Oh, wait a minute. We have Obama as our nominee. Nevermind.

You can't stand the idea that Obama beat your girl fair and square. Get over it. She was rejected.

They wouldn't/didn't vote for Steele because of his conservative politics.

And stop acting like you wouldn't be caught up if Hillary Clinton gave her acceptance speech yesterday. Your unwavering support of Hillary combined with you being a woman also would have had you bringing up women's suffrage, Clara Barton, Rachael Carson, Amelia Earhart, Shirley Chisholm, and any other woman that broke ground in her field to underscore Hillary's historic moment. So don't all “policy wonk or Democrats lose” with me because your candidate isn't there. History is freakin' history. And we're human. Emotional.

Barack Obama is hardly the negative figure you paint him out to be.

BOB BARR FOR THE DEBATES '08!

C'mon. That would NEVER happen…lol….

Oh, wait a minute. We have Obama as our nominee. Nevermind..
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“And regarding black people unanimously supporting Obama, what did America expect. He is the first. And that's the way it goes.”~ T Steel
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Yes, even if that means the defeat of the democratic bid for the Whitehouse, perhaps in the time in human history when such a win means the tipping of the scales one way or another for global war and economic collapse.

Glad to see people have their priorities straight..

And that brings me back to my stunned observation of interviews just after the Obama-fest yesterday where longtime Obamabots admitted with a smile no less that “even if Obama doesn't win, it's still a historic campaign”.

Yeah…about that….history isn't always stories of good things that happened…

So a McCain/Steele ticket coupled with Obama/Biden on the other side would lead to the lowest voter turnout in years due to the two black candidates?

And regarding black people unanimously supporting Obama, what did America expect. He is the first. And that's the way it goes.

Regarding the African American thing, he ran for the Senate at the same time Republican Gov Ehrllich ran for reelection and they got the exact same percentage of the vote. His percentage of AA vote was almost identical. He wouldn't have pulled any votes from Obama, but he sure as hell would have stripped votes from him further south of the Mason Dixon line.

Side note: I heard one caller on one radio show today say McCain should have chosen Condolezza Rice, and I say this would have been a “McSame” appearing mistake. Steele is obviously not baggage like this. Nor, I believe, is Colin Powell. Bring him back in as SECDEF or in some other important role, I say.

Obama's campaign PR guy was an idiot at responding to McCain's VP choice. He dismissed her as a mere tiny-town mayor “with no foreign policy experience” — she, the #2 choice, with more executive experience than Obama (who has _zero_ such experience) and Obama is the #1 (Presidential) candidate for the Dems, and also has no foreign policy experience! The Obama campaign must have been floored by McCain's stealing the show today from Obama (who probably expected the press to be gushing about him all the way into the start of next week and the GOP convention that they'd dismiss ahead of time and during the convention as well).

It should be added that yes, Obama once again rescued his campaign. When he was asked about the choice, he said that it represents another example of progress in this nation and that it does attack the “glass ceiling.” Great for Obama himself! And when asked about his campaign VP statement that was so harsh (unlike Obama's own gracious response), Obama said that his campaign sometimes is “on a hair trigger, when it shouldn't be.” Again Obama has rescued his campaign.

I hope the GOP (not only McCain) exploits this VP choice and makes it the true contest and “sporting” contest it should be now.

the white southerners – i think that in a era where blacks and whites as not able to married (even though the supreme courts overrule it in the 60's) and tolerated in the south would had been difficult.

whites southerner used to be democrats but started voting republican ever since Nixon southern stragedy, therefore the Solid South and southern republican is a must for MaCain presidency. So if Steele was the VP, i would find it hard that MaCain will win the south in that whites southerner would not vote for him nor will the white southerners vote for Obama because he is black either.

the Northeast will go for Obama and so will the pacific west, but the mid west is a mix, and the south is ever so republican. said, Obama wins the northeast and pacific west, and MaCain won the mid west, what about the south?

secondly, blacks had already make their statement, they are strongly for Obama and Steele lost in the senate or was it govornor race to a white man. so i don't see many blacks voting for MaCain with Steele as VP. blacks just don't vote color, they also vote policy too.

although, good choice with Palin because that means that white southerners can still vote for their own kind since i don't see them voting for a black man be him President or VP.

Well, Steele could've made a good choice except for one problem: he would stand in the shadow of The Anointed One….lol…

No, the black votes will be behind Obama no matter what. McCain knew this. They want PRESIDENT, not vice president…it's all about “making history” dontcha know..

Picking a woman was a vastly better idea from a strategic standpoint. The “up for grabs” voters aren't blacks, they're women….millions and millions of them disenfranchised by their favorite party.. And McCain swooped in to “hit that”..lol…

Yes, that's a simplistic and bucolic way of looking at it. It's like Obama jilted women and left them on the curb for another preference…*giggle*…and then McCain pulled right up in his muscle car with a dozen roses and his best smile and said, “hey baby, want a ride?”

lol….

Not that getting in that car would be the most advisable thing to do. But you know the old saying “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”

McCain just took that one to the bank..