Posted on 03/10/2008 3:33:19 PM PDT by indcons
Democrat Barack Obama ridiculed the idea of being Hillary Rodham Clinton's running mate Monday, saying voters must choose between the two for the top spot on the fall ticket. The Illinois senator used his first public appearance of the week to knock down the notion that he might accept the party's vice presidential nomination.
He noted that he has won more states, votes and delegates than Clinton so far.
"I don't know how somebody who is in second place is offering the vice presidency to the person who is first place," Obama said, drawing cheers and a long standing ovation from about 1,700 people in Columbus, Miss.
Saying he wanted to be "absolutely clear," he added: "I don't want anybody here thinking that somehow, 'Well, you know, maybe I can get both.' Don't think that way. You have to make a choice in this election."
"I am not running for vice president," Obama said. "I am running for president of the United States of America."
Obama aides said Clinton's recent hints that she might welcome him as her vice presidential candidate appeared meant to diminish him and to attract undecided voters in the remaining primary states by suggesting they can have a "dream ticket."
Obama had never suggested he might accept a second spot on the ticket. But until Monday he had not ridiculed the notion so directly, even if he did completely rule it out in Shermanesque terms.
He told the audience that it made no sense for Clinton to suggest he is not ready to be president and then hint that she might hand him the job that could make him president at a moment's notice.
"If I'm not ready, how is it that you think I should be such a great vice president?" he said, as the crowd laughed and cheered loudly.
Mississippi holds it primary Tuesday, the last contest before the Pennsylvania primary six weeks from now.
Clinton and her husband, the former president, had suggested recently that a Clinton-Obama ticket would be popular and formidable against Republican Sen. John McCain in November.
"A lot of Democrats like us both and have been very hopeful that they wouldn't have to make a choice but obviously Democrats have to make a choice and I'm looking forward to getting the nomination," Clinton said Monday in Scranton, Pa. "And it's preliminary to talk about whoever might be on whose ticket."
Many political activists discounted the notion all along. They noted that the two senators lack a warm relationship and, more important, that Obama would be ill-served by hinting he might accept the vice presidential slot when he holds the lead in delegates and hopes to win the presidential nomination.
In the latest Associated Press count, Obama leads Clinton, 1,579-1,473. He has won 28 contests to her 17.
Moreover, many insiders feel the ambitious and fast-rising Obama would chafe in the vice president's job, especially in a White House where Bill Clinton would almost surely play a huge advisory role.
Still, the notion of a Clinton-Obama ticket has received ample discussion in recent days on cable TV news shows and newspapers such as New York City's tabloids.
In an interview Friday in Wyoming with KTVQ-TV, a CBS affiliate based in Billings, Mont., Obama's comments were somewhat mixed.
"Well, you know, I think it's premature," he said of accepting the second spot on the ticket. "You won't see me as a vice presidential candidate."
His Monday remarks were more detailed, pointed and humorous.
Of course, they will not completely end the speculation. Presidential candidates routinely disavow any interest in the vice presidential spot. But some, including John Edwards and Al Gore, change their minds when they fall short of their top goal.
From the article - "'I don't know how somebody who is in second place is offering the vice presidency to the person who is first place,' Obama said, drawing cheers and a long standing ovation from about 1,700 people in Columbus, Miss."
When the Larry Sinclair story breaks, Obama will be lucky to get a job serving starbucks.
Have to admit that is just a brilliant response. Makes her look like a complete dope.
And the 1700 did rise up in joyous tumult!
HF
I love how out of touch with reality Hillary is. It’s hilarious.
You’re the loser, Cankles. Just drop out already.
Obama-Spitzer ‘08
There is enough unflattering truths about Obama without resorting to lies.
Like the Rockies, down 0-3 in games to Red Sox in the World Series, asking if the Sox would be willing to concede the series.
LOL - birds of a feather.
The only liar is likely to be Obama.
For all those FReepers with the “stick a fork in Hillary—she’s done” proclamations, I’ll say what I’ve said a thousand times: You underestimate the Clintons at your own peril. Bill was routinely “forked” in 1992, then again leading up to 1996 before Bob Dole was rolled out. These creatures do not quit.
Obama is no better a choice, perhaps even worse, but my oh my what a difference a week can make.
MM (in TX)
She tried to ticket him for RWB (running while black). She just got run over.
Does anyone know how to log off on this new FR setup? Thanks.
That story is on the cover of the Globe today in the supermarket checkouts.
I heard the Enquirer picked it up too. At least all the fat ladies in stretch pants will know about it.
I think the only way to be sure is to separate the body parts, burn them, then bury each in a different county under a layer of concrete. Then I'll be relaxed.
Watch it, Obama, don’t you know...she’s rigged the vote (or thinks she can?)
That or put her in a giant pickle jar at the Smithsonian.
I say that fully realizing that people actually telling the truth can flunk lie detector tests due to nerves or whatever. Also, very professional liars like the Clintons could probably pass such a test. The failure rate of people telling the truth is probably much higher than the success rate of people actually lying. But Sinclair blew his chance to be credible when he flunked.
If I wasn't afraid of her escaping, I would love to see a traveling carnival where you can pelt the chained beast with rotten tomatoes. That would be so much fun. : )
No, he was completely sandbagged by the folks who set it up.
“When the Larry Sinclair story breaks, Obama will be lucky to get a job serving starbucks.”
He will always have a job. It’s only about sex and that’s alright with the dhimmicrats - just ask BC.
My suspicion is that the Sinclair thing is a balloon put out by the Obama camp to compete with Hillary’s! Huma balloon, both camps vying for some powerful ‘rat voting blocks.
I wish the Clintons would just take what money they have and just go out and buy a small third world country that they can be King and Queen of.
Either that or all Americans need to get those special glasses to see what they really look like.
Or Queen Eliot.
“Obama said. “I am running for president of the United States of America.”
The end times? Certainly for the US if the guy ever makes it inside the WH.
“You’re the loser, Cankles. Just drop out already.”
How would that help anyone but Obama? Shouldn’t we want the Democratic candidate to be as weak as possible? What is your motive in saying this?
O should tell C to get to the back of the bus.
Pissant, do you really believe that Larry Sinclair stuff still? I don’t. I’m not convinced. How do you convince someone he’s not some fruit?
He's going to go down harder than SPITZER.
BILLARY may not even give him VP if he doesn't shut up and get to the back of the bus like a good boy.
Sinclair is more beleivable than anything coming out of Obama’s lips. This is the way I answered another freepers similar question to me:
For starters, I listened to 3 interviews he gave on the radio. He is 100% consistent in his storyline. And he sounds far more truthful than the average politician. 2nd, he filed lawsuit against Obama, his manager, and the DNC for unleashing an investigation into he and his family and for their minions making death threats and making slanderous claims against him. He repeated his initial allegations about Obama in the lawsuit, and thus set him self up for being sued for slander if he is lying. He just hired a lawyer to try to get that case heard.
He has hotel receipts for the time in question. He also was informed, allegedly, that the outfit that paid for his polygraph test was paid $750,000 by the Obama camp to ensure he would fail.
He claims he will produce a corroborating witness if when the MSM promise to run the story. So far, none of the MSM outlets have made a commitment. If this were a GOPer, they’d be wining and dining sinclair and the witness.
That outfit - Whitehouse.com, run by a former pornsite operator- when accused by Sinclair of the Obama comnnections, reneged on its agreement to show the videotape of the polygraph and to release the entire test results, and has scrubbed all Larry Sinclair info from its site.
Someone is lying. Its a very good chance that it is the Obama camp, not sinclair
We want Obama. He’s the weaker candidate. We want Hillary out so Obama has the nomination in hand.
Either Hillary's minions shake other (more credible) guys gays out of Obama's tree soon, or it's a non-starter.
Exactly. Maybe we should have an "Obama Is The Weaker Candidate" ping list. I'd like to see how many FReepers actually comprehend that.
He’s running with this hard. We’ll see if more come out of the woodwork.
The videotape of that comment absolutely and completely kills the possibility that he will be Hillary's VP running mate. That's a good thing. This is now a death match. That's a great thing.
That story is on the cover of the Globe today in the supermarket checkouts.
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Friends of the Clintons bought the tabloids. You will see lots of stories cutting down Obama, but you won’t find a single one about the Clintons.
I'm not sure I've ever heard anything as insulting.
May she go down in flames, sooner rather than later.
We could have killed her off in Texas, if Rush had STFU.
When the story about Spitzer broke I realized that right now Bill Clinton is probably sweating like Mike Tyson on Jeopardy.
As you know, to catch a lying Marxist political hack, irrefutable evidence like a stained dress is necessary.
Pissant, I love you, but your political prognosticating skills need work. You were wrong on Duncan Hunter, and championing a homosexual felon who has failed two lie detector tests is also probably not a good use of our time.
“I’d like to see how many FReepers actually comprehend that.”
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I thought for about ten minutes that Obama might be the stronger candidate, then my brain started working again. Bury the Beast now, Obama will self destruct before November.
No, I was right about Duncan Hunter. The GOP was wrong. Look at the worthless lemon they selected instead. Being right does not always mean winning.
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