OBAMA SHOULD NOT CHOOSE HILLARY AS VEEP.
HE NEEDS A PERSON WITH HEAVY NATIONAL SECURITY CREDENTIALS
HILLARY IS TOO DIVISIVE AND HAS TOO MUCH BAGGAGE INCLUDING THE FORMER PRESIDENT TO MAKE OBAMA’S CASE FOR CHANGE LOOK AUTHENIC
The Democratic Primary Season appears to be coming to a close with the South Dakota and Montana primaries winding down tonight, June 3, 2008.
With the numbers holding true, Barack Obama will be the first African American ever to be nominated to the world’s most powerful job and America’s highest office.
I believe that the very fact that this country has nominated a black man of Obama’s manner, intelligence, education, experience and oratorical skills can have the greatest impact on the way our nation is viewed by the world in a century.
I am more optimistic about our future than I have been for some time. In fact, it was the election of the 2000 which Al Gore garnered 500,000 votes more than George Bush, but lost the election and the state of Florida’s electoral delegates by manipulation of the vote count by Katherine Harris, Florida’s Secretary of State and her colleagues in crime on the Supreme Court that gave the presidency to one of the weakest president’s that we have had since Herbert Hoover.
It was that election that filled me with such anger and disgust that I began to write this blog to talk back to the far right of the Republican Party and to help make liberalism a viable political position again.
It is amazing that my liberal posture has cost me several friends because for some unwarranted reason so many of my high school and college friends (both undergraduate and graduate acquaintances) are so conservative they make Jesse Helms look like a liberal.
For a while I was appalled. It is difficult to see why political differences should destroy friendships, but I found that some of my former friends, were not friends at all, but acquaintances and many had stayed in their home towns or at least their minds did and they did not have the breadth of experience both my nine years of college and my travels around the world had presented me. We no longer looked at the world through the same lens.
In one way, I am the luckiest man in the world and have been given opportunities that few people have encountered. I have spoken before millions of people in over 28 countries. I have had an audience with the Pope, was invited to the revolutionary palace in Cairo, Egypt, was introduced to and spoke with the Prime Minister of India, as well as Lady and Lord Mountbatten, met and spent time with John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. I was the guest of the chairman and CEO of India’s largest corporation as well the Speaker of their Parliament and the Publisher of its leading magazine. I have run for the U. S. Congress and have written a book that reflects my positions on matters of both a religious and a political point of view. In no way am I the same person who grew up in Southern Ohio, went to a conservative Methodist college in Indiana, attended a Methodist Seminary in Washington, D.C. and have been married for over forty years to the perfect woman for me and have eight grandchildren who remind me every time I see them of what a lucky man I am.
My son was the first person to bring the name of Barack Obama to my attention. My wife, who happens to be my soul mate and I went to a rally for a lady running for Congress in one of the most conservative districts in the country. The young Senator from Illinois was the speaker. He was extraordinary. He had the crowd in the palm of his hand. He said the very things that everybody in that room which was filled to overflowing at 11: 00 am was thinking and I knew then that while he would be running up against some of the most experienced politicians in the country, he had a good chance of bringing the change he spoke so eloquently about to fruition.
Either tonight, June 3, 2008, or tomorrow or surely by Friday, June 6, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama will be the nominee of the Democratic Party for the Presidency of the United States.
The one thing he must not do is make Hillary Clinton his running mate. Although I personally have great admiration for her and probably at any other time she would have been an excellent candidate for the presidency, but not this time.
In spite of Obama’s disagreement, our Party would benefit most by having a heavy weight national security type who can fill the void in which most people think he is lacking. It does not make any difference whether or not it is a fact, what matters is that it is perceived by large numbers of Americans that he needs to add national security and even military expertise to his political resume.
The other reason why Hillary should not be his choice is that she is divisive. There are millions, approximately half of the country that dislikes her personally and vehemently. She would take all of the substance out of his platform to change Washington. She represents the Washington Obama is attempting to supplant. She represents the Washington of scandal, of special prosecutors, of interns and everything else Americans want to forget.
And finally, she would bring Bill Clinton back to town and while he is greatly admired, he will be meddling in affairs of state as well as other affairs he might find appealing. A new president and a former president can not exist in the White House at the same time. And if Bill Clinton is within a 100 ft. of the White House he will be interfering.
Obama does not need the competition of two heavy weights of the old school politics, of the old style Washington that he believes in and has promised to change if elected.
There are a ton of other excellent prospects for the V.P. spot. Do not let the first major decision you make, be the worse one of all.
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