Jim Webb

Redline wrote:Jim Webb

I have my doubts. I think he MAY be a better pick than Edwards, but he's also a freshman senator and he has an angry streak that may not work to his advantage on the big stage. He's not that great of a speaker, tho that isn't particular necessary with Obama on the ticket.

My list, trying to be realistic, as developed with the friends I mentioned earlier:

1. Colin Powell

2. Ed Rendell

3. George Mitchell (interesting choice, better than Sam Nunn, who has been kicked around in some circles) (not literally)

Rick Reuben wrote:

tmidgett wrote:3. George Mitchell

No way. He's 75 and he's battling prostate cancer. If the Dems pick a candidate older than McCain for VP, then they can't play the age card on McCain.

Yeah, you're right.

I have a list of two. I'm getting my little committee to cross off Mitchell.

If Obama could snag Colin Powell, he would win. Fast Eddy seems too fiscally conservative to hang with Obama, unless he's changed.

Edwards is a loser, and Democrats hate losers. He couldn't even win his own state when he was running with the haunted tree, and he maybe has as much experience as...Obama. Didn't he already say he wouldn't take the job?..

Redline wrote:when he was running with the haunted tree

Oh dear God this has made me laugh out loud.

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I don't think it's going to be Powell. One of the main selling points for Obama is that he didn't vote for the Iraq War. Why would he want to negate that by choosing one of the people who is enormously responsible for it?

Also, despite Colin Powell's popularity from way back when (I don't even recall why people liked him so much), I don't think America will elect two "black" guys on the same ticket. They're going to want the VP to be more of the status quo gun totin' middle age white guy to balance out the perceived Obama elitism and dangerous liberal ideas that the media has been driving into everyone's skulls.

All that aside, the choice of Powell could become interesting if McCain winds up choosing Condoleezza Rice as his running mate.

Mandroid2.0 wrote:

All that aside, the choice of Powell could become interesting if McCain winds up choosing Condoleezza Rice as his running mate.

That would be spectacular.

How about Eliot Spitzer?

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.

Reading this thread I'm afraid many of you are sleeping hard on the accelerated parabloic shift of collective American political psyche that's been occuring over the last several years, and continues to accelerate, heading into a major change election.

Traditional metrics are trashed.
Even recent cycles as reference. Trash.
Can some of y'all even find the pulse ?

Get a grip on the 1-state-delivering GOV's, they'll go as hard/harder off the ticket in their locales. TIME.

Extra super majorly sleeping on the prospects of a Barack Obama/Jim Webb ticket. That's the American supreme team right there peoples.

Percieve.
Peace.