The Case for an Obama-Clinton Ticket

The New York Observer ^ | March 24, 2008 | Steve Kornacki

[2ndDivisionVet]

All these liberal pundits tend to downplay or underestimate the damage that Hategate/Wright has done to Obama among whites. Wishful thinking, I suppose.

What "experience" does Hillary Clinton (and of course, Barack Obama) have? Please someone, tell me. Two years ago, Obama was a state senator and Hillary did NOT attend any foreign policy meetings in the Bill Clinton White House (she didn't have a security clearance, for one thing!) Many FReepers, myself included, have MUCH more foreign policy, military and intelligence operations experience than both democrat candidates COMBINED!!

[NonValueAdded]

Obama-Clinton ticket? Yeah, one-way and out of town!

[nikos1121]

This would be double disaster...for them....Esp if McCain chooses a young, dynamic and conservative VP..In fact, never was the VP more important than it is this year...for the repubs...Conservatives are looking for someone....(Not Dan Quayle)...

[golfisnr1]

I don’t consider Obama stupid unless he would allow Hil as his VP.
His life expectancy would be zeroIts tough to watch your back 24/7.

[Joann37]

That would work!

But really, how could these two POSSIBLY team up on a ticket after all the vitriol they’ve hurled against each other? Someone here mentioned the “voodoo economics” statement made prior to the formation of the Reagan/Bush 41 ticket, but Obama and Hillary have gone WAY beyond that.

McCain’s ad people would have a field day using their sound bites against each other.

[End Times Sentinel]

It's not about experience, it's about combining two completely un-electable, polarizing, extremest, candidates, who've spent the last nine months bashing each other over the head with vicious attacks and innuendos together on the same ticket to see if they can replicate the smashing defeat that was Mondale Ferraro.

[Minnesoootan]

dream ticket?...dream ticket.....wait a minute....dream ticket? for Conservatives?

[Minnesoootan]

trying to scare those same white voters

wow,I'm still going to think aboot that in the morning

[goldfinch]

The article makes a strong case for why Clinton would ask Obama to be her vice president and why Obama would ask Clinton to be his VP but it fails to address the question of why either Clinton or Obama would accept a VP offer from the other.

Will Obama want to be tarnished with the scandals that follow the Clintons? Would Hillary really rather be VP in charge of nothing that be the Senator from NY? I don't think so.

[aruanan]

The Case for an Obama-Clinton Ticket

You mean a way to throw them both at the same time on the trash heap of history forever?

[BunnySlippers]

Suuuuuuuuuuuuure ... the first black and the first woman all on one ticket!

And with three of them on the ticket ... Bill and Hillary and side-kick Obama .... not crowded at all.

[SeaHawkFan]

I doubt Obama has a secret death wish.

[MeanWestTexan]

If Hillary was Obama’s VP, Obama would be deader than Vince Foster in a year.

[PROCON]

But he could also reassure those skittish white voters simply by having Clinton, with her demonstrated appeal and her perceived experience,

Oh please, why not a Mega-Barf Alert?!

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Oh please, why not a Mega-Barf Alert?!"

I thought it was implied by the title....

[PROCON]

I thought it was implied by the title....

Good Point!! :(

[Hang'emAll]

I don’t believe a Obama-Clinton Ticket will happen because Obama knows that it would be the first Tri-Presidency.

BJ Clinton would be a constant embarrassment by speaking out against any Obama policies that he/she did not agree with.

[Radix]

How did all of those keywords get onto a thread that is just 20 minutes old?

Did you copy/paste them all?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Nope, I’m just one of the world’s greatest two-fingered typists. Used to write reports and briefings for Presidents Carter and Reagan the same way on a MANUAL typewriter.

[Ann Archy]

Wet dream.....NEVER going to happen....Obama is smarter than that and I suspect he wants to LIVE.