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A little long but still hilarious.
The blog “The Fix” for WaPo has a good piece today: The Case for Kathleen Sebelius
I’ve been pretty keen on her all along for , but she’s probably now elevated to my second choice, after Bill Richardson. Even though Richardson’s name seems to be conspicuously absent from Veepstakes discussions these days.
Sebelius brings executive experience, which I think is a major plus and one of the main reasons I liked Bill. I’d imagine no one realistically thinks she can deliver Kansas for Obama, but she has proven that she can work collaboratively with Republicans, which fits nicely into Barack’s message of a new kind of politics.
Money quote:
While it is a worthy debate as to whether the women most ardently supportive of Clinton would accept the choice of anyone other than their candidate as the VP nominee (more on that in the case against Sebelius tomorrow), for the vast majority of female voters it could provide considerable impetus to turn out in the fall.
One reason I would like to see this happen is that it will reveal much about the most reality-challenged Clinton supporters. Would they finally understand the root of the problem with choosing their candidate? It isn’t that Hillary Clinton is a woman; it’s that Hillary Clinton is Hillary Clinton.
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Finally, after two years of research, delays, setbacks and naysayers, I got the bicycle I wanted. A brand new 2008 Salsa Casseroll in a beautiful striking dusty gold color called “ginger beer”. It’s a classy sport-touring road bike with full 105 components and all sorts of handy braze-ons for fenders (comes with!), racks, panniers, even a pump peg. I rode it around the block yesterday with a huge smile on my face.
This is going to be more than just a toy though. It’s crucial to my plan to improve my health, become more fit, more stress free and generally happier. And I can tell it is already working.
I can’t remember the last time I agreed 100% with George Will, but it happened today. His article “For Obama, a Ticket Test” is spot-on, but I excerpted the especially insightful parts.
Which brings us to the dotty idea that Barack Obama should choose to have Hillary Clinton down the hall in the West Wing, nursing her disappointments, her grievances and her future presidential ambitions while her excitable husband wanders in the wings of America’s political theater with his increasingly Vesuvian temper, his proclivity for verbal fender benders and his interesting business associates.
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Obama’s choice of a running mate will be the first important decision he makes with the whole country watching, so it will be a momentous act of self-definition. If he chooses her, it will be an act of self-diminishment…
She, whose experiences as First Spouse have not impressed Obama as acquisitions of national security expertise, would not help him deflect McCain’s predictable attack on his thin curriculum vitae. And the more she seems to be pushing Obama to choose her, the more resolutely he must resist. Otherwise, at the beginning of a contest in which McCain will portray him as a flimsy figure, Obama will define himself as someone who can be pushed around.
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Clinton, having risen politically in her husband’s orbit, is a moon shining with reflected light. Were Obama to hitch himself to her, he would reduce himself to a reflection of a reflection.
