A McCain Vice Presidential Pick To Aggressively Court Hillary Clinton Supporters?

I'm sorry, but I just don't see Hillary voters going for it. Hutchinson doesn't have the same record on issues-- and I don't think they will vote for her just to get a woman in the WH. That's not to say that some won't vote for McCain to express their anger and frustration at Clinton's close call, or rejection by the Obama camp for VP.

As foolhardy as Obama is, I will (reluctantly) vote for him instead of McSame. And it's not so much McSame I object to as his alliance with BigOil.

BigOil is THE quintessential terrorist threat to the United States Of America. Anyone touting a policy that even hints of continued presence in Iraq (to preserve oil fields there naturally for "the next hundred years"...coincidentally, the same time it will take for those reserves to run out..) or of expanding oil leases on domestic soil on or offshore, or tax breaks for BigOil, or anything but sanctions against BigOil frankly....(prosecution in a perfect world...) will not get my vote.

To recap BigOil's "contribution" to America: Their mouthpieces in the current administration lied to Congress to obtain funding and muscle to illegally invade a sovereign nation. Invading that nation and allying a former Russian satellite country (Georgia) has reasonably pissed-off the Russians. With our military stretched thin, the only solution to bolster it is a draft...that is something else that will be seen in the McSame administration BTW.

BigOil with their coercion and manipulation of our elected officials, some willing, some not, has place our country in the weakest position it has ever been in. And now in their hallmark "wisdom" they are trading insults with Russia. They won't feel the brunt in their Texan estates with armed guards, you and I will. It's like BigOil is a big fat man walking up to a grizzly bear, slapping it across the face and then quickly placing an 8-year old boy with a pop gun at it's feet for it's natural retaliation.

No, as much as I know Obama is not the one for this country, at least he is less of not-the-one than McSame. And therefore, reluctantly, I will fight vigorously for him to become the next President. The alternative is unthinkable..

With Biden and a democratic Congress to hold his hand, Obama can limp us along long enough to get Hillary in in 2012. Cheney's had his hand up Bush's back the whole time and throwing his voice. Who's to say a VP isn't powerful?

You heard it here first.

Oh Sil,
You're almost rehabilitated. Welcome back from the dark side.

at least he is less of not-the-one than McSame

I know many people who feel this way.

Intelligence is never the dark side "friend".

"almost rehabilitated" eh? They only make beer-goggles just so thick Chris. Intelligent people know Obama is a sketchy choice in these troubled times. Empty suits cannot deliver since they have no substance. His choice of Biden was his only intelligent move to date. Without Biden, Obama would not have my support, and that only indirectly.

I will vote for obama/BIDEN ticket this Fall and I will encourage everyone else to do so.

Silhouette, frankly I'm shocked. I confess to thinking you were going to be more vindictive than that... which isn't to say I expect the venting to be completely over. ;-) In any case, I applaud your decision.

I have a comment about the first linked article, and that is the use of the term "pro-abortion" by the writer. This is a pejorative and inaccurate term. Nobody is "pro-abortion". Many people are, however, pro-choice.

Hopefully, Sil is indicative of the way many Hillary supporters will be reacting. Yes, its disappointing, yes many of us still feel she would have been the best person for the job, but the choice is too important to make out of disappointment. She ended up not being able to overcome old baggage and a media that either focussed on irrelevant details like her pantsuits or tagged her as competent but unlikeable.

If you believe that the GOP has the answers- fine then switch. But its counterproductive to switch parties because you don't like the way your candidate was treated-- Nader voters didn't do much for their causes in 2000 did they?

It's interesting that pro-lifers place so much emphasis on saving unborn babies. Yet when those babies are born and live a few years, suddenly the same camp that insisted they be brought into the world unwanted will legislate them out of health care, education and the basic services they need to live healthy, prosperous and free of pain.

It's as if the pro-lifers want to increase the mass of unwanted human population to the point where crime, disillusionment and misery are at an all time high. If you really think about it, pro-lifers are really pro-torturers, and that would be in keeping with their chiefs running Gitmo. It's patently "unright" to humanely end an unwanted life before it is born. Yet it is patently "OK "to take that same life you "saved" and subject it to unending misery and psychological torture via your newfound disregard for that same life.

So yeah, I have a problem with pro-lifers. Of course no one is pro-abortion. Yuck!

Free, prevalent and easy birth control is the answer to not having abortions. The morning-after pill is a Godsend, literally. To nick the situation when it's just dividing cells smaller than a pinhead is the best of all solutions if contraception fails. The morning-after pill is a hormone that renders the mother's womb incapable of allowing implantation, if my old agriculture notes serve me. They've been using it with animals for years. The tiny cell structure never is attached to the mother and it just passes right out of the body and doesn't even know it existed, I assure you.

Mothers who decide when and where to have their babies statistically nurture those children better, have more money to support them. Those children grow up getting better educations, health care and quality of life. To force women to have children they don't want or cannot care for is placing not only an unwanted burden on them, but on society as a whole; and most of all on the child itself.

I've always been in favor of legislating mandates that require a public tax to support unwanted children clear up until they graduate highschool, mental & physical health care, clothes, food, entertainment, education. Sliding scale. The richer pay the most.

Then watch the 'pro-life' movement fall by the wayside...lol...

Empty suits cannot deliver since they have no substance.

I suggest you read THIS. When you're done, you might have fully pulled yourself from the dark side.