"Why don't you pass the time with a game of solitaire?"
Posted on 06/06/2008 6:02:59 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she's not actively seeking to be running mate to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and suggested that people who are pushing her for vice president are acting on their own.
Two days after several top Clinton loyalists flooded the airwaves and the Internet pushing a so-called Obama-Clinton "Dream Team," Clinton's campaign issued a statement that said "she is not seeking the vice presidency, and no one speaks for her but her."
"The choice is Senator Obama's and his alone," Clinton campaign communications director Howard Wolfson said in the statement.
Obama, speaking to reporters aboard his campaign plane, said he appreciated the statement.
"Senator Clinton's been through this when President Clinton went through a very deliberative process before he selected Al Gore," he said. "We are going to be equally deliberative in how we move forward, and we're not going to do it in the press and we're not going to do it through surrogates."
Obama added: "There's no decision that I'm going to make that's going to be more important before the November election. I intend to do it right and I'm not going to do it in the press."
Some high-level Clinton supporters, however, have been very public in pushing her for vice president.
Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television and a close ally to former President Clinton and his wife, said he talked to her Tuesday about mounting a drive to push her onto Obama's ticket.
"She said 'Go ahead,'" Johnson said in an interview with the Washington Post published Thursday.
Johnson raised eyebrows early in the presidential campaign when he made disparaging remarks about Obama, mocking his Ivy League education and likening him to black actor Sidney Poitier, whose ever-so-polite portrayals in movies such as "Guess Who's...
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Why would she want the vp slot, for, as so many here have observed...
“She WILL!!!!!!!!!!! be the pres. nominee. PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She CANNOT!!!!!! be stopped!!!!!!!! She will NEVER EVER! be STOPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
No, RILLY?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You would think she wouldn’t want the VP slot. If she gets it, her next best chance at the Presidency could possibly be as far away as sixteen years. If she stays in the Senate, she could run in just four? ;-)
The drone Wolfson just telegraphed Hillary's tactical plan, SHE will be the nominee and will beg Obama to take the #2 spot on the ticket
The witch is dead. Ding Dong!
Now warlock Obama must be defeated.
mccain needs a female v.p.,
hillary should apply.
just joking!
Sure, Obambi, put Hillary on your ticket — then maybe as you draw your last breath you will know why she belongs on this list:
http://www.manbir-online.com/htm2/snake.22.htm
She’s a liar. That’s who she is.
In other words
no one speaks for her but her, so our denial that she is seeking the vice presidency is meaningless.
Ooops ... my error on that ... it wasn’t the drone Wolfson who said it, it was Obama’s camp .... Sorry
she can arrange an assasination then get her dream.
Yeah, she’s just been playing “had to get” — Arkansas gutter whore style.
While accurate per present practice, this is not a constitutional approach. Somehow we've gotten into a situation where the presidential nominee is chosen by the party, then he (all by his lonesome) chooses the VP nominee. Very peculiar process.
She IS the house guest that just doesn’t know she is becoming boring and should go home.
THAT'S what it's all about..She never REALLY wanted to be a Senator...and she's done a lousy job. And remember, she's a JUNIOR senator.
House guests and dead fish begin to smell bad after 3 days.
;)
"She said 'Go ahead,'" Johnson said in an interview with the Washington Post published Thursday.
Go ahead, means, it's not going to matter to her because she's not going to just give up her delegates and 18m votes without getting something...that is for sure!
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