Posted on 05/10/2008 6:13:27 AM PDT by fweingart
Hillary Clinton's superdelegate lead over Barack Obama has become razor thin. Ted Kennedy doesn't see a spot for Clinton on Obama's ticket.
Ted Kennedy, the aging liberal lion of the Democratic Party, took a nasty bite out of Hillary Clinton Friday, saying she shouldn't be vice president because the job requires "real leadership."
"I don't think it's possible," Kennedy, a Barack Obama supporter, told Bloomberg Television when asked about an Obama-Clinton ticket.
Kennedy added that he hoped Obama would choose a running mate who is "in tune with his appeal for the nobler aspirations of the American people.
"And I think if we had real leadership - as we do with Barack Obama - in the number-two spot as well, it'd be enormously helpful," he added.
A Kennedy spokesman later clarified that Kennedy thinks Clinton is "more than qualified" to be veep, but doesn't think it's likely "given the tenor of the campaign in recent weeks."
The slapdown came during another difficult day for Clinton, who is struggling to keep her campaign alive after Obama's better-than-expected showings in North Carolina and Indiana primaries last Tuesday.
The former First Lady trails Obama in the popular vote, in pledged delegates and in dollars raised. And Friday she all but lost her last remaining edge - her lead among superdelegates.
Another nine superdelegates - the party leaders who will ultimately pick the nominee - came out for Obama, while Clinton picked up just one.
That left the former First Lady with 271.5 superdelegates, to 271 for Obama, according to an Associated Press tally. Four months ago, she held a 169-63 lead.
"The election is over, everybody knows that," said Vernon Watkins, a California superdelegate who jumped to Obama. "Obama has won."
Despite the bleak outlook, Clinton stumped through Oregon and Kentucky, while husband Bill made five stops in West Virginia, which votes Tuesday.
She showed no signs of exiting gracefully.
"You've got to have a seamless health care system which covers every single person," Clinton said. "My plan does, my opponent's doesn't…. How can anyone run to be the Democratic nominee and not have a universal health care plan?"
Obama said nothing at all about Clinton, choosing instead to aim his barbs at presumptive GOP nominee John McCain during a swing through Oregon.
"There will be real differences on the ballot in November," said Obama. "And that's what elections should be about."
What won't be on the ballot, many top Democrats now seem to agree, will be Clinton's name. Among the important doubters Friday was Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), a former senior advisor to President Clinton and now the fourth ranking Democrat in the House.
"At this point, Barack is the presumptive nominee," Emanuel told a New Yorker magazine forum in Manhattan. "Hillary can't win, but something could happen that Barack could lose."
“Yeah, does anyone know what is half a superdelegate? (I was going to make a Max Cleland joke, but that would be very wrong.)”
I think the SD’s from Guam were given 1/2 a vote. Don’t ask me why the RATS would give them anything.
Life is not fair. I just wish some law enforcement types had the guts to actually do something to the ‘powerful’. The list could get reaaaal long, real quick.
Thanks. And I’m sorry about the Cleland comment. He’s more of a man than I am, that’s for sure.
Not so fast. Obama is very electable and has to be considered the favorite going into the general election. Wait until after the lovefest called the Dem Convention is finished and you will be astonished by the polls showing Obama ahead of McCain.
Is there a law against it? Shudder, let's hope so!
I’m glad Kennedy said that. The Clintons need to be gone from the public forever. They can take their place on the scrap heap of “useless P”sOS”.
“I’d like to know what Senators are running this year.”
I’d like to know too. Conservatives need to get some organized support for good candidates going ASAP!
(Good guitar playing, by the way) ;-)
At an event in Dover, N.H., Clinton supporter Francine Torge introduced her highness saying, "Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually" signed the civil rights bill into law.
Clinton also said on the same day: "Dr. [Martin Luther] King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Ac. It took a president to get it done."
She really put a bug up Ted's rear end it seems. lol
Probably some “moderate” who can’t make up his mind.
Obama: She’s not ready for these 57 states.
Throw the Hildebeast under the bus, Teddy.
I forgot.
Drive the car off the bridge.
Its like the pot calling the kettle black. When Ted mumbles people listen.
I hate to say it but Hillary may be a psychopath but she is a better person that Ted Kennedy.
How Low can they go, Lower than Ted, Lower than Hillary, lower than former President Bubba Clinton, Lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut, lower than whale's poop in the ocean......there...there... they will find the VP Choice Perfect for Obama.
Just as long as nobody drills holes in his bottle of Chevas...
That is like comparing apples and oranges... better...better ...better than Former N.Y Gov Spitzer? Better than former President and cheat Bill Clinton????
To win the nomination, there will be primaries and caucuses in the fifty states and various territories, some of these primaries will be winner take all and some will be proportional, EXCEPT that the results from Michigan and Florida won't count (at least for now) because they didn't follow the rules. HOWEVER, just in case the primary voters vote wrong, a certain amount of Party Hacks will be given special votes to "correct" any mistakes. BUT, some of these "special voters" will only be give half a vote. The "special voters" have no specific moral obligations with regard to their votes, and are even allowed to SELL them to the highest bidder. Cross overs, independents and people who have crossed state lines because they MAY someday relocate to a certain state are allowed to cast a vote.
Heck, who needs Rush Limbaugh?
That jumped out at me too. Maybe the 1½ is a guy with a twin that he absorbed in utero or something.
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