My Presidential Dream Ticket
My hunch on who the Democrats nominate for the 2008 Presidential candidate will be Hillary Clinton with a running mate of either Obama or Edwards. Who is your dream ticket for the Presidency? Or do you care?
| I am not a big supporter of Clinton’s although I did vote for her husband in the ’92 and ’96 Presidential elections. I’m not going to vote for Hillary for the main reason because I don’t trust her excessively ambitious style. It’s alright to have ideals and to strive for manifesting them, but not at the expense of losing sight of the bigger picture, which is the one principle that most all candidates seem to lack. Do they ever ask, “What is this for” before they push their agendas down our throats? |
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| So far, Hillary’s stump speeches in the debates have proven that she can hold her ground sometimes better than the other candidates, but she does so sounding like a bellicose macho-woman. Especially, when she addresses issues like war. How she’s all for ordering immediate air-strikes when the bad guys do something wrong. Look where that kind of aggression has gotten us. The Middle East is worse off then it’s ever been leaving wide gaping holes for more Jihadist recruitment, a cauldron of hate foments towards the Americans, and Osama who is either sipping mint tea somewhere in a Bedouin tent with his cronies, or lying beneath a rubble of stone dead as a crushed scorpion, has not been found. Will we ever know what happened to him? HRC is not alone in this area, the same bombastic approach in issues of defense applies to most all the other candidates as well with the exceptions of Ron Paul, the only sane Republican candidate and Democrat, Dennis Kucinich. Obama has slightly faltered on this issue. Could be that he’s too green about the dynamics of defense, but so was Bill Clinton. | |
| The only candidate who has attempted to illuminate us as to why the fundamentalist muslims hate us so much was Ron Paul. According to Mr. Paul, they don’t want us occupying their land with our military bases on what they consider to be sacred soil, bringing with them their immoral values and not respecting the ones of the peoples whose country they occupy. But for us, it’s not a question of sacred soil and values, it’s more like sacred oil and profiteering. |  |
| In the midst of all the messed-up-potamia madness, we’re still facing a much more crucial issue than fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here, and that is called “energy resources” or lack thereof. And now we have the Russians, Canadians, Norwegians and the Danes laying claim to their portion of the new oil pie that lies beneath the Arctic Sea. Soon, we will be looking at another “cold war” with the Russians, because that regime is not so easily bullied by bellicose American politicians, nor are they needy for American aid, and as of today, the experts agree that Russia’s oil reserves are big enough to support booming oil exports for decades to come. Their oil output hit eight million barrels a day in November, and hit some three billion barrels a year for the first time in a decade. Russia exports half as crude oil and a quarter as products, making it the second exporter after Saudi Arabia. Although Saudi Arabia oil towers over Russia, the Russians are still in a better place than we can imagine. |  |
America needs a leader who can play the game with the Russians, use political diplomacy with our so-called enemies, and crack down on corporate monopolies who seem to run amok with our money and our brains. We need a leader who will help us heal the wound that was created by the Bush/Cheney administration.  Think about this, when did divide and conquer become an oath for unity? That’s the dark legacy this loathsome administration can tout for years to come – they tried to destroy the Pledge of Allegiance . . . one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Wow! Now that’s something to be proud of as a president. You think? |
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| I’m voting for Obama with the hope that if Hillary happens to win, she will have the good sense to ask Obama to run as the Vice President. A word to you Senator Clinton, you don’t have to act tough in order to have respect and trust. And Obama, try meditating when feeling the urge to smoke a cigarette. It will help you overcome the nicotine fight and then you can relax and make clear and sensible sound bites. |  |
Editor's Pick, Political Arena | adele August 6, 2007
7 Comments to “My Presidential Dream Ticket”
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By rick, August 6, 2007 @ 1:52 pm
“…or the main reason because I don’t trust her excessively ambitious style”
Um, have ever met or heard of a candidate for President who wasn’t ambitious? What about a politician who wasn’t ambitious? Is Obama ambitious? Let’s suppose the media buzz was that Obama is too ambitious to be President as opposed to the other candidates for President…(a common charge against HRC)…what would you say was the subtext of that charge? I’d call it racism and I’m sure that you would too. So why is HRC an “uppity woman” (read too ambitious)when the other candidates are not?
By adele, August 6, 2007 @ 3:56 pm
Yep, i’ve never met a politician that wasn’t ambitious or overzealous in achieving power. The question or the doubt i have about HRC is this, will she be too excessive in trying to show that she is not a softy and by that i simply mean will she have to constantly prove herself to the military and the hawks that she can be a wartime president, rather than a leader of peace and diplomacy. We don’t need another Bush/Cheney attitude, we need a 180 degree change of attitude. And i never said HRC was an uppity woman, you mentioned that, not me. But thanks for the post. Glad to see you here!
By rick, August 6, 2007 @ 11:45 pm
I understand where you’re coming from. Apologies for “subtext” aspect of my comment. Nice blog.
By rick, August 7, 2007 @ 12:25 am
I don’t think American’s have the stomach for more war (the rest of the world is breathing a sigh of relief). HRC is no warmonger. While she doesn’t want to appear weak on defence (pre-election) I hardly think this will translate into invading Pakistan or elsewhere.
By adele, August 7, 2007 @ 8:59 am
I agree with you that most Americans don’t have the stomach for more war. Yet why aren’t the politicians listening to the voice of the people? Especially after the majority has spoken loudly and clearly that they want to see an end to the war, now, not later. Also, i have to applaud HRC’s determination and resilience in wanting the job as President in the first place. I don’t envy the one who takes that huge responsibility on, especially since she or he will inherit the mess Bush & Co. will have left behind. In the end, that person has to have nerves of steel.
By Ed, August 8, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
The Dems are arrogant thinking that after Bush they can nominate and elect anyone they choose and that person will be pres.
Naive. The Left wing of the part has coopted the nomination and primary processes.
Hillary (sp?), recognizing this, takes a centrist/right position on the war. Obama is now leaning that way too when he says he’d invade Pakistan under some conditions. We know he (they) won’t but that’s what they are saying.
So, who believes any politician?
People will vote viscerally just as always, and the voting majority in America are Yahoos from Cleveland (Where I escaped from), Houston, Miami, Atlanta and St. Losis, not Boston, San Francisco or LA.
They will likley not vote for a black or a woman until the 2086 general election.
Those who would vote for an intelligent Left-Wing black may not vote for a woman and vice versa.
Either running alone is unelectable, together, twice so. Every liberal in America will vote for them (me and 5 others; the others are in Europe), but few else.
Can you imagine all the racist stuff that will come out against Obama as it did when Ford narrowly lost for the Senate in Tennessee?
Give me Biden, he is electable, even if a politician and not credible like all the others. Also, important for the intellectually impaired, he “Looks Presidential.”
Sorry about Kucinich. I grew up with him in Cleveland and we were both in polictics at the same time. I’d vote for Dennis in a minute if he were running against a pure right-winger; then we could test which way America votes.
Anyway, this is my take. I wish it were easier to emmigrate to some civilized country with a more socialist leaning where the rights,freedom, health and the pursuit of happiness are really protected.
By adele, August 8, 2007 @ 10:10 pm
Hi Ed,
I know where you’re coming from with regards to the challenge the dem’s believe they are faced with, a) a woman? b) a black man? c) a peacenik? and d) the white-conservative repubs, don’t get me started. And yah, Biden does look presidential and has the experience and isn’t one who seems easily intimidated by the right-wing hawks nor the evanga-christies. What about Edwards? I know Obama has come across a bit unwizened (is there such a word?) but i still feel that he is the most trustworthy and untainted of the whole lot. I don’t have a lot of faith in people doing the right thing and that’s what’s scary about this whole game of politics. Thanks for your input and i look forward to seeing more of you right here! LOL