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ust that in an ever likable if chronically gaffe prone senator from delaware by the name of joe biden the rest as they say is history in the past four years the mood of the country has shifted our idealistic search for something new has given way to old cries from the eighties and even earlier of fat cats and corporate greed versus a shrinking middle class and growing number of people on some form of government assistance leading some candidates to insinuate that these lower income people are lazy it s all remarkably similar to the reagan era arguments about welfare queens and the financial culture of hostile takeovers and gordon gekko types running the show on wall st at the same time we have seen the rise of the tea party culminating in the great butt kicking of 2010 which flipped the balance of power in the house of representatives and shifted the political dialogue of the entire country well to the right of anywhere i ve ever seen it the moderates republican and democrat alike were excised in favor of more partisan candidates and the resulting congress has been deadlocked ever since i ve lost count of how many times we ve almost but not quite shut down the government is it four times now six i don t remember so this year is shaping up to be a smackdown election worthy of a pay per view cage match and the respective political parties are looking for prize fighters the republicans are looking for a defender of tax cuts and a champion of smaller government and business interests the democrats are looking for fighter for workers and the middle class and a protector of programs that they see as vital what democrats have is a very mellow professorial president with an affable everyman as his vp the republicans are searching and re searching their candidate field in the vain hope that one of their potential nominees is the much longed for second coming of ronald reagan and democrats are kind of left to pine for their second coming of fdr the democratic presidential candidate is decided by default or should i say incumbency but there is still that unfulfilled desire for a fighter someone who will have no problem going a couple of rounds with the republicans on the hill conservative pundits or maybe both at once without flinching joe biden as likable as he is doesn t strike most people as a tough guy so regardless of the good job he s done he s not necessarily what a lot of democrats are looking for this time around if there is one thing that hillary clinton is known for it is her strength and her tenacity and throughout her time as both a political spouse and a political figure in her own right she has never ever had any problems with taking it to republicans at all there was one instance during one of her husband s gubernatorial races when she crashed a press conference his opponent was holding to criticize the then governor for being out of state and mrs governor clinton took him on herself i don t think anyone has any doubt that she d know how to handle these tea folk and that s why i think this rumor never quite goes away the fact that she s the most popular government figure in the country right now doesn t hurt either the mechanics of how a biden clinton switch would happen takes us deeper into the realm of completely unsubstantiated guessing games it s worth noting that removing biden from the ticket does have some serious drawbacks just look at the coverage the replacement of white house chief of staff bill daley got even though it was primary time in new hampshire that would increase exponentially if it were joe biden that was on his way out even if it was just to head down to foggy bottom coverage like that is rarely a net positive it would look bad to demote someone who has been such a loyal and hardworking member of the administration it could also be spun out as a sort of hail mary play by a desperate candidate and put the new obama clinton campaign on the defensive from the get go for the sake of argument let s pretend that the administration had weighed their options and decided that the switch was both possible and worth the risk hillary clinton would have to leave the state department before the swap was announced because by law a secretary of state can not play a role in domestic politics her pretext for doing so is anyone s guess but it would not be due to any difference of opinion between her and the white house obviously she s mentioned retirement enough that an announcement to that effect might be the way she d go take a couple of months off to rally her people and then on some beautiful afternoon in the rose garden there she d be as barack obama s new running mate immediately the question would be raised the question that is always raised where hillary clinton is concerned what about bill in the years since he left office bill clinton has become an elder statesman par excellence his foundation is involved in numerous charitable endeavors the world over and his annual clinton global initiative event is such a big deal that he has to hold it on the same week as the un general assembly so as to be more convenient for his international attendees who are going to the un anyway he also has a global initiative specifically for undergrad and graduate students interested in ngo work which his daughter play a significant role in he was named the obama administration s special envoy to haiti after that country was decimated by an earthquake he has appeared several times in support of the president s economic agenda and has proven to be a rather good surrogate seeming to have learned from his mistakes in his wife s presidential bid he has also written two books in short he s got a lot going on and some of that work might present a conflict of interest if his wife was the vice presidential nominee he had to make significant changes in order for her to become secretary of state and i imagine that he would have to make more if she was second in line to run the country my feeling is that he d leave most of the foundation s operations in someone else s hands in addition to getting rid of any perceived conflicts it would also be a sort of trial run for the organization to see how it would operate when bill clinton retires during this time the foundation could be prepared to run for decades and become a part of bill clinton s legacy as opposed to his pet project so it wouldn t surprise me if the globe trotting former president held a press conference heaped praise upon his wife headed out on the campaign trail and then to dc his elder statesman skills might come in handy and he could prove to be an asset to the administration a kind of eleanor roosevelt to hillary s fdr i ll end my completely amateur uninformed armchair analysis by saying that this whole thing is about as likely as me appearing on the cover of sports illustrated s swimsuit edition or voting republican it s all conjecture and the conjecture of someone with no inside information but i ve heard too much about this idea being entirely bogus and it s not it s certainly unlikely but it s not bogus and that s why i sketched it out this way hillary clinton would be good for barack obama in the same way that new jersey s governor chris christie is such a good surrogate for mitt romney another mr cool calm and collected she is a veteran of many partisan fights and would make a good iron lady for the middle class if that s what the administration thinks they need in 2012 i think this issue is hinged on what the traveling circus that is the republican primary constructs for a message and a ticket if it s something like romney christie there might be a new and yet very familiar running mate for the president comments leave a comment tags 2012 2012 elections barack obama bill clinton campaigning democrat elections hillary clinton joe biden political politics republican secretary of state the battle between left and right vice president visiting speculationville categories barack obama bill clinton elections hillary clinton joe biden mental wanderings my own brand of liberalism politics the noble nobody uncategorized negative political ads done right 29 09 2011 as much as the political process interests me there is one inevitable part of any election season that i cannot stand those obnoxious negative ads that just whack away at the candidate that the group who paid for the ad doesn t like around a week prior to the election it s practically raining negative ads they re on the internet the radio and they are all over tv to the point that at the end of your day unless you are either working on the campaign for or personally close to one of the candidates you ve heard so much about lies told and dirty deals hatched that you don t want to vote for either of them they both look like dishonest cheating morons and frankly they do that to themselves we hear this every couple of years everybody hates these attack ads and yet the attacks return when the elections do they come back because as much as everyone says they don t like them studies have shown that they work they get remembered and they get results my father told me that he still remembers a negative ad run by lyndon johnson against barry goldwater in 1964 and that it played a role in his voting for lbj that ad is known as the daisy ad and insinuated that goldwater s a bomb friendly attitudes could lead to world war iii if his itchy trigger finger was in control of the red button just as ronald reagan s it s morning again in america ad defined his 1984 re election bid the daisy ad came to define barry goldwater s candidacy and did a lot to lose that election for him it seems like every campaign enters in a race to come up with the next daisy ad the next attack that so effectively vilifies their opponent that it goes down in political history and is referenced in poli sci classes and in the writings of political geeks for decades to come that makes for some very unpalatable advertisements invading our every information source it s already well underway for the poor souls who live in early primary states like iowa and new hampshire thankfully amid all the allegations and insinuations one can occasionally find a bit of a humor this is from texas democrats and is aimed at republican presidential candidate rick perry it made me chuckle and i wanted to share it and you know what for any more republican leaning individuals that have kept reading this post and made it this far i have something for you too it is from the campaign of roger williams a republican running for the us house of representatives from texas now obviously i don t agree with mr williams characterization of democrats but i have to admit the ad is clever i wish we had more of these kind of negative ads cute snarky ads get the message across without leaving people pondering whether or not they want to vote at all these are attack ads done right politicos take note comments leave a comment tags campaign ads civility negative ads political political advertisements politics vilifying and demonizing for dummies categories elections mental wanderings my own brand of liberalism politics the noble nobody uncategorized she s in 15 09 2011 i ve never had much of a desire to live in massachusetts it s not that i don t like the place my cousin used to live there and one of my aunts lives there with her husband it s just never had the same appeal that new york or dc have for me that said tonight i wish i lived in massachusetts because then i would be able to cast a vote for elizabeth warren today dr warren formally announced her candidacy for united states senator from massachusetts elizabeth warren has been an advocate for middle and lower income people and workers for a long time she was the architect of the newly created consumer financial protection bureau but republicans made it clear that they would fight her confirmation so president obama never nominated her to run the agency she put together since the end of her service in the administration that wouldn t bother to defend her in the confirmation process the question of whether or not she would run for the senate has been out there today she gave her answer she s in i wish she were running in the great state of connecticut so i could not only vote for her but maybe even work for her campaign but alas all i can do is put a link to her website elizabethwarren com up one my blog and wish her the best of luck comments leave a comment tags 2012 elections democrat elizabeth warren political politics those whom i admire us senate categories admirable women elections elizabeth warren my own brand of liberalism on a serious note politics tales from a wandering twenty something the noble nobody previous entries august 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 feb follow me on twitter discourse tweets tweets by discourseinc looking for something 2012 2012 elections 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