Skwmom
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Tue Jul-29-08 05:21 PM
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I've had all the WASHINGTON EXPERIENCE I can take! Have you? |
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Edited on Tue Jul-29-08 05:23 PM by Skwmom
OUR country can't take any more of that Washington Experience.
Obama/Schweitzer or Obama/Kaine is okay with me.
Look at what ALL THAT Washington Experience has given us. That's all that needs to be said to the American People. They realize what a mess this country is in because of the way things are done in Washington.
IMO McCain is desperate for Obama to pick a Washington politician so he can pick someone outside the beltway and try to take the change mantle from Obama. I can hear the MSM now, of course Obama would pick a typical politician and McCain the maverick would pick a regular guy.
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Tue Jul-29-08 05:26 PM
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1. I have to stick with Hillary on this one(and that's saying something) |
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"Nobody had more experience than Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld."
I don't know why more people don't quote that line. :shrug:
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Skwmom
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Tue Jul-29-08 05:27 PM
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2. They are SO desperate to have Obama pick a Washington Insider. |
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Tue Jul-29-08 05:30 PM
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3. Agreed! Obama/Schweitzer or Obama/Kaine would be fine. Even Obama/McCaskill (since she's been in DC |
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for only a short period of time).
PLEASE, not a Junior Senator/Senior Senator ticket. Such a ticket would court disaster.
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Tue Jul-29-08 05:30 PM
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4. Obama's greatest need from a VP, other than a clean history, a careful mouth, and debate skills, is |
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REASSURANCE. Obama personifies change and unfamiliarity. Increasing those factors will not help him. McDairy's problem is the opposite--he needs to jazz up his ticket a little, so he can go with a Governor or Senator who's not nationally known but can add some appeal to the ticket.
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Skwmom
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Tue Jul-29-08 05:33 PM
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5. What reassurance does Biden or Bayh provide? They voted for the |
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biggest debacle in U.S. History. They would only reassure me that NOTHING would change.
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TwilightGardener
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Tue Jul-29-08 05:41 PM
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6. Well, I'm addressing the larger pool of voters who don't know what |
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"DLC" stands for, don't know or care how these guys voted on the IWR--the great unwashed (not-so-progressive) masses, in other words. Resume, experience, comforting familiarity (from Sunday shows etc.) will provide the reassurance that Obama is not a scary, out-of-the-mainstream choice. I truly believe that McSausage is still polling well, despite his disaster of a campaign, because he's well- known, familiar and is not seen as risky. I think that's why Hillary started making a comeback at the end of the primaries--once the novelty of a new guy wears off, voters start turning back to same old same old.
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Tue Jul-29-08 05:44 PM
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7. I have to admit I know very little about either one of them |
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However in trying to anticipate THE PROXY ATTACKS AGAINST OBAMA BY ATTACKING HIS NOMINEE I have learned more about Kaine and found that he is a clever fighter for progressive issues.
I would like to learn more about both of them and it would be helpful if folks from those states could give us an objective basis to judge them.
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