| And now the democrats are really dreaming! | | | | fire in Bosnia! :-( |
| Desperation can cause one to lose touch with all | | | | What are the odds Democrats will field a "dream |
| reality you know. With the image of the 2008 | | | | team ticket" with Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham |
| election slowly slipping away as each day produces | | | | Clinton combining forces? London bookmaker |
| more dirt on either Hillary or Obama, thought drift | | | | Ladbrokes is taking bets at 8-1, but leading |
| into a dream state of "what if". What if we could | | | | Democratic insiders aren't ready to put down their |
| have both Hillary and Obama on the same ticket and | | | | money yet. |
| make peace? That's a what if that's not going to | | | | Growing alarm among some Democrats that the |
| happen! | | | | rancor could squander what had seemed like a |
| Obama-Hillary no way. Hillary-Obama. No way! | | | | near-certain win in November makes them yearn for |
| Obama-Richardson? Maybe! | | | | a ticket with both Obama and Clinton, in either order. |
| Gore-Obama? GORE? | | | | A nomination contest that continues to the August |
| U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney is hoping he won't have to | | | | convention could split the party in two just as the |
| attend the Democratic convention but if he does go, | | | | general election begins in earnest. |
| that will mean the Democrats still haven't decided a | | | | "Nastier things have been said in other primaries," |
| nominee for the presidential election. And if neither | | | | says Matt Bennett, a veteran of retired general |
| Sen. Hillary Clinton nor Sen. Barack Obama has | | | | Wesley Clark's 2004 presidential bid and co-founder |
| clinched the nomination by August, Mahoney says we | | | | of a think tank called Third Way. "The difference is |
| may see a brokered convention, meaning the | | | | there's something that is truly at risk here - this |
| nominee could emerge from a negotiated settlement. | | | | incredible excitement that both candidates have |
| "If it (the nomination process) goes into the | | | | generated. My concern is the level of acrimony could |
| convention, don't be surprised if someone different is | | | | rise to such a point that the people both candidates |
| at the top of the ticket," Mahoney said. A | | | | are bringing out could become disillusioned and stay |
| compromise candidate could be someone such as | | | | home in the fall." |
| former vice president Al Gore, Mahoney said last | | | | In an understatement of the year, Donna Brazile said, |
| week during a meeting with this news organization's | | | | "It ain't a match made in heaven anymore," noting |
| editorial board. If either Clinton or Obama suggested | | | | increasingly bitter statements made in recent weeks |
| to a deadlocked convention a ticket of Gore-Clinton | | | | by each campaign's staff and supporters toward the |
| or Gore-Obama, the Democratic Party would accept | | | | other. Monday's back-and-forth centered on charges |
| it, Mahoney said. | | | | of McCarthyism and "gutter politics." The politics of |
| Now that's WILD thinking for sure! But, it is a wild | | | | destruction can also destroy the bomb throwers. |
| election season and Gore has remained very quiet so | | | | No dream ticket for Democrats in '08! Maybe not |
| far. | | | | even a victory in November. |
| But, back to reality, aka Hillary wasn't under sniper | | | | |