Presidential Election Political Smackdown FFA

[Charles Dean]

It's funny, because at first I was surprised by her as SoS, but then I remembered one of the only things that I liked about the idea of Hillary as President was Bill being back in the White House.

Now I've never been a fan of Bill, however he is pretty much universally loved around the world. Regardless of what you think about his policies, him as "first man" would've meant instant love from other countries.

I kind of forgot about this after Obama got the nomination.

Now I realize that he's basically getting a twofer here. He gives his biggest rival what is essentially the #3 position in the government, he gets Bill on his side and while the rest of the world was already ecstatic about us electing him, now they also get to go back and talk again with politicians they already liked.

I'm of course not surprised that there's been as much negative about this pick as there has been positive. I mean, I think that if Hillary had received the nomination that that would've been pretty much the only thing that could've united the Republicans. She was/is so universally hated by them after all.

I think it's a pretty great choice though.

[rose-colored-coolaid]

. I'm a carnivore, and have no problem with slaughter animals, but why is Sarah Palin doing an interview with a man slaughtering turkey's in the background? ?? ???

[WestSideBilly]

That's awesome. AWESOME.

[Charles Dean]

Even though comedy writers will have a tough time writing comedy about Obama it doesn't matter, because they will have her and Joe Biden for the next 4 years.

[rose-colored-coolaid]

[Charles Dean]

I think alot of that has to do with his attitude about it. He knows he just says stupid things sometimes and then he laughs at himself about it. After the SNL VP debate sketch I saw an interview with him where they played one of the clips. They asked if he'd seen it and he thought it was hilarious.

When they cut back to him after showing a clip, he's busting up and says, "Man, I just WISH I had that much hair still".

I think it has more to do with that he lacks a tact about what he says.

He won't run in 2016. However, it's pretty likely that his son will take over his senate seat. If that happens, I think we'd very likely see his son run in 2016.

[Charles Dean]

So I was thinking today. Obama has had 3 press conferences in the last week. Do you think that he'll do more press conferences between now and January 20th than Bush did during his entire presidency? He has done a total of 49 in 8 years in office.

[lamont]

[Charles Dean]

[Lake Hills Renter]

[The Tim]

[rose-colored-coolaid]

[Lake Hills Renter]

[Charles Dean]

[Lake Hills Renter]

Not to get off on a tangent here but I haven't seen any compelling evidence for marijuana to be illegal -- at least no more so than tobacco, alcohol, caffeiine, etc -- and the libertarian in me says things should be legal until justified otherwise, not the other way around. So based on that, my position is it should be legal. But it's not an issue I care very strongly about. Things like warrantless wiretapping, national security letters, and free speech zones are much higher on my libertarian concern list.