Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) arrives in Blountville, Tennessee June 5, 2008. Obama will campaign in Bristol, Virginia and Bristow, Virginia on Thursday. REUTERS/Jason Reed (USA)
Posted on 06/05/2008 9:23:37 AM PDT by The_Republican
In clinching the Democratic Presidential nomination, Barack Obama is now the leader of his party. The first test of his leadership as a potential President will be his response to the extraordinary campaign already underway to bully him into choosing Hillary Clinton as his running mate.
Mrs. Clinton's tenacity in the primaries deserves credit, and she has earned the respect that Mr. Obama's remarks on Tuesday night gave her. But as he prepares for November, and perhaps for January, he has earned the right to choose a Vice Presidential nominee with whom he's comfortable, and on his own timetable. On that score, we were glad to see him name a vetting team yesterday and to appear in no rush to make a selection.
The same restraint can't be said of Mrs. Clinton, whose own remarks on Tuesday were notably ungracious to the victor. The occasion called at least for an enthusiastic show of support, if not a formal concession speech. Yet Mrs. Clinton chose to vie for the spotlight, touting her own campaign achievements and all but inciting her supporters to pressure Mr. Obama to make her veep.
"I understand that a lot of people are asking, What does Hillary want?" said Mrs. Clinton. "I want the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected, to be heard." The New York Senator then assured her backers that she had no intention of moving aside so that Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party can focus on a general election campaign against John McCain.
"Now, the question is, Where do we go from here," said Senator Clinton. And her answer was that she was undecided, though she did direct supporters to her Web site to offer suggestions.
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It will be Webb, who I think is a creep but he will be hailed as a pro military conservative by the MSM.
**Obama’s Vice President - [Can’t get bullied by Clintons]**
Fat chance...................*%*%$^
Evidently the WSJ hates the Clintons, and takes this opportunity to stick their dagger in their backs. Interesting.
Shades of Bob Dole.
He seems to be a strange duck!
I think you're right.
“The same restraint can’t be said of Mrs. Clinton, whose own remarks on Tuesday were notably ungracious to the victor.”
Looked to me that she was making a claim on the Co-Presidency, not the Vice-Presidency. Interesting that less than 48 hours later, she’s changed her tone. Someone must have ‘spoken’ with her.
I personnally don’t think she’ll accept the VP slot. I expect her to endorse Obama and to support him. I expect her support to be limited to a level that doesn’t do a lot for his election but to the extent that she can’t be blammed for his loss.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) arrives in Blountville, Tennessee June 5, 2008. Obama will campaign in Bristol, Virginia and Bristow, Virginia on Thursday. REUTERS/Jason Reed (USA)
The Dems want to win this, prepare for the dream ticket. They aren’t stupid, they know the Obama/Clintons ticket is their winner. What is important to them, a possible loss to Mc Cain or a win by the dream ticket? Get real, this isn’t over, they will iron this all out at the Convention behind closed doors. Come Nov. we had better have our bomb shelters built. No one is excited over Mc Cain except the Democrats. Call him their Operation Chaos. The Repubs messed up big time, had it been Thompson and the other guy from California, who’s name skips me at this moment, the Repubs would have had a possible winning ticket. I’d give Mc Cain the same chance as Dole had at becoming President.
guess who the new senate majority leader is gonna be? move over dingy harry.
Will Obama ask Colin Powell for a Black Dream Ticket?
“They aren’t stupid, they know the Obama/Clintons ticket is their winner”
Far from it. Hillary has a 50% negative rating, those folks aren’t going to vote for her whether she is #1 or #2 on ticket. All we need is 1 person in the other 50% who likes Hillary but dislikes Obama.
What Hillary has been doing since the Pennsylvania Primary is campaigning for 2012. Her offer to accept a #2 spot as a means of "doing everything she can" to guarantee a Democrat win in November is pure Clinton: by doing so she starts to mend fences with a Democratic base that's apoplectic over her refusal to throw in the towel. When Obama shuns her -- as he most surely will -- her aging feminist supporters will have the last justification they need to go over the edge for McCain, or stay home, thoroughly demolishing Obama's chances and setting Hillary as the savior in 2012 who can honestly say "I told you so. I won the popular vote in 2008, and I'm the one to finally bring the party in from the Wilderness."
If Hillary becomes the VP, she loses all her power, and all of her political base, and she must campaign as an Obama spin-off in 2016. At that time she will be too old to run, and her name recognition won't have the same cachet. As VP she can't challenge her own prez in 2012.
She doesn't want the #2 spot. She just wants people to think she does.
I agree. Either Webb or Bill Richardson for the Latino edge.
what about Obama choosing Cynthia McKinney??
I keep hearing from Dem friends that it would be nice to have Hillary on the ticket with Obama. It will mend their fences. But then again, what do I know, I’m from Brooklyn, Schumer’s, Sander’s and Ginsberg’s neighborhood. I say BEWARE.
PING for RNC ad.
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