Sounds Like Bayh
Aug 20th, 2008 at 10:36 pm by Susie
Knowing the way campaigns work, this is a pretty clear signal:
NashvillePost.com has learned that senior campaign officials from the Barack Obama Presidential campaign are being dispatched from various locations around the country and are converging in Indianapolis for a “major event” to take place on Saturday.
Saturday is the same day that Obama is expected to make his first public appearance with his yet to be announced vice presidential running mate. Indiana is the home state of Democratic Senator Evan Bayh, widely considered to be on the short list of Democratic vice presidential contenders.
Sources in Denver, the site of next week’s Democratic National Convention, say that individuals responsible for Obama’s major public appearances have been pulled out of the city and are heading east towards Indiana.
So the ticket will be made up of senators from two adjoining midwestern states starting with “I”.
How’s that for geographic balance?
Well, I guess there are worse choices, though I can’t think of one just at the moment.
“Obama bye-bye” would be the Republican slogan, of course.
Bleh.
ugh.
that’s just fucking stupid.
If that’s the case, my buyer’s remorse will be complete.
Now, let me predicate my next statement by saying I was NEVER going to support Mrs. Clinton, as everyone here knows very well. And my reasons were (and still are) quite true: her husband passed NAFTA, which she praised a number of times. her vote on the Iraq war, and her vote on kyl-lieberman, killed her candidacy for me. It had nothign to do with sexism, racism, or any of that shit. God knows I’m not a believer in “hope”, whether it’s a political slogan or a philosophy, so it’s not like I was ever swooning over Obama like some I could mention.
But sticking EVAN FUCKING BAYH on the ticket is like Obama saying “actually, I’m no different than Hillary Clinton. I happily embrace my corporate masters. And now, onto iran!”
I’m beoming more convinced every day that McCain is going to win this one y a squeaker. And that, my friends, is going to be “teh awesome”.
and let me add that I will never ever take as a credible source those who urged me to vote for Obama instead of sticking to my guns and writing in Dodd or Edwards. In fact, I will subject those people to ruthless, never-ending mockery.
I don’t buy it. They can’t be that stupid. Can they?
Don’t answer that.
My own guess is that the short list has been bullshit and it’s going to be somebody not on it. Who doesn’t love a surprise?
Have I mentioned that my new medication is working wonders? It provides the false sense of well being that I’ve always craved.
Rats. There goes my Daschle prediction.
“I don’t buy it. They can’t be that stupid. Can they?
Don’t answer that. ”
No, I’ll answer that: the answer is YES.
Ya know, I’ve been depressed lately over the dawning realziation that if I want to maintain a healthy relationship with my son, its going to mean moving to canada. Now I’m actually kind of looking forward to it.
My country is like Nelson Muntz, but retarded.
i don’t like bayh but i have a hard time getting too worked up about this. the vice presidency doesn’t matter that much. the VP doesn’t do anything but break ties in the senate (and even then, the VP only votes the way the president wants him to), does whatever bullshit jobs the president delegates to him, and waits for the president to die in office. and, if history is any guide, the VP candidate always ditches all of his previously inconsistent positions and adopts all the positions of the person at the top of the ticket. (see for example, george HW bush, who stopped being pro-choice and adopted “voodoo economics the moment he accepted reagan’s nomination, and albert gore, who downplayed his environmentalism to tow the clinton line in 1992. the “real” gore didn’t come back until after the 2000 election debacle)
the reason the veep seems to be important is because cheney has been effectively running things for the past 8 years, giving us an outsized notion of what the VP does. but cheney’s power is unprecedented. it only happened because bush is such a stupid loser. say what you will about obama and all his flaws, but he’s not an airheaded playboy like W. the VP will reflect obama, not the other way around, no matter who it is.