“Until the end, aides said, a small team inside the Chicago headquarters planned for four possibilities: Mr. Biden, Mr. (Evan) Bayh, Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas. Speeches were written, media plans were made and private planes were at the ready to take any of the four to Springfield, Ill.” — New York Times story on the final stages of Barack Obama’s decision to pick Joe Biden as his running mate
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Eagle, give it a rest. Kathleen Sebelius never had a shot. She does not have any experience where it counts, and she would have been seen as the “anti-Hillary” choice.
I am not a Hillary fan, but Katheleen can not hold a candle to Hillary, in experience.
Kathleen Sebelius actually did screw up Health Care, whereas Hillary only tried to — but on National Security issues, I would take Hillary over Kathleen any day.
Of course, the above is my opinion.
The FACT is that Kathleen is NOT the nominee, and any speculation on her chances is no more than that, SPECULATION!
Give it a rest. Quit pumping this dumb idea.
NO KIDDING! Can we please give this tired story a rest. Even if she was as much in contention as Kansas media made her out to be then she was still just in the top 5. Its really not that big of a deal. Its over, let it go!
Agreed, retire Hillary and Kathleen as v.p. candidates.
Time to look forward instead of backward.
“NO KIDDING! Can we please give this tired story a rest.”
I think governor “leadership” true believers are getting ready for 2012 or 2016. Among other things, they will say “see, she was CLOSE!”
Thankfully, in 2008, the rest of the story is “…but no cigar”!
Heheheh. I think the devil will ice skate on Cedar Bluff before mccaskill, napalitano, or governor “leadership” get the nomination. The Hillary supporters will NEVER forgive them. It will be some other woman, some other day. Especially if obama loses.
I’m actually pretty much of a Sebelius fan, but I think her Vice-Presidential chances were always pretty slim.
She is remarkable for getting elected twice in a states like Kansas (albeit the wing-nuts at the Kansas Republic Party certainly helped her). The pundits like that.
It’s like that old saying about a singing dog; something like, “What’s amazing is not how well he does it, but that he does it at all.”
Huh, I posted here earlier.
I said that next election we’ll remember the way to win is to con all the state chairs of the party to think their governor has a shot at the VP seat so they’ll back them.
How does it feel to be duped, party leaders?
And then to have him divide the party?
“Sebelius came close”
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That counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.
“Political_mama” –
I dunno.
I think it took a (metaphorical) pair for Sebelius to come out early and declare for Obama. How many times have we seen sitting politicians (of either party) to revert to the ol’ “I won’t make an endorsement in a primary” meme?
When Obama started his campaign, Senator Clinton was the slam-dunk money bet to win the nomination. He crafted a brilliant campaign that attacked her weakness; she had the money for primary elections and he organized the grassroots for caucus states.
He out-politicked the Clintons, pure and simple.
And out-politicking the establishment is sometimes important in, y’know, politics.
Even as the right-wing slime machine has attacked Obama all summer they can’t get any favorable poll numbers to rise for John S (for Senile) McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term).
I never got the idea from anyone except the pundits that Kathleen was really going to be the Vice-Presidential nominee. Most of all, I think Sebelius knew that and used the media hubbub as a bully pulpit to promote key Democratic Party issues.
She stood up to years of “clean” coal propaganda (and expended a lot of political collateral) to stop the Holcomb project. She effectively divided and conquered the disjointed dysfunctional Kansas Republic Party’s craziest wing-nut legislative agendas. She stood up to advocates of illegal abortion and showed them up for the pathetic ranting radical minority they are.
I think she could be a dynamic Secretary of HEW as the new Democratic majority addresses health care and other social issues.
And I’d like to see her replace Sam “the Sham” Brownback in the United States Senate.
Far from the “radical Marxist” fantasists such as “Franklin” would like to portray her, Governor Sebelius has a chance to become the second-coming of Nancy Kassebaum (only with the right party).
Kansans are comfortable with Kathleen. More importantly, Sebelius is comfortable with Kansans. Yeah, she’s made a lot of “political” decisions, but we’re talking about politics, aren’t we?
When I had appendicitis I sort of expected the surgeon to make, y’know, surgical decisions. When I hired a lawyer to write my will, I kinda expected she’d make some legal decisions along the way.
The whole “it’s all politics” meme doesn’t play when you’re talking about politics.
It’s like saying, “George Brett is a horrible baseball player; all he’s good at is baseball.”
I said that next election we’ll remember the way to win is to con all the state chairs of the party to think their governor has a shot at the VP seat so they’ll back them. — p.m.
There’s a point even Franklin hasn’t come up with.
“Sebelius came close”
“But no cigar”….she was on the wrong team.
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand gernades.
Move on. Please.
I was somewhat amused at the beginning of her speech tonight, that when she uttered the phrase “the Great State of Kansas,” she sounded just a tiny bit less than convinced.