<p>Well McCain get always chose Kay Bailey Hutchinson from Texas. Condi has already said she is out of there come the fall, I don’t blame her for wanting to leave politics</p>
<p>My money is on the governor from Louisiana is in the running.</p>
<p>Not following you Swatparent…what lack of character?</p>
<p>I think the New Yorker article tega linked to is very interesting. It does (shock!) reveal that Obama is a politician, but what it really shows is that he is a smart, skilled politician. I find this reassuring, because I was afraid he was a slightly clueless idealist (like Carter), but it appears rather that he is a smart, hardheaded pragmatist (like Bill Clinton). I also read in vain for anything scandalous. The people who criticized him appeared to be people who didn’t receive the kind of political payoffs they had hoped for.</p>
<p>Wow, I stepped out for a beer and missed this whole thread…</p>
<p>McCain should look at the Alaska governor, Sarah Palin. She’s very pretty, but I don’t know if you guys would classify her as “hot.” I also like Jindal. He’s charming, smart, effective, principled… Not “hot,” though.</p>
<p>Swatparent – I think McCain was “hot” in his salad days. He is a bit long in the tooth now.</p>
<p>I am getting dizzy going from this thread to the other on the same topic. Shouldn’t these 2 be merged? I thought we weren’t supposed to have 2 threads on the same topic? Mods, are you out there? Make our lives easier.</p>
<p>Jindal is only 37. He’s only on the list to show how open-minded the Republicans supposedly are.</p>
<p>“And RatedPG, in my opinion the media has been much too easy on Bush.”</p>
<p>Of Course you do Hunt! And they haven’t been doing everything in their power to shove Obama down our throats!</p>
<p>Jindal is on the list because he exemplifies what the conservative wing of the Republican party believes. He’s a rock star in the party. Maybe too green at the moment, but look out for him rising to the top some day.</p>
<p>Why don’t you just relax and watch more Fox? You could also read the Wall Street Journal. They will provide you with a version of reality that you may find more soothing.</p>
<p>Well I wasn’t throwing out hot names, I was throwing out who could be a realistic mate.</p>
<p>The problem with Jindal, is his resume is thin also, and he would definetely make McCain look like he would die any second from old age!</p>
<p>Picking Kay Bailey Hutchinson is not b/c she’s hot either, but she has had a very successful career and strong approval in TX, which would help McCain sew up the south and mid west. </p>
<p>McCain might actually be able to pull off NJ b/c for the 1st time in decades a republican is in a statistical dead heat with a dem, yet being from that state I believe it will b more about who he chooses as a Veep than about McCain. Our family is from that area and most have been lifelong dems, they are voting for McCain, it is actually an anti-Obama vote. They refuse to hold their nose and vote Obama and would rather hold it and vote McCain.</p>
<p>“Maybe too green at the moment”</p>
<p>I think Jindal is too brown to be chosen in an election against a black nominee.</p>
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<p>He’s the Obama of 04 —he will be giving a key note speech at the convention and brought out into the fore front to show that not all Reuplicans are old!</p>
<p>He’s in a good place either way. If McCain wins he probaly will be given a cabinet position, thus increasing his political clout. If McCain loses and Obama wins he will have enough political experience in 16(assuming Obama has 2 terms) and youth on his side…45 is still very young.</p>
<p>Republicans will come out in droves to vote McCain/Jindal. Jindal will energize the Republican base like crazy. He will also provide a huge boost to McCain’s fundraising. The base will be falling all over themselves to vote for him. And I am not joking about that.</p>
<p>I can’t believe no one has mentioned Piyush Jindal’s race.</p>
<p>Y’all know I don’t care in the least. Heehee. I just did that for interesteddad’s sake!</p>
<p>Hunt you must admit that Obama has been given an easy pass…when SNL has skits about how easy they were on him in the debates, than you know it was getting to the point of ridiculous!</p>
<p>^^^ I’m very relaxed thank you. Just shaking my head at those that have this hatred for GWB to the exclusion of all other factors that have been at play over the last 8 years. But that’s fine, it seems to make you all feel better to denounce him as someone on the level of Satan. Very good for our country. And it will be all better once we elect a left-wing radical with no experience. </p>
<p>I think I’ll go read my WSJ.</p>
<p>Wasn’t the point of the New Yorker cover to poke fun at the people who are “accusing” Obama of being a closet Muslim and his wife of being an anti-white, Angela Davis type character?</p>
<p>The cover is not making fun of Obama, folks: it’s making fun of the people who are trying to portray him and his wife in that light.</p>
<p>I am surprised that people don’t seem able to get this. I guess whoever said that we ought not to underestimate the stupidity of the public was right. :)</p>
<p>Funny how if you want to get a dig in on Jindal you call him Piyush, but if you want to dig at Obama you call him Barry. (not you specifically, but people in genl) Just an observation. Anyway, altho Simba doesn’t like him, Jindal has a lot of support in the Indian cmmty, and his hometown in India is really enthusiastic about his success here (his grandparents still live there I believe). He gets political donations from not only all over the US, but all over the world, and a lot from India. It would make a very interesting campaign.</p>
<p>just went and researched, here is the % from PEJ [Project</a> for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) | Understanding News in the Information Age](<a href=“http://www.journalism.org%5DProject”>http://www.journalism.org)</p>
<p>Obama definetely for a long time has been the leader in media exposure, this is just for the week of June 9 -15
Media Exposure by Candidate/Political Figure </p>
<p>Main Newsmaker Significant Presence Total Percent of Campaign Stories<br>
Barack Obama (D)
59.0% 18.2% 77.2%<br>
John McCain (R)
44.4 10.5 54.9
Hillary Clinton (D)
7.1 3.3 10.4
Michelle Obama
4.1 1.5 5.6
Bill Clinton
0.7 1.5 2.2
Ron Paul (R)
1.5 0.4 1.9
George Bush
0 1.1 1.1
Total Number of Campaign Stories = 268 </p>
<p>So 77 % of the media stories involved Obama compared to 55% for McCain.</p>
<p>And under your theory most of those stories would have only been on Fox for McCain</p>
<p>Check out the story
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<p>The graph going back to January showing Obama’s, Hillary’s and McCain’s coverage is very telling…only1 week in Feb did McCain lead, and that would be because he won the nom!, after that Obama is on top. 1 week in May McCain only had 10% of the stories, while Obama was near 80%…I would again agree with PG and saying he was shoved down our throats</p>
<p>All I can say is that as bad as GWB has been and there has been a lot of bad… I’ll still take where we are over where I suspect we would be now if Gore had been elected. No one will ever know but Gore was a wuss and we would be at the mercy of the terrorists by now.</p>