Open Thread Question: If Obama is the “uniter” he claims to be, then why did he not unite the DNC by choosing Hillary as VP?

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Inquiring minds want to know… the man who touts he can “unite” the nation and “restore” the US image to the world (whatever that’s supposed to mean…) could have easily “united” his own deeply split party by simply choosing the close runner, Hillary, as his Veep.

He didn’t…

We all can come up with many reasons for “anyone but Hillary”… But notice that the media just fawns over Biden, yet no one points out that a true “uniter” would not have snubbed Hillary.

Care to do the job the media won’t, and reconcile the “uniter” image with his Veep choice? It’s a double dare here… you may have to think like a mesmerized “tingle up your leg” journalist. But I’m curious if any FA minds out there can think of a way *any* choice BUT Hillary is a plus for Obama.

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It’s not all candy canes and chocolates, but if you were to remove the media hype, their endless yearning for some kind of drama, I’d say liberals are quite united this year.

In any case, the race/game begins this week and we’ll be better able to gauge unity after the reps have their convention.

i live in apretty liberal state, much to my dismay, and the dems here are really split. so many say they would rather have the democratic party come to an end than see pelosi continue as speaker of the house and obama as president. hillary supporters feel that the party heads had this planned from the beginning to give her and other candidates false hope. the obama supporters say that its a god given thing and obama is great and hillary has sour grapes. that is the unity i have seen. then you have the repubs and indipendents that are loving it. we are hoping for the huge split, it is fun to watch, you start to wonder if they will eventually eat their young.

[“I’d say liberals are quite united this year. “]-doug.

Reuters, August 25, 2008 10:44PM EST (Show Time)
HEADLINE: “Backers of Hillary Clinton cloud Obama show.”

This headline does not give a fuzzy-feel regarding ‘Unity at the DNC.” The hundreds or thousands of DEMOCRATS outside of the DNC venue demonstrating against Democrat ills does not give a fuzzy-feel regarding “Unity at the DNC.”

There’s also a large group of former Hillary backers that have decided to vote for McCain. Not a fuzzy-feel for Democrat unity.

The Democrats (Hillary supporters vs. Obama supporters) are quite DIS-United. No doubt about it.

The liberals in my neck of the woods can’t stop yelling at each other long enough to figure out what the other is saying. It’s a beautiful sight. Many plan on voting McCain instead of Obama. Thought I would never see the day …

Because Barry is not nor ever has been a uniter?

Would you want those two next in line if you “had an accident”????

http://etherzone.com/body.html

I believe he’s a united by default and halo rather than by action or record, but-well, I guess there’s no real record of him uniting or doing anything deliberately. I mean, I can’t think of 3 things the man’s done in his life that CHANGEd things for people.

The big confusion for me right now re Obama is Biden. (recall if you will that I liked Biden back when I liked Edwards…..in 2004, before someone pulled them aside cut off their balls and they started to pander to the KOSsacks and Olbermanns of the party).

When the DNC says McCain is too old, can’t the RNC say so is the guy who’s one Skinhead’s bullet away from being President?

When the DNC says McCain voted for the war, the RNC already says, YEAH! And so did Joe Biden

When the DNC points to Biden’s best PR moment when he said America should be against torture so that people like his son don’t get tortured when captured (his son is a soldier), I have to wonder what the point is? I mean John McCain (who also has sons in the military-sons who fight as opposed to Biden’s son who was at little risk of being captured by Al Queda on duty in the Pentagon) isn’t exactly gonna raise his hand and object. ‘Cause he can’t ‘Cause HE was tortured, and has been THE most outspoken guy against torture out there.

That are these guys thinking? They’ve got a rock star candidate, and they’re killing him with poor guidance. Sad day for the misled left everywhere. Maybe we shouldn’t call them protesters in Denver, but funeral marchers?

I live in Blue, er New Jersey and in my town, I have seen only one obama sign and one bumper sticker. I am sure there are others, but if this guy is so great – why does he have far, far fewer signs than swift john kerry had?

Also have to note that I have only seen one McCain sign/bumper sticker as well…..wow the populace is REALLY excited over the candidates this year!

The Clintons were not willing to open their skeleton closet to vetting without a guarantee of getting the nod. Vetting her without accepting her was impossible.

FiveThirtyEight has a post that goes a long way in explaining the selection. It has to do with net positves on favorable/unfavorable of the different Democratic VP choices. While Hillary was number one among Democrats, Biden was number two. But he was number one among Independents. Guess where Presidential races are really decided…

Lets see didn’t want to be vetted, didn’t want to open closet, and yet you knowing all this, continue in that party. Fit fit that post tells us all a lot about you.

I’m not a Democrat. I do vote Democrat 90% of the time. This fall I’ll be voting straight Dem ticket except for Lindsey Graham for US Senate.

Mr. Phillip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania attorney, has filed a lawsuit/complaint against Barack Hussein Obama claiming that Obama is NOT a U.S. natural born citizen.

Hear his discussion:
http://www.plainsradio.com/

Complaint and details:
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=43

Wow. What a convention!

I have changed my mind. I don’t believe, as I said earlier, we need to wait to see what the Repbs. do at their convention, to see if their is unity (a poll pump) for Obama. I believe we will see a bump before the Repub. convention.

Todd’s right, too:

McCain and his message will appear wilted and hollow when the two conventions are contrasted.

Wow! Doug is enthusiastic about Obama! Shocker!

And……

To top it all off he is a downer about McCain….will wonders never cease?

Uh, yeah.