Should Obama Have Picked Hillary As His Running Mate?

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George .H.W Bush won with Quayle as his VP nominee. What killed his chances for a second term was a combination of Bill Clinton's smarts and charisma and a sense by the American public that Bush was out of touch when that recession hit, something that was exemplified by the supermarket scanner incident.

You don't mention Geraldine Ferraro, whose pick by Walter Mondale was seen as a desperation move by the press and the public. It later turned out that her husband had some unsavory baggage that didn't do their campaign any favors.

But Mondale was going to lose anyway. Palin is the first VP nominee in my lifetime that I can remember where people were passionately citing a running mate as a compulsion to vote for the opponent. This move will be remembered as an indication of McCain's colosally craven submission to the GOP business as usual crowd when he really wanted to pick Joe Lieberman.

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Palin: You're no Hillary Clinton

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Look, Palin's talking about being part of cracking the ceiling that have kept women out of the highest office in the land is crap. Rather, it actually confirms traditional sex roles of the woman being a helper with no real power to make decisions to her male (running) mate.

Furthermore, because she has zero acquaintance with anything foreign, let along matters of policy (at least Obama had lived in Indonesia for a time as a child), when McCain inevitably appoints a male Secretary of State, she will be shut out of those discussions because she just does not have a clue. That is a huge contrast with Biden. She will be relegated to being McCain's spokesmodel at ribbon cuttings and international funerals.

Really, he may have thought, since he has a reputation for womanizing, that she would just sex up the place. Can women accept that? I don't think so.

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Romney, Pawlenty: McCain Used Us!

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Gee, McCain using people? Like he used his dad to get him all kinds of special treatment at the Naval Academy and in the Navy itself, how he used his first wife to shepherd him through his convalescence from his experience in Vietnam, and like he used his second wife to be his personal piggy bank to run for Congress? Like he used the media to carve out an image as a maverick before then going and kissing the hem of Jerry Falwell's and George Bush's garments when he ran for president?

John McCain a user and manipulator?

Naaahhhhh!

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