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DEL.ICIO.USWhy John McCain should book a room in Atlanta
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
No doubt you’ve seen the reports that Republican John McCain, like Democrat Barack Obama, has quietly begun searching for a running mate.
McCain is hosting at least three Republicans mentioned as potential running mates at his home this weekend — Govs. Charlie Crist of Florida and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts.
McCain could save time and plane fare just by coming to Atlanta in fewer than two weeks. The Republican Governors Association is to gather here June 3-4.
Two attendees, Crist and Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, are routinely in the top tier of vice presidential possibilities. Haley Barbour of Mississippi and host Sonny Perdue of Georgia have also been mentioned — though their names have surfaced less lately.
Barbour’s stock may have dropped as a result of the loss of that congressional seat last week in Mississippi. The governor, while widely recognized for his competency during the Hurricane Katrina recovery, actively campaigned for the defeated Republican in the race.
Other governors headed this way: Mark Sanford of South Carolina, John Hoeven of North Dakota, Jim Douglas of Vermont, and Donald Carcieri of Rhode Island. The topic of the meeting? How to be pro-business and environmentally effective at the same time.
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By chris c
May 23, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this
he ought to book some time on his old straight talk express because right now he stands for whatever he is told is politically expediant. people complain that they do not know Obama but what is sad is how long has mcCain been in politics and he still does not know if he is repub, dem, indie, or what. he is whatever is hot at the moment. One day he is against special interests yet his entire staff lobby for special interests…
By ericmiami
May 23, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this
His only chance is to choose Hillary. Ugh!!!
By Tamiqua
May 23, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
Obama has many people on his staff who are lobbyists. McCain hasn’t made an issue of this yet, because he is currently attacking Obama’s national defense credentials, and Obama is so cocky right now, he is playing the game, but he won’t win. McCain is controlling the debate, and if this continues, McCain will be in the White House in ‘09.
By Tamiqua
May 23, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this
Obama has many people on his staff who are lobbyists. McCain hasn’t made an issue of this yet, because he is currently attacking Obama’s national defense credentials, and Obama is so cocky right now, he is playing the game, but he won’t win. McCain is controlling the debate, and if this continues, McCain will be in the White House in ‘09.
By AJS
May 23, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this
italic: “The topic of the meeting? How to be pro-business and environmentally effective at the same time.”
That’s easy. Simply expose the real cost of pollution. When Monsanto poisons a town like Anniston, simply charge them every dollar of life insurance, porperty values, and profits from the polluting practices. Putting some CEOs in jail for hiring illegal immigrants would solve that problem real fast too.
By jontx
May 23, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
McCain has served in the military; Barack Obama has not. It is unheard of that anyone in the military be appointed to the highest rank without having served first, and that for a very long time. McCain is the only one fit to be Commander-in-Chief.
By Just a Thought
May 23, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
Jontx, Serving in the military is now a prerequisite for POTUS, so you mhave voted for Kerry during the 2004 election.
By scott d
May 23, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
As a Republican, I can’t even begin to imagine how Sonny Perdue could ever be considered qualified to be the VP. Must be wishful thinking on the part of his staff..
By jontx
May 23, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
I did not vote for Clinton and will not vote for anyone who did not serve in the military (not necessarily a war, mind you). Both Kerry and Bush served, but I did not agree with Kerry’s socialist ideas. I also did not and do not agree with Bush’s reckless spending. However, if the Dems have control like the Repubs did, the same reckless spending will ensue again.
By FLEXX
May 23, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
Mc cain is a hypocrite & a war monger with a bad temper & is senile, that’s one guy we Don’t need in the white house! didn’t we have enough of republicans the last 8 yrs? isnt gas prices high enough for u? isnt the economy bad enough? isnt he housing market bad enough? isnt the war,which should be long over enough?, didnt enough americans die? what ever happened to , I WILL SMOKE HIM OUT!? HAHA it will never happen.. people keep making the same mistakes over & over again,the republicans are all for their own pockets. didn’t bush do enough damage for yall? think people! lets try some new ideas OBAMA..
By Robert NYC
May 23, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
advisable strategies for both in the VP race.
McCain - Pick a young vital VP to counter age criticism. Pick a more conservative southerner to pick up evangelical vote. National defense issues he has Barrack beat hands down.
Barrack - Pick a white man who might actually care about the country to counter his racist wife and preacher image. Buy and read an economics book not titled “How to Tax and Spend Yourself into Destitution”
By ED
May 23, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
McCain is unfit, senile, ..never mind running this country, & he knows ZIP about the economy… & is to old to do anything, we americans need work done here to repair the DAMAGE that Bush has done! people can’t make it anymore with the rising costs of everything! all he should be doing is feeding the pidgeons ….
By Dutchman
May 23, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this
Maybe for a change we can skip looking to other politicians for a running mate and look at the executive branches of big business.
I know, the lefties are going to hate the idea.
Like Roosevelt during WWII, take the head of a large company, say IBM or even ExxonMobile, make them the VP nominee at an annual salary of $1 a year. They know how to run a profitable corporation and understand how to get the foreign leaders to listen to them.
Politics like big business deals in the art of negotiations and who else would have plenty of experience.
Maybe John McCain is looking at the wrong folks.
By Dave
May 23, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this
Obama is either naive or Pro-Muslim in his equating geographic size with potential threat when considering Iran. Hillary will bring “Slick Willie” with her as he did her in the previous “Clinton era”. McCain seems to lack recognition of the core of conservative Republicanism(commonly seen as “Reagan Republicanism”)namely, conservative Christians. All three fail to see the “front-line defense” and the commitment required of Jesus Christ often erroneously compared with the “in-your-face” commitment required of by Allah and his prophet Mohammad. The average Occidental is more “fanatic” about his sports, lifestyle, and ego than his world view hence fails to fathom conservative Muslims. They, in their up-front realism, are telling us what they believe and will do - we refuse to believe them seeing them through “Western/quasi-Christian glasses”. They’re telling us - why don’t we believe them?
By BlueMan
May 23, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this
No matter what he does, McSame has no chance to win. Who needs another term for Bush? Aren’t two terms long enough? What is McSame going to do? Start a war with Iran? All he knows is war, war, war! Yet when it came time to vote for the troops this week, he chickened out.
By Independent
May 23, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Choose Hillary as VP and the election is over for Barack. It will be great if both McCain and Hillary ran as Independents. That will crush the out dated and useless two party system and will force others to look after people’s will.
Fundamental problem with the two party system is that, it forces us to trade one set of clowns for different set of clowns back and forth.
Until we get rid of the two party system, there will be no progress made or people’s business taken care of.
By Dan
May 23, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
jontx, I am sure if I think back far enough, I can name a President that didn’t serve in the military, and even avoided service. Wait, it’s coming to me, his name rhymes with “Bush.”
By Dan
May 23, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
jontx, I am sure if I think back far enough, I can name a President that didn’t serve in the military, and even avoided service. Wait, it’s coming to me, his name rhymes with “Bush.”
By Churchill
May 23, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this
Bush was in the National Guard and was honorably discharged, regardless of what Captain Dan the newsman claims via his phony, doctored career-ending documents. Bill Clinton, a true honest to God draft dodger, is the only person to hold that office without military service. Peace.
By Will Jones
May 23, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
Bush was cheated into the closed Guard through his JFK-killing Congressman father’s influence. It was officially closed for 18 months because all slots were filled when LBJ made it illegal for further NG or ER to be sent to Vietnam and all the “wannabes” jumped in as a dodge so they’d still be able to “look” military while we were dying for the pope after GHWBush and Nixon killed Kennedy for ordering our withdrawal from Rome’s SE Asian latifundial slave plantation.
www.theamericanfundament.blogspot.com
By Will Jones
May 23, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this
This is the irony of the 9-11-committing homosexual draft-dodger Bush’s sending the Guard and Reserve to die for his false war for heroin, oil, the Saudis, and a corrupt faction of false Jews in the State of Israel: he was cheated past the wait list into the closed Guard because it was exempt from combat duty. He isn’t just a traitor and a closet-queen, he is a complete coward, hypocrite, and no man…as is any who reads this truth and still supports the scum…accursed.
By Churchill
May 23, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this
Will Jones is my favorite lunatic Obama supporter. Hey Will, Pope, Bush, Rome, Rockefeller….. Booga, Booga, Booga.
By Suzy Long
May 23, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
Whats Will Jones been ‘smokin’? He’s crazier than the lunatics in the “Lunny Farm”. And, anyone who wants a Radical Muslim with a Racist wife for president is already brain-damaged; this guy should be prohibited from voting. Thats why we get these problems; Its the LUNATIC vote. I like the idea of getting rid of the politians and voting for the most successful CEO’s. GOOD ONE!
By Captain Reality Bites
May 23, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this
I believe Will, the doubters are scared to rock the boat, can’t ween themselves of the teet of our leaders right or wrong..
By Huckapedia
May 24, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
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By Finios
June 16, 2008 2:03 AM | Link to this
So, never make the mistake of feeling sorry for McCain. The “straight talker” is going to be using all of these illegal, immoral resources to subvert the democratic process, because, as Hunter S. Thompson put it so eloquently, once a sane politician gets a whiff of the White House, he turns into a bull elk in rut. And that is a scary thought when the bull elk in rut is John McCain. Mc Cain is a hypocrite & a war monger with a bad temper & is senile, that’s one guy we don’t need in the white house! Didn’t we have enough of republicans the last 8 yrs? isn’t gas prices high enough for u? Isn’t the economy bad enough? Isn’t he housing market bad enough? Isn’t the war, which should be long over enough?, Didn’t enough Americans die? Whatever happened to, I WILL SMOKE HIM OUT!? HAHA it will never happen.. People keep making the same mistakes over & over again, the republicans are all for their own pockets. Didn’t Bush make enough damage for us? Think people! Let’s try some new ideas OBAMA..