Who Should Be Obama’s VP?

[TuNnL]

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According to reports, Edwards has admitted to repeatedly lying during his Presidential campaign about the affair and to his cancer stricken wife.

IMHO, this officially ends any consideration the Obama campaign was giving Edwards for VP. It may have also severely damaged any hope of an attorney general appointment (which Edwards was reported to have been pursuing).

[Amati]

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John Edwards admits to extra marital affair, denies fathering the child

According to reports, Edwards has admitted to repeatedly lying during his Presidential campaign about the affair and to his cancer stricken wife. Edwards' wife Elizabeth announced in March that her breast cancer had re-emerged after going into remission following a 2004 diagnosis.

Let's do a new HT poll - "is he disgusting or not"?

[1stwahine]

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John Edwards admits to extra marital affair, denies fathering the child

Oh! My!!

Hala!!

Simbaco...whack whack!

[Lei Liko]

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John Edwards admits to extra marital affair, denies fathering the child

(CNN) -- Former U.S. senator and Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards admitted to an extramarital affair in an interview with ABC News, the network reported Friday. He denied being the father of the woman's child, as had been alleged in tabloid reports.

Speaking to the network for a story to be aired Friday night, Edwards acknowledged the affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter, which began after she was hired to make documentary videos for his campaign, ABC said.

[timkona]

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I think Ludacris would be a good choice.

[matapule]

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Joe Biden is my choice, but any VP candidate that would assure a DEM victory and get this country out of the REP funk.

[Ron Whitfield]

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With Hillary on the ticket, all it would take to open a shooting gallery at them would be some rumoured scandal. This would allow the Straight Talk Express to go further off the rails than they have already decided is now OK, ignoring McCave's promise to be above the typical style of dirty campaigning.

[Frankie's Market]

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Columnist Lanny Davis gives us the breakdown:

When it comes to the Clintons, Lanny Davis doesn't exactly provide the most objective analysis. He's as blindly loyal to Hillary as James Carville is.

The single, fatal obstacle towards an Obama/Clinton ticket remains Bill Clinton. The poll numbers that Lanny pulls out are the results of people providing an immediate response to a "dream ticket" scenario. But should Obama actually pick Hillary as his running mate, they would have to deal with several hard realities. This would include a total vetting of the Clinton finances, as well as the WJC Foundation and the Library. (Are they willing to provide the list of donors?) And of course, there's Bill himself. As shown during Hillary's unsuccessful run, he can be both an asset and a liability as a surrogate on the campaign trail.

[Walkoff Balk]

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Ralph Nader, so he won't take away votes from the Democratic candidate.

[Random]

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The Obama-Clinton ticket might guarantee a win in November, but I doubt it would be good for the presidency for two alphas butting head in the administration.

I don't see Hillary Clinton being second-best, even if it helps the Democrats occupy the White House.

[TuNnL]

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Clinton virtually guarantees a McCain win, according to every poll you can find.

Hmmm...today’s Wall Street Journal appears to disagree with you on this point. Columnist Lanny Davis gives us the breakdown:

In late June, polls conducted by The Wall Street Journal/NBC and Fox/Opinion Dynamics — using entirely different samples — both showed Sen. Clinton giving Sen. Obama a +3% bump, pushing him over 51% for the first time, when the two of them were paired against Sen. McCain and Gov. Romney.

Most recently, in nationwide polling on July 22-23, a Fox/Opinion Dynamics poll showed a more dramatic bump of +8% with Sen. Clinton as Sen. Obama’s vice presidential running mate. In a head-on match, it was Sen. Obama 41% to Sen. McCain’s 40% (this was before the intense media coverage of his European trip). But with exactly the same sample, when all voters were presented with the choice of an Obama-Clinton ticket vs. McCain-Romney, the results were Obama-Clinton, 48% (+7%), and McCain-Romney 39% (-1%).

[Random]

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Chose Hillary.. I think, she know what she doing and hopefully can make a bettery America, like help keep the gas prices down.

That and Bill can show Barack some of his favorite strip clubs hidden from Hillary.

[Likeke]

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Chose Hillary.. I think, she know what she doing and hopefully can make a bettery America, like help keep the gas prices down.

[Random]

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Who should be Obama's VP?

Mufi Hanneman.

[Vanguard]

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No apology needed. But I have to disagree that Presidents, Governors, Mayors... or even university presidents necessarily have that experience. Most, if not all of them rely on their budget or managing director (the equivalent of a CFO in the business world) to balance the budget.

I wasn't acutely aware of how they use the budget or managing director, thanks for explaining that! Although I do believe someone needs to have a decent working knowledge of budgets so the person who was delegated that responsibility doesn't lead us down the wrong path, and we have another "You're doing a swell job, Brownie!" episode. Of course, we could say that about every aspect of managing the country, so I suppose the simple ability to headhunt and find good people trumps most things.

At least if we go by your definition, we’ve narrowed down the eligible candidates to the handful of governors under consideration.

That, or qualified university presidents -- who will be the next Woodrow Wilson? Now that would be a wild choice from left field!