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."
Very true but when Obama fails to win the presidential election Clinton will be able to tout her notion that Osama was unelectable and will be able to hold her head high and begin her race to the biliary stained carpets of the oval office in 2012. We have not seen the last of the Clinton Mafia
This is just my opinion, but I think the Kennedys have been a bit envious of the Clintons and have seen them as rivals to their hold on the Democrat party. I think the Kennedys will be glad to see them go.
Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd, and Barney Frank aren’t fit for Congress either.
Landrieu’s up for re-election in Louisiana this year.
Now THAT is the picture that we want on every poster at Osama Hussein’s rallies.
I suspect that he suspects the Clinton’s had something to do with his Nephews plane crash. Hillary NEEDED the New York Seat for the Senate. If you don’t know why, then read my tagline, there are just some people like this in the world. Unfortunately, we have the Clinton mob-family. If there wasn’t so much moral decay in this country, we would have never had a Clinton Mob Family to deal with in the first place!
Like the swimmer’s opinion really counts?
As a lifelong trailer tramp, I requestfully request that you retract your statement.
It is an insult to all trailer tramps! : )
He looks like he’s been up for week on a Vegas binge in that picture.
Egads! With an endorsement of liberal leftist RAT Ready Teddy “Murderer” Kennedy, it’s time to be “afraid, very afraid” of osama hussein.
YES. Once you rebel against the king, you must kill him. Teddy is scared stiff over what may befall him if the Clintons ever get back into power.
I think what happened, it used to be the Kennedy Party. Teddy it inherited from his brother. Wasn’t Ronald Reagan a Democrat back in the day when the Democrats were still decent people? But after that Teddy inherited it. But he was a morally depraved liberal. In the early 90’s the Clinton’s took over the party. They are worse then morally depraved they are a step below that. They are radical to the point where they are actually traitors. Ted is a traitor too but they are worse!!!
Teddy just wants to be VP before his liver gives out.
Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father:
“THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, THOUGH, WAS MY [half brother], ROY..HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM”.
From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “IN INDONESIA, I SPEND TWO YEARS AT A MUSLIM SCHOOL” “..I STUDIED THE KORAN..”
From ‘Audacity of Hope: “LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED ISLAM....”I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE”.
From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS OF WAR SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION..”
From The Audacity Of Hope, “WE ARE NO LONGER JUST A CHRISTIAN NATION, we are also a Jewish nation, a MUSLIM NATION, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
HATRED OF WHITES:
From Dreams of My Father, “ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”. Barack Hussein Obama
From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “The emotion between the races could never be pure, even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race (WHITE) would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.” Barack Hussein Obama
From Dreams Of My Father: “That hate hadn’t gone away,” he wrote, BLAMING “WHITE PEOPLE — some CRUEL, some IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.” Barack Hussein Obama
From ‘Dreams Of My Father’, “There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on,to show your LOYALTY TO THE BLACK MASSES, TO STRIKE OUT and name names” Barack Hussein Obama
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!!
A WHITE CANDIDATE WOULD HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED FOR MAKING SUCH STATEMENTS!!!
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http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html?cid=dc-article-obama
We have three clowns running for POTUS, none of whom are qualified. None of them would act in the best interest of this country. If only there were some way to get rid of them and start fresh.
former senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, would Obama consider him as a running mate? Nunn is more conservative, and might help the ticket in the south. But, if the liberals want to be too pure, they won’t want a more conservative Democrat.
Irony is thy name: "democrats"
There’s a history of the Democrats polling well after the conventions, but then the race tightens up.
In 1976, Jimmy Carter was up by 30+ points over President Ford after the Dem. convention. Carter won, but it was one of the closest elections in history.
In 1988, Dukakis had a 17 point lead in the polls after the convention, but lost to Bush 41.
In 2004, Kerry was up by about 10 points in some polls, but on election day, Bush was re-elected by a narrow margin.
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