MacHeath

It's probably too late to expect anyone networked into the DNC will read this, but someone should get to Chairman Dean and suggest that the best course of action would be for the B and H to sit down and agree on someone they would both want to have in their cabinet. Ideally, they could agree on a Vice President, but even I'm not that naive. How about Chief Economic Advisor or Secretary of Defense? Someone who could then go out and campaign for the Party while allowing the candidates to continue their contest. This would, I think, help the two camps prepare for the rapprochment that we all know must come if we are to secure the Presidency. Without some kind of unifying principle implemented *yesterday* we risk ending up another election as the "should have beens". posted 04/01/2008 at 16:54:13

What makes the fact that this was a recycled speech all the more frightening in the context of McCain the potential President is his incompetence at reading it. It was bad enough when he might have had the excuse that it was a newly written speech that he had not had time to learn without stumbling; that even gave it a patina of versimilitude; the reluctant leader, taking on the challenge because no one else is capable of the task but longing to return to the homestead before planting time. Now we learn that it is a speech he has had the opportunity to practice for years. Is this just his attempt to channel Ronnie? Will he say to Hillarack "There you go again?"

In a perfect world, Hillary and Barack would sit down and agree to one someone that either of them would have in their cabinet; Vice President would be the best, but I'm not that naive. Perhaps Al Gore would agree to serve as Energy Secretary. The point is that with an agreed choice for a critical post, they would have someone who could go out and promote the party rather than a candidate, thus allowing this wonderful spectacle that has not been equalled since Jesse Ventura ran for office to continue without continuing to put the victory in jeapordy by falsely equating the contest with the competence of the contestants.... posted 03/27/2008 at 16:01:11