RUNNING AMOK before our eyes!!!

[hiredhand]

Here's another illustration....and I'm trying to keep this impersonal, but mccainvoterinobamaville is simply a good example.

In -

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2020888/posts?page=71#71

It says -

But I thought outlawing guns would stop all crime from happening because we all know guns is the only thing that ever kills people (sarc).

"Let me id myself as someone who would never own a gun but would defend to the end the right to own one."

My question to people with this attitude is, "WHAT are you going to defend my Constitutional right with?" ...if you will NEVER own a gun? Are you going to use a sharp stick? We've got a small arsenal here, and I can assure you that sticks, knives, bows and arrows, and slingshots are poor deterrants against evil doers armed with firearms.

It seems like I might be splitting hairs here, because we all know people who don't own firearms, but note the poor logic here. The liberal acknowledges a problem with crime (evil) in the world, and speaks a word against anti-self-defense laws, and even tells us that they will defend our rights. But they don't go so far as to actually PROCURE the weapon and therefore enable themselves to quantify their willingness to defend. In other words, no matter how sincere the statement is, it's false and flawed from the start. It's a contradictory statement!

...and this is liberalism at its core. It's the acknowledgment of the current state of the world, but a reaction to a CORRECT observation that simply makes ZERO sense in the scope of the real problem. This is why liberals are so ineffective. It makes everybody "feel" better, but does absolutely NOTHING for the situation. Such is the case with people who say they support our right to bear arms. It makes us feel good, but performs NO useful function. But then again, that pretty much sums up liberalism.