This week both major candidates are expected to announce their running mates.Dave’s prediction: BOTH will tap emphatic Christians. Both are catering so much to the evangelicals and avoiding seculars like the plague, that both will find nice, white, Christian men to attract them.
Our best hope is that we will get a veep that is outwardly xian (maybe even emphatic) but inwardly a nonbeliever. That’s right – a hypocrite.
ALL politicains are hypocrites.
“Serving the public”- my A$$.
Self-serving is more like it.
(My opinion of politicians keeps going further below zero.)
I don’t care who they pick, I already know who I am voting against.
They can spout religion but they don’t act it.
Dave’s prediction: BOTH will tap emphatic Christians. Both are catering so much to the evangelicals and avoiding seculars like the plague, that both will find nice, white, Christian men to attract them.
While we’re almost certainly looking at christian VEEP, this could be the year where racial and gender barriers are broken on both sides. The Republicans seem to have a hard-on for Bobby Jindal whereas the Dem’s have already nominated an African American and could very well put a women in the VEEP slot (Sebelius)
My guess is Obama was interested in Edwards. That’s why Edwards got the adultery scandal out in the open- to assess the reaction and whether it would hurt him too much as a running mate.
Of course they’ll pick Christians. And there’ll probably be a VEEP debate on which one is more Christinsane.
And they will probably be both white men. Much as I’d like to see a woman on the ticket, I think we’re stretching average Joe America’s security blankie already by having a (gasp!) black man headed for the oval office. Wouldn’t want to make Mr. and Mrs. Joe America snap by putting a black man AND a woman in there at the same time. (Mr. and Mrs. Joe carry guns, ya know, LOTS of ‘em.)
MY choice for Democratic Vice President would be Jerry Brown. I’ve always loved him. But he is 70 years old – much too old to be Vice President or President. I tend to believe that Presidential nominees should not only be older than 35, but they should be younger than 65. They need all their brain power on the job. — Who cares what John McCain picks. It will never be a person who would me a good president.
Dorky Mommy
Evangelicals like senility in their politicians. It’s a bonding thing.
I guess America will eat anything or buy any bridge….a pastor with a Doctor of Ministry degree issued from Fuller Theological Seminary told Fox and CNN viewers that he’s for separation of church and state…..holy bullshit
will the dems still appoint liberal judges
Maybe Barack Obama will dig up Jerry Falwell to be his running mate. (oh, sorry compared to Obama, Falwell is a liberal)
Charlie,
Did you hear that same pastor say when asked that he could never vote for an atheist?
Why? Because the job is too big and whoever holds the office needs the help of that higher power up there.
Some days I just laugh myself silly. That’s before I dispair, of course.
oops… meant to say “compared to Obama, Falwell would have been too liberal to share the same ticket.”
well at least Bill Maher is a hoot on Larry King right now
You people do know that if you dont like any of the candidates who are running it is more patriotic to not vote at all, right? Obama is a goddamned soc1alist who wants more taxes for more welfare and entitelment programs and McCain is a warmongering idiot and they both pander to religion and israel. Fuck them both.
Alex
Well your definitely right about McCain if you through in old, slow learner and enabler of economic Ponzi schemes. The guy should have been locked up for his Keating Five role but power can by you a lot of privilege.
But Obama a soci*list? That’s Faux News talking points and simply bullshit. Are you going to accuse him of being a muslim as well? And taxes? You are under the serious misconception that lowering your taxes would mean that you will net more money in the long run.
your -> you’re
through -> throw
etc
Suck it Fixed Noise
Not voting is not an option.
The struggle for women’s sufferage was too long and too hard and I cannot dishonor those who never gave up the fight by sitting at home in November.
I’m far from thrilled about either Obama or McCain, but one of them is going to end up in the White House regardless of whether I vote or whether I don’t. It comes down to the fact that I fear one more than the other this time around and even though I’m not happy about the choices I will proudly cast my vote.
This isn’t about just Obama and McCain. This is about the political machinery behind these two people. The machinery running the show behind McCain will be no different than that running the show behind Bush. You will get more of the same – a lot more – if a rethuglican stays in office. Do you want more financial scams (housing ponzi scheme) were we end up paying the bill that mounts due to the financial industries high risk ventures and confidence games? Then the deregulation loving rethuglicans are your party. Do you want more needless and disastrous wars for oil that pass on all the costs of that corporate aggression to you? Then the rethuglicans are your party? Do you want xian extremists and corporation-worshipping judges appointed to the Supreme Court? Then the rethuglicans are for you.
Do you want diplomacy instead of corporate directed wars? Do you want regulation to keep financial institutions from playing their ponzi schemes out in our economy? Do you want Supreme Court justices that tend to favor the rights of the people over the rights of corporations and the church?
Has the choice ever been more clear?
Not in my lifetime.
I always vote. It is my duty to ME.
The politicians I cannot control but there is a much wider effect that includes Supreme Court appointees and more Mcbush=more theocrats on the supreme court. This has world-wide consequences even at the level of birth control clinics in 3rd world countries. Other women should not pay just because I dislike both candidates.
One is still worse than the other.
And the tax-and-spend label that Rs labeled Ds with has long ago been usurped by war fees and corporate support with MY tax money.
“Fascism should rather be called corporatism, as it is the merging of government and corporate power.” –Benito Mussolini
Only a minority of Americans vote. Most think their votes don’t matter, and most of them are probably right — because it never seems to occur to them to vote for anybody but the Rethuglican or the Democrap.
Most of the liberals who do vote are just as bad, because they let the Dems take their vote for granted. This leaves the Dems free to curry favor with other segments of the population. Nowadays, this means the Democraps keep slouching rightward in the Rethuglicans’ tracks. And that, in turn, allows the Rethuglicans to keep moving farther to the right.
The only thing an individual can do to stop this vicious cycle, is to vote — only not for the 2-party system.
Not voting only gives them permission. Politicians don’t have to count votes that are not cast.
NotSoFast
I’m don’t see how voting for a third party is going to fix the lurch to the right. Maybe you could explain?