Sneed: Clark And Biden moving up Kerry's VP shortlist

From Michael Sneed's The Chicago Sun-Times Sunday column:

Sneed hears there has been a major reshuffling of names on Dem presidential candidate John Kerry's veepmate shortlist. Guess who is moving up? Gen. Wesley Clark and U.S. Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), the ranking Dem of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee.

*The reason: Escalating problems in the Iraq war and their military knowledge.

to campaign.

need someone who is NOT in the Senate and not from same area. Biden was a DINO for too long before he recently stopped licking bush* boots.

somehow. I used to hold him Biden in higher esteem. Lately he just seems kind of off.

Democrats in the nation. He's the one who gave the now famous speech on 9/10/2001 warning the Bush administration that they were wrong to be focusing on missile defense, that the real threat to America is from terrorists abroad and at home. He's a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (I think that's the F.R. committee he's on). When Biden speaks, almost everyone in Congress listens....including Republicans.

Whether he should be on the ticket because of strategy or scandal, I don't know. But there's no doubt that in and of itself, putting Biden on any ticket anywhere is a shoe-in for massive votes. He's very popular, likeable, and highly thought of.

will say about Biden. Oh yeah, he has hair plugs.

by the way during the primaries I saw clark's wife on c-span, she was wonderful.

Clark's wife is a big asset.

and particularly my post (so I don't have to repeat it! :) )

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x540790#540831

Jeez, as if Iraq hasn't been a problem all along.....

Could we possibly be entering the last stages of this little VP
game?

It ain't going to be Biden...He stole from another person's speech/writings and that did in his own Presidential bid many years ago.............

n/t

from an electoral standpoint but he is SHARP.
He'd carve up Cheney in the debate.

Who spent most of his time during the debates with Cheney's knob in his mouth.

I was referring to his ability to speak quite coherently about very complex issues.

He should be the Democrats designated political talk show representative. He absolutely kills every time he's on MTP or Hardball or any other show.

All that being said, he's a not a great pick for vp.

He kept a second witness, Angela Wright, who would have testified that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her, from testifying.

For that he should never be allowed anywhere near the White House.

not in a million years will i give my suppose to any ticket that has joe biden on it---come on democrats either clark or edwards and the only two who can make any inroads in the south---and--there are lots of swing voters who supported both clark and edwards just don't hand me none of this biden bs---and if by chance it should be i can foresee taking a pass and just sit at home no matter how hard things get under bush---after all it may take another four years for EVIL TO FINISH CONSUMING ITSELF

let it be Clark! We cannot afford to lose another Dem Senator. It won't be Biden, will it? Plus....didn't he give up his Presidential run because of plagiarism? I don't think it'll be him. That leaves....WESLEY KANNE CLARK!!!!!!!!! WooHoo! This makes me so HAPPY. :7 Thanks for the post TheWebHead!

i think the message here is that kerry isn't strong enough to take on this himself so he needs a vp to do it. kerry doesn't need a vp to tell him how to do things as cheney does with bush.

That's like saying Clinton wasn't smart enough (had enough substance) so he had to pick a smart guy like Gore to balance out the ticket.

By picking Clark Kerry demonstrates that:

1. He's a confident enough man in his own right to pick a strong VP.
2. He understands that long gone are the days when you could have a lightweight or someone with zero national security/foreign affairs credentials a heartbeat away from the presidency.

The war heroes will trounce the war zeroes (or chickenhawks) which is why Rove is terrified of this ticket. Furthermore, it will be a lot more difficult for the Republicans to attack a war heroes ticket for fear of voter backlash.

My opinion is not worth much since I can't vote, but anyway...

Deleware is a lock. Arkansas is in play, and it's possible that Clark could tip it our way.

I'm thinking it's between Clark and Edwards.

Sorry, we can't afford to lose any Dem senators.

MzPip
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well, four plus ol' sorry-ass Zell, who used to be a Democrat. Before he went totally insane. Hell, he's the man who nominated Clinton. Anyway, having said all that, I agree Biden would be a very poor choice. And it won't matter who Kerry chooses; he won't carry the south. Not Louisiana, not Arkansas, not ANY of it. Forget the south. What matters is winning. Ohio, West Virginia, or New Hampshire will do it.

The south is not to be written off and it can be won. We can win Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida, Louisiana, West Virginia, and Virginia.

chance of us going Blue this year!!

Writing off the South is suicide right now - the military folks down here might be your best campaigners for oh, say, Kerry/Clark... ;)

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Firstly, I don't care for him and secondly, he would be a fool to pick anyone from the Senate (unless he wants to deal with a rethug led one next year).

if he'd get the nod now.

He's the one who has brought the Chalabi nonsense to the forefrunt. He's been giving speeches for months, focusing on how much Chalabi is getting paid to do nothing, and worse, to raid Iraq for documents and not give them to the Americans. He's been warning the administration for months that Chalabi is part of the problem in Iraq and they need to get rid of him.

...the rest of America is finally seeing what we Clarkistas saw late last summer: The man is brilliant, and we need a brilliant foreign policy leader to help the ticket. We also knew that this election would be about our international relations. Nice to see the rest of the US is catching up.

On the chance that we win it back, I want him as the chair of Senate Foreign Relations, etc.

Look for Biden in cabinet, maybe. He has a few bones in his closet, so don't expect him to run too high on the VP lsit.

Clark is another story. He is at the very TOP of the list now, especially since the major election year issue will be the WIR.

you gotta be kidding.

If he were running for President, we'd win for sure.

while consulting with the necessary people and giving THEM more of a national profile to contribute.

Hey, have a little confidence that Kerry is playing the game well here and not be moaning and worrying about the "short list". Kerry probably already knows who he wants. In any event then worrying is useless. Lose a Senate seat for Biden's dubious benefit to the ticket? Really.

...oh, February 13th at least.

:bounce:

been so long that I have forgotten?