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DEL.ICIO.USNunn at No. 5, Clinton at No. 3 in the veep sweepstakes?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Chris Cillizza, the man behind “The Fix” for the Washington Post, has put Sam Nunn at the bottom of his list of top five potential vice presidential candidates for Barack Obama.
Hillary Clinton is No. 3. Kathleen Sebelius, the governor of Kansas, ranks No. 1.
Of the former Georgia senator, who came out for Obama this spring, Cillizza says this:
”It’s hard to argue with Nunn’s place as one of the pre-eminent Democratic thinkers on foreign policy and defense issues. He spent more than two decades in the Senate representing Georgia and he chaired the Armed Services Committee. That resume coupled with Nunn’s status as a white southerner could well make him an appealing pick for Obama. But, is Nunn too moderate (some would say conservative) for the party’s liberal base to swallow?”
Comments
By Will Jones
May 9, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this
Jim Webb is the man we need to perfect the Obama presidential ticket. Nunn’s time and connections are past.
While Nunn’s Coast Guard experience was no doubt enjoyable and honorable at the time he went, those “of a certain age” know enough to consider that Jim Webb, a highly decorated combat Marine officer, author and public servant whose electoral victory over a racist, anti-Semitic poser is instructive of, and qualified to lead the task we have ahead: identifying the frauds, racists, criminals and traitors of the Fifth Column…for the most part hiding within the GOP…who have hijacked America to feed their perversions and enrich the obvious fascist plutocracy Sam Nunn has done nothing to correct, let alone extirpate…and get them out of office, behind bars where appropriate, or tried, convicted and swinging for their treason.
Jim Webb is a man. Those of us with sons would like to see a new day dawn in America where moms and dads can look forward to a time when being a complete man is expected as “normal,” appreciated and not discouraged…when the concerted efforts of pervert Beta Males, like homosexual draft-dodger George Bush, his secrect societies with their homosexual rituals and bondage, is rejected with its Roman Catholic pedophile priesthood as inconsistent with America’s Ideals, the Pioneer Spirit that shaped us, and the best interests of Truth, Justice, Righteousness and Grace in the U.S. at home and around the world.
Should we not cultivate a moral, honorable spirit in America? Why should our military need to fill its ranks with illegal immigrants and foreigners looking for citizenship?
Military service should attract the best of our blood. Are the brightest and best willing to place their lives at sacrifice in combat when the perfidy of false war begun by treason is fully understood, and only those willing to fight are sociopaths, thugs, mercenaries, and the unenlightened?
Jim Webb has proved himself worthy of America.
In eight years a Webb election would build well on President Obama’s and continue the long journey we have to restore Our Nation’s Treasure, Mottoes, and Honor.
By NunnBetter
May 9, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
Sam Nunn should be ##number 1## on the list of VP choices. His expertise in foreign affairs and defense plus the fact that he is a southern moderate should highly recommend him for anyone’s VP choice.
By numnutter
May 10, 2008 7:27 PM | Link to this
he better find dim nukes 4 he starts runnin foer nothin
By Nick
May 10, 2008 10:27 PM | Link to this
Interesting Washington rumor, but it will never happen!
By kreedham
May 10, 2008 11:18 PM | Link to this
Well a Nunn VP slot would probably get enough independents and moderates to carry Georgia for the dems but I’m not sure how it would play elsewhere.
Sebelius would probably appease alot of the Clinton supporters.
Jim Webb would be a good choice.
We shall see.
By GAindependant
May 10, 2008 11:30 PM | Link to this
I respected Nunn, until he endorsed the most liberal Senator in the US Senate. Nunn is older than McCain, how will the democrats use McCain’s age against him, when Nunn is the VP choice.
Plus GA will go for McCain, regardless. To suggest other wise is plitical sophistry.
By kreedham
May 12, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this
To Ga Independent,
You may not remember but on Super Tuesday more votes were cast in the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. The Republican nomination was still in play. Obama at the head of the ticket will do well in Georgia and like I said, if Nunn is on the ticket, even better.
By GAindependent
May 12, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this
Yes, I do remember, but some of those were cross over votes because many people wanted to vote against Hillary. Obama will do better than Kerry. Yet, I fear that GA will remain a Red State in Nov.