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Obama Veep Team Floats GOP Name
Yawn, is this to excite the masses?
Obama veep team floats GOP name
By AMIE PARNES & BEN SMITH | 7/25/08 6:41 PM EST
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, said two Democrats familiar with the conversations.
The mention of Veneman's name surprised Democratic lawmakers. The low-profile Republican was close to food and agriculture industries but clashed with farm-state Democrats and environmentalists during her tenure, which lasted from 2001 to 2004.
But Veneman, 59, has a biography that could be suited to Obama's unifying message. A Republican raised on a California peach farm, she rose to become the nation’s first female agriculture secretary. In 2002 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which was treated successfully. Today she serves as executive director of the United Nations children's agency UNICEF.
The selection of a Republican could bolster Obama's unifying message, a Capitol Hill Democrat familiar with the discussion said.
for the complete article
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12059.html
Obama veep team floats GOP name
By AMIE PARNES & BEN SMITH | 7/25/08 6:41 PM EST
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, said two Democrats familiar with the conversations.
The mention of Veneman's name surprised Democratic lawmakers. The low-profile Republican was close to food and agriculture industries but clashed with farm-state Democrats and environmentalists during her tenure, which lasted from 2001 to 2004.
But Veneman, 59, has a biography that could be suited to Obama's unifying message. A Republican raised on a California peach farm, she rose to become the nation’s first female agriculture secretary. In 2002 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which was treated successfully. Today she serves as executive director of the United Nations children's agency UNICEF.
The selection of a Republican could bolster Obama's unifying message, a Capitol Hill Democrat familiar with the discussion said.
for the complete article
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12059.html
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Pale Rider wrote:Never happen... First of all, she's white.
My first reaction was - "Ann Who?"
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red states rule wrote:Pale Rider wrote:Never happen... First of all, she's white.
My first reaction was - "Ann Who?"
Reverend Wright won't be happy... after all, it's whitey that is trying to KILL the black man. And the rest of hussein's black racist following would literally shit if they heard his running mate was a white woman.
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If he goes with a white women and it is not Hillary - all hell will break lose :D
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red states rule wrote:If he goes with a white women and it is not Hillary - all hell will break lose :D
That too. No matter how you look at it, the dems are in a bad situation.
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Pale Rider wrote:red states rule wrote:If he goes with a white women and it is not Hillary - all hell will break lose :D
That too. No matter how you look at it, the dems are in a bad situation.
At least as far as the race for the WH
I suspect the Dems will hold, if not add seats in both the House and Senate
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red states rule wrote:Pale Rider wrote:red states rule wrote:If he goes with a white women and it is not Hillary - all hell will break lose :D
That too. No matter how you look at it, the dems are in a bad situation.
At least as far as the race for the WH
I suspect the Dems will hold, if not add seats in both the House and Senate
I don't know... I'm not so sure... people are real concerned about the price of gas, and if people pay attention they'll soon find out it's the dems that have been and still are standing in the way of getting after more of our own.
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Pale Rider wrote:red states rule wrote:Pale Rider wrote:red states rule wrote:If he goes with a white women and it is not Hillary - all hell will break lose :D
That too. No matter how you look at it, the dems are in a bad situation.
At least as far as the race for the WH
I suspect the Dems will hold, if not add seats in both the House and Senate
I don't know... I'm not so sure... people are real concerned about the price of gas, and if people pay attention they'll soon find out it's the dems that have been and still are standing in the way of getting after more of our own.
Pale, I would like to agree. However, the liberal media are doing all they can to sheild the Dems, and they have circled the wagons around Reid and Pelosi
I hope you are right, but Republicans are running a lousy campaign so far
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Hey... a guy can only hope for as much. I'd love to see people bend over, grab their ears and pop their heads otta their asses. I think people that are very well informed, intelligent and ambitious vote conservative, because they don't like government imposing on them making it more difficult than it already is to succeed. People that are ignorant, illiterate and lazy vote liberal, because they're looking for somebody to give them something for nothing.
Tell me I'm wrong... April15?
Tell me I'm wrong... April15?
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Go for it. She won't help him at all. He needs someone who will make him look better when it comes to the military and foreign policy. He's going to have to try someone older then him to offset the inexperience factor as well. Besides that, everyone is also saying, "Ann Who?"
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King Leonidas wrote:Go for it. She won't help him at all. He needs someone who will make him look better when it comes to the military and foreign policy. He's going to have to try someone older then him to offset the inexperience factor as well. Besides that, everyone is also saying, "Ann Who?"
He also needs someone that's clearly not a racist like he is.
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Aren't all Dems racist in some way or another?
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King Leonidas wrote:Aren't all Dems racist in some way or another?
Well they're all fucked up in one way or another...
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red states rule wrote:Yawn, is this to excite the masses?
Obama veep team floats GOP name
By AMIE PARNES & BEN SMITH | 7/25/08 6:41 PM EST
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, said two Democrats familiar with the conversations.
The mention of Veneman's name surprised Democratic lawmakers. The low-profile Republican was close to food and agriculture industries but clashed with farm-state Democrats and environmentalists during her tenure, which lasted from 2001 to 2004.
But Veneman, 59, has a biography that could be suited to Obama's unifying message. A Republican raised on a California peach farm, she rose to become the nation’s first female agriculture secretary. In 2002 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which was treated successfully. Today she serves as executive director of the United Nations children's agency UNICEF.
The selection of a Republican could bolster Obama's unifying message, a Capitol Hill Democrat familiar with the discussion said.
for the complete article
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12059.html
My honest opinion coincides with what you wrote above. Yet, never underestimate the Dems ability to mirror the Palis, sucking defeat in the face of success. They can't seem to help themselves:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/07/26/ST2008072602046.html
Oil May Become GOP's 2008 Issue
Cost of Gas Touches a Chord With Voters
By Michael D. Shear and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 27, 2008; A10
Four-dollar-a-gallon gas has done something that few Republicans thought possible just a few months ago: given them hope.
United behind a renewed push for offshore oil drilling, Republican members of Congress and the party's presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, think they have found their best political issue of the 2008 campaign.
McCain strategists and GOP leaders on Capitol Hill say the issue, which polls suggest Americans favor by healthy margins, lets Republicans demonstrate their plans to address the anger over high gas prices as well as the broader economic distress that many voters feel.
Because most Democrats, including Sen. Barack Obama, are opposed to increased drilling, McCain and the GOP have already begun casting their rivals as unconcerned about gas prices and unwilling to wean the country from foreign oil."
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Kathianne wrote:My honest opinion coincides with what you wrote above. Yet, never underestimate the Dems ability to mirror the Palis, sucking defeat in the face of success. They can't seem to help themselves:
I've been speculating much of the same thing. I stated at the USMB with the still active thread about why gas is $4 a gallon a couple months ago, and much of the blame falls squarely on the dems and how beholding they are to the enviro-whackos.
I think more of the problem is the dems are never afraid to fight hard and dirty, and it seems the repubs can never seem to reach the same level of intensity. It's aggravating to watch. I keep waiting for the repubs to go for the throat when they smell blood, but they never do. They let awesome opportunities, like this, fizzle and die. The dems don't.
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Could be their offense position as well. Who the hell really knows since no one has ever seen a liberal on the offensive.
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Pale Rider wrote:Hey... a guy can only hope for as much. I'd love to see people bend over, grab their ears and pop their heads otta their asses. I think people that are very well informed, intelligent and ambitious vote conservative, because they don't like government imposing on them making it more difficult than it already is to succeed. People that are ignorant, illiterate and lazy vote liberal, because they're looking for somebody to give them something for nothing.
Tell me I'm wrong... April15?
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