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No offense but this is precisely why we, for once, need to let younger voters decide this election.
Please note in all of this post-sexual, pre-21st century, Fruedian sexual analysis we keep undergoing the one group who isn't implicated in it is YOUNG PEOPLE.
I'm sorry but the Boomers are once again too caught up in their own sex lives which, still, none of us care about.
They've made it clear they are unable to decide this election on anything even approaching a rational reason. They continue to remain hung up, as they were in the 1960s, on their race, their gender and their sex lives and once again they want to force it onto all of us.
I don't care. I just want a president who's going to get us the heck out of Iraq, not invade Iran, change the political system and ensure we never have to live through another psuedo-election of crap quite like this again.
So let the young voters decide.
Hillary Clinton has run as tough and tenacious of a campaign as anyone we've ever seen. She has many justified and heartfelt supporters. No one is trying to take anything away from her. She will continue to play an important part, not only in this election but in the Democratic Party for years to come. This will begin almost immediately as she will effectively control the Democratic legislative agenda as the Senate Majority Leader.
But it is time to at least consider coming together around the Party's eventual nominee: Barack Obama.
Any thoughts on how to helpfully do this I'm sure would be welcome. Perhaps a prominent Clinton supporter, such as Rendell, Strickland or Bayh, can be put on the ticket as Vice President.
But it's time to (begin) coalescing around our nominee, Barack Obama and focusing on beating the Republican agenda and John McCain. The issues are too important this time around. I need not remind anyone of this disasterous war in Iraq, growing tensions with Iran, a teetering economy, health care and a broken political system. We must begin to get Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, elected.
She cancelled all of her events. Word is starting to leak out that he might do the same.
If these superdelegates don't start coming around to Obama now I'm going to wonder.
Anyway going to bed, but if it isn't clear he's won it by now I'm going to have some real questions.
Hopefully it's just a waiting game as everyone says. At some point we have to face the reality of who's won and who's lost.
Mark Warner, the former very popular governor of Virginia is an interesting choice. Time Magazine picked him almost a year ago (in a little read article) to be the most likely Democrat to win the White House. He's widely believed to be a closet Hillary supporter and did not run this time around, specifically because it was thought he might beat her.
Warner is Southern. He's pro-gun. He's a former businessman (I think he ran a cable t.v. company) who had Virginia's economy clicking. He's a former governor. He was popular with Republicans and swing staters. He was VERY popular with the working class. He seems older, has grey hair, and only didn't run again in Virginia because of term limits.
Ted Strickland, governor, Ohio, very pro-Hillary. Governor. Major swing state. Again Obama only needs 1 of the big 3 (Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Florida.) Good no the economy. Popular with working class voters.
Webb's still the top pick for all of the reasons others mentioned. Sebelius is, by far, the best politician and governor currently in America. Hands down. I don't see how a female Veep (especially one as qualified and brilliant as her) doesn't help you at least some with women.
I've always suspected that, contrary to the complaints, the issue isn't that there are NO other qualified Democratic female presidential candidates out there, but rather too many for Hillary Clinton's taste.
With all due respect, I think Claire McCaskill, Janet Napalitano, Sarah Palin, Christine Gregoire and Kathleen Sebelius saw this too.
We all know Sebelius is on the short list to be Obama's VP, she's easily on everyone's Top 5 List.
Hillary knows what I know, if Sebelius (who is by far the most competent politician in this country and a governor who has ran something) is Obama's VP that gives Sebelius not Clinton the best chance to nab the 2016 Democratic nomination and the presidency.
Heard Sebelius on Air America again today. That woman's a president. Period.
Add Gregoire, Napalitano and Palin, who are all excellent governors and Claire McCaskell (who's quickly becoming a t.v. star as anyone who watches CNN, MSNBC or any other network knows) and it's clear you easily have anywhere from 5 to 7 women who have a better shot, and more actual experience, than Hillary.
As always this is about Hillary Clinton and nothing else. I agree let her run as long as she wants.
She can come to Kathleen Sebelius' inaguration in 2016.