Posted on 03/05/2008 5:42:39 AM PST by jdm
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hinted at the possibility of a democratic "dream ticket" with Sen. Barack Obama.
Speaking on the Early Show on CBS, Clinton said "that may be where this is headed, but we have to decide who is on the top of the ticket."
Clinton said the race between her and Obama remains "incredibly close," with just "smidgens of difference" between them.
Clinton's remarks after her campaign won two big states yesterday: Ohio and Texas. She also won Rhode Island. The wins enabled her campaign to break Obama's 12-state winning streak and pick up some momentum of its own.
Speaking later on the Early Show, Obama congratulated Clinton on her victories while maintaining he would be able to wrap up the democratic nomination.
"We still have close to an insurmountable lead in delegates," Obama said. Obama said his campaign had won nearly twice as Clinton as well as a greater share of the popular vote.
You are forgetting a couple of things.
First, there is practically no way that Hillary can win the nomination without getting a large majority of the super delegate vote. This would totally piss off the Obama voters; worse than the ‘Rats were pissed off in 2000 because this time they will KNOW that they have been screwed. By their own party, even. Under these conditions, there would be very little chance Obama would accept the VP slot.
This would possibly cause Obama to go third party, taking a huge number of ‘Rats with him.
This is good for the GOP.
Second, I don’t think that the Beast would be second to ANYONE. If she was pushing for VP slot, she would have pulled out weeks ago with a behind the doors deal with Obama. No, she is in it to win it by hook or by crook. And she is in tight with a bunch of crooks.
Rush just ordered a time table for withdrawal for Obama and Clinton. ROFLMAO!!!
She wishes.
She has to win 97% of the delegates and thinks he’s going to quit and be her lawn boy? The utter arrogance is amazing!
Savage has been saying this for months.
The beasts lawyers are already work on trying to steal the Michigan and Florida primaries. Come on, you remember the 8 years of clinton reign in the 90’s, you can underestimate them :).
As for Obama taking the VP spot, he is ambitious, if it comes to it he will take it over being a Senator.
As for the beast being a VP your right, its too much baggage for Obama and he doesn’t need her. That and I don’t think she would ever settle for a #2 position.
That’s exactly what I was just thinking they ought to do. Seems like the sanest best policy to me - why split the vote from within your own party.
Hillary was a known entity, but her baggage was an issue. When Obama was encouraged to run they knew they would have two candidates who could arouse blocks of voters to fanatic support. That happened. Obama seemed to be without baggage, was a fresh, new face, but needed exposure and to become known. That happened. Hillary would bring the women and older supporters who longed for a return of the Clinton days. Obama would bring the blacks and the youth vote. And the voters who support either Obama or Hillary would create a wave of excitement that any Republican would not/could not overcome.
The Democratic race for a candidate has created such a media frenzy and rampant excitement already that it has drowned out most coverage of the Republican race and especially will leave McCain wanting for equal publicity. That was always their plan - to get as much publicity as possible, no matter how "divisive" the party appeared to be initially, or how at-odds the Dem candidates seemed to be. One way or another with Clinton and Obama as candidates the Democrats grabbed all the publicity and with that those important votes. With both of them on the ticket...well, the writing is on the wall.
It was a ploy they created to arouse strong feelings for either Obama or Hillary during this feigned melodramatic campaign period and based specifically on gender, race and appealing to the youth. The Dems wrung it out for every drop by pitting these two against each other. They made an issue of gender and race while pretending those things should not matter. Reverse strategy worked for them. With one as the final nominee, and the other as a VP selection, the Dems will capture what they wanted - a unified electorate, in lock-step simply because some wanted the first female, and others wanted the first black in the WH, and the youth simply wanted "change." Their votes will be based mainly on that, and not on real experience, qualifications or capabilities.
“that may be where this is headed, but we have to decide who is on the top of the ticket.”
Exactly, who is this “we”?
The two have slugged away enough to provide enough rich video clips that even a beautiful marriage can’t suppress for TV ads in Sept-Oct. The NAFTA debacle was classic! Did you see the way Ohio turned?
Hillary has a ways to go yet to catch up. Why would Obama concede to VP? Ain’t no way she will. She is ENTITLED to the Presidency! They will have a slug fest till one does not rise again. Then the other is to bruised to meet McCain in November, who has kept his finger nails squeaky clean as his image projects.
ping post 92
In other words,the vice presidency of either candidate would highlight the hypocrisy of the other.
Yup. Unstoppable ticket, IMO.
Thanks, Rush.
... I just pray the Country can survive 4-8 years of a Hitlery/Osama administration....
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Four or eight years would be bad enough, but I suspect that the Clintons would see to it this time that they would have de facto power for life by seeing to it that their surrogates got elected. Their voter fraud machine is unstoppable now. With some more time in the WH, they will have it fool-proof.
The subversive’s Love Clintonites!
By Terry Frieden
CNN
February 8, 2000
Web posted at: 6:08 p.m. EST (2308 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Fallout from President Clinton’s controversial pardons of 16 members of a Puerto Rican nationalist group last summer prompted Republicans Tuesday to introduce a measure to reform the pardon process and require input from victims and their families.
At a Capitol Hill news conference, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Vito Fossella (R-New York) announced the introduction of a measure requiring the Office of Pardon Attorney in the Justice Department to notify victims or their families of key events in the clemency process and allowing them to voice their views. It would also require law enforcement agencies to provide information on the potential impact from a grant of clemency.
President Clinton was widely criticized after he granted clemency to the FALN members over the objections of law enforcement officials, and after the Justice Department consulted representatives of the FALN prisoners, but not the victims.
Obama with Hillary as VP? Yeah, even Obama’s heard of Arkancide.
Is there anything to stop Hillary Clinton from
selecting Obama to serve as her running mate...
then once they are in office...
find a reason to make him resign?
And then choose who she really wants as a replacement?
How can either of them choose the other as running mate after all the trash they’ve talked against each other?
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Hey, we’re talking about Democrat voters here. There the same type of people who like shows like Jerry Springer. They will reason that Ears and Kankles were just having issues then — like when Cousin Tom beats his wife — but now they’ve kissed and made up, so all is forgiven.
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