it is a no choice

after seeing who Obama picked! I've been the Hillary for President supporter all this time. Obama called me one day last fall to ask if I would help in his campaign! I firmly said NO because I was for Hillary. At the end of our conversation he said, "Well, Mrs. Morrison, you know when it comes time to vote, you have to think who the RIGHT candidate will be" (or something to that effect). Ever since then, I thought about what he said and listened to him speak more often. He has been VERY inspirational and that always does catch my thoughts. In the end I could see Hillary had no chance. Lately, I've been supporting Obama for the sake of the Party because I do like him. I've been writing to his website with the thought in mind HE needs to think of the RIGHT VP and with that in mind, is Senator Clinton. I don't know who the progressive Democrats want as VP, but to me half the voting nation voted for her and she deserves more consideration. Now if there is any thinking on this at all, people out there should be uprising and saying "we want who we want" and we don't need it to get this far and already bad choices are being made!

It seems he picked Biden as a chess move for McCain. Biden will probably say the right things for Obama moving forward to get the vote. But to me it seems if Obama himself can't say the right things to the McCain side to get the vote, I'm wondering if he really should be President? I would have been totally certain to see Senator Clinton as the pick for President or VP. Especially since half the voters chose her! Now I'm taking another step back and saying to myself, "What am I to do now as a voter". Just because Bill is suppose to speak at the convention for him doesn't mean I'll vote for Obama. I will NOT vote for McCain though either!

Maybe I'll write Hillary Clinton's name on the ballot for President in November!

Biden, Obama, Hillary, Edwards ?

WE HAVE FAILED TO CHANGE THIS NATION, AND DID SO OVER A YEAR AGO:

ALL of the front runners barely touched on where this Nation should head. And that is an overstatement.

I just don't see how our salvation can come in a Candidate when the Nation is not even asking the right questions. ALL of the front runners timidly tip toe around Conservative sensibilities on bread and butter issues, rather than roaring in with earth shattering economic changes.

And if this too is a chess move then how can one criticize a later chess move?

I don't see success until we get our own Rush Limbaughs, our own media machine, etc. In other words, until WE prime the Nation.

In the meantime Obama/Biden beats McSame/McSame regardless if my first pick is not there.

I just watched Joe Biden speak in Springfield, Illinois. I think he has the story right regarding what is wrong with this country. He seems like a personable guy. He and Obama seem very comfortable with each other. I'm happy with those two things. I know how I just said I would write Hillary Clinton's name in on the ballot, but now I don't know. Senator Obama is a smart guy and I'm sure he picked the best person he feels he can work with and that is very important. A leader has to make his own decision about those kinds of things and not make the decision because it may be popular, it has to be the RIGHT decision for himself/herself , in order to do their job. I say Senator Obama made a decision based on finding someone who can help him do his job right and that hopefully is a good thing! It could be that Obama wants to center himself with individualist thinkers and not "yes" men (women)!

The bankruptcy law that Biden authored may have been rewritten by Bush anyway. It seems that all the bills that attempt to get through are redone by Bush in some manner. Whether or not I am right on that, I don't know. So how much of that bill was Biden's and how much was Bush remains to be seen. I do know it was a bill that was all about the corporations by the time it was passed!

It's hugely important for the Democratic Party to stick together in this! We cannot let McCain/Bush win! I hope others feel that way too. In our neighborhood alone, there has been quite a number of foreclosures and bank-owned homes. There is one sitting unoccupied just on our street. The last time I looked, there was almost 300 foreclosures in our county which consists of rural and several small towns. We and our adult children, who have professional jobs, are feeling the pain of the gas prices. Food prices have gone sky-high. It goes on and on! As long as the Democratic Party knows the direction to work at fixing this country, I will support them. I will not work against it all because this is too important to get it all wrong!

I've said it many times before, but I believe that it is important to bring it to the front of this conversation again: it doesn't make a damn bit of difference who sits in the Oval office, or who the VP is!

The only hope for this nation at present is to elect patriots to Congress who will fulfill their duty and obligation to maintain effective and non-partisan oversight of the Executive Branch. That is their main function, and we have not had such a Congress in decades.

If we continue to place all of our hopes and dreams for a better Republic, and one which meets the intent of the Founding Fathers, in a single "messiah," then our representative and Constitutional form of government "of the People, by the People, and for the People," is toast!

Bill, yes, we do need a strong Congress. But the President is Commander- In- Chief and is able to spend whatever he needs to provide for the common defense until Congress gets around to be able to declare war or provide budgets or whatever. Meanwhile the president is out there sending out troops, spending money, doing whatever it takes to provide for the common defense. That is the President's job to do that. It certainly does make a difference who sits in the Oval Office!

We just got done having someone sitting in there who sent us to the wrong war, used signing statements to change the bills, etc. We need both a strong Congress and a strong President. We need to change the whole thing around. We need huge problems corrected. That will happen when we have more Democrats in office and a strong President. The world has changed tremendlously and it seems to me we need a strong VP also.

It may sound like I am depending on one person to do all this change. In reality, I know that is not it. A team of people is needed to change things. The right kind of leader has to know this and make it happen. People are always saying who cares who is in office because they are all corrupt. Someone said one day they thought "what if we had no political parties and we just elected a person who wasn't in any political party". Would it end the divisive thinking? I don't know.

The country needs some kind of leader. When I speak about a particular person running for President, I'm not thinking of them as a "messiah" or the country as a "Republic". All I'm thinking of is how things have changed in a corrupt way and we need to correct it because it effects my family and people in general. That President, who is in office now, certainly has made a big difference in our country for someone whose job is not very meaningful!

Bill, I'm on the same page. Don't need to get into all that. Just need to consider a leader with vision to get the whole thing going. No one is a "messiah".

"She is a treasonous disgrace to her oath of office"

After reading these comments, I don't understand why Pelosi is responsible for all those treasonous actions in the video that is on this thread. She has only been in office since Jan. 2007. All those issues happened before she became Speaker.

She is definitely not the sole person responsible for the real estate failures of California,  in particular her own area of San Francisco, not to mention the whole U.S.

By my statements above, I'm not saying anything positive or negative about her and her leadership. I agree that all of Congress has been a joke for many years, not just the last few years. Its been horrendously difficult for Dems to get anything passed through the Senate after Pelosi came into office and before she was Speaker. 

I just want to know why you think anyone else would be better? What will Sheehan have to offer us instead?

There has to be a combination of a good Speaker and a Congress with integrity. The Speaker hasn't always been a very powerful position. Only when the time was right and the right combination of people came together did that happen.

It sounds a bit dramatic to say history will show she cried about it all and said she was sorry... I just don't think so.

There is a huge problem with our voting system:

Of the 100% of people in our country who are legally
eligible to REGISTER to vote,

only 50% do.

Then only 50%-60% of the people who register actually show
up to vote.

That means only 25%-40% of our voting population is voting
and

60%-75% are not.

Do the math.

Our votes are SUPPOSED to be majority rules.

I know most people (both Republican AND Democrats) write
this off to people not caring enough, blah, blah, blah. While I'm sure there
are some people who do not care about the Elections, this is indicative of a
huge problem that effects EVERY American; In the multiple choice exam we call
our elections we are told: “you have to Pick A or B.”

WE ALL NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE
WHO DO NOT VOTE, NOT VOTING IS OPTION C: NONE OF THE ABOVE. 75% OF AMERICANS DO
NOT WANT TO VOTE FOR EITHER THE REPUBLICANS OR THE DEMOCRATS.

I feel this is a pretty convenient way to write off 75% off
the voting population that doesn't agree with what our country's VOCAL
minorities argue over.

So this problem grows and every election more and more
people are ALLOWED to sit out of the election because they aren't Red or Blue
or even Purple. They care, they want to do something, they just aren't informed
enough to know what to do.

That's the sad thing: that this Majority doesn't even know
it is the Majority, because neither side will address this issue, AND NEITHER
WILL THE (supposedly ‘liberal’) MEDIA.

So next time someone you know says they don't vote, talk to
them. Don't lecture them about how they need to pick between the lesser of two
evils. Politics shouldn't turn into an argument, it should be a free exchange
of Ideas and then the most widely accepted Ideas get implemented. If you don't
get your way that shouldn't mean your vote didn't count, it should mean
somebody else's Idea was the best of all possible options, according to THE
MAJORITY.

I maybe wrong about all of this.... but maybe both sides
should focus their energies on getting 100% voter turnout. If all of our
countrymen can’t even participate in a democracy why are we trying to force one
on Iraq?

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin

Thanks, now I see what you mean, Bill.

   Joe Biden is a good vice President,  filling in where Obama is weakest.  He blunts the "lack of experience" issue.   He counters the "elite" charge.   He brings the "identify with" emotional pull to blue collar workers.   He will be the scrappy hatchet man while Obama continues to be presidential, and visionary.

 "Nobody can do everything, Everybody can do something.