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Aug 20th, 2008 at 10:54 am by Susie

How much does the VP pick matter to you? If it were up to you, who should Obama pick?

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on 20 Aug 2008 at 11:43 am1lbd

Why not Dodd? Why is Obama only considering right-wingers and blowhards? (Biden is the Arlen Spector of the Democratic Party.)
on 20 Aug 2008 at 11:46 am2Monica Starr

Hi, Susie. I really love your blog! You linked to one of my posts and I’ve added you to my blogroll. I wrote something on the vice-presidency this morning that you might enjoy:
http://astrologymundo.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/pamela-and-monica-ponder-the-vice-presidency/
I think the vice-presidential picks are very important in this race because of McCain’s age and Obama’s race, which unfortunately could make him a target.
Do you happen to know Don Groff, a Philadelphia-based travel writer and photographer? He’s got a great photo blog that’s very Philly-oriented: http://groffoto.wordpress.com/Best, Monica
on 20 Aug 2008 at 11:58 am3steveeboy

my dream picks would be:

1. bill richardson–was my pres pick

2. wes clark–like him wanted him in 2004
on 20 Aug 2008 at 11:59 am4Izquierdo

Harry Truman —
if he was good enough for FDR, he should be good enough for anyone else.

Seriously, I’m tired of the sleazy political calculus that usually goes into choosing a VP, whether it be Cheney or Lieberman.
on 20 Aug 2008 at 12:03 pm5just john

No VP pick on either side could switch my vote. I mean, even if Frank Zappa himself were raised from the dead and nominated as McCain’s veep, I would still vote Democratic this time around. (Tho a reanimated corpse would hilight that McCain is still technically alive.)

I’d been hoping for Bill Richardson, since he’d make a great post-Cheney VP. Also, I’m a sucker for the “senator presidential candidates need governors to balance the ticket” conventional wisdom. So of the people named most often, I’d take Sibelius as Obama’s best choice.

(And just from the sound of its name, an “obama-bye” ticket would die a horrible defeat.)
on 20 Aug 2008 at 12:07 pm6just john

Oh, and I forgot to repeat what I’ve been saying whenever I get a chance: The Repubs cannot go with a Lieberman VP nomination, because then they’d have no good answer for, “Do you consider yourself as already having won in 2000, before being cheated out of it?”

McCain’s already said gushy things about Scalia and Thomas, so this would open a whole lot of wounds.
on 20 Aug 2008 at 12:33 pm7misfit

I will vote Democratic regardless of the VP pick.
If Gen. Wesley Clark was the VP choice, the Dems would own the national security issue. First in his West Point class, commander of NATO, etc. … The repubs have nobody that comes close to Gen. Clark.
on 20 Aug 2008 at 12:36 pm8Monica

Folks — I was a Richardson supporter till I talked to my friends in New Mexico, where I went to high school and junior high. Richardson is sleazy, I was sorry to learn. His camp puts pressure on administrators in the state university system and other state employees to pony up contributions, albeit small, to his campaign coffers and other favorite charities. Evidently, he routinely mixes business and politics by strong-arming the little guy. Maybe that’s not as bad as accepting campaign contributions from big corporations, but it hasn’t won him any friends among well-educated New Mexicans.
on 20 Aug 2008 at 12:50 pm9arbitrista

Speaking as a boring white guy, I’m tired of boring white guys. I like Sebellius. Plus she’s one of the more progressive people on the short list, and I hate the idea of picking a Senator.
on 20 Aug 2008 at 1:42 pm10John

I don’t think it will make any difference who is picked since the choices for president are so bad in the first place. In part it may be that I’m cynical but until there is a fundamental change in the mind set in Washington nothing will change for the better.
on 20 Aug 2008 at 2:40 pm11snuzy mandrake

it won’t make any difference to me.

and i don’t have strong feelings about who he should pick. the ones i once would have favored (e.g. dodd and clark) are both effectively out of the running (the former because of the very real mortgage scandal and the latter because of the bullshit scandal when he dared to note that being a POW does not equal foreign policy experience)
on 20 Aug 2008 at 2:48 pm12rat's ass

Gore
on 20 Aug 2008 at 3:10 pm13brendancalling

who cares, as long as it’s not dick cheney.
can you smell that election fever? smells like a garlic fart.
on 20 Aug 2008 at 3:41 pm14Stormcrow

Kathleen Sibelius.

Bad news for Kansas, where she’s presently governor. Good news for everybody else in the country.

And, she satisfies my “one heartbeat away” criterion. She’d make a damn good President, if one of our happy little homicidal psychopaths gets lucky.
on 20 Aug 2008 at 4:42 pm15dbb

As a delawarean it matters to me more. Which I think sort of answers the question. If I were a Virginian then I’m sure I would say the same thing.

I just don’t want another Cheney is all.
on 20 Aug 2008 at 5:28 pm16votermom

Clinton.
on 20 Aug 2008 at 9:20 pm17Joe

sixteen repies till we get one throwing-up/out Bill’s wife!!?? I’m Conidering the traditional media is in the bag for McRichie-Rich, I think the VP should come from a state OB has to win…OH, VA, FL??
on 21 Aug 2008 at 9:58 am18votermom

*throws up on Joe*
on 21 Aug 2008 at 3:01 pm19Stormcrow

Chocolate Jesus, I missed this one. But Athenae didn’t. DODD!

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