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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sr K who wrote (24898)	6/28/2008 1:51:08 AM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I'll give large odds that Hillary has other goals that are achievable. No VP for various reasons. All from logic.

To: Sr K who wrote (24898)	6/28/2008 9:42:53 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

Hagel, Republican for Now, Says He Has No Plans to Back McCain By Christopher Stern June 27 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Chuck Hagel declined to endorse his party's likely presidential nominee, John McCain, and said he would consider serving as secretary of defense in a Barack Obama administration. Hagel, who last year considered a White House run as an independent, said he would remain a registered Republican: ``I don't know forever, but right now I'm not considering changing my registration.'' ``I don't have any plans to endorse any candidate,'' Hagel, 61, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television's ``Political Capital with Al Hunt,'' to be broadcast today. The Nebraska senator broke with his party over the war in Iraq, calling it a ``catastrophic mistake.'' He voted with Democrats to withdraw troops and against President George W. Bush's so-called surge that boosted the number of soldiers in Baghdad last year. Hagel criticized McCain, his close friend, for saying that Obama, an Illinois senator and the Democrats' likely nominee, misunderstands the war in Iraq and was wrong for opposing the troop surge. Hagel called McCain's criticism a ``superfluous, gratuitous political comment.'' Because Hagel has been a critic of the Bush administration, his name often surfaces as a high-level appointee for both parties. Hagel said he would have a duty to consider a request to serve from any president including as secretary of defense in an Obama administration. ``I would have to consider it,'' Hagel said. Policy Differences Hagel has policy differences with both candidates, and said his disagreement with Obama ``probably is not as big'' as his differences with McCain over Iraq. Should McCain become the next president, a Democratic Congress and popular sentiment against the war will likely force him to back away from his current support of the Bush administration war strategy, Hagel said. ``We know where the American people are on Iraq,'' Hagel said. ``And if McCain is elected, I believe he is going to have to adjust to that reality and find a way out of Iraq.'' Hagel said he would like to see the candidates meet in a series of debates across the country, a proposal first made by McCain. Obama's campaign has said they would consider the proposal although it hasn't yet agreed to a schedule. Given the U.S. role in the world, the election is being closely viewed around the globe, Hagel said. ``Leaders and people all over the world are wondering and they're questioning, and they're calibrating, and they're adjusting their own thoughts and policies based on what they hear,'' Hagel said. Hagel said his disagreement with the Bush administration and his view that the Republican Party ``has veered and shifted, and come loose of its moorings'' don't mean he has given up on the party. The ``Republican Party is bigger than George Bush or Dick Cheney,'' Hagel said. ``I'm an Eisenhower Republican and the party today is not an Eisenhower Republican Party. Will it come back? I don't know.'' To contact the reporter on this story: Christopher Stern in Washington at Cstern3@bloomberg.net.