I'm just offering my own somewhat ignorant opinion here...but I guess Obama was thinking that here was a classic dilemma.... Real "Horns Of the Bull" problem... Ask Hillary to be VP and be perceived as either gut-lessly begging for help not to mention the risk of being turned down, or the real risk of being upstaged by his VP like someone currently in that job..
OR,.. He could go ahead and ask his party for tolerance and indulgence and stand by him and the second tier candidate that he was going to otherwise forced to pick if he wanted to stand a tinkers damn of winning...
I mean I thought that the Democratic party was supposed to be the tolerant folks and even Hillary asked the question,. "Who were you voting for?? ME or the American People??"
And STILL , clearly there are numerous and sundry that are determined to make this election be about Hillary and NOT ABOUT TAKING BACK OUR DAMN COUNTRY!!!!
So, what to do, what to do...knowing you are damned and doublely so ('cause of your skin color) (AND yer funny "FOREIGN" sounding name),,..do you kowtow to a bunch of hard-nosed Hillary supporters, and forever be seen as unable to make your first real decision on your own....
OR, do you look closer at the remaining "also-ran's" and try to decide on a partner that has a skill level you'll need, and the humble roots pastiche that you apparently do not deserve to call your own (in spite of your roots), and ask a guy that you know probably does not respect you and can actually in the future embarrass your Administration Potentially Horribly so by his penchant for de-rigueur style speaking and whilst doing so actually eating his own feet...???
I know I was not asked about the VP picks..I'm totally sure I could have at least injected some levity into the process but I am also totally sure that this is not the moment for laughing and kidding, but for serious introspective qualifying and selecting and then getting on with the actually Winning of this interminable Race..
Could he have made better picks??? Maybe....
Should we all do our collective best to ensure that he loses because he didn't do what we wanted???
I quote (by paraphrase) a Senator from New York, "Who were we actually voting for anyway??"
I will vote Obama.. We have to have a different looking face in that office... IF we can EVER hope to hold our heads up in the court of World Opinion...
Not that I give a damn about the rest of the planet...so long as I get some for me and mine....
So, maybe Johnny be Same Is the real answer.. (I know he is not and he cannot at this point make me see different), but I cannot accept a candidate that would cynically pick a running mate based solely on that person's gender... and not even CARE about their qualifications...hoping only to play a card that had seemingly been removed from the table by your opponent.. And in stealing that card, and purporting it to be your confident choice all along...you prove that your care for the "America" you vaunt so highly in public is really a deeply held dislike of the very people who make up that "'Merica"..
SO, yeah...maybe McCain is right, we need a woman in that office..I don't disagree in the least... but really, we need to become a single people and that means taking care of (FINALLY) a little bothersome problem left over from when the GOP was Invented..the time of our first murdered President...
He thought there room here for the folks that others thought of only as "Property".. and it cost him for thinking so and acting upon it..
I seriously can NEVER measure up to that...but I can Recognize and act in my own rightful, small way and vote.
I pick a guy named Obama to be my leader...
The rest of you guys can take the Cheer Leader... have fun!!!
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