Letters to the Editor
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WES
If it was reversed and Hillary was the nominee, both with a ton of delegates, I would insist it be offered to him.
-- The Notorious W.E.S
Insist? Why? What's so important about that anyway? And if she doesn't, are you going to 'sit this one out' like you said you would if Obama doesn't make the offer? Or are you just going to give Hillary a little lecture/lip service about it and then move along and vote for her?
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@ prunes
Exactly. If the polls are right about how many people think the country is going the wrong way, its possible in the privacy of the voting booth, general racists could vote for Obama if they think he could help. While publicly never admitting it. Sort of the opposite of the so called Bradley Effect, lol
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Kitt
If Hillary did not offer to him would I sit it out?........Let me go fifth amendment on that one.
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Here's a non-rhetorical question for the Salon readership about Obama: why is he regarded as 'bipartisan'?
This letter-writer made an interesting comment:
People are sick of it already
If this weren't the case Obama might not be rising as high as he is.
People on both sides of the "debate" are tired of the childish, schoolyard arguments, the crass and ugly smears and the moronic windbags who are driving the conversation.
Part of Obama's appeal, in my opinion, is the fact that he offers optimism and favors bipartisan solutions to problems. I can't remember a politician running for office recently who wasn't blaming the other side right out of the gate.
And as far as Limbaugh, Time magazine, etc- sometimes people scream and flail the loudest when their influence is waning.
-- DQuintanaNY
So, what are the best examples of Obama's "bipartisanship"?
For McCain, there are huge, serious issues on which he has taken leadership that would best be described as "remarkably bipartisan": McCain was one of the bipartisan "gang of fourteen" on judicial appointments; there's the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform (so called) act; and most recently, the McCain-Kennedy-others movement on immigration reform. McCain's serious, demonstrable bipartisanship has even gotten him into serious trouble with the right wing of his party. McCain's greatest appeal is to independents. Much of what McCain has done as a 'bipartisan' bothers me as a loyalist conservative Republican.
As for Obama, what bipartisanship has he displayed, other than lurking in the left's back corridors? What votes; what initiatives; what legislative history can any of you point to that makes Obama "bipartisan" or somehow "transcendent" of politics?
Personally, I despise any notion of an Obama Presidency. It would seem to me to be indistinguishable from a Ted Kennedy or an Al Sharpton Presidency. Why should anyone think any differently?
Obama isn't 'bipartisan.' Obama is a biracial liberal.
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"A Bi-Racial Liberal"?
If you track humanity back a ways, we are all multi-racial.
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One Thing For Sure
If Obama won Presidency (oh, please God) & Hillary was VP, he wouldn't ever have to worry about some right wing nutwad assasinating him. Hell, they'd be turning in anyone who thought of such a thing.
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Paul
There you go.
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@ Paul
Lol, for the same reason I was thinking he should name a black vp.
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@Elephantman
Personally, I despise any notion of an Obama Presidency. It would seem to me to be indistinguishable from a Ted Kennedy or an Al Sharpton Presidency. Why should anyone think any differently?
Uh... they're not a drooling idiot?
Based on WHAT would you expect Obama's presidency to be indistinguishable from one with Kennedy or Sharpton?
Use specific examples from legislation or speeches.
If you must lazily resort to sweeping generalizations about "liberals", please take the time to explain why the Bush/McCain position is to be distinguished as "conservative" from the "liberal" Obama position.
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Of Course
If it was Obama and Hillary and he was assassinated, the wing-nuts would have a story that put the LBJ, Ruby, Oswald stuff to shame.
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Big Labor for Barack
The Teamsters are going to endorse Obama, maybe this afternoon.
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Elephant
a loyalist conservative Republican.
-- Elephantman
Explain what that means, specifically?
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if you vote for politicians,
you've got to expect personality politics. or, you could try democracy.
btw, on the question of whether america is a 'bad' country, how many people were hanged for mylai?
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Bipartisan? I hope not, Mr. Elephant.
I hope that whoever the Left ends up with, they have an even greater advantage in both houses, and they take the fear-mongering, war-mongering, race-baiting, environment-destroying, class-warfaring, privacy-invading (Did I miss anything?) agenda of the right, shove it up their ass and send them packing.
You're on the wrong side of history. Elephants are doomed to become extinct.
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@ bignose
Ya, I agree. I hope a dem pres will engage in bi-partisanship as much as Bush did. Shit needs to be fixed and repub buy-in ain't gonna get it done.
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20 February 2009 : The New President's First White House Press Conference.
The new White House Press Corps shuffle forward to call out questions to the newly inagurated President John S. McKlean III.
JOEL ROBINSON: "Mister President, as the only occupant of the White House to share the closest biological genetic code to our first fiery-tempered Warrior President, General Washington, your detractors have charged that you too are at-the-ready to take the People into the unending cycle of warfare that has cursed our land since its inception. Your Defense Secretary Colin Powell has expressed concern. -- How do you respond, Sir?"
PRESIDENT McKLEAN: "I don't, asshole. --- Next Question."
TOM SERVO: "My Readers would like to know what was really behind your decision to make Condoleeza Rice your Vice President? -- Some have suggested that you did so because you weren't certain that you would survive an 8 year presidency.
PRESIDENT McKLEAN: "My party, under Teddy Roosevelt, established the first great thrust in the Environmental Movement with the Preservation Acts of nationalizing lands; my party charged into its bloddiest war in order to free the African-Americans from the slavery imposed by Democrat Party legislatures; my party pressed to grant women the vote in 1920 against the squirmings & bleatings of President Wilson & his Democrat ilk; under Ike, my party sent the Armed Forces into the South to force Arkansas Democrats to allow Black kids to attend school with whites; my party appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court, as well as the only sitting justice; -- It seemed only fitting that both the First Woman President and the First Minority Race President be a Republican.
TOM SERVO: "I see. Yes. Well that makes perfect sense."
PRESIDENT McKLEAN: "Next question."
GYPSY: "President McKlean - clickclick - Some are saying that you appointed Senator Barry OBlarny to head your Department of Health as a concession for his help in neutralizing Frau Klinton's candidacy in last years primary.
PRESIDENT McKLEAN: "I appointed Senator OBlarny to the position because it was the only office in government that he was even half-way qualified to run. -- Next Question, -- yes, you in the Robot Outfit."
CROW: "Sir, your Press Secretary, Amy Holmes has announced that Secretary of State Lieberman is leaving this weekend for a one day visit to Tehran to convince their Loony-in-Chief that you bode them no ill will but only to lay out the Facts as they are to him."
PRESIDENT McKLEAN: "I have faith that Joe will give them an offer that they can't refuse. -- yuck, yuck"
JOEL ROBINSON: "One last question, President McKlean, why did you appoint Jonah Goldberg to be your Secretary of Education?
PRESIDENT McKLEAN: "I did so in order to stick a needle in the eye of the Salon Readership -- and -- I might add --- for no other reason under the sun. --- Thankyou Ladies and Gentlemen. Have a Nice Day."