Obama: The buck will stop with me, because I will be the president.

[ProSense]

Your VP, Senator. What Will "He" Be Like?

19 Aug 2008 08:47 pm

Sen. Barack Obama usually describes his vice presidential nominee with two pronouns joined by a conjunction... "he or she." Tonight, in North Carolina, according to CBS News's Maria Gavrilovic, Obama was gender specific.

Answering a question about his vice presidential criteria, he said:

Let me tell you first what I won't do. I won't hand over my energy policy to my vice president, without knowing necessarily what he's doing. I wont have my vice president engineering my foreign policy for me. The buck will stop with me, because I will be the president. My vice president, also by the way my vice president also will be a member of the executive branch, he won't be one of these 4th branches of government where he thinks he's above the law. But here's what I do want from my vice president, I want somebody who has integrity, who's in politics for the right reasons, I want somebody who is independent. Somebody who is able to say to me, 'you know what, Mr. President, I think you're wrong on this and here's why' and will give me (applause) who will help me think through major issues and consult with me, would be a key advisor. I want somebody who is capable of being president and who I would trust to be president. That's the first criteria for vice president. And the final thing is I want a (vice) president who shares with me a passion to make the lives of the American people better than they are right now. I want someone who is not in it just because they want to have their name up in lights or end up being president. I want somebody who is mad right now, that people are losing their jobs. And is mad right now that people have seen their incomes decline, and want to rebuild the middle class in this country. That's the kind of person that I want; somebody who in their gut knows where they came from and believes that we have to grow this country from the bottom up.

The italics are my own.

Bold added for emphasis.

Cheney to Bush: Mr. Evil manipulating his protege, Mr. Evil Jr.

The GOP is so over. McBush doesn't stand a chance.










Had to edit the title. Obama's words are stronger.

[liberal N proud]

1. Obama needs to resurrect the Buck Stops Here plaque from Truman

He could make that part of a campaign ad.

[ProSense]

3. He should push the entire point and tie it to McBush

The buck will stop with me, because I will be the president. My vice president, also by the way my vice president also will be a member of the executive branch, he won't be one of these 4th branches of government where he thinks he's above the law.

Didn't McBush praise Alito?

[ProSense]

2. They're going to push it,

the bogus comparison:

...A charismatic, inexperienced nominee taps a more experienced, dare we say, arrogant No.2? In fact, there are a lot of Republicans who believe they can sell Obama-Biden as "the Audacity of Arrogance times two."

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[GoesTo11]

4. A more apt comparison / contrast

2000: An aspiring dark lord takes control over an idiot nominee.
2008: A charismatic nominee with self-knowledge and managerial wisdom starts building his "Team of Rivals" by picking a highly experienced no.2 who can help him be even better.