Stephanopoulus' Picks for Veep
ABC News Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos had some interesting insights into the election at the TVB Marketing conference in New York today. As the event’s keynote speaker, Stephanopoulos offered some picks for potential vice president candidates. If Obama were to win the nomination, Stephanopoulos mentioned Bill Richardson, Ohio governor Ted Strickland and Tom Daschle, with New York mayor Michael Bloomberg as a very dark horse.
Over on the Republican side, Stephanopoulos mentioned Mitt Romney, SC governor Mark Sanford and Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty. George threw out some longshots too–Condi Rice and Jeb Bush, though they’re a little too closely aligned with the current administration, he reckoned, along with corporate bosses Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina.
For an even longer shot, Stephanopoulus suggested Sen. McCain might really send a message about the war by naming David Petraeus as his veep.
Maury Nordstrom commented:
Watching George Stephanopoulus program May 31, I am surprised by the participants apparent belief that the USA is the only country in the world. WRT "Government Auto," we are in a global market and the proper automobile to be marketed for this market is a small, inexpensive, electric vehicle, subsidized if necessary to win in the competitive world market.
Battery recycling will be essential because of global limitation of element lithium, at present.
Think globally, folks, and work on ways to make money globally to pay off our debt.
Coincident is recycling of carbon dioxide. Singapore has an efficient, but so far expensive, process for converting carbon dioxide to methanol using solar energy. China uses methanol as fuel for automobiles. So where are we globally?????