Considering the idea that Obama won't pick those with names being floated around

[cbc5g]

Who do you think is the guy or gal who will be the big surprise?

Schweitzer
Clinton
Richardson
Clark
Gore

anyone else?


I think it will happen Tuesday or Wednesday this week

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

1. A.B.C. = ANYBODY BUT CLINTON!! That is a LOSING ticket!!

[saltpoint]

2. Daschle. Tom Daschle was real loyal real early to Obama.

I think he's a dark horse option.

I still like Bill Richardson's chances.

I still like Kathleen Sebelius' chances.

I harbor a wild yearning for Bill Bradley, a long-time champion of mine, and would have no problems whatsoever if Jag's owner were the pick.

[CTyankee]

5. On Matthews today somebody said Daschle would be Obama's Chief of Staff.

That was on the "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" segment.

[saltpoint]

8. I could see it.

And I think Daschle would be fiercely loyal and effective to a President Obama.

A Daschle serving Obama would be a different Daschle than the Daschle battling Frist and the Bush-loving Republicans in the U.S. Senate.

[cbc5g]

7. Agreed, Richardson still looks good IMO

[saltpoint]

12. Hi, cbc5g. Yes. Bill Richardson jus brings an awful lot to the table.

The next president will be having to weigh future energy policy, and I don't think it would hurt one bit to have an expert like Richardson very close by.

Also, with Richardson, we carry districts we had much less chance to win under Gore and Kerry.

So I think he helps politically before and after the election.

[ClassWarrior]

14. For sure.

NGU.

[writes3000]

10. Interesting. I haven't heard Bradley mentioned before as an option. n/t

[saltpoint]

13. I'll admit to a sharp bias. I was a Bradley delegate in 2000 and have

loved the guy for many decades.

If not a dark horse option for vice president, then I hope he is the Housing and Human Services Secretary.

[ClassWarrior]

3. Feingold.

Tho I don't want him to leave the Dairy State.

NGU.

[patrice]

4. I know whom I am hoping for:

Governor Sebelius

- or -

General Clark.

[CTyankee]

6. Did you hear Kerry diss Clark today on MTP?

That might signal the very end of any talk about consideration for Clark as VP...

[patrice]

17. Look, all of us are grown-ups here. What Kerry did in re Clark today was NO different from

from what happens at any honest project meeting in business.

I personally think Obama's campaign needs some "good cop:bad cop" and I'd bet I'm not the only one who thinks that and that includes those inside the campaign itself.

And just as I didn't particularly LIKE what Obama said about my generation, The '60s, in his speech on Patriotism in Independence, Mo, June 30, that didn't keep me from hearing the principle that he very strongly supported there "Protesting one's government, when it is hurting one's country, IS Patriotic" and I know that that principle IS what drove many of us in the '60s, so Obama disagrees with HOW some of us did that - not a problem - I disagree with HOW some of us protest the King George, but, as with someone as smart as Obama, disagreements about HOW to go about something do not necessarily include disagreements about WHY to do it and, at this point,

it is absolutely vital

to identify and differentiate distinct WHYs and we won't be able to do that if the WHY is always allowed to hide behind obfuscation and confusion engendered by the different kinds of HOWs. So I think it is an excellent idea to say what behaviors, what HOWs, you support and which ones you don't, even when that results in a critique of someone I like as much as I like General Clark. Afterall, General Clark can take the information and do with it what he wants in his own "game plan" and I trust that he is smart enough to use what is useful and adapt that which is less useful, rinse and repeat as necessary to get wherever he is going. And I will be very happy if, when he gets there, there will be a bunch of us, having gone through our own processes, who will be there with him.

:rant:

[DevonRex]

9. Clark or Richardson would be the obvious ones to me. Gore

would knock everybody's socks off.

And I'm hoping that whoever it is, he/she will be a rock star and that we won't know who it is until he/she walks out onto the convention stage.

[sellitman]

11. I'm still hoping its Richardson.

It's been quite though. Not much news to speculate on.

[caledesi]

16. I agree! NT

[patrice]

20. Ohhh, I like Governor Richardson very much too - and Senator Feingold! Our Bench is DEEP!

[Milo_Bloom]

15. I'm still wishing for Richard Clarke

but it ain't gonna happen.

[cbc5g]

18. Richardson shaved recently...a hint?

He hasn't even been on any shows as a surrogate...a hint?

[Windy]

19. I'm thinking Webb, because Webb was so adamant that he wouldn't do it.

he could say that the campaign has been so distorted on Obama's positions that he had no choice. As he is a first time senator and a new dem, he could be considered not the typical washington insider, yet bring military and foreign policy creds to the table considering his service and his position as naval secretary under reagan. He is a pit bull. He has also been uncharacteristically silent lately. His nomination would certainly be a surprise.

Further, as he has said NO very boisterously, the right wing would have called off the dogs on preparing attacks against him and instead, focus on Biden, Bayh, Kaine, etc. as they are the media lapdogs flavors of the week!

Just my two cents