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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:04 PM
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How about we skip on the Vice Presidency this time around?
You know, take a pass. I'm sure someone else can run the Senate. The VP is hardly there, anyway.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:06 PM
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1. Nancy Pelosi can be President
in the event "something happens". Sounds like a plan to me.
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:07 PM
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2. Well considering that one of the top names being thrown around (Sebelius)
was at Bilderberger last year, and will be at Bilderberger this year, I'm inclined to agree with you.
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:09 PM
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3. What's Bilderberger?
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:11 PM
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5. It's a meeting of world-class corporate elitists held every year since 1954
A super-secretive counsel of rich and influential people. A lot of overlap with Bohemian Grove types, too.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:12 PM
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6. Where the powerful decide how better to enslave us
Using the occult no less, ok that's generalizing.
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Aloha Spirit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:20 PM
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9. Hasn't Hillary Clinton attended the Bilderberg Conference as well?
Why is this important?
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:35 PM
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13. I don't know about Hillary. I'm sure Bill has
And Vernon Jordan, Clinton crony, is usually there too.

It's important because it shows that nothing will really change if, in fact, Sebelius gets the VP nod. One of the reasons she might have been there last year, according to the piece I read (though I have no notion as how credible the source was) was because she supports the NAFTA superhighway.
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Aloha Spirit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:44 PM
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15. Okay, this is the train of logic ?
1. The NAFTA superhighway exists
2. Sebelius supports it
3. That's why she attended the Bilderberg Conference
4. If Sebelius becomes Vice President, nothing will really change.

Is that right?
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:47 PM
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16. No, it's not right
but I think you know that.
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Aloha Spirit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:51 PM
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18. Okay, well, I'm gonna keep an open mind about Sebelius. It doesn't seem like there's anything
unfavorable about her... maybe I'm wrong?
Would appreciate a link of what she supports that would make her a bad VP candidate.

Cheers!
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:11 PM
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4. Or maybe run an "American Idol" type competition for it.
Edited on Fri Jun-06-08 06:13 PM by Kutjara
It's a lightweight job these days (unless the President is such a buffoon the VP actually becomes the President), so we may as well make it a kind of "reality-TV honorary celebrity" role. People can audition for it and the one with the best hair, story, song, pet trick, or physical deformity gets to be VP.

The only question is, who would judge the competition? It would need to be people of impeccable character, deep political savvy, and a keen eye for executive talent. I suggest Dan Quayle, Joan Rivers, and Carrot Top.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:13 PM
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7. But who'll head the fourth branch of the govt?
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:14 PM
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8. I'll do it!
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kay1864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:22 PM
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10. I nominate Writer for VP!
:loveya:


Plus any vote for a "write-in candidate" automatically goes to you! :bounce:







:+
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Aloha Spirit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:25 PM
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11. Ha! Me too.
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:32 PM
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12. Woohoo!
I'll change 'Murka!

:bounce:
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DeschutesRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:48 PM
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17. I think a good idea would be to skip the VP position for Hillary
for this first 4 year term. How about a compromise?

Hillary sits this one out and for the next 4 years does what any good soldier would do and proves her merit, trustworthiness, and support for President Obama. If she can do this without getting snotty and imploding, Obama can make her the VP for the next 4 year term.

Given what she has done to him, maybe proving her sincerity wouldn't be a half bad idea.
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ContinentalOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:55 PM
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19. LOL, I can't help but read that in the voice of Steven Colbert.
Also, reminds me of this clip
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=170163
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