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Originally Posted by highthief
Do you Americans vote based on who the VP candidate is? That state of affairs doesn't really exist in many nations - parties are voted for, as are (to a large extent) party leaders. But who the Deputy Prime Minister is matters very little to nations like Canada, the UK, etc. Hell, I'm not sure I know who the Deputy PM is right now.
I know succession works a little differently in the US, but would even if Elvis was the running mate, would it really matter that much?
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It's a tad more important an issue when the other member of the "team", the party's presidential candidate....is someone elderly....the oldest man, if elected....ever to take the office of the presidency....a man prematurely aged by severe, under attended injury during 5-1/2 years as a POW subjected to physical and psycho torture. In addition, the candidate admits to not being able to raise his arms higher than his chest, and to repeated treatment for melanoma:
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McCain's Health Is Called Robust By His Doctors - New York Times
......But two experts in the field who reviewed the pathology report released on Friday said it was unclear whether the melanoma on Mr. McCain's temple had metastasized from another, or whether there was one new primary melanoma.
If the spread was through the nearby melanoma, that could suggest a greater risk, said Dr. Lynn M. Schuchter, a melanoma expert at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Mohammed Kashani-Sabet, director of the Melanoma Center at the University of California, San Francisco. .....
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....and, last I looked...we're not considering the election of new leadership of just "any" country....it's about a country addicted to 13 million bbls a day of imported petroleum equivalents in an era of unprecedentedly high oil prices....a country with a bankrupt treasury and a wasted currency, struggling with record trade deficit, a still imploding housing valuation and underlying financial crisis, record military expenditures and the most inequitable wealth distribtuion in the community of post industrialized countries, as unemployment and home mortgage foreclosures are in the early stages of a rising trend....all wrapped around a belligerent foreign policy that has alienated oil rich Venezuala, Russia, and Iran....while relations with China begin to erode.