The Great Mentioner at Work

McCain and Lieberman would be great together, I have been hoping for this since I heard McCain was running. They are like best friends and work great together. A republican and democrat running together would be a dream ticket!!!

I think it will be Bill Clinton...Got your attention. Ireally like Senator Biden or Webb

the answer is : chuck hagel !

..............................How about Barry errr Barack Obama and Barry Bonds?????

well Hunglo, maybe they will all show up in his cabinet, and after Obama pardons Rezko, he can get a jib with the Department of Justice.

Well if anything he could always pick his comrade/spiritual leader Jeremiah Wright, friend Bill Ayers, or maybe Oprah....who knows what happens, I'm just throwing it out there

I was a Hillary Clinton supporter. I think Obama should Not ask Hillary to run with him as V.P. I think Obama would have a much better chance of winning if Hillary runs as V.P. That is why I think he should not ask her. John Kerry or Richards would be a better choice for him!!!!

Obama's reference to the book team of rivals was a signal not to people in his own party but to people in the opposing party he hired a Democrat Andrew Johnson to his ticket in 1864 and other dems to his cabinet in 1860. He is going to choose Chuck Hagel from Nebraska he solves his geographic problem because his campsign said that they are interested in concentrating on the west coast more as well as helping him with white male voters, lower income voters because he is a business man and he has national security experience. that way he can create a National Unity Ticket whcih forces Mccains hand to either go farther toward the right and offend independent voters, go father toward the center and offend the right thta hates him already or pcika democrat like leiberman and offend everyone at the same time.
This also helps barack that way he doesn't have to move toward the center, he can stay on the left that way he does't offend his base and can appeal to the indies and the right in his own party.
the parts about who would succeed barack if he died or had to resign for any reason as well as if hagel runs in 2016 can be worked out later. go to www.obamahagelunityticket.blogspot.com

I think that the results from this vice president poll says what America does think, and, although it's up to the candidates to choose, they are still very informative. Just go to

http://www.votenic.com

one of the main criteria for obama's VP should be that he/she must have military experience in some way to contribute to the process of stabilizing iraq and the gradual withdrawal of troops, if Obama has to stay true to his policies. having a defence minister and secretary of state is one thing, but the VP must act as a crucial person to repair america's relations while maintaining stability in the current crises.

Here's some change you can believe in: the amount of times McCain has changed his values and positions on the issues.

The reason half of the conservative Christian right hates McCain is because they think that they can't trust him. McCain started his career as part of the Christian right (there's a little-known fact). Once he landed in the soup as part of the Keating Five (which almost derailed his career) he positioned himself as a liberal and became a reformer for campaign finance in an effort to resurrect himself. For those of you who don't remember, the Keating scandal had to do with some shim sham corporations pumping money into McCain's coffers. So McCain became a reformer to shine up his tarnished image, and that was his first departure from the right.

Other, more serious betrayals of the right came later, after McCain got swift boated by Bush in 1999. The great Texas Republican political machine laid McCain to waste, and McCain was mad as hell. He started voting against the party line and against Bush. He suddenly supported abortion rights, opposed the Bush tax cuts, co-sponsored a patient's bill of rights with Kennedy and Edwards, and got on the environmental bandwagon with John Kerry. My gosh, he even tried to crack down on gun shows in legislation he put forth with then-Democrat Joe Lieberman. And in 2001, when Senator Jeffords of Vermont switched from Republican to Independent in an effort to counteract Bush's stranglehold on the Senate, McCain announced that he was considering becoming a Democrat, and went into a pow-wow with Senator Tom Daschle at his Sedona ranch. And did you know that John Kerry floated the idea of having McCain as his VP in '04? That was to have cemented his status as a newly-minted Democrat.

But instead of joining Kerry, McCain suddenly switched his affiliation, came out in support of Bush in '04, and jettisoned his liberal image. Suddenly, it was the "old" McCain from the 1980s back in the saddle, the neo-conservative, take no prisoners Creationist. Against abortion. For the war. The SAME man who opposed a Federal amendment banning gay marriage and openly met with gay groups now was pushing a gay marriage ban in Arizona. The SAME man who said in 1999 that he was opposed to overturning Roe vs. Wade, now suddenly in 2007 is promising that he will stack the deck in the Supreme Court with religious right judges and overturn Roe vs. Wade.

But the religious right isn't so sure about him. He's supported so many different opposing positions at so many times, that they are afraid that they are getting played in the name of McCain's political expediency.

Here are videos that show clips of McCain reversing himself on the same issues at different times, to give you an idea of what I am talking about. Don't believe me -- get it straight from the horse's mouth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajm5JTf7jZs&feature=related

As an Obama supporter whoever he picks for VP is Ok with me.
As long as it isn't done hastily and under pressure. Seriously, if Hillary and BILL can get through the vetting process, more power to them. And more votes for Obama in the fall.

I'm not voting for the Veep, I'm voting for the President.

Hillary's national security credentials are Ok, not great like Gen Clark or Webb's, but Ok.

No help geographically really they're both from the Northeast so that's a little iffy. But if there were enough people who would vote for the ticket BECAUSE she's on it in areas like Ohio and Pennsylvania and W. Virginia then that would be good.

The Chemistry...maybe it'll get better??? We'll have to see. I mean they have been engaging in trench warfare against each other for 16 months so maybe after a few weeks or a month they'll both cool down a bit, as will the supporters on both sides. But since their platforms are really really similar it seems like they could work together on that stuff pretty well.

But seriously..give it a few weeks anyway. I'm sure right now neither one of them wants to even see the other one across a room. Let the energy get a chance to shift towards McCain, then take a look at it again.

RFK, Jr.

You are the worst reporter I have ever read. Throughout this primary, you made me sick.

Hillary ran, along with Obama, the two most fundraised campaigns in primary history. They also got about 10% of the country to vote in a Democratic PRIMARY.

Bottom line: There's nothing more impressive about any possible candidate. She is a necessary addition, and Obama would be better for it.

You are a moron.

And half of the Democratic Party wishes you packed your things and left the news industry, since all you do is spew bull.