This is not a prediction about an Obama running mate

[Perky]

But it would not suprise me at all if it was

Obama-Hagel

Hagel is rumored recently to have said "I don't know if you can call me a Republican anymore"

If he breaks with the GOP and becomes an independent. I bet he makes the shortlist

Again This is not an endoresment....but it would mkae a very interesting ticket
:hide: :popcorn:

[TwilightZone]

1. No chance. Hagel is an ultra-conservative.

His record and his rhetoric do not match. He has a long history of saying one thing in public and doing something very different when it's time to vote.

[Perky]

2. But he is opposed to the war.

and thinks the GOP is made up of fools.


that is his one selling point.

[TwilightZone]

5. Doesn't matter. An ultra-conservative is the last thing we need on the ticket.

His opinion of his own party notwithstanding.

[ChiciB1]

15. I Understand What You're Saying... But From What I've Seen Of Obama Lately

IT WOULDN'T surprise me. He might even be considering Lieberman, that's how much I think he to the right of me.

[chimpymustgo]

6. Anti-abortion. Very conservative. You're not promoting this, are you?

This is as bad as Kucinich/Ron Paul.

[Perky]

7. hell no

[TwilightGardener]

8. He's conservative, but it's not true that he says one thing and does another

come vote time. The only time he did that was with the Warner-Levin anti-Surge resolution (which he cosponsored) last year, during the cloture vote, when the Repubs wanted to try to force Repub pro-war resolutions to also be voted on. Otherwise, he is what he is--he's pretty honest. He's not an Arlen Specter. That's a pretty weak compliment, but there it is. If he was up for Senate re-election this year, I'd have voted for him, though--if a decent Dem didn't run (and there aren't any running, sadly). Better the devil you know, and all that.

[Bluebear]

10. Obama admires Reagan, his close friend is Sen. Coburn, who knows?

[Alexander]

3. I suspect (and hope) Obama might now pick Janet Napolitano.

She'd make a great Vice-President or Attorney General.

[JI7]

9. yes, Napolitano or Sebelius

would both be great choices.

[TwilightGardener]

11. No way. Obama needs someone with foreign policy experience

and national security/military experience--we're at war in two countries, for God's sake. He doesn't need someone with pothole budget experience. Plus, a woman on the ticket is a little too groundbreaking. We're not trying to make a social engineering statement, we're trying to pick the best match for him. It's different with Hillary, because she's so famous she's down to one name.

[JI7]

13. Obama has foreign policy experience

but if he does want more emphasis in that area, i think Gary Hart would be good. maybe Max Cleland.

[TwilightGardener]

14. I think Hart's a little, well, old. Cleland wouldn't be bad. I like Biden, possibly

Dodd, or Jack Reed--yes, Jack Reed. An unexciting man, but smart, military creds, seems like an experienced workhorse.

[VolcanoJen]

4. Nawww.

I'll bet Bloomberg already purchased Hagel.

[jlake]

12. It sounds like something Obama would do.

But I don't like it.

[Bluebear]

16. Indeed.