Posted on 06/06/2008 9:37:10 AM PDT by The_Republican
Imagine it is January 21st 2009. You are President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is your vice-president.
She's already demanded her old office back in the West Wing. You've learned from CNN that Bill Clinton is on a jet with Ron Burkle heading for Kazakhstan. Drudge has a flashing siren up beside a report from a British tabloid about a mystery blonde who emerged from the former president's apartment in at his library in Little Rock just before dawn last week. The blonde is promising a full interview tomorrow.
Mark Penn, White House counselor, is busy polling whether a divorce or a brief separation from Bill might best help the former First Lady become in 2012 the first member of a president's own administration to defeat him for his party's nomination.
The new vice-president's case is bolstered because your margin of victory was barely wider than George W. Bush's in 2000. According to exit polls released after John McCain's popular vote win, 78 per cent of late deciders cited the leaked tape of Hillary calling you a "wimp" as a key factor. Some 64 per cent agreed with her.
For months, the pundits have been ridiculing the Obama-Hillary (she insisted on her first name) slogan of "Ready for Change and Experience We Can Believe In on Day One". Bill Clinton's Labor Day quip that it would be a "three-for-one" deal didn't help either.
OK, stop imagining. An exaggeration? Certainly. But you get the picture. If Obama even begins to consider whether a Vice President Clinton would loyally help him better govern the country, she's toast in the veepstakes.
Which is why the notion that Hillary will get the nod can be summed up in three words. Ain't. Gonna. Happen.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
I agree. I posted this on another thread:
He would be a fool if he offered her the VP position. Most of the democratics have abandoned the clinton’s because they want to rid themselves of constant drum of salacious stories which are sure to come out about their ‘lifestyle’.
Hillary and Bill would always be front stage relegating Obama to obscurity and a puppet in their hands, sucking the life out his presidency.
Half the country already despises the clinton’s, she is old and getting older and his main appeal is the youth of the country.
Advancing the power of an aging, bitter, power mad ‘white’ woman with an unstable, loose cannon husband is sure to anger his base and the public, in general.
Waiting for the first post to say,
“Hillary WILL!!!!!!!!!!!! be the nominee!!!!!!!!!! PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!! She CANNOT be stopped!!!!!!!! She will never be STOPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Any vote analysis doesn’t include how many votes cast for Obama were actually anti-Hillary votes.
Very well done.
In a tragic irony, Barbara Olson perished that morning in September 11, 2001. Even then, the future was cast upon the wall as an ominous shadow.
A future in which the threat of Islamic militancy would not only NOT be contained, and driven back, but taken in and EMBRACED as serious partners in the reformation of the entire world.
Herself regards the Islamic world, while troublesome at times, still only a managable threat, easily covered by simplle law enforcement means, with no need to deploy enormous resources to quell its presence at certain critical points in the world economy.
I really miss Barbara Olson. She would have been a true stalwart in the WOT.
The muzzies are lucky.
Hillary shows Obama the little baggie she keeps Bill's b@lls in.
He looks like her personal assistant, taking orders....., like he is supposed to deliver a message bring coffee and newspaper.
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