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Topic: Vice-presidential running mates?
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ghoris
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posted 04 February 2008 08:02 AM
The conventional wisdom is that neither Obama nor Clinton would be on the ticket with the other (either because neither would ask or neither would accept), but damn if they didn't look like a ticket onstage the other night in the LA Times Debate. OTOH, the amount they've attacked each other would give the GOP lots of fodder in the general ("His/her own vice-presidential nominee said he/she likes to eat babies...").We keep hearing that Evan Bayh has the inside track if Clinton wins, but I'm sure she'd also be looking at Bill Richardson (best pick IMHO) and probably Ted Strickland and Jim Webb too. For Obama, I expect that Richardson would also be on the shortlist, possibly along with Joe Biden - both to shore up the foreign policy side. A new name that is coming up with increasing regularity is Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius. On the GOP side, supposedly Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is the 'frontrunner' if McCain gets the nomination, but I'm sure he's also looking at other options too.
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Albireo
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posted 04 February 2008 10:18 AM
Yup, that was none other than George H. W. Bush.[threaddrift] The same Bush Sr. who much later had this to say about why he didn't invade Iraq after Gulf War I: quote: We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under the circumstances, there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome. Bush, George and Brent Scowcroft. A World Transformed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. ISBN 0-679-43248-5 (p. 489).
Just goes to show that intelligence isn't always heritable.[/threaddrift]
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