obama/veneman?

[hiphopnation]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12059.html

:shrug:

[salin]

1. Sure hope not.

[hiphopnation]

2. seems like a long shot

but i know little to nothing about her

and, um, hello, there's another strong, independent female moderate DEMOCRAT who might deserve a look as well.

i don't know if she's officially on the vetting list or not

[Solly Mack]

3. ...

Meet Ann Veneman

Veneman and Monsanto

Bush incorporated is open for business

• Ann Veneman. The White House spin is that Bush's choice for Agriculture Secretary is a "farmer's daughter" who is in tune with the Jeffersonian yeomen of America. Well, not quite. Her father was a farmer, with a spread of orchards and vineyards around Modesto, California, but he was also a Republican legislator and Nixon's Undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare. There's no dirt under Veneman's fingernails, for she's spent her career in Washington and Sacramento, pushing for free-trade and biotech policies that rip off and displace our nation's real dirt farmers. She was deputy ag secretary for trade under Bush the First, supporting NAFTA and other acronyms of globaloney.

She comes to the Bush cabinet directly from the Sacramento law firm of Nossaman, Guthner, where she specialized in serving the needs of agribusiness giants and biotech corporations seeking to implant their Frankenfoods in our diets. Indeed, Veneman was on the board of Calgene Inc. (now a subsidiary of Monsanto), which was the first firm to market a genetically altered food product in America—a fresh- market tomato with a fish gene spliced in to give it longer shelf life. She's also a participant in the International Policy Council of Agriculture, Food and Trade, an agribusiness front group financed by Monsanto, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Kraft, and Nestlé, among other global corporations.

[arcadian]

4. It's like when the CIA does war game scenarios for invasions of the U.S.

They roll play all kinds of "what ifs". They probably have a scenario for if the U.S. were to be invaded by Monaco.

[saltpoint]

5. 'Saw this and thought, Maybe the Obama team is throwing the public

off deliberately on the veep selection process.

For me, given the info Solly Mack has just posted here about AV, I hope Obama is just messing with the press to throw them off the trail.

[elocs]

6. From yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6541882
"Obama veep team floats Republican name (Ann Veneman)"

My response then and again:

I think it's almost sport to suggest way out names, especially a Republican

just to see the Liberals and the left get all bent out of shape about it like it is a done deal. It's funny to watch.

I never really considered much about it until just now, but maybe the suggestion of these names is misdirection and distraction because they already know who it will be. Somebody who has been very quiet of late and of whom we have not heard much about. And that could actually be more than 1 somebody.

[DesertRat]

7. Hell no!

I won't vote for a Republican. Period.