It looks like this year's US elections won't be boring, but I'm glad that I'm not voting. None of the candidates appeal to me in any way. It seems like politics attracts the worst of people. I'm sure that some get involved for altruistic ideals, but once the "profession" snares a person, it's pure ambition.
From a newsmax mailing:
Condi as McCain running mate? Is there any basis to this?
2. McCain Considering Condi for VP?For those Democrats who don't want either Obama or Hillary:
One rumor rife in political circles is that likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain might choose Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as his running mate.
On the Feb. 11 broadcast of “Larry King Live,” host King interviewed another African-American woman, Barack Obama’s wife Michelle, and said, “I arrived in Washington today from New York . . . and the first thing you hear is rumors. And one of the rumors is that if McCain is the nominee, he might choose Condoleezza Rice as a running mate.”
Said Obama, “I hadn’t heard that.”
The Condi talk “is just a rumor, folks,” King said. “This is Washington — it thrives on it. You live here, you know it’s right.”
Obama: “I don’t live here.”
Rice was also named as a possible GOP running mate on a recent “Charlie Rose” show on PBS, when Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention said he would like to see a Vice President Condoleezza Rice.
1. Al Gore Could Be Compromise Candidate
Don’t count Al Gore completely out of the presidential picture just yet.
That’s the view from across the pond at The Telegraph in Britain, which outlines a scenario that could put the avowed non-candidate at the head of the Democratic ticket.
Saying the momentum has shifted to Barack Obama after a string of primary and caucus victories, Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod told The Telegraph, “We closed a 20-point gap in the national polls in the last two weeks. The more people are exposed to his message, the better he does.”
But he added: “We are up against the Clinton machine. We are the perpetual underdog and will be throughout this process. We’re ready to go all the way to the convention.”
The Clinton camp reportedly believes that if Obama doesn’t deliver a knock-out blow before the March 4 primaries in Texas and Ohio, Hillary could win those races and regain the momentum, with many superdelegates uniting behind her to preserve party unity.
That could lead to bitter battles at the Democratic convention in August, “which could even end with Al Gore, the former vice president, emerging as a compromise candidate,” according to The Telegraph.
A Clinton source told the paper: “There’s a 5 percent chance of that happening, but that’s 5 percent too high.”
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