Posted on 10/29/2009 12:46:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Barack Obama seriously considered picking former foe Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate last year but rejected her because he was worried about controlling Bill Clinton.
In a new book, the US president's 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe reveals the behind-the-scenes calculations as Obama searched for a vice presidential nominee and finally settled on Joe Biden.
"If his central criterion measured who could be the best VP, she had to be included in that list," Plouffe wrote in advance excerpts of the book "Audacity to Win" published in Time magazine.
"She was competent, could help in Congress, would have international bona fides and had been through this before, albeit in a different role.
"He wanted to continue discussing her as we moved forward," Plouffe wrote.
Despite still bitter feelings over the fierce Democratic primary duel, Obama continued to be intrigued by Clinton as the process progressed, saying she had "smarts, discipline, steadfastness," Plouffe wrote.
But in the end, concern over ex-president Bill Clinton's larger-than-life presence and political maneuvering cost Clinton a chance at the job -- which she had already signaled publicly she did not want.
"I think Bill may be too big a complication. If I picked her, my concern is that there would be more than two of us in the relationship," Plouffe quoted Obama as saying.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Talking heads in the MSM today declared that Joe Biden is the best VP ever.
Thank God!....Joes a lot more fun than Hildabeast!
So all the rumors were true.
Why is this being dredged up now?
cain’t wait fur
‘Kill’ Bill III
Biden will bow out in 2012 and Hillary will take his place on the ticket.
US President Barack Obama (R) speaks with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (L), seen here in September 2009. Obama seriously considered picking former foe Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate last year but rejected her because he was worried about controlling Bill Clinton (AFP/File/Jim Watson)
“Barack Obama seriously considered picking former foe Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate last year but rejected her because he was worried about controlling Bill Clinton.”
He shoulda been more concerned about controlling Biden.
They’ll have to pry him from his bunker where he gets to play with Legos, do cross word puzzles and watch Barney the Dinosaur all day.
Tell me that's a joke!
It is a joke... but tell me it's not true.
It isn't true... but tell me they didn't say it.
Faulty headline. Bill Clinton didn’t nix it, the Obamoids nixed her because of him. He jinxed her chances. Amazing when people are not literate in their native language, and still get jobs in journalism.
“So all the rumors were true.”
Makes ya wonder about the rumor that Obama was actually born in Kenya! That rumor was reported by the AP back when he was running for the senate. Except it wasn’t reported as rumor back then, it was accepted as fact.
Hmm
People who stood between the clintons and the presidency had a bad habit of winding up dead. Perhaps obama wasn’t a total idiot at that time.
Okay, then would you believe “greated VP of our time”?
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough: Joe Biden is the ‘Greatest Vice President of Our Time’
Newsbusters.org 10-29-09 Mike Sargent
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2373865/posts
I think that Zer0 knew better than to choose Hillary as his V.P.. With her only a heart beat away from her ultimate goal, how long would it have been before he was Fosterized...
Obama has been slipping in popularity with the chick vote. It appears he has been playing golf and b ball with just guys and some feminists think the White House is turning into a boys club. So, Obama scheduled a golf outing with a woman and now this explanation for why he didn't pick Hillary to appease the Feminazis.
I see ashtrays flying.
I see Bubba sleeping with the Ft. Marcy squirrels in 2011...if not sooner.
You mean Kill Bill, or KILL THE BILL? LOL.
BS!
Does the MSM think we have that bad of a short term memory? Hillary wanted that job badly, and she was dropping hints in public like crazy. She openly lobbied for it!
Furthermore, her advocates were all over the Sunday Talk Shows, dropping hints that were a subtle as a grand piano that she wanted the VP slot.
What is with these "reporters?"
Don't they have access to Google?
No doubt that Michelle Ma BELLE put the brakes on HILDABEAST! She knew that HILDABEAST would be a Nightmare to try and control... There is no way they were considering Hillary....this is another pile of LIES to sooth the Hillary Supporters before they FIRE HILLARY as The Secretary of STATE!
You can’t stop Bubba. You can only hope to contain him.
NO WAY!!! OBOZO Already knows he is History! He saw what happened to Van Jones when the American Public learned that Van Jones is a true RED COMMUNIST! Just like OBOZO IS TOO!!
Yeah, he was so concerned by what happened that he appointed some muzzies to the Dept of Homeland Security.
Yea! Then he put Napolitano in as Secretary of Homeland Security who is a Pathetic Joke! and the TERRORISTS have to be ROTFLTFAO!! She is afraid to use the word “TERROR” and spends her time running around with Ms. Late Term Baby Killer teaching people how to properly cough into their armpits!! GEEZ!! The OBOZO Sideshow is downright Terrifying! and starting to make Carter almost look respectable.........That is SICK!!
Sure makes you wonder what combo of crack and meth they are smoking up there.
Yep!
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