Bush And Obama Trading Insults

Posted on May 16, 2008
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First, George W strongly suggests that Barack Obama’s notions of talking to Iran are just like those who tried to appease the Nazis in a failed bid to head off what became World War 2.

Now, Obama, who says he is a different kind of politician, struck back at Bush ,giving  him a tongue lashing—He said that the president’s “failed policies” has strengthened not only Iran but Hamas.

He also challenged Bush to a debate on foreign policy–Oh, and, of course, John McCain,too!

Obama is not even the official candidate yet of the Democratic Party, but the race to come has all the earmarks of what promises to be a brutal few months leading up to election day.

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An Obama “Coalition Government?” May Need To Appoint Foes To Win Support

Posted on May 14, 2008
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While the conventional meaning of a coalition government is a joining of representatives from different  political parties, perhaps a coalition government made up of the major contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination is the way to go should the Democrats win the White House in November?

This has been such an unusual, historic and polarizing campaign, uniting the party and the government may mean giving key positions in an Obama administration to all those who ran against him…as well as those political figures who endorsed him over Hillary Clinton?

While some argue that Clinton would best serve Obama as Senate majority leader, vice-president is a much better and far more healing position for her.

Top cabinet positions would need to be found for John Edwards and Bill Richardson, to name but a few.

Obama, if elected, will need all the help he can get, even if it means having to employ those who opposed him .

A willingness to do that would go a long way toward helping establish a President Obama as a truly different politician committed to “change.”

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Clinton’s Big W. Virginia Win Proves Obama And Clinton Need One Another

Posted on May 13, 2008
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Hillary Clinton’s landslide win (and there is no other way to describe it) against Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary proves, if nothing else, that she MUST be on the ticket with Obama or the Democrats will not be able to capture the White House.

It wasn’t so much that Clinton led Obama as of this writing by some 40 points–but that two of every 10 white voters, says Reuters, said that race did play a role in their decision making.

And, only about one third of those people say they will cast their ballot for Obama in order to prevent Republican John McCain from winning the general election.

Race

Are white voters who say they support Clinton but not Obama racist? Perhaps. But no more so that the overwhelming number of black voters who say they will not support Clinton should she get the nomination over Obama.

Talk about polarizing politics!

It should be clear to anyone with an IQ above 2 that a Obama/Clinton ticket is a must!

It is also a no brain-er.

Obama will get the nomination, despite the Clinton victory in West Virginia, but he will need her and her supporters to beat the Republicans in the fall.

In short, they deserve one another!

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Clinton Looses Superdelegate Lead To Obama;Will He Make Her Veep Or Pay Her Off?

Posted on May 10, 2008
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Barring a meteor from space smashing into Barack Obama’s limo, it is clearly over for Hillary Clinton.

The turning point has come with the news that Obama now has more super-delegates—party officials and elected Democrats-than does Clinton and seems to be winning over more and more of the fewer and fewer uncommitted ones. By another account, they are only one superdelegate apart now…but it still leads to the same ending.

She is right to stay in through the very last primary; she’d be wrong to continue past that, in what is bound to be a futile effort to somehow capture more superdelegates.

I still think a joint Obama/Clinton ticket is the way to go. A growing number of party insiders seem to be thinking and saying the same thing, though Sen. Edward Kennedy has told an interviewer there is no way that would happen!

Show me the money!

If Obama doesn’t offer Clinton the number two spot, which he should, then he may just have to work a deal to help her pay back the considerable debt she has incurred by running. There are various campaign finance laws that sort of get in the way of this, but show me a politician who can’t figure out a way around some finance law and I will show you a dead politician!   There is always a way and Obama will be able to find it. He’s THAT slick!

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Is Obama Inching Closer To An Obama/Clinton Ticket???

Posted on May 8, 2008
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The headline on the Reuters dispatch tonight said it all: “Obama open to Clinton as possible running mate.”

obama by seiu-internationalIndeed, he’d better be—at least open to it.

While it is obvious at this point to just about everyone (and probably to Hillary Clinton,too) that Barack Obama will be the Democratic Party presidential nominee, he will come to the nomination having lost an important base of support –actually, many bases of support-much needed to win in November against John McCain. He needs older women and older, white, blue collar men and Latinos—all of those groups which have thus far been firmly planted in the Clinton camp.

In the past, Clinton has suggested that if she won she would give real thought to asking Obama to join the ticket for the number two spot. Obama has been far more reluctant to even go that far….till today.

No doubt she’s qualified, says Obama

Obama told NBC News when asked whether he would at least consider an Obama/Clinton ticket: “There’s no doubt that she’s qualified to be vice-president. There’s no doubt she’s qualified to be president.”

He went on :” She is tireless, she is smart. She is capable. And so obviously she’d be on anybody’s short list to beclinton by sskennel a potential vice presidential candidate.”

Well, since Obama has clearly won this race, on who other’s short list would Clinton be on other than his?

Should Obama, in the end, decide that Clinton would not be able to work with him–or if he asks her to accept the spot and she turns it down–my best guess is he will be under great pressure to name another female as his running mate in an effort to grab some of Clinton’s power base. There are a number of good, female governors he could pick who’d bring executive experience, which he doesn’t have, to the ticket.

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A Way For Obama To Prove He Really Is A Different Politician

Posted on May 7, 2008
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Barack Obama is all but the Democratic Party’s nominee for President. He has based his candidacy on the notion that he is different from old fashioned politicians–even though his track record in Congress would suggest otherwise; that he is willing to take chances.

Fine. The best way Sen. Obama can prove he is a different type of politician is to quickly select Hillary Clinton as his running mate as soon as she drops out of the race, which she will, barring something no would can predict right now.

If he can reach out and talk to America’s enemies, as he says he will, then he can reach out to Clinton who, after all, has virtually spilt the popular vote with Obama 50-50.

This would truly unite the party and give it its best shot to capture the White House in November.

But, despite his talk, Obama’s record shows he is a cautious fellow–likes to play it safe. That does not bode well for a joint ticket with Clinton—that is, unless he really is a different politician?

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