Obama Considers GOP Running Mate

[emilyg]

July 25) - 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, two Democrats familiar with the conversations said

http://news.aol.com/elections/article/obama-considers-gop-running-mate/101881?icid=200100397x1206595869x1200330946

[Skink]

1. Obama is also selling the Brooklyn Bridge.

[Donkeykick]

8. Or oceanfront property in Arizona.

;-)

[sasquatch]

10. Hey once that earthquake happens, you're going to look stupid

[Donkeykick]

12. And if it doesn't...

you are going to.;-)

[sasquatch]

13. Kick for Bill Hicks

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

2. Hope it's just psyops, to look more non-partisan. Veneman is a poor choice.

[polmaven]

30. If some think

that any woman other than Hillary would be a tremendous insult to Hillary....a REPUBLICAN woman would be the absolute end of his campaign.

Personally, i am not convinced of the first, I am convinced of the second.

[eleny]

3. Never happen

Never ever.

It's the Democratic Party and a Republican would never make it at the convention. This is such silliness.

[grantcart]

4. this is the third thread on this ridiculous story

The search committee has had no leaks and certainly isn't considering this one who no one has ever heard of.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. It'll never happen.

[elehhhhna]

izzat from AOL or LOL?

[Eurobabe]

6. Veneman?? She was involved with the Mad Cow fiasco IIRC

:puke: :puke: Honestly, if they chose someone like her over Hillary, I would be PISSED.

[cliffordu]

16. She has the mad cow??

[NYC_SKP]

27. No, I heard she IS the mad cow.

The original one and only mad cow.

[cliffordu]

33. Rofl....

:rofl:

[LeftishBrit]

7. Ann who?

I think he can do better than some Bushie cabinet minister anyway!

[DJ13]

9. I think the GOP is trying to undermine Obama by spreading rumors

[Whisp]

11. I heard it was Jeb Bush he's considering.

http://www.fakenews.for/idiots.com

[depakid]

14. This rumor mongering has already been debunked

First Politico- now AOL.

Please people, consider your sources.

[MonkeyFunk]

38. Where's the debunking?

Honestly, I haven't seen it. I would LOVE to see it debunked - got a reference to it? Thanks.

[Enrique]

15. she looks like John McCain

I'm sorry, but she does.

http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-photohub/dims/NEWS/1/408/272/100/

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[emilyg]

19. Hey smarty pants

I did not see it posted.

[Mass]

20. So, this comes from two unknown sources. Cool!!! Dont know, may be he will chose Truman!

I' ve heard two Democrats familiar with the conversations say so, so you have to believe me.

This is just silly season, where some people take the political phonebook and throw names around, just for fun.

[Eurobabe]

21. JUST.SAY.NO to Veneman, read this from NYTimes Dec. 2001

Agriculture Secretary vs. Sacred Cow
By ELIZABETH BECKER

As secretary of agriculture, Ann M. Veneman, a lawyer who spent her childhood on a California peach farm and watched her father rise in state and national Republican politics, seemed well placed to help President Bush wean big farmers from decades of multibillion-dollar subsidies.

But in the last few months, some members of Congress have called her useless, said her advice was awful and declared her department an enemy of farmers and ranchers.

Few cabinet members have been treated with as much disdain on Capitol Hill, by members of both parties, as Ms. Veneman, 52, who is beginning to learn who really makes farm policy in Washington.

Her attempt to redirect how the government gives out $20 billion each year in farm subsidies was met with enraged resistance from farm-state lawmakers.

Representative Larry Combest, a Texas Republican and chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, criticized Ms. Veneman's work, saying, ''Too many farmers and ranchers have become concerned that the U.S.D.A. does not always have their best interests in mind.''

Last summer Mr. Combest publicly accused Ms. Veneman of ''unilateral disarmament'' in her determination that some farm subsidies threatened international trade agreements.

''Her advice is awful, horrible,'' said Senator Kent Conrad, the North Dakota Democrat who heads the Budget Committee.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E2D8163FF932A25751C1A9679C8B63

[emilyg]

22. Thanks.

[anonymous171]

23. So? Is he not allowed to consider whomever he wants?

[emilyg]

24. Not according to DU.

[TwilightGardener]

25. Of course. I just don't see him choosing a woman other than Sebelius or Hillary, though.

A Repub woman would be...weird.

[Spider Jerusalem]

59. No weirder than a Republican man would be.

A Republican, period, would be weird. There's a reason the early system of the loser of the Presidential election becoming VP (as Thomas Jefferson did when he lost to John Adams in 1796) was abandoned; the only president since to have a member of the opposing party as Vice President was Abraham Lincoln, and that didn't turn out very well at all.

[TheFarseer]

48. I guess, BUT

if he chose Veneman (which I don't believe for a nano-second that he will) I would believe John McCain that he doesn't have the judgement to be President.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

26. If they are seriously thinking about nominating a Republican for VP

particularly one that has served in this Bush (mis-)administration then I can't imagine that they could do worse in terms of ensuring party unity and victory in the GE than by going ahead and nominating Hilary for VP

[jillan]

28. If he did it, it would be a good move politically - BUT -

I pray that he doesn't.

[DesertRat]

29. No way am I voting for a Republican

I sincerely hope she's not on the ticket. :puke:

[Whisp]

31. Hope doesn't Float.

how many times does it have to be said - they are not leaking, talking about, whispering, hinting, guessing, baiting, trolling ANYTHING about the vp until the ANNOUNCEMENT.

[retread]

32. Yeah, right, and I floated McSame's choice this morning n/t

[LowerManhattanite]

34. Jesus, God...let it end...

This de-bunked BS has been the source of two locked threads earlier today.

Claim ignorance all you want, but after those two bogus-ass threads, this scans as continuance flame-bait—intended or not.

Somebody, put this drivel in the vault with the rest of its related silliness. Please?

[opihimoimoi]

35. So Far so GOOD.... he will pick a Veep with great care...picking a Pub is

suicidal...and the man is not a dummy

he noes its not an option.

[lojasmo]

36. Way to fling poo, EmilyG

Are you a dead-ender? I seem to remember you as one of the frothier Clinton supporters.

[MonkeyFunk]

39. It's a real news story

regarding presidential politics. It's not allowed to be discussed here?

[Bluebear]

40. .

dupe

[Bluebear]

41. "Fling poo"? What are you, 12?

She linked to the news story as far as I can see.

[emilyg]

42. So??? I like Clinton - sue me.

The story was on aol - take it up with them.

[TexasObserver]

54. Dead ender? Si.

These kind of threads are the way some people like to end a long evening of drinking, I suspect.

[blogslut]

37. It's gonna be CLONE Agnew

It's true:

Back in 1973, when Obama was a boy of 12, he bought a single silver hair, plucked from the head of Spiro T. Agnew. He kept it in a jar of milk. Little did he know that the jar of milk contained magic, cloning bacteria.

Obama stored the jar of milk away, along with his Kenyan birth certificate, some vials and notes he took while he was secretary of the White-Man-Haters Club. Sometime during the eighties, when Obama made his living as a coke dealer, he needed those vials. So he broke out the old box containing his seecrit past.

Well, what do you know. There, in that jar of soured milk, was a baby Spiro T. Agnew!

Obama kept lil' Spiro hidden for twenty more years and sometime this August, he will bring him before the whole world and announce:

"This is my Vice President! Suck it! You nattering neighbobs of negativity!"

[LowerManhattanite]

43. Oh, the kids love their lumps...

“A whoooooooole lotta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Puma">lumps!” :)




‘Eeeee-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-nnnnh!”

[book_worm]

44. Silliness, oldest game around raise lots of names so it's more of a surprise when you name a VP

[TexasObserver]

55. Indeed. You'd think this is the first time some people have watched this process.

OMG!! There's 30 names on the "list," and I don't like some of them!!

[highplainsdem]

45. Reaction from The Nation's Washington correspondent, John Nichols: Veneman a "uniquely awful choice"

Nichols also says that "it is hard to imagine a worse Republican to put on a Democratic ticket."


Much more at the link:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/339563

[emilyg]

46. Thanks.

Enjoyed some of the comments.

[CreekDog]

50. how do you know that Veneman is actually being vetted?

are you that stupid?

do you really believe everything you read?

with all the crap floating around, you just take and run with the crap as if it were true because it's in print.

[TexasObserver]

56. It's an excuse to piss & moan by those who like to piss & moan.

[TheFarseer]

47. she's nearly as useless as Condi

and that's sayng ALOT!

[CreekDog]

49. two threads posting this very thing have been locked because they were untrue

why do you post this?

[TwilightGardener]

51. It's media speculation--even the Nation is reporting on it. So it's not out of bounds

to discuss. It's just a really weird, left-field name to toss out there. Hope the story isn't true.

[TexasObserver]

52. OMG!! I can't believe it!

I can't believe you're still here.

Weren't you in that group heckling Howard Dean recently?



(she's just CONCERNED, yall)

[emilyg]

60. Actually, you were in that group.

[JackORoses]

53. it must really burn you up that Repubs are higher on the list than your dear leader

[davidpdx]

57. Owch!

That had to have hurt!

[emilyg]

63. My dear leader is Jesus

you got a problem with that?

[davidpdx]

58. Pure and utter bull**** rumors

[emilyg]

61. Good to know it's just rumor.

[BlooInBloo]

62. HAHAHA!!!!! People who believe this are fucking stupid.

[quakerboy]

64. Isn't there a vote on this at the convention?

or is that a formality that could be skipped?

Assuming that there will be an actual vote, I don't believe that a pub could make it. Even with Obama's preference. Even with Obama Partizan's. I don't think Obama would be stupid enough to give himself a black eye at his own convention.