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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 06:03 PM Original message |
Secretary of State used to be the grooming job for the "annointed" next POTUS |
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galaxy21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. Hillary would be 68 by then |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 06:10 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. They don't really like older men anymore, either. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 06:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. If McCain was hale and hearty, it would be different |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 08:31 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. True enough, but it still comes back to age and fitness. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:02 AM Response to Reply #1 |
17. Actually I think older women are take more seriously are younger women are seen as more like |
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adoraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 11:03 AM Response to Reply #1 |
29. no way in hell palin would have got all the attention she did |
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MrModerate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
4. Holy-Moly! Seward came within a cat's whisker of defeating Lincoln . . . |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 06:43 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Gah! I had no idea |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. Since when? |
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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
8. I thought that was the VP. |
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wisteria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:43 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Yeah. n/t |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:20 AM Response to Reply #8 |
22. Depends on the president. Neither Biden nor Satan were considered political heirs |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
10. Last SOS to be POTUS: Martin Van Buren. First VP to be POTUS: Martin Van Buren. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:01 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Umm... Madison, Monroe, Jefferson... NT |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:59 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Yes... they were all SOS before Van Buren...your point? |
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hughee99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:35 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. First VP? |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:59 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Sorry, meant elected. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
11. Thank you for that trip down 100+ Years Ago Lane.... |
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wisteria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
12. Sure, why not. I am now convinced that we will never be rid of the Clinton's. |
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SwampG8r (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
14. that stopped before buchanan i think |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:29 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Agreed: what changed and when? NT |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:32 AM Response to Reply #14 |
25. Buchanan's Secretary of State ran for president to succeed him (1860) |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
16. I'm pretty sure Andrew Jackson ended that |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:30 AM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Well, President Bartlet was grooming Secretary Berryhill to succeed him |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:36 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Well that fascist Speaker Haffley kinda got into the way of those plans |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 11:45 AM Response to Reply #23 |
32. Interesting, Blaine |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:14 AM Response to Original message |
21. Seward, James Blaine, and WJ Bryan (among others) got the job as "elder statesmen" |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:30 AM Response to Original message |
24. Well, so much can happen in 8 years. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:35 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. You're wrong about Indira |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 09:55 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. I didn't mean that they were ugly women. |
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nsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:44 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Indira Gandhi's case isn't really applicable. |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 03:59 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Yeah, I know. |
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adoraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 11:08 AM Response to Reply #24 |
30. mccain's age was more of a concern this election |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 11:38 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. True, but things change. |
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