Dream team 2012
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Anonymous
| Obama/Clinton? Tell me this could happen! |
Anonymous
| I'd prefer Clinton/Obama. That would work. She'll bring the experience and brains and he'll bring the popularity. |
Anonymous
+1 |
TheManWithAUsername
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| Wow; you need to dream bigger. |
Anonymous
| When do you replace a vp? Has t ever happened since the dates when the two posts ran together? |
Anonymous
Sure it has happened. Spiro Agnew was replaced in the middle of a term. But is it likely....no way. Unless Joe Biden keels over soon, he will be on the ticket in November. |
takoma
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| Robert Reich predicted it (http://robertreich.org/post/14932718385) as a switch, with Biden going to State. |
Anonymous
| If Clinton was the VP it would bring some enthusiam back. But I don't see it happening. That's too bad since what we need is enough enthusiasm to boost turn-out across the board so that Obama has a Congress he can work with. I am usually in favor of divided government (seems to have worked well for Virginia lately), but God help us if we have a Rep Congress and Obama as president, we'll have another 4 years of gridlock while our serious problems get worse and worse. |
Anonymous
Spiro Agnew resigned because of criminal charges against him. Biden is a decent politician who is somewhat gaffe-prone but who enjoys the respect of both sides of the aisle. |
Anonymous
| Ford/Rockefeller to Ford/Dole...and you see how well that turned out. |
Anonymous
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"Biden is a decent politician who is somewhat gaffe-prone but who enjoys the respect of both sides of the aisle. "
yes, but enthusiasm generating - not so much. |
Anonymous
Unfortunately she generates quite a lot of "enthusiasm" on the political right. They feel about her what we feel about Pat Buchanan or Rush Limbaugh. |
Anonymous
That's a pretty outdated perception, you know. It isn't 2008 anymore. |
Anonymous
Really? Do you think there are a lot of Republicans who have rethought how they feel about her? |
Anonymous
That's a bug, not a feature. No one who's a far-right "Hillary hater" is going to vote Democratic anyway. So you do what the GOP does: nominate a very polarizing figure who can eke out a victory, thus stoking your base, and demoralizing your opponent's. The key is, you must nominate someone who is electable--barely. |