I'm sorry but I do not understand a single word of the post above.

How about Rosemary Clooney?

Women and the elderly.

win-win.

He's courting Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as Vee Pee.

With Kurt Rambis as Secretary of Defense and Magic Johnson as Secretary of Transportation.

Flaneur wrote:If it can't be Clooney, then maybe Ohio freshman senator Sherrod Brown -- like Webb and Obama and that big lunk from Montana, another one of the new guys who aren't fighting the same old Nixon-vs.-the-Hippies battles.

I love Brian Schweitzer, the MT gov, one of two big lunks from MT (the other being Sen. Jon Tester).

I think Schweitzer would be great in many ways, but now is probably not the time. And...I mean, he's from MT. And hardly anyone knows who the hell he is. Great campaigner, though. He can relate to anyone.

Kareem would be a terrible pick. 1. He's an asshole. 2. He really is a Muslim.

So, Mark Warner is supposedly on the "short list" of Obama's VP preferences.

How did I not think of that guy before? (<-don't answer that).

Minotaur029 wrote:So, Mark Warner is supposedly on the "short list" of Obama's VP preferences.

How did I not think of that guy before? (<-don't answer that).

It's a good idea except that Warner is currently running for senate. And winning.

Could he be Obama's running-mate while still running for Senate? And if Obama wins the general and Warner wins the senate race, does someone appoint someone to take his senate seat? Or is there another election?

tmidgett wrote:Kareem would be a terrible pick. 1. He's an asshole. 2. He really is a Muslim.

Yeah, but Ted Strickland's a shit rebounder.

connor wrote:

Minotaur029 wrote:So, Mark Warner is supposedly on the "short list" of Obama's VP preferences.

How did I not think of that guy before? (<-don't answer that).

It's a good idea except that Warner is currently running for senate. And winning.

Could he be Obama's running-mate while still running for Senate? And if Obama wins the general and Warner wins the senate race, does someone appoint someone to take his senate seat? Or is there another election?

If that highly unlikely event were to happen, and Warner still won despite having already been crowned VP, the governor would appoint an interim senator for a full term.

The case against Jim Webb

Webb's writings on women did a hell of a lot of damage. It gave invaluable ammunition to the enemies of women's presence in the military and helped stall and perhaps even roll back women's progress there. Kathleen Murray, a 1984 academy graduate who went on to become a commander in the Navy, said of Webb's screed: "This article was brandished repeatedly. [Men] quoted and used it as an excuse to mistreat us."

In 2000, Webb opined that affirmative action was "state-sponsored racism"; that same year he endorsed the ultra-conservative Republican George Allen for the senate. In 2004, Webb wrote an op-ed for USA Today arguing that John Kerry "deserved condemnation" for his opposition to the Vietnam War (to be fair, in the op-ed Webb is also critical of George Bush; but then again, in the same piece Webb also takes a swipe at the "liberal media"). Troublingly, he gave this glowing endorsement to Mark Moyar's uber-wingnutty "revisionist" history of the Vietnam War, Triumph Forsaken

Foldyourarmsandsaynah wrote:

connor wrote:

Minotaur029 wrote:So, Mark Warner is supposedly on the "short list" of Obama's VP preferences.

How did I not think of that guy before? (<-don't answer that).

It's a good idea except that Warner is currently running for senate. And winning.

Could he be Obama's running-mate while still running for Senate? And if Obama wins the general and Warner wins the senate race, does someone appoint someone to take his senate seat? Or is there another election?

If that highly unlikely event were to happen, and Warner still won despite having already been crowned VP, the governor would appoint an interim senator for a full term.

While tearing Warner away from a Senate seat he would surely win would be irritating, I don't think this scenario is necessarily so unlikely.

First of all, Warner wanted to run for President. He wisely chose to sit this election out around the time that speculation about who would run was at its highest. He was a high-profile contender, too.

Second of all, the guy is only 53. If Obama were to win eight years in office, Warner would be in an ideal position to replace him. He's very popular in Virginia (13 electoral votes).

He looks like way less of a loose cannon than Jim Webb, too.

Biggest bonus: in addition to being popular across the battleground of Virginia, Mark Warner is originally from Indianapolis, IN...Obama continues to poll evenly with McCain in what Marsupialized dubbed "Illinois's retarded little sister". Warner makes the possibility of an electoral win in Virginia very real in addition to being attractive to people from Indiana.

Is an Obama victory in Indiana realistic? I don't know, but I don't think that it's out of the question by a longshot.

So he wants his VP to be short?

Height elitist.