The guy is Goofy
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.
(Snip) "Clinton called Obama’s comments “irresponsible” and “naive.”
I agree! GREAT idea, head of the Democrat ticket making ready-to-use soundbites for the Republican campaign!
I burst out laughing when I read this.........
Gee, I didn’t know that Anna Quindlen was such an expert at presidential politics?
Who knew? :)
What a ticket: Thunder Thighs and Lop-Ears!
Personally if old thunder thighs (Hillary Clinton) has to have a man of color on her ticket to help her I think she would be better off with someone more of her character like maybe she could have Al Sharpton on the ticket with her. God there’s a campaign sight.
The fact of the matter, as was reported here and on My TV show, (MNN.org wednesdays at 5:00 on ch 57 or streaming) Angel and the Wiz, Obama is GOING to be her running mate and all of this is just to prepare the American people for him.......everyone knows he doesn’t have the credentials to be President so this is all a ruse....
let me go further: this article is just another part of the ramp up to it happening....
Actually, I think Black voters, whom she needs, will not come to the polls unless he’s on the ticket.
Hillary and Obama? The Republican Dream!
Condi has kept a very low profile lately.
Me also! That is a classic Demo ticket. I believe one of them must stumble or it is already "set."
Obama, the black Jimmy Carter.
Next.
The guy is Goofy
Someone here said that she won’t pick Obama because he won’t add anything electorally. She’ll already take the blue states. Obama is popular only in the blue states. She’ll pick someone with “some” red-state appeal. I have no idea what democrat would have this appeal, but she can try.
This is ABSOLUTELY what is going to happen.
What Democrat could resist the feel-good opportunity to vote for that HISTORIC ticket - first woman pres/first black veep?
Count on it, Freepers. You know they operate by feelings, not thoughts. What could FEEL better than to cast such an historic, enlightened, inclusive vote?
(How it’s gonna ‘feel’ once they are actually in is another matter!)
Maybe the thigh-master will pick Osama-Obams for her Veep, after she’s cleaned his clock, chewed him up, spat him out, and hung him up to dry. Still, I doubt the Red Jezebel would pick anyone for her Veep who is better looking than her (a Mack truck looks better than her).
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