Here is the 4th installment of possible tickets.  Before I have discussed Schweitzer, Richardson, and Chafee.  Below the cut I talk about some of the pros and cons of Russ Feingold taking the #2 position.

As an Obama supporter I have been dissappointed by the tone of Clinton's campaign these past 2 month--and to top it off--she didn't even congratulate him tonight on this historic of historic nights.  My friend and I had a discussion about it and despite my dissappointment with Clinton's non-congratulatory speech I realized that there are two compelling arguments for putting her on the ticket (and zillions of reasons not to).

I still hope Obama goes for the Webb or Gore or Schweitzer or Richardson pick but I think there is something behind this rationale for a Clinton VP nod.

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Here's the 3rd installment of my 'Ticket Talk' series.  The first two were about the advantages of either Brian Schweitzer or Lincoln Chafee running on the ticket with Barack.  Now that Richardson has endorsed he becomes not only a more viable choice but also more likely than before.

10 Reasons why Hillary's should've run for the presidency in 2004 (and that's not a typo!):

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Continuing on from my last post about a suggested Obama/Schweitzer ticket I have my 2nd 'unconventional' suggestion, Obama/Chafee.

First of all to give a quick background for those unfamiliar with Lincoln Chafee--he was the Republican Senator from Rhode Island who lost to Sheldon Whitehouse in November 2006 despite having good job approval (in other words he lost because he had an R next to his name (which I agree was enough of a reason to boot him then).  He quietly re-registered as an Independent since then.

Reasons for this proposal are below the cut:

My buddy and I were doing some 'ticket talk' on the evening of the Potomac Primaries and the idea of Schweitzer (Governor of Montana) being picked as Obama's VP really excited both of us.  I've seen Schweitzer on Real Time and he really impressed me.

Some of the plusses below the cut

As you may have read in Kagro X's post and other's posted comments about Kucinich's Cheney impeachment resolution you would have discovered that there were 21 co-sponsors to this resolution.  You may not realize that when the vote to table this to the Judiciary committee came up only 4 of the co-sponsors voted NO to tabling--in other words 17 of the 21 effectively mothballed their own damm resolution.

The 4 co-sponsors who have cajones:

Filner, Kaptur, Waters, Towns

UPDATE -- It appears only 1 other co-sponsor voted to not table not 4 which means the title of this diary should be 20 Lame Co-sponsors of Cheney Impeachment

Senator: Feinstein
Governor: Angelides
Lt. Governor: Garamedi, Garamendi, Garamendi
Secretary of State: Bowen
Controller: Chiang
Treasurer: Lockyer
AG: Brown
Insurance Commissioner: Poizner
Prop 1A: NO
Prop 1B: YES, YES, YES
Prop 1C: YES, YES, YES
Prop 1D: YES
Prop 1E: YES
Prop 83: NO, NO, NO
Prop 84: YES
Prop 85: NO, NO, NO
Prop 86: YES
Prop 87: YES, YES, YES
Prop 88: NO
Prop 89: YES,YES,YES
Prop 90: NO, NO, NO

Full details below the fold

So my conern is that the SF Chronicle makes a point in its analysis of Proposition 89 that 'certain labor unions' would be exempt from campaign donation restrictions while others would not--a HUGE concern since labor unions were a big reason we were able to defeat Arnie's slate of awful propositions last year.

More below the fold:

Purchase and chill 6 bottles of champagne.
Each of these bottles can be assigned to each of the six Senate seats the Democrats need to gain control of that chamber.  Each bottle can be chosen to truly reflect the nature of that race, the sitting incumbent or the challenger.

Open each bottle as respective Senate race is called for the Democratic challenger by one of the major networks...to make it juicier have Fox be said network!  More about the booze choices after the fold!

This is the automated response I got from him.  In a nutshell, he states that his office is unable to "research and address" comments from out-of-staters implying his dedication and respect to the citizens of Connecticut--guess that doesn't go for primary results by same citizenry (or at least the democrats who bothered to vote).

Complete letter below:

I am a loyal supporter of the Democratic Party.  I lost my electoral virginity back in 1988 in a poorly heated fire house in a Philadelphia suburb and have never been the same since....

And then I came up with a way I could help in some small way and get my friends and family to help.

Several states send delegations to the U.S. House of Representatives that do not even come close to representing the way the sames states voted presidentially.  Here are some of the worst offenders (in no particular order):

State        Dem's   Total Reps  % Dems    % Kerry Vote

Kentucky      1        6          17%         40%

Iowa          1        5          20%         49%

Virginia      3       11          27%         46%

Florida      7        25          28%         47%

Pennsylvania 7        19          37%         51%