Tag Archives: 'hagel'

• State

  I would personally like to see Chuck Hagel or John Kerry in the role. After that, I wouldn’t mind Hillary Clinton. It certainly makes sense politically for Obama, although the fear of a Secretary of State going “rogue” would persist. And last, at the very bottom of the list, only if everyone else in the [...]

• Obama VP Revealed?

  Newsweek rules out Clinton (duh), as well as Bayh and Kaine, as Obama’s vice-president, citing the DNC speaker lineup… “Obama will definitely choose a national-security expert–like Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden; Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska; Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island or Sam Nunn, former Georgia senator and one-time Armed Services Committee [...]

• Hagel, Obama, Iraq

  Chuck Hagel would be my choice for Obama’s VP, and he will be traveling with the Illinois senator on a trip to Iraq, so hopefully that conversation will continue on the plane.

• Hagel

  Hmm… Chuck Hagel, of whom I once honestly blogged, “one of only a handful of Republicans that liberals, even me, would consider voting for,” says that, if asked, he would consider joining Barack Obama as his vice-presidential nominee. If asked. The senator is highly-respected on the issues surrounding foreign policy, and is also a Vietnam [...]