"Corzineobama" in one breathe was our governor's battle cry last night as he announced "unofficially" he will be seeking another term. Let the fundraising begin...From The Star Ledger:
In a rousing campaign-style speech at a Democratic fundraiser last night, Gov. Jon Corzine called on his party to deliver New Jersey to Barack Obama this year, and he made clear he'll be seeking another term as governor next year."I want a Democratic president in the White House when I'm running for re-election in 2009," Corzine told about 250 contributors at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. "We are going to win in the fall of 2008 and the fall of 2009."
And in other news, the buzz continues over who might run alongside Mr. Obama. US Representative Bill Pascrell says he'll settle for Virginia Senator Jim Webb as veep, if he can't have Hillary. And let's not forget the Huffingtonians have come up with their own short list. Is it time for Al Gore's comeback? Who's your first pick?
Republicans, you can weigh in too.
Webb will never, ever play with feminists. (There's loads of stuff in his novels, which are quite readable but a far cry from what passes for Baristaville-type fiction, to enrage everyone.) Based on his last book which was about the "fighting spirit" of folks from more-or-less Appalachia, however, he might not even withstand serious analysis from the sane of either party. He ended up praising the suicidal impulses of the very folks who two historians named Grady and McWhiney, in a famous book titled "Attack And Die," cited as the basic reason the South lost the Civil War so decisively.
Really, though, too, who gives a rat's behind what that wheezy old party hack called Pascrell thinks?