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Please participate and please Defeat Sam Nunn and Vote for Brian Schweitzer over Tom Daschle.

I can't believe the shit they were smoking when they seated Daschle over Schweitzer.

Schweitzer is a govenor with experience at winning working class voters to the progressive cause.

Daschle is a washed up former majority leader in the senate who couldn't even win re-election.

They claim on MSNBC that Daschle can handle the Senate but speak nothing of Schweitzer's incredible ability to win over low income, low info voters.

To vote Daschle over Schweitzer is pure madness.

And Sam Nunn? Well as has been pointed out, he is in the Joe Lieberman wing of the party.

Defense experience? sure, but if he is wrong on the issues who cares what his experience is.

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I didn't vote. (none / 0)

Here is the email I sent to MSNBC:

Who the HELL came up with the list for the Democratic contenders? Where is Robert Wexler? Mark Warner? Jim Webb? Brad Henry? Wes Clark? WHO is Robert Rubin? Phil Bredesen? Jack Reed? Lee Hamilton? I keep up on politics and I've never HEARD these names! Chuck Hagel is a freakin' REPUBLICAN! What is he doing on THIS list?

Go back and start over. This is stupid, asking people to choose non-starters like Sam Nunn or Evan Bayh - did you farm out the list creation to the DLC? I expect better from you. This is pathetic.

by MedfordTim on 06/10/2008 06:59:11 PM EST

I checked out the unfamiliars (none / 0)

Rubin, a Clinton Sec of Treasurer and the 5th Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. Can you spell "neocon in hiding"?

Bredesen, Governor of Tennessee. Doesn't take the salary because he made so much money creating a health insurance company.

Reed is a Senator from Rhode Island. He's on a couple of committees and the ADA says he's liberal. Other than that...

Lee Hamilton, yeah, of course, the 9/11 cover up, I mean commission. He's 77. How can you say McCain is too old if someone OLDER than he is on the Dem ticket?


Whoever at MSNBC is coming up with stuff is either even older than me or is an evil stepchild of Karl Rove. I sure hope Obama is getting better choices than these.

These SUCK.

by MedfordTim on 06/10/2008 07:23:04 PM EST

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Fortunately (none / 0)
Everything that I've seen of B. Obama in the campaign so far suggest that he doesn't give a chicken's anal sphincter for what ABC or any other mainstream cable source thinks about who he should pick. Neither does he care what Hillary or Jimmy Carter thinks. Its just one of the many things that sets him apart from pandering automatons like John McSame.

by hazmat on 06/10/2008 07:26:05 PM EST

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Colorful (none / 0)

As opposed to a chicken's oral sphincter I suppose.  Way to paint a picture! 

by Spencer on 06/10/2008 08:20:50 PM EST

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To be fair... (none / 0)
Bayh would LOCK Indiana, he wouldn't do much else, but the Bayh's are Indiana political gods.

by richardshort2001 on 06/10/2008 10:58:07 PM EST

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Ted Strickland is OUT as VP choice - (none / 0)
His office just put out what I would consider an undeniable NO to Obama - Let me paraphrase:

"There aint no way in Hell Im running around with that bunch of Loony Libs. Y'all must be crazy!!!!"

Now, those werent exactly his words, but pretty much thats what the statement says - kinda telling that one of the leading contenders would run away from his party's nominee in such terms, eh?

Is the Good Ship Obama taking on water already?

Heres a link to the story:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/o npolitics/2008/06/ohio-gov- on-vee.html

:)

by bobo1 on 06/10/2008 11:24:08 PM EST

You forgot to factor this actual quote (none / 0)
into your "paraphrase".

"That does not mean that I am any less committed to helping Barack Obama become the next president."

by richardshort2001 on 06/10/2008 11:37:19 PM EST

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thats just because... (none / 0)
hes a democrat and is looking out for his own ass among the party - You have to expect all Democrats to say something like that -

What I find amazing is that someone who has been mentioned repeatedly (and would seemingly be a good fit) has already so formally and forcefully said no up front and personal, during or shortly thereafter an appearance with the candidate - thats a low blow, Hillary style...

Those who are not loyal....


:)

by bobo1 on 06/10/2008 11:59:17 PM EST

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Strickland (none / 0)

I don't shit about Ted Strickland but the fact that he appears to be such an obvious candidate for VP but no one who knows shit about him seemed to think this leads me to believe there is some reason he can't run.  Governor's office are full of guys who have some shit on them that won't come out in a gubernatorial race but will in a national one.

Strickland decling without being offered could be a way of heading off the embaressing situation of everyone asking why he didn't get it without having to explain about the dead hooker or that time he was a camp counselor at the all-boys camp or those large contributions from that indicted guy or whatever it is keeping him from rising higher.

I seriously doubt he is crippling his political future to take a stand for a failed presidential campaign.  That is fun soap opera stuff for bored pundits but that ain't how the real world works. 

by ProfRich on 06/11/2008 12:30:15 AM EST

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Clinton should be VP (none / 0)

The 18 million Obama voters will vote for him, no matter who he picks, and he is much more likely to pick up a high percentage of Clinton's 18 million is he picks her.  With 36 million in play, voters from other buckets become less important, and "Clinton baggage" is not as much of an issue.

Surrogates won't do.  Imagine if the situation had been in reverse; would Obama supporters be satisfied if Clinton picked someone like Harold Ford or Charlie Rangel instead of Obama?

I also think the fear that Bill Clinton will try to take over is completely over the top, and not likely to happen.   

 

by saeed19 on 06/11/2008 12:13:07 AM EST

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