Posted on 05/10/2008 9:52:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Friends and close associates of both Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are now convinced that, assuming she loses the race for the presidential nomination, she is probably going to fight to be the vice presidential nominee on an Obama-for-president ticket.
Clinton "is trying to figure out how to land the plane without looking like surrender," a prominent figure in the Obama camp said Friday. This means, in all likelihood, bringing her campaign to a close in the next few weeks and trying to leverage her way onto an Obama ticket from a position of maximum strength, said several knowledgeable sources.
A person close to her, with whom her campaign staff has counseled at various points, said this week, "I think the following will happen: Obama will be in a position where the party declares him the nominee by the first week in June. She'll still be fighting with everybody -- the Rules Committee, the party leaders -- and arguing, 'I'm winning these key states; I've got almost half the delegates. I have a whole constituency he hasn't reached. I've got real differences on approach to how we win this election, and I'm going to press the hell out of this guy. ... Relief for the middle class, universal health care, etc.; I'm Ms. Blue Collar, and I'm going to press my fight, because he can't win without my being on the ticket.' "
Another major Democratic Party figure agreed: "It's not going to be a quiet exit. ... Obama has got a terrible situation. He marches to a different drummer. He won't want to take her on the ticket.
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I don’t think Mrs. Obama will allow Hillary to take the #2 spot.
Actually, he doesn't want to pay those kind of life insurance premiums.
For JM?
Obama, Hillary and Bill. Ha! Ha! That would allow Wall Street to continue on. :^)
Traditionally, a presidential candidate picks a VP candidate who will help the ticket. Hillary has such high negatives. How will Hillary help gain support in the general election?
Granted, she may help keep some of the uneducated white vote that she talks about, maybe. But how will an Obama/Clinton ticket help attract moderate/independent/disaffected Republicans? Hillary is the most hated Democrat among Republicans.
And Obama wants to turn the page and move past the Clinton years. Having Hillary on the ticket contradicts what he wants to accomplish.
And, what states will Hillary as VP help carry? Will an Obama/Clinton ticket carry West Virginia and Kentucky, for example?
Obama won’t pick Hillary. And if he did I don’t know if she would accept. The only way I see here doing this is if he pays off a good portion of her campaign debt.
Exactly she has real high negatives. If he choses a woman to run with it won't be Hillary.
I can just see a cabinet meeting in a moment of chaos...and Hillary arguing her point to Obama. She can’t work as number two. Its hard enough to sit in the senate.
Agreed. And Michelle reputedly hates her.
SCOTUS? She has a great paying job for life with no more campaigning. Bill has cover for his plans.. whatever that may be.
I think that I'm going to credit Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" as the inspiration for the Wizard of Oz spoof.
As McCain's running mate?
Clinton spells disaster... for everyone.
Good point — Michelle Obama does not seem like someone who could bear to spend the next 4-8 years overshadowed by the Clintonistas. Even if Barack were to start to entertain the idea I cannot imagine that Michelle would put up with it for a moment.
I have no doubt that both of these leftist buffoons will be on the Rodent party’s ticket.
Oh my gawd!! I’ve just had vision — he’ll ask Senator Patty Murray to be his VP.
Only a suicidal fool would put the witch in a position where she gains her goal by your death.
B. Hussein is not suicidal.
I predict B Hussein will pick a white male for his veep. Hillary may bring uneducated whites to the polls, but so can any white male, but without all the baggage. B Hussein would have to always watch his six as long as Hillary was a heartbeat away from the presidency. Besides, Michelle hates the bitch and wouldn’t allow it.
i really do not understand you guys. Clinton will win this. You guys totally underestimate her.
klinton is a crimminal, first and foremost.
HRC’s made it pretty clear there’s a strong racist bent in the Democrat electorate. She definitely brings something to the table, now that she’s blatantly going after the white cracker vote.
If Obamma Lamma Ding Dong allows Mrs. Bill Clinton to be his V.P. running mate then he becomes a walking dead man.
Arkancide is a Clinton invention.
Well let’s see, a Black man with a Muslim name who is the most liberal senator in America, already has 20% of his base saying they would not vote for him, who has shown he can not overcome the rat White males deficit; AND the most hated person ever put on a ticket bring a nice hefty 45% ‘I’d never vote for her’ number on the same ticket - Call me crazy, but I like our chances.
Hillary negotiated this presidential run to keep Bill in office. The price to stand by her man.
I’m betting she wished she had traded it for something else right now.
Too risky. If they didn’t vote for her it’s because they didn’t like her because obviously she’s got more experience than Obama does. That could make some voters mad enough not to vote.
So much for the message of “Change”.
My bet is on Fast Eddie Rendell.
Yup — give Hillary a job where she has nothing to do all day long except to conspire with Bill as to how to get your job. Brilliant!
He won’t choose Clinton and he can’t choose another woman, because then Clinton would hog all the headlines playing Medea (the woman scorned).
Sure, if Obama doesn't mind any sudden flight cancellations - midair.
Not a chance. The acrimony between the two runs too deep by now.
His age works for him in this case.
Olympia Snowe was part of the "Gang of 14". I'm not sayin' I think she's anything near a conservative, just that McCain must be comfortable working with her. Since the Republican convention follows the Dem's this time, we may not learn the final choice until then.
Given the record breaking Dem turnout in the primaries and massive fund raising, it would be an unbeatable ticket, but I doubt Obama would agree to it. He realizes that Hillary and Bill would eclipse his presidency and the campaign. Hillary will settle for Senate majority leader and a promise by Obama to help pay off her debts.
I have to wonder: what would be the motivation for Obama to place a political rival, who has deeply embedded loyal operatives at every level of government, in a position a hair's breadth from the power of the Presidency itself? Yes, she has a powerful voting block who would put them decidedly in the win column, but he'd be in as bad a position politically as if he had selected a Republican running mate and had a Republican congress to deal with.
It'd be like having to get a permission slip for each decision in order to prevent her running to the press and announcing what she'd do instead.
After all, she'd view the position from the perspective of "When he's out of the way" or even run against him in 2012 regardless of his incumbency. It'd be insanity. And that's without going into the "Vince Foster" theories, and we can all figure out the implications there.
Heh, I get the mental image of Obama having to reach into a large woven basket to pull out the keys to the Oval Office, all the while knowing there's an pissed off Cobra inside.
"The key's over there, Obama. Uhhhh....why don't you go get it?"
Answer: Sure if Obamalama wants to end up "accidentally" dead like Vince Foster or Ron Brown. Hidabeast would see to it that he was removed from office one way or another so that she could legally take his place.
In order to make the Hildabeast his VP Obamalama would have to have a political and physical death wish.
Obama needs a center roader white guy in this to win.
I am thinking Kathleen Sebelius.
Conspiracy theories aside, Obama /Clinton can happen behind the closed doors at the Dem convention. Lots of kissy face make up and compromising and you’ll have the two of them to contend with. The lack luster Republican ticket, the Conservative and Independant voter apathy, only leaves the Whitehouse front door wide open for Obama and Hillary. It will be the biggies at the convention to decide, not Mrs. Obama. The Republicans do not appear to be that fired up about Mc Cain any more than they were for Bob Dole, I fear that we will be in for it in November. Brace yourself.
He could pick Bill Richardson for veep and Richardson could do commercials for all the Spanish speaking media. Black + brown + plus white guilt is a majority. Obama has delusions of being to unite black and brown. Shudder. He got 75% of the hispanic vote in Illinois, but that was against Keyes.
I wonder if Clinton’s would be pissed by that pick.
The only GOP woman I can think of at this point I would approve of for VP (besides Condeleeza and Lynn Cheney) is Kay Bailey Hutchinson and that would probably be pushing it.
Yes, but she hates everyone!
LOL!
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