Posts by Kyle Matthews
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And how long would it last - would she be waiting for him to stuff up or get shot? What if she wanted to run in 2012?
When was the last time a sitting President was challenged for his second term by his VP? The President would have to be a complete disaster, and even then it'd be incredibly controversial.
She's 61 come the election. 2016 would make her 69. Pushing it in terms of age, but not impossible. He might decide to only do one term of course.
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Both candidates know they will not be the other's VP. They don't actually like eachother, such has been the battle thus far. If Obama nominates Clinton as his VP and if she then accepts it, watch out because Hell will freeze over next.
Obviously, it's difficult to know for sure, but I don't buy that. The statement that was linked to above - made on CNN - is sending her a strong signal.
He's basically standing there talking about her while pretending not to notice that she's 5 feet away pretending not to eavesdrop.
"Hey yeah, Hillary would make a great VP. She's very qualified, very smart, she campaigns hard. Man, if only there was a way that I could let her know that I would pick her as my VP if she pulled out... Oh Hillary! Hullo, didn't see you there. Gee, nice weather here in West Virginia isn't it?"
Two people don't need to like each other to be running mates. In fact, often that hasn't been the case. They both have enough ambition, and (I would have thought until a couple of days ago) political nous to recognise the way forward.
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that seems to me to be the logical way out of this mess (apart from her graciously stepping down!).
She has to step down at some stage, unless she takes it through to a floor fight at the convention, which I think would kill her chances of clearing the cabinet table of empty cups, let alone sitting at one of the seats.
Obama openly signalled in that story you linked to that she could have the VP-ship. To take it she needs to withdraw at some stage and give him a clear run. Come convention he then pulls her forward and they raise arms together and balloon and banners and four hours of cheering from the faithful blah blah blah.
Edwards would be interesting, but I presume that story has ruled him out from Obama's point of view. It would make sense for Obama to take Hilary, no side of the party then feels ripped off by the endless nomination fight, everyone has someone to vote for.
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Heh, OK, I'll take your word for it.
I did accounting 101. Maybe they didn't get onto GST at the 300-level because it would scare off too many students.
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WTF does she think she's doing?
The memoirs, if they can be taken at face value, of the last couple of months, will be very interesting in hindsight. Both what she's thinking, and the advice that she's getting.
I struggle to see what she's doing as well. If we assume that the presidential nomination is out of her reach, barring Obama having some super scandal or something, then I would assume she's lining up the bottom half of the ticket. Which I would have thought she'd already had sewn up. And the opportunity to be the 'bigger man', and unite the party by stepping back now and then graciously stepping forward again come VP announcement.
Even if she's not after the VP nomination, I can't see anything else that she might want that's advanced by continuing.
I struggle to see what she gains by battling on.
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No bouquets at all to Facebook, though. Surely there was someone in New Zealand who could have turned up to accept the award it won?
You would have thought that everyone in the New Zealand group would have been invited.
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but it strikes me as a rather pretentious affectation using an academic title outside an academic context
Oh yes. People who demand any sort of special title out in the general public tend to look like gits.
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and that's just the purchasing side. then there's the sale side. no dairy has a scanning system like the supermarkets do. most of them don't even run till tapes. so how exactly are they going to keep track of each item sold, as to whether it's shampoo (gst), bread (no gst), toilet rolls (gst), milk (no gst)... again, you're asking them to make hundreds of calculations, as opposed to a few.
I've never run a dairy, but I would have thought the only time you'd have to calculate (or not) GST is when setting your price for the item. You pay GST when you bring the items in, but that's your supplier's problem, not yours.
I could imagine if you were giving out receipts you'd have to indicate which had GST and which didn't, but who asks for a receipt in a dairy very often?
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Thanks to my sister who worked there, my Wellington library card had "Captain" as my title, one which I subsequently encouraged people to use, though sadly without much success.
You sir, are the height of cool, but only if you dress appropriate, and go down with the ship.
but I think my doctor has fraking earned the civility of a honorific, considering she didn't get her medical qualifications (or the rather impressive ladle of alphabet soup after her name) off the internet.
Meh. If you study at medical school you get doctor as a job, not a title. If you want it as a title you should have to go the whole hog and do the PhD. The people at the hospitals just have a 5 year bachelors degree. Hell, took me six years to get my BA, no one gave me a fancy title!
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Well known is claim over the internet.
Also he claimed to have been 'shot at ' in Vietnam, he said that he was a ' newspaper trainee' at the NY Times and that he had a part in writing Hubert Humphreys acceptance speech at the 68 convention.Oh yawn.
I heard he wears women's underwear on every second Sunday.