“Gingrich is ruling out John McCain’s chances among the Republican contenders”

And I’m ruling out Gingrich’s. I think Romney will be the nominee. http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/4684/#86861

Gingrich is wrong.  Hillary will NOT put Obama on the ticket.  It will be a democrat that can help her with a state like, Florida, Pennsyvania, or Ohio.  Not Obama; no way.

I like Richardson for VP

Obama is smarter than Richardson.

Obama is much less experienced than Richardson, and when each decision has to be a very good decsion, experience counts.  Obama is a lawyer with some experience in local/state politics.  Richardson has far more experience, Obama has the handsome face, but there is little proof that there is much that is presidential or vice-presidential behand that face.

Anyhow, neither of them is my choice.  Both would be bad choices for our country.

A Hillary/Obama ticket? Kiss the South goodbye.

I’m hoping for a Clinton-Obama ticket. I like Obama but I don’t think he has enough experience to deal with all of the pressing issues we’ve got going, both foreign and domestic. The VP job would season him so he’d be ready for a presidential run 8 years later. :>)

Folks pooh-poohed the Southern Clinton-Gore ticket, ahem.

William#2 is right—Hillary already claims Illinois as her home state, so she doesn’t need Obama there, and he will not help her in the south.  I would predict she selects a southern democrat, like Edwards or Tennessee governer Bredesen.

“Kiss the South goodbye”

The Democratic Party has been kissing the South goodbye for quite some time. That has hurt the party’s prospects but Democratic presidential candidates can, by carrying the Midwest, get elected without winning the South. But for the theft of Florida, Al Gore would have won the electoral college 291-246 without carrying any Southern state except Florida. Take a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ElectoralCollege2000-Large.png

Irenaeus, it has never been proven even via newsmedia “recounts” of Florida votes that “theft,” occurred, but you are certainly entitled to both your opinion and your unwillingness to “let it go.”

Hilary/Obama or Obama/Hilary…it makes no difference since, quite frankly, it’s pretty much smoke and mirrors.  I am a child of the 60’s and have voted democratic all of my life (I’m one of the three people west of the Hudson River who voted for McGovern!).  However, I must say that I am now a recovering democrat and will most likely vote republican from now on.  Last week’s You Tube/CNN extravaganza finalized it for me.  It was not simply the forum (when did CNN make Paris Hilton the news director?  I was waiting for Anderson Cooper to ask the candidates what their favorite color was or their “sign”.), but the complete lack of any vision beyond “Bush bad, we’re good”.  And Obama, everyone’s hope because he’s young, attractive, and allegedly untouched, demonstrated the huge difference between innocence and naiveté.  However, I fear a Hilary versus Romney election since any debate between the tow would be nothing more than a “liar’s convention”.

I have read that Obama doesn’t even poll well among blacks, given his entirely white and well-advantaged upbringing.  And that’s really the only reason for the buzz around Obama:  he’s the darling of white liberals.

Hillary will position herself as a moderate and promise lots of middle-class goodies and her VP will be along similar lines.  It won’t be Obama.

I think it was the LA Times that came out with an article a few months ago asking “Is Obama black enough for the African-American community?”

I found it. There were actually two stories:
here in the LA Times:

Redefining ‘black’
Obama’s candidacy spotlights the divide between native black culture and African immigrants.
By Louis Chude-Sokei, February 18, 2007

ALTHOUGH NOT quite able to pass for white, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been able to pass for African American. He is biracial, but not white; black, but not African American; American but not African. What has entranced the country more than his somewhat vague policies is Obama’s challenge to conventional racial and cultural categories.

Among African Americans, discussions about his racial identity typically vacillate between the ideologically charged options of “black” versus “not black enough” or between “black” and “black, but not like us.”

and here in Time Magazine:

Is Obama Black Enough?
Thursday, Feb. 01, 2007 By TA-NEHISI PAUL COATES

As much as his biracial identity has helped Obama build a sizable following in middle America, it’s also opened a gap for others to question his authenticity as a black man. In calling Obama the “first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” the implication was that the black people who are regularly seen by whites — or at least those who aspire to the highest office in the land — are none of these things. But give Biden credit — at least he acknowledged Obama’s identity.

The same can’t be said for others. “Obama’s mother is of white U.S. stock. His father is a black Kenyan,” Stanley Crouch recently sniffed in a New York Daily News column entitled “What Obama Isn’t: Black Like Me.” “Black, in our political and social vocabulary, means those descended from West African slaves,” wrote Debra Dickerson on the liberal website Salon. Writers like TIME and New Republic columnist Peter Beinart have argued that Obama is seen as a “good black,” and thus has less of following among black people.