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Obama definitely follows Truman's dictum of "The Buck Stops Here" religiously. In Obama's case the buck stops with the people he tosses under the bus.

p>As for the inconvenience of recalling the Korean War and Truman, Obama has a ready stock response: "That is not the Truman I knew." br> -- Wolf Terner br> Fair Lawn, New Jersey /p> p> GENTLEMANLY DISCOURSE br> Re: Quin Hillyer's Who's Number Two? : /p>

The over-arching problem with the article by Mr. (Mr. Shreve is having a temper tantrum) Hillyer is that he goes to the same "Professional Republicans" that have been telling us who to pick for decades to get his list of candidates. These same pundits, national party activists, think tank ideators, and media members have been leading the GOP down the path to the cliff for decades. Many of them are the same ones that tried their best to stop Ronald Reagan, only to jump on board as so called true believers when they could not prevent that train from leaving the station. They are the ones that throw temper tantrums whenever anyone dares question their exalted advice. They are the ones that insisted on throwing open GOP primaries to independents and cross-over Democrats. They are the ones that continue telling us that, if we will just endure this one more pander to some particular liberal demographic voting bloc, the members of that bloc will abandon the Dems and vote Republican. Of course it never works, but then they -- and we -- never learn.

Now accepting that the Veep job "isn't worth a bucket of warm spit," never the less can we be serious just this once and try to think about what the average GOP voter might want? You know, someone that might actually excite the run of the mill voter enough to make them want to go vote this time. I am sure that every one of the mentioned folks are simply wonderful men. I am sure that they are devoted to their spouses and kind to their kids. I would bet that some of them would be great to sit around and have a beer or two with and talk about just plain old "stuff." That does NOT make them scintillating Veep candidates. Let us look at the proffered list in no particular order.

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