Posted on 02/05/2010 1:17:18 PM PST by pissant
Democratic strategists say that if President Obama's re-election prospects look shaky, he could dump Vice President Joe Biden from the 2012 national ticket and choose Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate.
It's inside-Washington speculation at this point, but the strategists make a good case for such a shift. "Biden was named in the first place to shore up Obama on foreign policy issues, and Obama doesn't need that anymore," says a former Clinton adviser. That's because Obama has learned the ropes and has assembled a strong foreign policy and national security team including Robert Gates as defense secretary, Jim Jones as White House national security adviser, and Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.
Elevating Clinton to the vice presidential slot would accomplish several objectives: It would appeal to female voters and the still-powerful cadre of Clinton admirers, give Obama more of a pragmatic luster, and shunt the gaffe-prone Biden aside. And it would theoretically discourage Clinton, a former senator from New York, from challenging Obama in the 2012 primaries, Democratic insiders say, because as vice president she would be considered Obama's heir for 2016. Clinton would be 69 that year, the same age as Ronald Reagan when he won the presidency in 1980.
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****That’s because Obama has learned the ropes and has assembled a strong foreign policy and national security team..***
Good grief! Which planet is this moron living on?
No, that’s if Palin’s presidential prospects look strong he might dump Joe for Hill.
This article is true. He will do it, as his only chance at re-election is getting Hillary on his team.
Nope, she’s running AGAINST him!
He will not win without presenting a valid birth certificate, and he can't.
If he's the nominee, the birth certificate issue alone will defeat him.
“Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate.”
What a laugh. Hillary is going to primary the Kenyan and this time, her penis will be erect and her gloves will be off.
I hope we can nominate a man as saucy for power as her.
The problem is in the top of the ticket, zero, not the bottom. Well, there are huge insurmountable* problems with BOTH ends of the ticket, but at least “ol’ slow Joe” provides us with entertainment.
(* “insurmountable” = “insurmountable in a normal world where the GOP puts up a solid experienced media-savvy conservative non-hack to run in 2012.”)
My sides hurt!
Too clever by half.
He must have heard that she’s planning to run against him!!!!
Don't count on it fellas!
If Zero picks H, he won’t live long. Everyone knows that lots of people died when the Clintons were in the White House.
Yeah thats what I was thinking, the democrats will dump Obama.
wouldnt that be precious? Both of their heads would explode from the effort of being nice to each other.
And Michelle would have to be fitted for a muzzle.
Now that's too funny. Obambi not needing shoring up on foreign policy. Hah. And especially the part about Biden being so qualified.
As for Clinton, I've read she's considering getting out of State beyond 2012, but I doubt she'll take 2nd fiddle to Obambi. At least, I'd be surprised if she did. I'd more expect that she'll run against him.
Hillary wants her posh job back...she has already said SOS is “very hard work and very tiring”.
We need to dump all three - along with Queen Nancy and old weird Harry.
Don't count on it.
She’d never do it. Why would she trade attending summits for attending funerals?
Darn, I thought she was on “his team”. (wink)
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