next american president

[bill]

And Hillary? If he chose her I have a feeling she would have overpowered him. I've never been too much of a Hillary fan, although I do have respect her and the way she handles herself. I'm thinking she has a couple other surprises up her sleeve in the next couple of months, and she'll probably run again in 2012. Tough lady.

Bobbie,do you think Hillary would have a better chance of the Presidency if she divorced Bill?

[Bobbie En Tejas]

And Hillary? If he chose her I have a feeling she would have overpowered him. I've never been too much of a Hillary fan, although I do have respect her and the way she handles herself. I'm thinking she has a couple other surprises up her sleeve in the next couple of months, and she'll probably run again in 2012. Tough lady.

Bobbie,do you think Hillary would have a better chance of the Presidency if she divorced Bill?

My own personal opinion, I think he's an asset to her. I wish we could have had an Obama/Bill Clinton ticket.

[bill]

Bobbie, if I was forced to have a bet on the outcome,my money would be om McCain.

[bill]

Sarah Palin,talk about Obama being inexperienced.McCain really surprised everyone with this choice.

[Bobbie En Tejas]

I guess he thought that women are so stupid, they wouldn't know the difference between hillary and... who?

Unbelievable. One of the most patronizing stupid moves he could have made. He could have had a powerhouse with Joe Lieberman..

I'm really not sure what he must have been thinking. Is your money still on McCain?

[Malky]

I thought it was a bit patronising too Bobbie I now think the whole thing is wide open - I previously thought that McCain would win, given the number of Democrats who are unhappy with Obama - but now I just don't know. It will certainly be interesting

Oh, and further up the topic, I really meant military experience.

Malky

[EMDEE]

Will the story about Mrs Palin's daughter make any significant impact on McCain's chances?

[Bobbie En Tejas]

I hope the fact that she isn't qualified to be president will have the significant impact.

[A Horse called Juan Face]

She's better looking than Joe Biden though. This whole thing with McCain not knowing how many houses he has either is a little bit bizarre.

Yes, I do get a fair whack of information about American politics from watching Letterman.

[Govangirl]

Will the story about Mrs Palin's daughter make any significant impact on McCain's chances?

I hope not in a negative way. She's open to the same family troubles as everyone else.

[bill]

Extract from Telegraph report..............

"Female delegates compared Mrs Palin to Lady Thatcher for her toughness and straight talking. ‘We saw Thatcher and Reagan working so closely, and want to see our own woman in the White House,' said Crystal Dueker, a delegate's guest North Dakota"

Not sure about someone who names her children Track,Bristol,Willow,Piper and Trig.

[Beachcomber]

I hope the fact that she isn't qualified to be president will have the significant impact.

The other thing to remember, particularly with regard to her experience in office, is that if anything happened to McCain (illness/death/etc) then she'd be the one in the Oval Office.

[Bobbie En Tejas]

I hope the fact that she isn't qualified to be president will have the significant impact.

The other thing to remember, particularly with regard to her experience in office, is that if anything happened to McCain (illness/death/etc) then she'd be the one in the Oval Office.

Exactly... and one would hope that he would have had that in mind when he chose his running mate. After playing up Obama's "inexperience" for so many months and seeing the response to Hillary's loss, it was like he was responding to Americans, "Okay! You want a woman and inexperience? I'll give you a woman and inexperience!" He totally, totally missed the point. Btw, previous to two years ago, her credentials were that she was involved with the PTA (Parent-Teacher's Association of a school), was mayor of a town of 6000. But she has a pretty hot husband, so maybe she is qualified

I'm wondering if this is the real reason that Bush and Cheney didn't want to show up at the Republican Convention. If he wanted to choose a token woman, he would have been far better off and gotten a lot more than that with Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas. At this point it would be really interesting if a powerful independent candidate threw his/her hat into the ring.

As for babies, past or future, a 5-month pregnancy would be a sure way to quell the rumors about the parentage of the 4-month-old. I don't really care. We all have things in our families. I just don't like feeling like I'm being set up and force-fed BS.

[EMDEE]

Whichever way it goes, history will be made either with the first black president or the first woman vice-president.

[Govangirl]

I really don't give a wet noodle about her pregnant daughter but I do care about having such a gun-totin' female Charlton Heston figure second in command.

I was reading something really interesting today (in the Wall Street Journal in the dentist!) which no matter what your politics are must be impressive. It's something the media haven't picked up on yet as far as I am aware. It was an article on Cindy McCain. In the past, all I've seen is this plastic-looking, attractive woman standing beside her husband. Today, I was surprised how talented and involved with world problems she is.

After graduating, she became a special-needs teacher.

When her father died she became involved with his beer distributing firm and is now the chairwoman. Sales have doubled since she has taken over.

They have a marriage prenuptial agreement, her assets remain separate and they amount to a lot.

She's active with 'Halo Trust' - to clear land mines, provide water and food in war ravaged and developing countries, travelling to these countries on a detonation team and serving on their board.

They have a 19 year old serving in Iraq, (something they will not discuss in the media, impressive) another son in the Naval Academy, a daughter recently graduated from Columbia Univ., an adopted daughter in high school, and a son who is the finance guy at the beer firm.

They raised their kids in the country rather than the city for the better atmosphere. She made her husband commute.

In 1991, she came across a girl in an orphanage in Bangladesh. Mother Teresa implored Mrs. McCain to take the baby with severe cleft palate. She did so without first telling her husband. The couple adopted the girl who has had a dozen operations to repair her cleft palate and other medical problems.

They have a Family Foundation for children's causes.

She will join an overseas mission of 'Operation Smile', a charity for corrective surgery on children's faces.

She has had two back surgeries and became addicted to pain killers. She talks openly about it which she says is part of the recovery process.

Now, I'm surprised the media is so quiet about her attributes. She's got it all - business and international experience and a heart to boot!

She sounds more capable than Hillary or Obama. Go girl, you're something else!!!