Hoyer praises Menendez as possible VP pick
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says Bob Menendez for Vice President is "not without some degree of rationality.”: Getty Images Photo
The Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives says that U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez would make a good vice presidential candidate.
“He and I were good friends from his first day in the Congress many years ago, so I’m not objective on that,” Steny Hoyer (D-MD) told PolitickerNJ.com during a campaign swing through New Jersey today on behalf of Democratic congressional candidates. “But I think he brings a lot of unique attributes to that possibility. Now whether that’s going to happen or not, I don’t know. It’s not without some degree of rationality.”
Hillary Clinton’s National Finance Co-Chairman, John F.X. Graham, said yesterday that Clinton should pick Menendez for Vice President.
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This is simply more evidence
This is simply more evidence of the Clinton strategy to polarize the Democractic field. Their goal is to make Senator Obama the black Candidate and form a winning coalition made up of whites and Hispanics. So far it seems to be working
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Menendez is not a good choice
In the early 1990's when the state of New Jersey was flirting with I&R, I asked State Senator Menendez if he would support I & R (for the uninformed-think of Propostion 13 which happened in California). Menendez looked at me and said no. People like me (the unelected) are too stupid to know what they want. Only elected people should make laws. I looked at this man who family fled to this country which was made great by people like my grandmother who fought in the 1920's for women's right to vote. I felt disgusted. He is not vice-president material.
Yvonne Balcer, Speak NJ
Thank you!
You are so absolutely right! I was given the same answer by numerous idiots, no I mean senators and representatives who said "we are not smart enough" to have I&R. Of course my answer to them was that I was to smart to vote for them, and that only idiots would vote for them! Menendez is not vice-presidental material, but if some investigations are carried out, he might become a cell-block captain.
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
--Theodore Roosevelt--
Hey Bobby, don't count on Queen Jeanie's man
to spearhead your initiative to become VP... he'll either be broke or looking at bars with his Mrs.
Are you having wet dreams?
Clinton will not even be nominated, so let's forget about Menendez.
The Race is On...
What comes first...Menendez's indictment or nomination as Veep?What kind of deluded idiots would float the notion of this crooked, fourth-rate hack potentially being our President. Actually I'm stunned that the Clinton "geniuses" have effectively precluded any possibility of tapping Obama as her running mate. After what both Clintons have said I can just see the ads about Hillary being so unethically expedient as to select someone she has characterized as clearly too inexperienced to serve as President. The Clinton "political savvy" seems to have lost its invincibility. What we're seeing is that the Emperor/ress has no clothes. And the more it continues the more people flash back to the Clinton fatigue the country suffered through in the last few years of his presidency.