Posted on 08/17/2012 7:32:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
According to author Edward Klein, Obama has put out feelers to Hillary Clinton about accepting the VP spot on the ticket, but Hillary has said no. In the exclusive video below, Klein tells Larry Kudlow why Clinton is reluctant to take the number two spot.
Klein: Until just a couple of weeks ago, the White House was putting out feelers to see if Hillary would accept the vice presidential nod and replace Joe Biden. Bill Clinton was, I'm told, urging his wife to accept the number two slot. He saw this as a great launching pad for her for running in 2016. But then Hillary had lunch in the White House a couple of weeks ago with Valerie Jarrett, Michelle's best friend, senior adviser to both the First Lady and the President.
Kudlow: Just about the biggest Lefty in the White House.
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Hillary is not dumb enough to hop aboard this sinking ship
Hillary is not dumb enough to hop aboard this sinking ship
I know of only one guy who IS dumb enough, and hes already there.
Exactly right.
If Hillary became VP, assuming Obama wins re-election, then she would be sitting VP running for president in 2016, and have to defend all of the policies of the Obama administration.
Actually, the Clintons would be happy to see Obama lose, in that, Hillary would then run in 2016 against a sitting Republican. It’s more difficult to run when you would be replacing a president of your own party, than it is to run against the opposite party’s president.
She’s not stupid.
She sees the writing on the wall.
She does not want to be affiliated with a losing ticket.......
I suspect Uncle Joe is going to come down with some brain tumor or something so he can be replaced....
How do you get a brain tumor without a brain?
Hillary knows if Obama fails she have a better change of election in four years.
.....by Bawnney Fwank?..........
Thank God!!!!!
Nor is she going to come to the rescue of her party.
The Clintons want to deliver a stern lesson to them about what a dreadful, dreadful mistake they made by throwing in behind Barry in ‘08. They want the Dems to come groveling on hands and knees after a particularly humiliating defeat.
Debbie Wassermann Schultz.
On F&F this morning, Chris Wallace doubted the veracity of this story.
He said, if they were going to change the VP, they would have done it months ago. Any attempt to do it now would reek of desperation.
I am of the same opinion.
She might have been offered and turned it down a few months ago. Recall the headlines of her being tired of politics, yada yada yada. Either she doesn’t want to go down as the VP on the sinking ship as it would screw with her 2016 ambition, or she really does want out of politics. Even she realizes that being Obama’s vp would be difficult to defend, if she did run in 2016, because he is offering nothing to improve the job situation, the economy, trade, energy, or anything else.
I would guess that many of her inner circle were trying to get her to challenge Obama. But, she would have had to go through the primary season for that. Obama possibly made the offer then to sidetract a direct challenge from her.
I would repwase Biden with Bawney Fwank fow this ewection. Vice-Pwesident Bawney Fwank! A dweam team!
I thought her last name as Schlitz... :)
I don’t think “Failed policies” would be an issue in 2016 if Obama wins. He would have so many people dependant on welfare, that would be the only issue. And if Hillary’s opponant ran against entitlements in any way she’d secure a victory. IMO.
“Yeah, we’re gonna stick with Joe since no one else wants to be First Mate on the Obamatanic.”
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