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| John McCain offers Barack Obama a cabinet post | |
| 2008-09-12 | |
| "Would you, as president, do the same and would you name Senator Obama to your cabinet for National Service?" McCain paused for a beat before replying with a smile: "Yes I've been searching for ways to vote for this duplicitous RINO old coot, and Palin had me nearly swayed. Now this, given his history of chasing the ridiculous idea of bi-partisanship I would think he is at least half serious. You're not making this easy on me John.
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| Posted by:NCMike |
| #18 If all governments ruled with as light a touch as the Emperor did we'd be a lot better off - and we wouldn't need to bail out the F. Macs. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-09-12 21:08 |
| #17 Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico, and sole owner of the Guano Islands. OOPS!!! My bad! That was Emperor Norton. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-09-12 20:17 |
| #16 "you can only hold one federal office at a time, that would mean the Senate seat would open up from IL" And the winna is: P2K! :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-09-12 19:18 |
| #15 Ambassador to Freedonia motto: Land of the Spree, and the Home of the Knave. |
| Posted by: Scott R 2008-09-12 17:35 |
| #14 Chancellor of the Dutchy of Manhattan |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-09-12 16:49 |
| #13 You're catching on, TW ... :-) |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-09-12 15:52 |
| #12 Is there a national service cabinet position? I don't recall such a title. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-09-12 14:16 |
| #11 The Department of Unconstitutional Compulsory Service? |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-09-12 12:31 |
| #10 Make him Secretary of Going Away and Never Coming Back. |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2008-09-12 12:13 |
| #9 Ambassador to Kenya, or some European nation that ranked really high with Obama-love. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-09-12 11:43 |
| #8 Great idea. He could be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. No one would ever hear of him again. |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-09-12 10:52 |
| #7 Also on the short list: MSG Sammy Doe, Idi Amin, Jean-Bedel Bokasso, Prince Y. Johnson, Robert Mugabe, 'Baby' Doc. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-09-12 10:19 |
| #6 Secretary of the Department of Shucking and Jiving. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-09-12 09:53 |
| #5 I listened to that exchange last night. McCain wasn't (I think) serious. The moderator was pushing for the idea of a cabinet-level national service position and asked "would you appoint Barack Obama to that position in your cabinet?" McCain's response was more along the lines of "As long as I'm president, yeah, he can have the job of National Community Organizer." |
| Posted by: Fred 2008-09-12 09:22 |
| #4 Remember the Surgeon General? You get a fancy uniform, an office and requisite number of secretaries, and make public service announcements. IIRC, iaw the Constitution, you can only hold one federal office at a time, that would mean the Senate seat would open up from IL. You guys didn't catch that one. :) Move the man to someplace where he can do less damage and make way for the opportunity to throw the dice for something better. Ambassador to Belgium would be another good job opportunity as well. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-09-12 09:26 |
| #3 Face it, a "National Service" cabinet post would be one of the most useless, meaningless, toothless places you could put the Godly Community Organizer. It would turn up sweet the maniacs who would otherwise be screaming conspiracy and vote-theft and trying to gin up riots on university campuses. But yeah, it's a 'get drunk and vote for McCain' morning. Didn't help that they weren't letting us make campaign calls yesterday on account of the 9/11 remembrance. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-09-12 08:54 |
| #2 " and Barack Obama will be Inspector of Latrines..." |
| Posted by: Grunter 2008-09-12 08:46 |
| #1 It is Daily Telegraph rememeber? There is nothing in for instance Fox News. My guess is that it is MSM doing diry work for Obama. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-09-12 08:42 |