And people dont believe me when i said if Bernie was the candidate they’d have their Rovian lie & mis-characterization hate machine working withing minutes.:eek::dubious::rolleyes:
Booker has had much more actually experience though. Newark has a strong mayor system, so being Mayor of Newark is a big executive position. And Booker is currently a US Senator.
Here’s CNN on five top possibilities for Hillary’s running mate - FWIW, Perez isn’t on the list: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/14/politics/hillary-clinton-vice-president-choice/index.html
I’m a huge fan of Sherrod Brown, though I see the Senate complications.
I hope it’s neither Kaine nor Vilsack. I’m bored just writing them down.
But if she’s already doing that, why bother nominating her?
You do it better and more effectively from that perch than otherwise.
Rahm Emmanuel
(1) Served in the Clinton administration to help pass their crowning achievement
NAFTA.
(2) Made 16 million on Wall Street and with Gold Man Sacks. Hillary loves Wall
Street since her son-in-law runs a hedge fund financed by Lloyd Blankfein CEO
of Gold Man Sacks.
(3) Has seen military action. Not for the United States. But for a foreign country.
(4) Wears spandex as a ballet dancer. You want a feminine figure to balance out
Hillary’s masculine qualities.
(5) Complete failure as mayor of Chicago which qualifies him for promotion in the
Democrat party.
Please stop with the Anti-Semitic Racism.
This was not all that humorous on its first appearance. Its continued use does appear to be an anti-semitic slur.
Stop it.
[ /Moderating ]
As I’ve posted before, I have it on good authority that he has told family and close friends he has no interest in becoming Vice President, because he doesn’t ever want to possibly be in the position of having to send soldiers to their deaths.
They are the only candidates ready to be President. But you sum up the problem with modern politics quite well.
No one is ready to be president based on experience alone, unless that experience includes being president.
And our history has shown us that there’s pretty much no correlation between executive experience and success at being president.
There is much less correlation between being exciting and being a good President.
I’d also note that Vilsack and Kaine have a lot more going for them than just executive experience. Vilsack has worked in DC as well as in Iowa and Kaine has been a Senator and DNC chairman. It’s a good thing that their boringness didn’t prevent fellow Democrats from seeing their talents.
Clinton doesn’t need to add to the corruption narrative.
And Governor of Virginia. And is Catholic and speaks Spanish fluently.
And is current Secretary of Agriculture. Many rural voters may be swingable this time and could use some acknowledgement that they matter too, that they are included when the Democratic Party hypes themselves up as the party of inclusiveness.
There are lots of good choices here, even if some of the good choices are less exciting than others.
As a general rule “exciting” is likely the least vital VP job qualification. If all Warren had going for her was that she would not be as attractive of a candidate as she is.
(VP is typically not a very exciting job.)
If Clinton goes “exciting”, I’ll start building my bunker now because Trump will wipe the floor with her. She needs a boring pick like Pence.
The person with the most boring VP pick wins. Farnaby’s Law of elections.
Is Clinton + a “boring” pick going to energise the base and make people turn up to vote? She needs an attack dog, to relentlessly go after Trump and bait him into saying more and more outrageous things. I’d love to see Warren doing this, but yeah extremely unlikely.
Warren doesn’t seem like a good pick to me. At one point, it seemed theoretically good as an olive branch to Sanders’ supporters, but it’s become clear that those supporters are either going to go out and vote Hillary, or else are well and truly lost. After the lost ones cannibalized Sanders himself for endorsing Hillary, it just wouldn’t work. She may fire up a minor section of the base that isn’t already energized by “omg what the hell, Trump?”, but I think she’s a little too unorthodox to be safe given the minor positive effect she’d have.
In addition, I think it’s better for the party to “save” her for a future election. Wait until Hillary’s terms are up, and depending on which way the political winds are blowing Warren can run and be mostly pure in the eyes of the hardcore Bernie or Busters. She got some flak for endorsing Clinton, but it was a minor enough event that it will mostly blow over by the time 2020 or 2024 rolls around, but an out and out VP spot will never blow over.