Please call SF Bay Area Superdelegate Jerry McNerney this moning!!!

Last night he was being accosted by the thug army of kossarians unleashed by some diaryist there who is, like all of them over there, clueless about what his energy policy really is - they just read the pretty headlines, not the fine print.

Here's the phone number:
925-833-0643

Ask why should a wind advocate like Jerry settle for someone who only offers a mere 5 year extension of the PTC? Hillary makes the Production Tax Credit permanent.

This is so crucial to enabling windfarms to start up in this country, so its crucial to solving the energy crisis (you can then develop a clean electric car industry to run on the windpower) and great climate change policy.

I believe McNerney is torn. He would obviously prefer Hillary on clean energy (he's obviously read both the plans!) but the kossarians will be really hammering on him. Don't let those ignorant mobs decide your future!

I will not vote for him if he is the nominee regardless of whether Hillary is in the VP spot.

Obama can run foreign policy and catapault the proganda but she must have control of

1. not privatising social security,
   
2. funding of social programs,
   
3. picking his advisors for deciding health care policy
   
4. picking his advisors for devising and funding the clean energy policy. Obama puts way too much emphasis on ethanol which cannot be more than ONE of the 12 Socolow/Pacala wedges.
   

While Obama/Clinton would be an effective election ticket, it would not be an effective governing ticket.  Hillary's talents would be wasted as a non influential VP in an Obama administration.

The people who aren't going to vote for Obama will not be swayed by the VP choice, whoever that may be.

If I were Clinton, I'd refuse.

Fortunately, the readership here is probably not a representative sample of the Clinton-supporting population.

The snob at SOTU, demonstrated his immaturity
The race baiting and accusation that BC is racist
The "You're likable enough" comment, demonstrated disdain for another candidate
The wiping of his shoulder and maybe giving the finger to HRC, this act demonstrated again his immaturity
The whining about how evil and will do anything to win attack.

Sorry, no dice.  Doesn't solve the problem...at all.

Imagine the debates.  All the gaffes would be at the presidential level while the substance would be in the VP's debates.

Puh-lease.

And besides that, Hillary is already the scapegoat if Obama loses.  If she's on his ticket, she's the double-scapegoat.

The country has some serious damage to be repaired while simultaneously trying to implement new policies. Obama can't even keep up with Hillary in the energy required for the campaign.

Having said that, which means....I'd come back into the fold, be enthusiastic, and even work for a dual ticket.....

I don't believe he'd offer it to her.  I think that's where the fantasy thinking is coming into play.  He's all about anti-Clinton.  He is all about a New Democratic Party, with him as the Czar.

And he absolutely is lying through his teeth when he says Reagan was his role model.  Nuh uh, can't fool me.  It's Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton is whom Obama admires.  He will never be the campaign wizard, but he's proven already he can do it in a different way.  

Of course, as an ardent Clinton admirer, I say, he's missing the point.  Bill really did pull in both sides and got a heck of a lot accomplished, even with the bimbo factor.

The bottom line is that as Democrats, we need to unite behind our candidate or we will have 4-8 more years of a Republican presidency and a SCOTUS that will cause much more harm than any candidate possibly could.  I hope that much of what I am hearing and reading is nothing more than an emotional purgatory before common sense and realism sets in.  

I am growing more and more pessimistic about the future of our country when I read many of the kind of emotionally-driven positions found on the blogosphere.  For years I thought this was the domain of the Republicans and their myopic agenda.  I was mistaken.  As Democrats, we have behaved similarly to those we have railed against for years.  It really is time for some adults to step in and try to restore some sanity before we are left with nothing but another decade of finger pointing.

But I have a very strong feeling that Obama is just going to reject such a ticket, out of sheer arrogance combined with his soon-to-become legendary sense of aggrievance.

And it's the one thing Pelosi has said in recent weeks that I agree with.  I suspect she was hinting at the fact these two aren't exactly best of friends, and old campaign antagonisms would likely come to the fore once in office.  Or perhaps she meant to reference Bill and how he and his opinions would be an awkward presence in an Obama/Hillary admin.

The modern P-VP relationship just requires a solid, trusting working relationship, which I don't think O/C would be able to achieve.

As for the fall campaign, I would expect Obama to continue with his so-far successful theme of a New Politics/Change that rejects the shopworn D.C. politics of old, and having HRC run with him would undercut that message at least as these things will be portrayed.

Just as Kerry-Kennedy couldn't "bring" Massacusetts for Obama, we won't come around just because she says we should.  It's all really bigger than her now.  The Democrats are purging, if not us, than our ideals out of the party.  Thanks, Donna for at least being honest about it, but sorry, we're not taking it.

It's simply a non starter. Most of Clinton's supporters will come on board once they have time to accept reality and get over their disappointment and the ones who don't will just get replaced with new voters.

Of those that voted in the primary, Clinton received  at least 47.1% of the votes. So just what percentage of those do you think you can afford to loose, which will be made up by the new voters? Of course this assumes that all the new voters went for Obama.

Because there are no facts, there is no truth, Just data to be manipulated

snore.......

Sebelius will molify no one. She is not in Clinton's league and I pity Obama the first time Sebelius particapates in a VP debate.

If he really wants a woman on the ticket he would do well to choose Napolitano. She's governor of a western red state, and she got elected with public financing. Win-win.