What job is Carol really campaigning for?

[angee_is_mad]

First of all, let me say that as a fellow African American woman I greatly admire her accomplishments. But really DU'ers, doesn't it feel that she is angling for a job and is using the election to put herself back in the limelight? I am just wondering what position she really wants!
A place in the new cabinet? A senate or congress run in the future? Please do not mention Sharpton,because we all know he has his own agenda, which is quite frankly good for the party. With Sharpton there it helps to control the others from going to far to the right and being republican-like.

[curse10]

1. VP for Dean

which she is not likely to get

[mikehiggins]

2. Probably teaching, perhaps writing and lecturing.

She has a point to make and a message to deliver. If she gets a couple of delegates she will have earned herself a spot at the convention and who knows? Maybe the next primary fight will be between Hillary Clinton and Carol. That would be sweet.

She is a remarkable woman and if the Democratic Party had the balls to do it she should be the VP on this ticket.

[sandnsea]

3. UN Ambassador

She'd be great!

[DemOutWest]

4. In order

2004-U.N. Ambassador or Cabinet position

2008-Vice President

2012-President.

I support all three.

DemOutWest

[SlavesandBulldozers]

5. what are you talking about

you sound like a freeper. this is the second post i've seen with you being idiotic.

[angee_is_mad]

9. SWEETY I wasa democrat in the womb!

And was breastfeed liberalism! Can you say the same? I meant no disrespect toward Amb.Braun but was trying to figure out what she really wanted!
For everyone else, I think a cabinet position would be great for her and then maybe reclaiming her senate seat. After that who knows what the possibilities could be for her.

[buff2]

10. I think she wants to be President

Carol is a very articulate,intelligent lady.She would make a great President......but the men will prevail as they always do. I hope she does get a good position with whoever our nominee is. The most important thing we have to concentrate on is getting that doofus bastard out of the Whitehouse and get our country back on the right track again.

[Democratic Paradigm]

6. Secretary of State

I think she'd make a great SoS. She's knowledgeable, smart and she wouldn't take any crap!!!

[Melinda]

8. I'm with you. n/t

[newyawker99]

16. Hi Democratic Paradigm!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Township75]

7. ABC Reporter?

?

[tritsofme]

11. See IL Senate Election 1998:

in other words, she will never win any elected office, nor will the next president wish her to be part of his cabinet.

Mind you I really have nothing against the women, and I donated and worked for both of her Senate campaigns, but I just dont think she will ever get anywhere.

[angee_is_mad]

12. Really?

Why do you say that? I feel enough time has passed concerning her last elected positon and she has made a great showing running for president. I am thinking a cabinet position, then running for elected office again.

[tritsofme]

15. Theres just too much dirt out there on her,

whether its correct or incorrect is irrelevant.

I wouldnt support her campaign, because I dont think she could stand in an election.

Many of the people I know still have very negative feelings about her, and these are Democrats in IL.

I personally still have a hard time forgiving her for loosing her Senate seat to the pukes, in the same state that was a landslide for Gore just two years later.

[Lexingtonian]

13. DHHS

(Department of Health and Human Services)

Donna Shalala really demonstrated how much good could be done for the various disadvantaged with the position. The complicated parts (NIH) run themselves, the other parts (Medicare, etc) require mostly managerial diligence and care rather than specialized understandings.

I think Sharpton wouldn't mind being put on the Civil Rights Commission. And he's actually the kind of firebrand the organization needs.

[PurityOfEssence]

14. Off the topic, but why don't they refer to her as "Senator Mosely-Braun"?

In the debates, she's always chyroned in and introduced as "Ambassador"; sure, she was the Ambassador to New Zealand, but she was a United States Senator, dammit. Is this her choice of title, or is it deliberate marginalization of her?

One would imagine that she'd rather be introduced as a former Senator than as a former Ambassador (or both.

Now, on topic, I think she was seriously running for President, and since she's actually done rather well in the polls for someone with no money and so deliberately shunted to the back of the pack by the powers-that-be and the media, she was probably hoping for a decent showing in New Hampshire and a lucky break.

If you've ever played poker, you know that you should stay in the hand for a while; people hit snags, and you never know who might stumble. Surely she's smart enough to see that her chances are truly remote now, but it's definitely provided a revival to her career, and she has every reason to continue for a while yet. As for her fall-back position or her harsh reality contingency, who knows?

I doubt she seriously expects the V.P. slot, but that could very well happen. Methinks the craven desire for crossover votes will preclude this, but it's not beyond possibility. I could see this as a splashy Dean move, and it might just keep the "once-in-a-lifetime" feel of the Dean campaign crescendoing even more; after all: the Deanies are trying to pull in those who never vote, and this could seriously energize a lot of non-voting blacks and some more women... Hmmm...

[NewJeffCT]

17. I had wondered about that, too

why Ambassador?