I'm sorry Mr. President...

[catnhatnh]

But to me the name "Daley" is as toxic as "Bush". AND for the same reason (familial corruption), in a nation of 350 million why is your choice never an unknown with talent, conviction, and promise. Daley is not "change", merely a convenient crony.

[Little Star]

1. It does boggle the mind. The question is why????

Please don't tell me there is no one better.

[notesdev]

2. I think we all know why at this point

Does anything more really need to be said?

Who we got that we can run in the primaries? Can we get Bernie Sanders to run? Or get Kucinich to have a go at it?

[whathehell]

11. Would love to have either of those two...

or both on the same ticket, but in the current environment,

I think their chances would approximate those of a snowball in Hell.


Dean would probably be my first choice, actually, but I've heard he doesn't want another run,

and God knows what the stupid would call HIM if they think Obama is a "socialist".:eyes:


Probably best to go with someone moderately to the left of Obama; at this point I don't know who that would be

..Any ideas?

[notesdev]

12. The strategy I think would work

Push the people we want to win, like the two named above.

They won't win, because the establishment is totally lined up against us.

But what this does is send a message that we're not going to sit down, shut up, and take continuing abuse. And it points a specific direction where the establishment has to move if it wants to keep hold of its power.

Basically this is the same strategy that the Tea Party crowd successfully pulled on the GOP. The grassroots of that party has far more influence than it had two years ago as a result. Many of their candidates lost in the primaries, but it put the fear of God into the establishment candidates. Since it looks like it works as a political strategy in this day and age, I say we give it a go.

After all, what do we have to lose? We're not getting anything even remotely close to what we want now.

[whathehell]

14. Sounds like a good idea, notesdev...This could be a winning strategy

And, as you asked, what do we have to lose?

[Dokkie]

13. who do u have in mind?

Howard Dean is not taking it, Nader is too old and Elizabeth Warren already has a job. If you have other possible nominees, please share it with us

[Poboy]

3. The DNC called me yesterday to ask for money and to support Obama

After telling them what I thought of how Obama did not support 'us' and in fact has sold 'us' out, I told them that the DNC and Obama can go to hell.
I said I will support DFA, MoveOn, Bold Progressives, and Act Blue, and that Obama or the DNC will NEVER get another dime of my money.

[hedgehog]

4. Sins of the father? By this standard, RFK should never have had

a national career because his father was a womanizing ex-bootlegger who didn't support entering WWII against the Nazis.

On the other hand, FDR brought Joseph Kennedy in to clean up the stock market, figuring to set a thief to catch the thieves. A lot of people here would have been screaming at FDR for that choice if they'd been around back then.

[DaveinJapan]

6. And by that logic Jeb Bush should be good to go as the next GOP President!

;)

[hedgehog]

7. If in some alternate universe, Jeb Bush was a liberal, would you

denounce him because of his relatives?

[walldude]

10. Oh yeah this guy is a real man of the people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Daley

Daley graduated with a B.A. from Loyola University Chicago, and an LL.B. from John Marshall Law School. Daley later accepted an honorary Doctor of Law degree from John Marshall Law School. Except for a period from 1977 to 1980, during which time he sat on the Advisory Council of Economic Opportunity, Daley practiced law privately with the firm Daley and George.

He became associated with Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, where he was first vice chairman (1989–1990) and then president and chief operating officer (1990-1993). Daley returned to the practice of law, as a partner with the firm Mayer Brown (then Mayer, Brown & Platt) from 1993 to 1997. In 1993, he served as special counsel to the President on issues relating to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In 1997, Daley became Secretary of Commerce in the second administration of President Bill Clinton, and he remained at that post until July 2000, when he became chairman of Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign.

In December 2001, he was appointed President of SBC Communications Inc. to help reform the company's image. In May 2004, Daley was made Midwest Chairman of J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank One Corp. to oversee post-merger operations from Chicago. Daley currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Boeing, Merck & Co., Boston Properties, Inc., and Loyola University Chicago. He also sits on the Council on Foreign Relations.

Another fucking banker. I understand the loyalty to Obama but standing up for this guy? Yeah knock yourself out. I'm sure he's going to be real worried about the poor and middle class.

[Poboy]

15. "Another fucking banker." -indeed.

[TBF]

5. He's a prominent supporter of Obama's from Chicago -

I'm not surprised by this at all.

[leeroysphitz]

8. Why wouldn't a center-right president hire a center-right staff?

What else would you expect?

[mstinamotorcity]

9. It really doesn't matter

who the President picks. HIS choice will never get 100% approval from everyone. He can go get an unknown, but then the problem will be they are unknown.

[Poboy]

16. More delusion and excuse making. Not suprised.

[upi402]

17. Really?

He has NOBODY who gives him real, sound advice- just corporatist scheming and looting of our nation.

Really.