Austin Bleeding Hearts: Potential Running Mates for Obama

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Potential Running Mates for Obama

This is just a list I've been juggling in my damaged brain and I'm no good at juggling so I'm posting it. It's definitely a work in progress, and is NOT a list of probabilities, it's just the potential VP's I think would be great on the ticket and an asset to the country. Some people have been eliminated because they've already indicated that they wouldn't take it, like John Edwards and Jim Webb, but maybe one of them will change his mind..

VP's for Obama

1. General Wesley Clark (former Supreme Allied Commander of N.A.T.O., Rhodes Scholar, etc., etc.)

2. Bill Bradley (former U.S. Senator, Rhodes Scholar, B’ball Star)

3. Sen. Chuck Hagel (yes, I know he's a Republican, from Nebraska, but he's a very progressive guy and he did earn a Purple Heart in Vietnam)

4. Senator Joe Biden, D., Delaware since '72, uber-experienced.

5. Gen. Colin Powell (very long shot that he'd consider it- Republican, former Sec’y of State, Chairman Joint Chiefs, Nat’l Security Advisor, etc., etc.)

6. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D, Kansas)

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Quotations

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard

"Everybody wants to BE somebody; nobody wants to GROW." - Goethe

"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." — Anne Lamott

"Live like you were going to die tomorrow, learn like you were going to live forever." - Gandhi

"We have one simple rule here: Be kind." - from "Lost Horizon"

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.” ~ Eugene McCarthy

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"A liar is worse than a thief; you can watch a thief, but you can't watch a liar."

"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business." - Gertrude Stein

"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."

- Irish Proverb

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Emerson

"However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us." - Eric Hoffer

“Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.”

– actress Billie Burke

"Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another."

~Theodore Roosevelt

“Is there a man in this world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?”

~ Sheridan Whiteside in “The Man Who Came to Dinner”

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” ~ Albert Einstein

Quotations (a work in progress)

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Peace cannot be kept by force -it can only be achieved by understanding." ~ Albert Einstein
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." ~ Noam Chomsky
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." ~ Jimi Hendrix
"We make ourselves rich by making our wants few." - Thoreau
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~ Krishnamurti
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France
“Be the same person that you are when alone that you are with other people around."
"Everybody wants to BE somebody; nobody wants to GROW." - Goethe
"The best time to make friends is before you need them." - Ethel Barrymore
"You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness."
"I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them." - Eleonora Duse
"Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow."
"Silence is one of the hardest things to refute." - Josh Billings
"Everything should be made as simple as possible... but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple." - Rebecca West
“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.” Eugene McCarthy
“You can watch a thief, but you can’t watch a liar.”
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” Soren Kierkegaard
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." Albert Einstein