I think you are right, Condi is too smart to get into that mess, but again, I do not know of anyone who handles foreign affairs better than Condi, she is flawless to a T, wise, has never lost her composure, intelligence that cannot be beat.

But, I do not think she would want any parts of it, unfortunately.

Lindyy

I have my doubts that General Powell would accept McCains offer(too much warmongering),but He might accept if a Brilliant young Obama asked him!!! It sounds crazy ,I know , but It really is SOOO! I am my own, grandpa!(not really)

At least Obama should give him (Colin Powell)a Cabinet position!!

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"Learn to love Hillary" ..... that's a real good one.

Even Bill, who choses women who are nothing but trailer trash, hasn't learned to love her!

Well then I guess you're voting for Hillary in November.

Well, I guess we both can agree on that! Hillary is the perfect flip-flop politician. Which is why I loathe her so much. No, no, that's not it. I loathe her so much because she whines and complains that people aren't being fair to her.

dems will have a clinton obama ticket or vice versa

and rep mccain richardson ticket


as much as i like powell i think he would refuse the offer

i do not think he likes the game of politics

bush burned him in the first term

snd he will refrain from playing the game

I have a question.On the primary ballots there were VP selections.what was that about?

Under the original terms of the Constitution, the members of the U.S. Electoral College voted only for office of president rather than for both president and vice president. Each elector was allowed to vote for two people for the top office. The person receiving the greatest number of votes (provided that such a number was a majority of electors) would be president, while the individual who received the next largest number of votes became vice president. If no one received a majority of votes, then the U.S. House of Representatives would choose among the five highest vote-getters, with each state getting one vote. In such a case, the person who received the highest number of votes but was not chosen president would become vice president. If there were a tie for second, then the U.S. Senate would choose the vice president.

The original plan, however, did not foresee the development of political parties and their adversarial role in the government. In the election of 1796, for instance, Federalist John Adams came in first, and Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson came second. Thus, the president and vice president were from opposing parties. Predictably, Adams and Jefferson clashed over issues such as states' rights and foreign policy.

A greater problem occurred in the election of 1800, in which the two participating parties each had a secondary candidate they intended to elect as vice president, but the more popular Democratic-Republican party failed to execute that plan with their electoral votes. Under the system in place at the time (Article Two, Section 1, Clause 3), the electors could not differentiate between their two candidates, so the plan had been for one elector to vote for Thomas Jefferson but not for Aaron Burr, thus putting Burr in second place. This plan broke down for reasons that are disputed, and both candidates received the same number of votes. After 35 deadlocked ballots in the U.S. House of Representatives, Jefferson finally won on the 36th ballot and Burr became vice president.

This tumultuous affair led to the adoption of the Twelfth Amendment in 1804, which directed the electors to use separate ballots to vote for the president and vice president. While this solved the problem at hand, it ultimately had the effect of lowering the prestige of the vice presidency, as the office was no longer for the leading challenger for the presidency.

The separate ballots for President and Vice President became something of a moot issue later in the 19th century when it became the norm for popular elections to determine a state's Electoral College delegation. Electors chosen this way are pledged to vote for a particular presidential and vice-presidential candidate (offered by the same political party). So, while the Constitution says that the president and vice president are chosen separately, in practice they are chosen together.[citation needed]

If no vice presidential candidate receives an Electoral College majority, Article Two, section 1, Clause 3 of the Constitution states that the Senate selects the Vice President. This is a curious anomaly since the sitting Vice President is also President of the Senate and would be called upon to break a tie vote, possibly for himself or his successor. However, there has been no occasion for the Senate to select the Vice President in this manner. (In the election of 1824, the selection of the President was made by the House of Represenatives due to four contenders who each received a significant number of electoral votes. However, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina easily won the election for Vice President with 182 votes out of 260 cast.)

Love to see Condi run...but she is more interested in running the NFL

McCain Flashes Temper at Reporter
Published: 3/7/08, 11:05 PM EDT
By LIBBY QUAID
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Republican Sen. John McCain, showing a flash of the temper he is known for, repeatedly cut off a reporter Friday when asked whether he had spoken to Democratic Sen. John Kerry about being his vice president in 2004. "Everybody knows that I had a private conversation. Everybody knows that, that I had a conversation," McCain told the reporter. "And you know it, too. No. You know it, too. No. You do know. You do know."

The reporter, Elisabeth Bumiller of The New York Times, was following up on a question McCain had answered at a campaign event Friday morning in Atlanta. Asked if he might consider Kerry as a running mate, since Kerry asked him in 2004, McCain said no.

Is it possible??
McCain ?Kerry????

How about This?: Colin Powell as VP for Obama, Sounds like Obama would then have the bull by the horns on a downhill slide