The FNC Panel discuss the possibility.
Juan Williams thinks so.
Bill Kristol doesn’t….
what do you think?
Keep in mind this is from a FOX News Sunday at the beginning of the year (1/13/2008). So have things in this area improved? or gotten much much worse?…
Barack addressed the congregation at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, IL on June 15, 2008.
Yesterday Michael Medved interviewed the very popular 36 year old Governor of Lousiana Bobby Jinal. Medved vocally supports Jindal to be McCains pic as Vic President. The following is Medveds analysis from an article he penned listing the pro’s and con’s of McCains VP shortlist:
PRO: His impeccable conservative credentials (a 98% American Conservative Union rating during his two terms in Congress) and stalwart defense of human life (“I am 100 percent pro life with no exceptions”) would help rally worn right-wingers to McCain’s cause. Rush Limbaugh has praised Jindal as “the next Ronald Reagan – winning with 100 percent pure conservatism.” Jindal’s remarkable success with ethics legislation during his first months as governor of notoriously corrupt Louisiana would also help McCain run as a reformer who could clean up “the mess in Washington” the way his running mate cleaned up the mess in Baton Rouge. Above all his youth (he’ll be 37 at the convention) and brilliance (biology degree from Brown, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford) would help Republicans balance some of the hysterical excitement over Obama. As the son of immigrants (who arrived from India for graduate school in Louisiana when Jindal’s mother was pregnant with him) he could help connect with Hispanic voters, where Republicans desperately need help. Asians will also make up 4% of the electorate and by placing the first Asian-American on the ticket, McCain could help stop the drift of this growing segment of the population toward the Democrats. Also, Jindal is a devout Catholic (he converted in high school from Hinduism) and has written thoughtful theological pieces for conservative Catholic journals. His ability to connect with religious Catholics will help in any number of battleground states. Finally, he displays an ease on TV and a sense of humor that will disarm all critics: his appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno has become a favorite on You Tube and represented a triumph for the young governor. With Jindal on the ticket, voters wouldn’t have to go to the Democrats in order to elect our first person of color to national office.
CON: He’s too young, too inexperienced – how can Republicans criticize Obama as unprepared, when Jindal is ten years younger? Actually, this argument ends up turning in Jindal’s favor, since he possesses vastly MORE experience than Obama, particularly in executive positions. In addition to his early triumphs as governor, he’s also won spectacular success in a long series of leadership roles – as executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, President of the Louisiana State University System (at the ludicrously young age of 26!), Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (unanimously confirmed – and praised – in a bipartisan vote of the US Senate), and two terms in the House of Representatives (including service on the House Committee on Homeland Security and re-election with 88% of the vote). Nothing in the Obama resume comes close to any of this. It’s true that I started promoting Jindal for Veep on my radio show nearly a year ago (before he even won election as governor) and, frankly, I don’t see serious negatives to his candidacy.
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A video comparisson of the two speeches claims that Obama Plagiarized Mario Cuomo from 1984 when delivery his “Maybe” attack on rival John McCain. Both speeches claim that the Republican opponent at the time just doesn’t understand certain life issues as a result of not talking to enough people and not visiting enough places – a claim that might have been plausible with Reagan, but McCain? uhh…..
President Bill Clinton frowns as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, addresses supporters at the National Building Museum in Washington Saturday, June 7, 2008, as she suspends her campaign for president. (AP Image)
Mrs. Clinton, speaking here to an audience of advisers and supporters who had been invited to attend from across the country, used the final rally of her presidential campaign to end her barrier-breaking bid for the presidency and endorse Mr. Obama. She pledged that she would do what it takes to help Mr. Obama win the White House.
In her last rally as a presidential candidate, Mrs. Clinton expressed deep gratitude to the voters. who had cast ballots for her. She suspended her campaign, rather than officially ending it. That’s a technicality that will allow her to raise money to retire her debt and to control the delegates she won. It is not an indication that she has any intention of resuming it.
Mr. Obama stayed away because he understood this was her moment.
Mrs. Clinton offered nothing less than a full-throated endorsement for and embrace of Mr. Obama and his candidacy. She has said many times that she would work her heart out for the nominee, and aides said she knew that now was the time to begin to show it. (MORE)
Link: sevenload.com
Blue for Obama. Red for McCain. Purple up for grabs.
Obama is heading for the swing states:
Mr Obama, in his first campaign rally since he clinched the nomination on Tuesday, held a town hall meeting in rural southern Virginia, seeking to prove that he can woo Mrs Clinton’s supporters without the former First Lady at his side – or on his presidential ticket.
As Mr Obama’s aides began indicating that Mrs Clinton’s chances of becoming his running-mate are slim, the Illinois Senator campaigned in Virginia instead with a trio of local politicians all considered possible vice-presidential candidates.
The trip to Virginia also served notice to the Republican nominee-elect John McCain that Mr Obama sees the state – which has not been won by a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964 – as a newly competitive battleground that could switch this year.
McCain eyeing Clinton supporters:
This comes as some Clinton backers, seeing the curtain closing on their candidate, are organizing to draw other Clinton backers to McCain’s side.
“A lot of Clinton’s supporters liked her because they saw that she was experienced, ready to start the job on Day One. … Those are all traits that John McCain shares,” Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant said.
Conant told FOXNews.com that since the beginning of the week, “our switchboards are pretty much lit up from women asking how they can change their registration — Clinton supporters. … We think there’s a real opportunity there.”
Cristi Adkins, of the newly formed Clintons for McCain group, told FOX News that Clinton supporters should seriously consider putting their money on the GOP candidate.
On that note comes this zinger:
“It’s really not that big of a jump from Clinton to McCain,” she argued.
Well, zinger to Republicans who have been saying that for years that is. Notsomuch a zinger to Democrats attempting (a little embarrassingly) to paint McCain as Bush’s 3rd term…
While some Democrats likely will be unshakable in their opposition to McCain for his support of the Iraq war, the McCain campaign sees an opening to court the so-called Reagan Democrats who supported Clinton.
A video blogger goes through the pro’s and cons on 10 of the people considered favorites to run as Barack Obama’s Vice President in the 2008 American Presidential election.
