Bob Kerrey for VP

[Dems to Win]

Former Nebraska Governor and Senator Bob Kerrey is a straight-talking maverick, with military experience. He was my favorite in the 1992 primary, because he was going to stand up to the insurance companies to achieve Universal Health Care.

I think he could be a great VP choice. Any thoughts?

[JI7]

1. he made those comments about Obama attending madrassas

and other things during the Primary. Obama probably isn't even considering him.

[nsd]

2. That's the first thing I thought of too.

Kerrey was out of line there.

[Dems to Win]

6. I had not heard about these comments, I'll have to look into them.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Highly vulnerable.

You think the John Kerry Swiftboating was bad, wait til you see what they can do to Bob over the circumstances of some of his actions in VN, including the stuff that ended up in his getting the Medal of Honor.

[Dems to Win]

5. GRRRRR. You may be right, but it makes me mad.

Swiftboating over a Medal of Honor? They couldn't get much lower.

[karynnj]

28. It is not swiftboating

and it was not over the event for which he got the medal of honor. It was an atrocity, but likely one as much due to the fog of war and fear than with disregard for the Vietnamese.

[babylonsister]

4. Why? Maverick? Straight-talking? Sure. And Why? nt

[Jackpine Radical]

7. Here's a start on why not.

http://www.counterpunch.org/valentine.html

Bob Kerrey, CIA War Crimes,
And The Need For A War Crimes Trial

by Douglas Valentine

By now everybody knows that former Senator Bob Kerrey led a seven-member team of Navy Seals into Thanh Phong village in February 1969, and murdered in cold blood more than a dozen women and children.

What hardly anyone knows, and what no one in the press is talking about (although many of them know), is that Kerrey was on a CIA mission, and its specific purpose was to kill those women and children. It was illegal, premeditated mass murder and it was a war crime.

[FrenchieCat]

8. Oh yeah...that's not going to work.

I remember this.

Was a sad revelation. :(

[babylonsister]

10. Hold on. I love Nelson (?) DeMille's story about VN, but who really

gives a poop about this?

Now there's a thread that someone should take advantage of. What did this admin do that they might have avoided if they had read some history? Heh. I might ask that question.

[Jackpine Radical]

14. Why does everyone assume that the current Admin made a mistake?

I assume that they got what they wanted--a long, costly war from which they have profited immensely.

I seem to be the only person around who rates the Bushies as an unqualified success, at least within their own terms.


Mission accomplished? Hell, yes!

[babylonsister]

16. I hear you, but it SUCKS, and he's an unqualifed asshole. The

whole world knows it, and they are looking towards the future, as I am.

[Jackpine Radical]

18. Most people in the world are sane and in touch with reality.

As are you.

[babylonsister]

13. Here's a thought I read recently.

Kerry and others posited the position that McCain may not feel the same things they did because they were in different situations. McCain was a POW, they weren't and were fighting against this war, while McCain wasn't because of his position/situation.
This is not the first time I've put this out there, but it makes perfect sense to me.

[Jackpine Radical]

17. That is quite right.

People who are in helpless situations, be it car accidents or POW circumstances, are likely to get PTSD symptoms. Those who are actively engaged in fighting back do not.

I think there is a moral there for us all somewhere.

[Cha]

33. There's that ..

too. I don't like him.

[TwilightGardener]

9. The Hillary endorser who mused aloud about "Hussein" and madrassas--

and then was never heard from again after his "suicide run" to officially inject the Muslim whispers into the primaries? (The same way Geraldine Ferraro was used to inject "affirmative-action candidate"--another suicide run on Hillary's behalf.) Er, no.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Picky,

picky, picky.

Seriously, Kerrey has just been torpedoed from 6 directions in the first 6 or so posts on this thread. I don't think he's going anywhere.

That's what I love about DU. Fast, sharp.

[TwilightGardener]

12. LOL! We can be disturbingly cold-blooded and efficient here at times.

[chascarrillo]

15. No.

[Jackpine Radical]

20. Yeah. We know.

[blogslut]

19. No

Nobody that was a member of The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq should be Obama's VP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Liberation_of_Iraq

[Dems to Win]

21. I asked for your thoughts, and got them. Thank you!

Ah well, have to look for other out-of-the-box ideas for VP.

[Jackpine Radical]

22. That's what this place does.

Gives you more to think about than you ever wanted on your plate.

Hang around. Something tells me you're one of us.

[trumad]

23. The dude is more of a Lieberman Dem than a Feingold Dem.

Nuff said.

[Captain Hilts]

24. He was a vocal Clinton supporter. KERRY should have chosen him for VP all vet ticket. nt

[karynnj]

27. Kerrey was actually a person who had

numerous public disagreements with Bill Clinton.

As to putting him with Kerry - there is the first problem that it would have sent the late night comedians into endless jokes - as their names sound the same. Not to mention it would be said to be the man who spoke against war crimes with a man who committed them (whether that designation is fair or not. Not to mention they had very different foreign policy perspectives.

Add in that Kerrey, with the completely unnecessary e, is a loose cannon.

If Kerry wanted an all vet ticket, he could hav picked Harkin - which in retrospect would not have been a bad pick, given that he is loved in Iowa and was a real populist with a long record of being so. He might have been able to do what they wanted Edwards to do better than Edwards - and with less tsouris - he would likely have used the campaigns slogan.

[Captain Hilts]

31. Correct. I was referring to Hillary Clinton in this cycle.

Yes, he is a bit of a loose cannon. Very true.

[karynnj]

32. I suspected that but wasn't sure because it preceded that Kerry should have picked him

I really thing he did very little to help HRC, though he was a strong supporter. The "maddrassa comment backfired and I really don't think he has much in the way of supporters at this point. He certainly has very little support from New School students from what I hear from a student.

[Warren Stupidity]

25. War criminal neocon/neolib? Why not?

[iamahaingttta]

26. You want one of the 9/11 Commission whitewashers...

...to be Obama's VP?

Why?

[otohara]

29. NO

[PassingFair]

30. !

:puke:

(Only thing I could think of concerning Bob Kerrey)

[Kahuna]

34. No thanks. He's much too conservative. nt

[Hippo_Tron]

35. He was probably the best Senator that Nebraska has had in a while

But he was an Iraq War cheerleader and last I checked he still is.