There are all sorts of rumors about who will be the next Secretary of State, but the most persistent one is that it'll be
Senator John Kerry.
Senator Christopher Dodd is another possibility, and just today rumors have come out that
Senator Hillary Clinton is under consideration. One problem about Kerry being named is he'd no longer be a Senator, and so couldn't chair the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Next in line among Democrats is
Senator Joe Biden, but rumors have it that he's getting a new job on Jan. 20. Next in line is Dodd, but he's already said he'd rather stay on as Chair of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which is a very active committee recently with the economic collapse, and he can't do both. Next in line is
Senator Russ Feingold, who has a reputation of being among the farthest left on foreign affairs - he's the only Senator who voted against the
Patriot Act and is probably the strongest advocate of a near immediate withdrawal from Iraq. If he chairs that committee, it'll make the Democrats look very, very liberal. Plus Obama, in addition to predictably being hit from the right, could get hit from the far left by Feingold.
This is scary - "
Who America Owes." Why don't we just put the entire country on ebay?
The election in pictures. See Obama and McCain arm wrestle and 28 other pictures.
With all the bailouts for failing organizations, aren't we missing the obvious one that needs a bailout? Obama's been dealing with this one regularly this past year, and has first-hand knowledge of its problems. Yes folks, isn't it time for the U.S. to earmark a few hundred billion dollars to bail out the Republican Party?
I realized today that Barack Obama is Satan. If you move the "b" in "Barack" one spot to the left, the president-elect's name becomes "Boama," or more accurately, "Boa ma." Yes, he's the mother of a serpent, and I know just which one. Yes folks, his name is the giveaway clue that Obama is Satan. Do you think it's a coincidence that it's exactly 666 days from Feb. 10, 2007, the day Obama announced he was running for the presidency, to Dec. 8, 2008, the 17th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union? (Why 17 years later? Well, duh! Obama was born in 1961, whose digits add up to 17.) Yes folks, our many enemies are correct - the U.S. has gone to the devil. (Yes, I figured this all out by myself!)
I think it's kind of fascinating that there's exactly one American veteran left from World War I. He's 107 years old, and attended ceremonies today at Arlington National Cemetery. He attended the first Veteran's Day (then called Armistice Day) exactly 90 years ago in 1918. Wow!
Yesterday's Quiz Question: What president got in all sorts of trouble with the public for sending away a puppy he'd received as a gift?
Answer: Harry Truman, who received as a gift Feller, a cocker spaniel puppy, but gave it away. Many accused him of being a dog hater. The Trumans already had one dog they kept at the White House, an Irish Setter named Mike, but they had send that dog to a farm as well when it developed rickets.
Today's Quiz Question: What president wished upon a young man that he never become president. Nine presidents and at least 35 years later, that person became president. Who are these two presidents?
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