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Politics : The Next President 2008 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (2422)	3/12/2008 10:03:16 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3215

So do you think Senator McCain would chose someone like Secretary Condi Rice or General Colin Powell if Senator Obama were the nominee? For some reason I think both would decline, and if they thought they were chosen for obvious reasons it would be an easier decision.

To: RMF who wrote (2422)	3/13/2008 11:52:42 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 3215

If blood will have blood, as Shakespeare said in “Macbeth,” power will have sex. Some people took the saga of Eliot Ness in the boudoir, the old yarn of holier-than-thou caught in flagrante delicto, as a sign that a woman should be president. “I would think the story about our esteemed governor is all the proof we need that we should have a woman as president,” a woman I know said in an e-mail message. Another woman e-mailed the reverse to a friend: “I hope this makes people think back to Monica Lewinsky. Can sex scandals be well timed?” In modern times, you rarely see any men having to stand ashenly by their women. But in the past, women got tangled up with sex and power. When Bette Davis played Elizabeth I, she was always sending her lovers off to the Tower of London when they made eyes at her pretty ladies-in-waiting. Catherine the Great was hardly known for her restraint. And there were Agrippina and Cleopatra, of course. Hillary could not have been pleased to be in all the TV stand-by-your-man features, or to hear David Letterman’s Spitzer Top Ten list which included, “I thought Bill Clinton legalized this years ago.”