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Updated: 2:00 PM Jun 11, 2008
HuffPost's Stein: Sebelius Completes "Obama Puzzle"
Huffington Post writer Sam Stein says the Kansas governor's previous public showdowns with the Bush Administration after Greensburg and after the State of the Union Address demonstrate her strengths and potential weaknesses were she to join an Obama ticket.
Posted: 2:00 PM Jun 11, 2008 |
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As the Huffington Post takes a closer look at the choices on Sen. Barack Obama's short list of running mates, Sam Stein takes an in depth look at a possible Obama-Sebelius pairing and examines what the Kansas Governor adds to the ticket.
Citing the recovery effort in Greensburg and the State of the Union Address response, Stein reflects on instances when Sebelius confronted President Bush on a national stage.
"Sebelius was quick to highlight one of the unspoken truths of the recovery episode [in Greensburg]:," Stein writes. "Kansas lacked the resources and manpower it needed because much of the state's National Guard resources had been sent to Iraq... Her rebukes earned her accolades in Kansas and with the press."
Then, in January, Sebelius was tapped to deliver the Democratic response to the State of the Union Address; an episode during which Stein claims she "stumbled, offering up what observers deemed a fairly safe, some said milquetoast, address."
Claiming that the Illinois Senator and Kansas Governor "enjoy a warm relationship" and that she would likely join Obama's pursuit of the Oval Office, Stein sees certain caveats which may hurt her chances.
Her current role as governor offers her "limited direct national security experience" He quotes Christian Morgan, executive director for the Kansas Republican Party, who said Seblius "has no idea how military budgets work, or what it is like to be a commander in chief."
Also, Stein points to recent polls which indicate that, even with Sebelius on the ticket, Obama would not carry Kansas.Read the entire article
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Does anyone here care that Sebelius violated the Logan Act by meeting in secret with foreign agents and officials at both the 2007 and 2008 Bilderberg meetings? § 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments. Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply himself, or his agent, to any foreign government, or the agents thereof, for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any
