Posted on 02/05/2010 1:17:18 PM PST by pissant
Democratic strategists say that if President Obama's re-election prospects look shaky, he could dump Vice President Joe Biden from the 2012 national ticket and choose Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate.
It's inside-Washington speculation at this point, but the strategists make a good case for such a shift. "Biden was named in the first place to shore up Obama on foreign policy issues, and Obama doesn't need that anymore," says a former Clinton adviser. That's because Obama has learned the ropes and has assembled a strong foreign policy and national security team including Robert Gates as defense secretary, Jim Jones as White House national security adviser, and Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.
Elevating Clinton to the vice presidential slot would accomplish several objectives: It would appeal to female voters and the still-powerful cadre of Clinton admirers, give Obama more of a pragmatic luster, and shunt the gaffe-prone Biden aside. And it would theoretically discourage Clinton, a former senator from New York, from challenging Obama in the 2012 primaries, Democratic insiders say, because as vice president she would be considered Obama's heir for 2016. Clinton would be 69 that year, the same age as Ronald Reagan when he won the presidency in 1980.
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You can count on rioting in the streets if he tries.
Truthfully, I don’t think Hillary wants her name attached to this utter disaster named Obama any more than it already is.
She’s been laying ultra low since last fall, quietly doing her job as SecState, and I expect her to resign after midterms.
She’ll announce by fall 2011 that she wants his job.
I would be very surprised if he asked and if she accepted. Now- he may well ask someone else to be his running mate- but so much can and will change in the next year and a half I think any speculation at this point is really silly.
He is not gonna make it to the next election. Impeachment next spring..out on his ear and with any luck tried for high treason.
... if they don’t dump Obama in the first place ...
I hope you are right.
“Biden was named in the first place to shore up Obama on foreign policy issues, and Obama doesn’t need that anymore..”
LOL!
Can we get a big red RESET button instead?
A. Hilldawg will run against Obama
B. Dumping Joe would make Obama look like an a*&*&%$ to the left, they love Joe.
C. I suppose he could quit due to health though.
Hillary as VP would just be more water in the boat!! lol
Sarah Palin/Fred Thompson 2012
John Bolton, Secretary of State
Duncan Hunter, Secretary of Defense
David Petrieus, Homeland Security
Jeb Bush, FEMA
Tom Tancredo, INS
Etc, etc.
That would not end well for him if he did.
Plugs would gladly step down if the Master asked him to and kiss his ass on the way down. He is part of the elite Corpse. LOL
Absolutely. I’m not sure he gets the dim nomination.
Biden, future Ambassador to Antarctica
Maybe McCain will do it...
...from your lips to God’s ear....
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