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How Can Obama NOT Pick Hillary For VP?
TalkLeft —
... know how after the fact now everyone wonders how in the hell we plunged into the Iraq Debacle? How in hindsight it was so obviously boneheaded that we wonder where all the "experts" were yelling "are you crazy?" That is how I feel about the fact that Barack Obama is not going to pick Hillary Clinton as his running mate. Honestly, I have never seen a bigger no brainer in my life for this. But you have read it all before from me as to why this is so. But do not take my word for it, ask Obamabot numbers man Poblano: ...
How Can Obama NOT Pick Hillary For VP?
TalkLeft —
... know how after the fact now everyone wonders how in the hell we plunged into the Iraq Debacle? How in hindsight it was so obviously boneheaded that we wonder where all the "experts" were yelling "are you crazy?" That is how I feel about the fact that Barack Obama is not going to pick Hillary Clinton as his running mate. Honestly, I have never seen a bigger no brainer in my life for this. But you have read it all before from me as to why this is so. But do not take my word for it, ask Obamabot numbers man Poblano: ...
Assorted stuff
The Sideshow —
... FiveThirtyEight has a Democratic VP Buyer's Guide, in case you want to place your bets. Some interesting speculation, there.... ...
On Biden
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
I'm not going to put a lot of stock in markets that see Biden as the most likely nominee -- they have Kerry at 9%, after all -- but this does seem to be the consensus. And perhaps I've been buttered up by the fairly dismal alternatives being offered, but like ...
Biden Time
Hit & Run —
The buzzed-about politi-bot of the moment is Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., senior senator from Delaware, Foreign Relations Committee chairman, and frontrunner (according to people who bet on these things) for the plum job of Barack Obama's running mate. Mr. Biden’s strengths and weaknesses as a vice-presidential nominee are glaringly obvious and in many cases overlap. At age 65, he would bring heft, knowledge and nearly four decades of experience in Washington to a ticket headed by a relative political newcomer. But that experience ...
