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."
Up to the election the Islamofascist murderers will lie under their camels asleep. If Obama is elected they will remain in seclusion as their candidate and his woman are now in satan's White House and will do, not the will of the American people, but of Allah.
If Obama loses all hell will break lose.
It's true, they're not fit for much of anything other than a straitjacket.
Kennedy got away will willful murder, Byrd Brain is senile and evil and Barney Fag represents the horde of homosexuals who are, with the help of the infamous ACLU, pressing for rights as a privileged class of Americans. Pussycat Americans see nothing wrong with this special reclassification of millions of perverts as they are clueless as to what being a 'practicing' homosexual entails.
They are unaware that one of the many disgusting acts calls for ingestation of fecal matter and of course the fudge packing. They honor the anus.
Of course there are many others, including Republicrats that shouldn't be representing us in Congress. There's Colins, Snowe, Voinovich, Hatch, Hutchison, Martinez, etc. etc. etc.
In the case of those three I make it a point to stay the hell away from the states that elected them.
If gravitas means having a large posterior and stumpy piano-like legs, and bleaching your hair blond, and cementing your face to cover up all the wrinkles and pock-marks, then gravitas is what fits on the Hussein Obama ticket.
If only we Republicans had a candidate who didn't whisper his lines and ooze phony sincerity when he tells us he's a true environmentalist like his hero Teddy Roosevelt, and a candidate whose very actions indicate early or advanced stages of dementia.
How happy most of us would be if only we could have had at least a Thompson. Before this comic tragedy reaches its conclusion we may realize that Dr. Ron Paul didn't look too bad after all.
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