Posted on 07/25/2007 5:23:22 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
FOR HILLARY: A PROPOSAL TO: HRC RE: VP Well, senator, with the "Sopranos"-influenced video gone viral, you managed to convince millions of Americans that you do have a sense of humor. With the continuing massaging of your position on Iraq, you've managed to convince a significant number of liberals that you have a sense of urgency about the war. And with the most recent poll results, you must have a sense of yourself as the front-runner.
Now it's time to show that you have a sense of history, a sense that this election is bigger than just one woman's ambitions. Make it your business to persuade Barack Obama to be your running mate.
Conventional thinkers like to make this sound risky, pairing a woman and a black man on the ticket. But it's not as wild as it sounds. The calculus of choosing someone for the second spot is always, first and foremost, whether the choice hurts your chances. The answer here is no. Anyone who would be put off by Obama isn't going to vote for you in the first place.
The second question is what you gain. You have a more inventive and useful role model where this issue is concerned, and, I'm sorry, but it's Bill. Instead of balance, he and Al Gore were a double threat -- two young Southerners with future-forward notions about government. Millennium squared.
But that was nothing compared with the excitement that would ensue if you eschewed your customary caution and asked Obama to join you in creating the first real 21st century ticket. It's not simply that with one fell swoop you would solidify the two largest blocs of Democratic support, but that the historic nature of the pairing would galvanize the race and make any Republican slate seem so same-old. Every politician likes to talk about a new era. The day the Clinton-Obama ticket is announced would really be one for the history books.
Of course, maybe this memo should be going to Senator Obama, since running for vice president has often been a thankless non-job with a probable non-future.
The mantra of George Bush the elder's staff used to be "you die, we fly" because as Ronald Reagan's vice president he spent so much time attending state funerals abroad. Bush went from chief mourner to commander in chief, becoming the only vice president in the 20th century to be elected president immediately after his time in the second spot was over. Humphrey tried the same gambit after serving as Johnson's vice president, and became one of those who flamed out.
Obama might make the argument that being a member of the Senate is more like real work, but you could convince him otherwise. But there is another model and, sorry, but it's Bill again. He turned Al Gore into the most openly influential vice president in American history, letting him take the lead on issues like the environment and technology.
You and Barack Obama are a good match as well -- intelligent, eloquent, with similar positions but from different generations, which means he could afford to be patient in his ultimate ambitions. The elder Bush had to eat some crow when he joined the Reagan campaign. There were differences on policy issues and harsh words, most notably when Bush referred -- correctly -- to Reagan's "voodoo economics." Both you and Obama have taken care not to bicker. No apologies necessary.
He would have to decide he would be willing to coexist with a strong woman. But it seems as though he already does that at home. You would have to be willing to let a charismatic man steal some of your thunder, but you do that at home, too. This would be a political marriage of convenience, sure, but one that could excite the country.
Everyone is poised for big change, big ideas. Do the big thing that also happens to be the right thing. Your Web site says: Help make history. Go ahead. I dare you.
Yeah a woman that half of America hates, and a black guy. Yeah, thats a good idea.
What happens to them when we trump it with Condi as the VP on the next ticket.
Everyone on their side is getting too cocky.
Who has the forklift to remove Bill Richardson from the VP slot (he is pandering hard for that position regardless of who heads the ticket).
Why do they always say Obama is “eloquent”? Seems to me that he is always back-tracking and telling people that what he said is not actually what he said, but actually that he meant to say something quite different. He’s clumsy and he’s dishonest.
Or vice versa? They seem to think she’s a shoo-in. Obama should look elsewhere......for HIS running mate......
I sadi this two years ago. this ticket would be hard for us to beat.
Obama should put HilaryCare on the Ticket although his wife may not like getting Pawed as much as Tipper did??
Pray for W and Our Troops
The 2008 Democrap ticket will be HilLIARy/Obama - I predicted it here years ago
If I am wrong I promise I will not make any further predictins ever
The truth is, even a black Dem couldn't get elected president because of the institutionalized racism of the Dem party. They're closet racists.
Aside from that, what a poorly written pile of poo this article is.
Hilda could benefit from O’Bumble’s foreign policy experience.
Funny how someone named Barak Hussein Obama, a senator of all things, with little experience is OK with those libtards, yet Dan Quayle was chastised beyond belief.
I’ve thought for some time this would eventually happen.
We’ll see.
Obama had ought stay away from Ft. Marcy Park after November ‘08, ‘cause there ain’t no way that Hitlery would want a tall black man who can speak and connect to audiences behind her back.
Quindlen should write another “open letter” to Biden to explain that one.
Oh please do "Your Heinous", that would put the final nail in your presidential coffin
I think you are correct here. I thought this has been a foregone conclusion for a long time, with the primary battles being nothing but a show. I hate to say it, but barring some major gaffes along the way for these two, I don't know that there is a Republican ticket that could beat this unholy alliance. I sincerely hope I am wrong, and that a lot transpires between now and election time to topple these two marxists.
More group think, if you ask me. Some call it unity, but I’d rather be a Republican right now where candidates are slugging it out and debating ideas rather than repeating slogans that are mostly spin in unison.
It would be one for the history books, and George McGovern could die happy too. They’d lose big enough to take away his title as biggest loser.
She won’t be nominated, but IF she were, she’d pick Biden. Most controllable, too old for ambitions, he’s just begging to be kicked upstairs.
By the way, I’ve never seen a post here predicting the primary scorecard of the Dem candidates. Would she take California? Florida?
Without them, wouldn’t she be hobbled?
Now, they have plenty of money themselves, the campaign contribution limit caps out the amount of money the Clintons can raise, but there's more money than that to go around from their liberal friends. What to do with it? Well, why not finance a candidate whose purpose is to make the Beest look "moderate" during a debate?
Where's the payoff for this? Obama gets the nod as VP, Hillary doesn't risk P.O.'ing the black vote, and all the general election money that Barry O raises gets to legally be used on top of Hill's money in the general election. He gets to accumulate "experience" as VP, then after the Clintons are done screwing the country, they'll turn it over to the Magic Negro, who will be a placeholder until Chelsea gets some elected office experience.
Does this make sense to anyone else, or am I just being paranoid?
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