Keynote Speakers for the Conventions

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Who do you think they should be and who do you think they will be?

For the Democrats, the natural pick for me would be Newark Mayor Cory Booker. He's done a great job in the past year of his administration. He has endorsed Obama so perhaps if Obama is the nominee he will get it, setting him up to be a big player on the national stage as Obama's speech did for him. The problem, I suppose, is that he also endorsed Lieberman if I remember correctly.

For the GOP, Sarah Palin would be a great choice. I would say maybe Crist but he's pretty much already set himself up on the national stage and is seen as a potential VP pick.

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He's also black.

I was considering mentioning that but decided to overlook it on purpose.

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Won't Palin be rather pregnant at that point?

Oh yea, I forgot about that.

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Maybe we can get another democrat to come over and speak like Zell Miller.  Joe Lieberman would be okay. 

hmmm I suppose Lieberman could be a possibility; he did endorse McCain after all.

The democrat party would be smart to let Nelson speak to their convention but you know they won't,  What a shame.

I don't think it would be too smart for the Democrats to pick someone who would turn off most of their base to be their keynote speaker.

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I don't think it would be too smart for the Democrats to pick someone who would turn off most of their base to be their keynote speaker.

Unlike the Republican Party, Democrats can--and should--afford ignoring their base.     Thats how we got Bill Clinton.   When they listen to their base, we get McGovern...and Hillary / Obama.

Bill Clinton and Ben Nelson are hardly comparable.

Because obviously having an unpopular mayor who supports drug legalisation as the face of the Democratic party is really going to appeal to middle America. Why not have go the whole hog and have Elliott Spitzer up on the podium as well?

Because having a candidate who is black and named Barack Hussein Obama is really going to appeal to middle America. Who would ever let THAT guy give the keynote address?!?!? He wouldn't stand a chance!

To imply that Cory Booker is in any way similar to Eliot Spitzer is ridiculous and a pretty uneducated statement to make. Booker stands for everything that Spitzer is not.

Booker has made it clear that he believes that certain drug penalties are filling up prisons that should be filled with murderers, something that he knows all too well living in Newark. Booker is also pretty moderate and has views that would be more in line with middle America than some views that some Democratic politicians endorse.

He's a rising star in politics today and to simply write him off as out of touch is foolish.