Open Thread Question: If Obama is the “uniter” he claims to be, then why did he not unite the DNC by choosing Hillary as VP?

Tell ya what, Doug. I’ll research that separation of 4th media branch of power with that of the voters and reserve opinion on that feeling of “unity” until after the convention. Because from the visits to liberal sites I’ve done, I’m not seeing that the “non unity” is media induced.

Personally, I think Carl #6 nailed it on the head… BHO is not, and never was, a uniter. Succinct, and no argument from me. Now if the rest of the world can “get it”. It’s the quintessential move, proving there’s not a “uniter” bone in his body.

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Fit Fit, if BHO gets all the Indy’s, but only half the Dems, he’s still in trouble. No matter what, he needs all the DNC at his back. Trading half the Dems for Indy’s is not a winning combo.

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Scott, you have an interesting theory on a united America with Obama. If I understand you correctly, you believe that the Dems will be happier than a pig in a blanket to have a DNC POTUS, plus own all branches of Congress (*and* the unofficial 4th branch, the media…). Therefore whatever their fearless spineless leader does, they will unite and follow along without a wimper.

Further, since you believe that Obama will do no different than McCain for the global war on Islamic jihad movements, you figure GOP and DNC will both be happy and objections to US actions will no longer be challenged. You’re banking on the DNC gleefully following an Obama CIC into military action overseas.

I’m not sure I totally agree with you there. I think Obama’s CIC leadership will turn more isolationist in design. He will depend heavily on UNSC and NATO… which is a course of inaction. His potential handling of Pakistan/Afghanistan, and his plans for withdrawal while ignoring Petraeus, may not pan out to be what you believe. Only time will tell if he’s elected.

If it is an Obama presidency, the majority of the country may indeed end up uniting over time in venom for his socialist policies… just as Italy did when they threw out their socialist President, and reinstated Berlusconi after only a couple of years. It will only take a few heirs, giving up 45% in estate tax to taste the disgust of a tax heavy Obama admin. So perhaps you may be right.

Then again, reversing such policies with our socialist heavy Congress could prove very difficult, if not impossible.

However Obama’s deliberate refusal to unite HRC voters by offering her Veep does not bode well. This is a man concerned with self, determined not to have the Clinton duo breathing down his back. He chose his Oval Office environment (sans Clintons) over the desires of half his party. I’m not sure that, given the country’s reins, he may continue to throw most of his party “under the bus”, as so many like to say. He’s already proven that he’s far more guilty than Bush of the accusations of “not listening”.

“Wow, what a convention”…???

When the band’s last strains echo away, the “last call for alchohol” sings out and the bar lights go up…..

Dang, you’re easy, Doug. As well as your cohorts. Easy to understand that with a mass of 65,000, enthusiam is hard *not* to have. Any large sports event has the same effect. But then, you wake up the next morning. How long does that euphoria last?

Perhaps long enough to get a bump in the polls before the reality sets in.

Obama is what he was last Sunday night. A candidate with a socialist agenda and an eye on spending lots of US tax dollars on his pet projects. He is still a walking naive for US business, and our foreign policy.

What we have learned this past week is that the DNC know’s how to spend big donor dollars on a flashy, and very expensive party. Obama, frugal and responsible are not thy names. It’s all about pomp, circumstance and show.

But dress up a pig, and it’s still a pig.