I've had all the WASHINGTON EXPERIENCE I can take! Have you?

[Skwmom]

OUR country can't take any more of that Washington Experience.


Obama/Schweitzer or Obama/Kaine is okay with me.

Look at what ALL THAT Washington Experience has given us. That's all that needs to be said to the American People. They realize what a mess this country is in because of the way things are done in Washington.

IMO McCain is desperate for Obama to pick a Washington politician so he can pick someone outside the beltway and try to take the change mantle from Obama. I can hear the MSM now, of course Obama would pick a typical politician and McCain the maverick would pick a regular guy.

[billyoc]

1. I have to stick with Hillary on this one(and that's saying something)

"Nobody had more experience than Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld."

I don't know why more people don't quote that line. :shrug:

[Skwmom]

2. They are SO desperate to have Obama pick a Washington Insider.

[Stop Cornyn]

3. Agreed! Obama/Schweitzer or Obama/Kaine would be fine. Even Obama/McCaskill (since she's been in DC

for only a short period of time).

PLEASE, not a Junior Senator/Senior Senator ticket. Such a ticket would court disaster.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Obama's greatest need from a VP, other than a clean history, a careful mouth, and debate skills, is

REASSURANCE. Obama personifies change and unfamiliarity. Increasing those factors will not help him. McDairy's problem is the opposite--he needs to jazz up his ticket a little, so he can go with a Governor or Senator who's not nationally known but can add some appeal to the ticket.

[Skwmom]

5. What reassurance does Biden or Bayh provide? They voted for the

biggest debacle in U.S. History. They would only reassure me that NOTHING would change.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Well, I'm addressing the larger pool of voters who don't know what

"DLC" stands for, don't know or care how these guys voted on the IWR--the great unwashed (not-so-progressive) masses, in other words. Resume, experience, comforting familiarity (from Sunday shows etc.) will provide the reassurance that Obama is not a scary, out-of-the-mainstream choice. I truly believe that McSausage is still polling well, despite his disaster of a campaign, because he's well- known, familiar and is not seen as risky. I think that's why Hillary started making a comeback at the end of the primaries--once the novelty of a new guy wears off, voters start turning back to same old same old.

[grantcart]

7. I have to admit I know very little about either one of them

However in trying to anticipate THE PROXY ATTACKS AGAINST OBAMA BY ATTACKING HIS NOMINEE I have learned more about Kaine and found that he is a clever fighter for progressive issues.

I would like to learn more about both of them and it would be helpful if folks from those states could give us an objective basis to judge them.