Let's cut out the "Chuck Hagel for VP" shit right now!

[Yanez Houston Jordan]

He's rated 0% by NARAL and rated 100% by the NRLC, indicating an extremist anti-choice voting record.

He voted to ban D&X procedures even when the mother's life was in danger.

He voted to ban enlisted women from full access to reproductive health care on military bases.

He voted against sex education which would include education about contraceptives.

He voted against stem cell research.

He's rated 11% by the NAACP, indicating an anti-affirmative-action record.

He's rated 0% by the HRC, indicating an anti-gay-rights record.

He voted against hate crimes legislation to include sexual orientation.

He favors teacher-led prayer in public schools.

He's rated 100% by the Christian Coalition and rated 0% by the AU, indicating radical opposition to the constitutional separation of church and state.

He's rated 12% by APHA, indicating an extreme anti-public health voting record.

He voted for Medicare means-testing.

He voted for limiting the self-employment health deduction.

He voted for Bush's pharmaceutical boondoggle Medicare prescription drug ripoff.

He voted against negotiating bulk purchases for Medicare prescription drugs.

He voted to offer legal immunity to reckless hospitals, nursing homes, and HMOs for liability beyond $250,000.

He voted against adding 2 to 4 million children to SCHIP eligibility.

He's rated 22% by the ARA, indicating an anti-senior record.

He favors privatizing Social Security.

He favors de-funding public schools via private school vouchers.

He voted against funding smaller classes.

He's pro-death penalty and pro three-strikes mandatory criminal sentencing laws without consideration of any possible mitigating facts.

He voted against $1.15 billion per year to continue the COPS program.

He's rated A by the NRA because he opposes requiring guns to be sold with trigger locks and he favors loosening license requirements and eliminating background checks at gun shows.

He's rated 0% by the CTJ, indicating opposition to progressive taxation.

He believes that reducing the national debt is less important than tax cuts for the super-wealthy.

He voted to extend the investor class's tax cuts on capital gains and dividends.

He voted to permanently repealing the estate tax for millionaires.

He voted to build a fence along the Mexican border.

He voted to declare English as our official language.

He's rated 92% by CATO, indicating an extremist anti-fair-trade record, based on his votes for implementing CAFTA, fast track authority for the Bush, permanent normal trade relations with China, removing common goods from national security export rules, granting normal trade relations status to Vietnam, extending worker-exploitation-based trade to Andean nations, Singapore, Chile, Central America, Oman, and Peru.

He voted against preserving habeus corpus for Guantanamo detainees.

He voted against requiring CIA reports on detainees & interrogation methods.

He voted for warrantless wiretapping under FISA.

He voted against creating the Senate Office of Public Integrity.

He voted to allow lobbyist gifts to Congress.

He's rated 0% by the LCV, indicating a radical anti-environment record.

He voted in favor of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

He voted against factoring global warming into federal project planning.

He voted against removing oil & gas exploration subsidies when oil companies were already reporting world record profits.



There is almost nothing that Obama could do that would cause me to vote for a third party candidate, but an Obama-Hagel ticket would do it.

[baldguy]

1. I have an idea! How about George Bush!

No, not the dweeb in the WH now. His dad - Poppy - GHWB. He's well liked in the GOP, respected around the world (sort of), and most of all - he has expeirince!














(do I need the :sarcasm: tag?)

[redqueen]

2. The M$M is going to keep coming out with laughable BS.

Get used to it. They seem to be in a full-tilt panic at this point.

[ORDem]

14. What better way to neutralize him (while gaining some red states) than as VP

he said, half-jokingly.

[newmajority]

3. You forgot the worst fact of all about Hagel

As the CEO of ES&S machines, he helped unleash electro-fraud "voting" upon this country, which made his own election to the Senate possible, and which played a big part in the stolen presidential elections of 2000 and 2004.

[DerekJ]

4. On the positive side he's an expert on how to stop the theft.

JOKE :)

[niyad]

5. dear goddess, WHO is fomenting such a ridiculous notion?

[progressoid]

7. No shit! Let's make this idea die.

Good grief, as if the Democratic party hasn't shifted enough toward the center already.

[grantcart]

15. Bless you child you have made my day

McCain-Clinton '08? Obama-Hagel? That's the Ticket

By Lanny J. Davis
Sunday, January 14, 2007; Page B03

Imagine this scenario: The country is so deeply divided that the media have color-coded the map of the United States to indicate the partisan chasm -- one color covers the South and most of the border states, the other drenches the North.

As the presidential election year nears, one candidate, a shoo-in for his party's nomination, has an obvious choice for running mate. Yet he also senses the uniqueness of the moment. So he makes a risky decision: He asks a leader of the opposition to run for vice president alongside him, forming the first bipartisan presidential ticket in U.S. history.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011201956.html

[Czolgosz]

6. AMEN!

[oxbow]

8. You know his final pick likely won't be a dyed in the wool lib, right?

Obama's whole message is about unity and coming together. It's likely that he will pick a DLC'er or RINO for the VP position. If not that, you can bet that republicans and moderate dems alike will have positions in his administration. This is the kind of circle that President Lincoln put together as well, appointing several democrats to his cabinet iirc. Just because * had a hyperpartisan administration doesn't mean we should or will too.

[seaglass]

9. Well talk to your fellow Obama supporters on DU, they've been

suggesting Hagel for at least a month.

[bluetrain]

22. Obama supporters on DU are freeper sock puppets on pay roll.

[mmonk]

10. He worked hard with Biden and others to weaken the IWR.

He has been working hard on the new GI Bill of Rights. If you read his latest book, you'll find he's not a boogeyman. Sometimes he was trying to hang onto his seat and not have the RNC take him out.

[Czolgosz]

19. Did you not read the OP? He's a total boogeyman on everything but soldiers and the war.

[MadBadger]

11. I was shocked to see both dem strategists on Hardball pick Hagel as Obama's best VP

Ive suggested him for Sec Def, but thats as far as I'll go.

[woolldog]

12. tks for the reality check.

I haven't seen anyone here suggest him....

[samsingh]

13. i agree. hagel has a lousy record. he has been silent

on many of bush's crimes

[Usrename]

16. Lincoln Chafee?

:shrug:

[mcctatas]

21. Yeah....

I love Lincoln, but I don't think he's quite "macho" enough to appeal to the LIV (low-info voter)...

[Usrename]

26. That's probably why he doesn't make us gag.

Does Hagel really want to part ways with the dark side? That would be something, I guess. It a hope for some redemption anyhow.

[VolcanoJen]

17. Hear, hear!

I mean, I'm sorry, but this is our year, and as much as I admire Hagel on a tiny teensy handful of issues, he isn't worthy of being a heartbeat away from the Presidency. And it would make us look desperate, which we aren't.

I'll bet the Obama camp got a big kick out of this latest media fantasy today. :-)

[SayitAintSo]

18. Hagel as VP ?.... wouldn't that inspire a sharp shooter....

With Hillary on the ticket the Secret Service could breath a little easier....

[Raine]

20. No reTHUGs on the Democratic ticket

I've had a belly full of them and don't want to see them on any ticket but there own! :puke: x( :mad:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

23. But the HARDBALL PANEL picked Hagel as VP!

:*

[Sensitivity]

24. Have you read Hagel's new book, America: the Next Chapter?? He is a Repug. That is not news.

[anonymous171]

25. His Foreign Policy looks alright. Nothing else though.

Not a good choice.