Condi Rice says no and means it - she is ready to go back to Stanford.

Senator Kay Bailey-Hutchinson of Texas says no - but is the best choice. And I would bet they are working her.

As Mc Cains right wing support builds, Senator Kay might get more interested.

Watch for a woman. Rove is not stupid, the question is who?

"The bigger the lie, the more they believe" - Bunk Moreland, The Wire

Where that white male's politics lands in the spectrum from A to B is anybody's guess.

First of all: everybody hates him. Women, African Americans, liberals, moderates. Hillary could stab Barack in the eye on CNN and Democrats would still be united behind the nominee. There's no way McCain could clear 40% with Thomas tied around his neck.

Second: He'd have to resign from the Supreme Court. There's no way the person who gets appointed could be any worse, and if the Democrats play their cards right, they could hold out for someone who's almost reasonable. (Kennedy, not Scalia.) Or, even better, they could refuse to confirm anyone, and President Hilrack O'Clinton would get to replace him with a *gasp* actual moderate.

Thank you, Bill Kristol, for making my day so much brighter.

Drew, I agree. How fucking amazing would Thomas be? That would be the biggest joke ever.

o please, mr. mccain, don't throw the dems in that clarence thomas briar patch!

McCain and Powell v. Obama and Clinton.

Oh, that lawn.

I know, I know, you think there's a constitutional problem, but that's only if they win ... and that's not going to be a problem.

No.

So why bother reading him in the first place?

Do what I do with the WSJ editorial page - don't read it.

There's no way in hell McCain is picking a white male for VP, unless the GOP is planning to buckle down and ride out the Blue Wave(tm) with it's traditional, no brown people, no vaginas approach. Now that I think about it, that might actually work.

And that's before they use their overwhelming fundraising advantage of 3:1 to 5:1 to crush the Red Bushies ...

Seriously, has she done ANYTHING worthwhile as Sec. State? Maybe people DON'T know she's an incompetent has-been. The lack of reporting on her lack of doing anything certainly isn't helping.

Just because Obama appears to be lighter-skinned and Clinton appears to be somewhat masculine and may or may not be homosexual does not mean he is any less a racial and/or ethnic minority and that Clinton is any less of a woman. I'm not saying these things are bad or good--they just are. This is primarily directed at 28, 26.

But I actually now see your point and would say I agree in part. (I just wished you had said it differently.) I don't know if either Obama or Clinton are competent enough and/or ready to run the country. However, I don't completely know how I feel about another four years of a Republican in the White House (my feelings so far though aren't good). Actually, I think it matters as much as VP to see who they would appoint to the Cabinet, et al. I kind of get the feeling we'll be doing this whole song and dance in another four years anyway.

And below are my attempts at PC-ness:
[Just because Obama appears to be lighter-skinned (I shouldn't really speak on this since I'm not a minority racially or ethnically) and Clinton may or may not be homosexual (so far the best way to know is self-report) does not mean he is any less a minority/[of a different race/ethnicity than the perceived majority of U.S. citizens/voters/population--pick one] and that Clinton is any less of a woman because she may be homosexual or has a certain personality type not usually associated with stereotypical normal femininity in the U.S.]