Obama and McCain to Meet in Chicago Monday

Overheard at the meeting...

Barack: Geez, Johnny, you scared me by picking Governor Palin. You weren't suppose to make this so difficult for me.

John: Heh, heh, heh. You should have seen your face when she dissed you as a community organizer. It was priceless.

Barack: Very funny. I tried to help you from losing in a landslide by picking Joey "the mouth" Biden but then you went and picked a REAL veep. Johnnyboy, you're lucky I'm so charming... So, what do you want? Do you want an overt cabinet position or do you want to stay covert in the Senate and sabotage the Republicans like you've been doing?

McCain

This is your last chance to get out of the the Republican Party.

Get this folks. If McCain leaves the Senate the Governor of AZ who (oh by the way) is a Democrat will appoint his replacement. Yep you guessed it. She would appoint a Democrat and we would have the filibuster-proof Senate.

McCain McCain go for it. This is you last chance.

If Obama and McCain can figure out a cabinet position for McCain it will be even more evidence of REAL Change and the fact that our next President is indeed a wise man.

I liked McCain before he started hopping into bed with the right of the GOP to try and win the election. If he can swallow his pride and get his maverick back and really reach across the isle this could be a great thing for the country.

A bit of advice for McCain for his meeting with the leftist leader Barack: Don't say anything unless you want it leaked right to the media...just as G.W.

Hey Barack Obama won this election decisively.For those of you that want to complain about that , just stop your whining. You've had eight years of having it your way. Now, NOW it is time for the rest of the country to have a piece of that good old american pie. Grow up and stop being so stingy and selfish!God bless America and God bless President elect Obama!

I agree with you NatFrankie

You know you're deep in wing nut land when people are critical of two men who ran against one another getting together to explore common ground.

Good on both of them.

Secretary of Erratic Old Men

NatFrankie:
What the hell have you've been smoking?

I'm sure McCain will crawl on his knees on a trail of broken glass to meet with "The One", and leave with a brown nose.

I HOPE THAT PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA ASK SENATOR MCCAIN TO BE ON HIS STAFF!!!

Once again, President-Elect Obama has shown himself to be a man of prudence and intelligence. He may or may not offer McCain a cabinet role. But by virtue of the fact that he called a meeting with the man who ran a nasty, evil, belligerant, insulting campaign against him shows that we elected a true statesman.

whybeconservative?

“Isn't it nice to FINALLY have an adult in the White House? Could you imagine Jr. Bush doing this with Al Gore?”

Uhmmm, do what exactly?

"On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama and Senator John McCain will meet in Chicago at transition headquarters,"

All their doing is having a meeting.

“In May, Obama alluded to putting McCain in his Cabinet”

Obama also “alluded” to opposing FICA, accepting “public financing of his campaign”
And 10 “town hall debates”

Obama’s history shows reading “into” Obama’s words is a pointless exercise.

BTW, are we now using “alluded to” in place of “inartful” “malleable” and “nuance”?

McCain is much more valuable to the country in the Senate - it is the Senate's job to keep the president in check. A cabinet position means McCain would have to "switch sides" and become an ally. We need to have people critical of the president in the Senate (no matter who the president is) - it's crucial to the effective running of this country. If Obama offers McCain a position, I don't see it as a sign of maturity or grace - it's an effort to keep his critics close by and limit their opposition. Not good.

Question - Janet Napolitano will most likely be named to a post herself (Homeland Security Director) - if she is, the Republican Secretary of State in Arizona will succeed her as governor - it will be interesting to see how this is played out. If she is named to a post before McCain, then her successor would appoint McCain's senate replacement.

I am very suprised that this meeting is occuring so soon, my congradulations to both men for their statesmenship.

I foresee a very productive meeting and bright lights in the future on items of mutual desire.

he needs only be a moderate ally in the senate. he doesn't have the temperament nor the managerial skills to head a cabinet department. But in obama's quest to marginalize the ideological right, just like Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius did by bringing the left, the center left and the center right together while leaving the wingnuts out could be very effective. Folks don't remember very well that temperamentally and in terms of template for government, obama's always been love the sebelius approach. and she was wildly popular. Now, this wouldn't nor couldn't work for previous presidents. But obama is more independent with a huge emailing list. And all he needs to do when he's working on energy policy is ask folks to call their congressman and senators to tell them to vote for the plan. It's got incredible potential because the only thing that trumps washington's self-love is the prospect of losing their power. if ur constituents are showing widespread support for a plan, then u better vote for it. And that's where this Team of Rivals comes in. It pretty much guarantees obama approval ratings in the mid-60s or even lower 70s for at the very least the next 6 months. Obama doesn't overreach though. So far i like what i see. There isn't a better time to dismantle the republican party than when it is the most vulnerable and ideologically strained.

I hope McCain has the dignity to refuse any cabinet position offered by Obama.

Will: not only is Obama planning on a secret police force, turning us into a fascist country, but he plans to shutter and lock all the Christian churches. He will announce that he really is a Muslim after all, and he will propose that all Christians be put in concentration camps. Then he will appoint Bill Ayers Sec. of Defense.

LOL. Get real, people!

It's never going to happen. Obama is too partisan to even think about it outside a campaign setting. And he follows the part line to closely to break ranks and bring in an outsider.