Now that Barry Obama has secured the nomination -- despite the protests from some quarters -- we turn our attention to his choice of vice presidential nominee. On this issue, things couldn't be any clearer.
First, let's dispatch with the wannabes who have NO chance! We'll take them one at a time:
1)RODHAM-CLINTON.......hahahahahahahahah ahahahahah, sorry I'll try to control myself. Rodham-Clinton represents the old Washington politics that Barry O spent the ENTIRE campaign denouncing. If she was on top of the ticket, he'd be offered the second spot and he'd definitely take it. Democrats would have their "dream ticket." However, she's not, he is. There is no advantage to Barry O to offer the job to her (and her husband) unless he wants to have a nightmare ticket. He doesn't, he wants to win.
2)JOHN EDWARDS.......despite his protests that he's been there, done that, if Obama offered the job, the Breck Girl would accept. But he does nothing to shore up Obama's foreign policy and military credentials. Therefore, it's not gonna happen.
3)CHRIS DODD......the only possible reason to offer the spot to this woman/man is, um, is, a, yea, well, actually there are no reasons. (Would it surprise anyone if it turned out Chris Dodd is a transvestite?) He adds nothing to the ticket and would put voters to sleep. No sale.
4)GOVERNOR RICHARDSON......the stumbling-bumbling, rolly- polly Richardson has already endorsed Obama, and would probably excite some hispanics. Problem is he doesn't engender real confidence in any measurable degree across the political spectrum. His appeal is extremely limited to ethnic pride; therefore, he's a definite no.
5)JOE BIDEN.....a.k.a. Senator foot-in-the-mouth. I think Barry already answered this question when Biden described him as an "articulate and clean" black man....that's "just Joe" said Obama with a detectable air of disgust. The general election is gonna be a rough and tumble affair; Obama can't afford to turn that crazy man loose. No deal.
6)Dennis Kissinich and all the remaining wannabe candidates... the fact that they're grouped with Dennis Kissinich tells you all you need to know.
So who IS his choice gonna be? I can tell you EXACTLY what, although not yet who it will be.
It will be a man with impeccable military credentials. America is at war. Senator Obama has NO military or foreign policy credentials whatsoever. His standard refrain, "I have the judgment" will grow old quickly in the general election.
He will have to choose someone his base will find mostly unpalatable and then reassure them that the guy will only be second in command, so just suck it up and bear it.
And there is a 100% guarantee that I'm right, so just remember where you read this first.
Bill Clinton and other Clinton surrogates and supporters are insisting, incredibly, that Barack Obama is the one color-arousing the presidential race, even though it was the head of Clinton's New Hampshire campaign who suggested, based on no evidence whatever, that Barack Obama might have been a drug dealer. One syndicated columnist observed at the time,
But could it be that this story is even worse than many in the national press will say? Isn't it interesting that Shaheen, or whoever is behind this, opted to invoke the image of a drug dealer in referencing the first top-tier black candidate for president? That's quite a coincidence. This wouldn't be an ugly Willie Horton-type tactic intended to harvest fear and play on stereotypes about who is a criminal and who isn't, or -- in this case -- who uses drugs and who sells them?Nah. Liberal Democrats would never sink that low. Why if they did, how could they continue to package themselves as a kinder and gentler -- and more enlightened -- alternative to Republicans? Certainly not with a straight face. Drug rumors about Obama playing on stereotypes?
BREAKING NEWS: Blumenthal Uses Former Right-Wing Foes To Attack Obama
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-drei er/sidney-blumenthal-uses-fo_b_99695.htm lSidney
today Hillary Clinton has an extraordinary event in Marionsburg, North Carolina in a Church of God, fundamentalist, charismatic denomination.
film crews were there already but the excitement of the atmosphere, the emotional sparks were so great that a new set of ads is seen in the offing for state like Kentucky and West Virginia, perhaps even in Puerto Rico...directed towards an emerging base of Hillary: rural, religious white voters with dental problems.
while there is some debate within her campaign about how this might compare, or perhaps, exacerate the Obama UCC church issues, but as of now its on. on the flip side some of the amazing specifics.
First Louisiana, then North Carolina, and now Missisippi...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0
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The Republican candidate in a special election to fill an unexpectedly contested seat in a conservative Mississippi congressional district is using recent controversies surrounding Senator Barack Obama to tar his Democratic rival.A television ad from Southaven Mayor Greg Davis tells viewers that his Democratic rival, Travis Childers, a realtor and Prentiss County official, has accepted the endorsement of "liberal Barack Obama."
Then, with Childers' face beside footage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, it says, "When Obama's pastor cursed America, blaming us for 9/11, Childers said nothing."
Then: "When Obama ridiculed rural folks for clinging to guns and religion, Childers said nothing."
"He took Obama's endorsement over our conservative values. Conservatives just can't trust Travis Childers," the ad concludes.
Unlike a much-reported North Carolina Republican ad attacking Obama, the Mississippi spot is actually airing on television.
last nite on orielly, i heard the comment's made by these two lesbo's from edward's camp degrading religion. the lady that resigned need's to not only apologize to those offended. but need's to get her heart right with God before she leave's this world. cause hell won't be hot enough for the assnine comment's she made. it just goes to show you the length the liberal left will stoop to, in order to get elected. edward's is nothing more than a pretty boy. or a polished turd. and it just goes to show you how low this immoral party will stoop to. the anything goes mentality. it's obvious that edward's doesn't care for the religious right when he hire's these deviant's to serve him. but that's ok cause the right wasn't gonna vote for any left wing extremist. his view's on killing babies, garnering right's for an immoral group in supporting a degenerate lifestyle in the homosexual community. and everything else the wacko's from the left support. i will never pull a lever for any man/woman who believe's in hitlerizing the most innocent. and that includes the republican party as well. if you don't value the most innocent who have no voice, then how can you value mine? the left have nothing to offer mainstream america. their value's are immoral and bankrupt. and while i may not be happy about the war in iraq, i can't turn my back on the troop's that are there. they need our full support. not the cut and run surrender the left wanna embark on. coward's!
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