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ABC News' Russell Goldman Reports: Despite saying she would accept the offer to be vice president, Hillary Clinton never really wanted to be Barack Obama's running mate, her husband former President Bill Clinton told ABC's The View. "Not really, she didn't," Clinton said in response to a question from host Barbara Walters about whether Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. wanted to join her one-time opponent on the Democratic ticket. In June, soon after conceding the primary to Obama, Sen. Clinton told New York lawmakers that she would accept the veep slot if it was offered. "I'm open to it,' she told...

You have to click on the link because Snopes won't let me copy and paste. There is a rumor circulating apparently via email that Biden will drop out in early October (some say the 5th) citing health reasons, and Hillary will replace him. Snopes says the rumor is "undetermined" at this point, but they question whether Obama would switch because doing socould hurt him. They point out that switching hurt McGovern in 1972. An article written yesterday at the liberal Huffington Post thinks it would benefit Obama greatly and urges for it to happen. Do you think there is any...

Joe Biden Says That Hillary Clinton would have been a better VP pick than him.

Senator Joe Biden spoke to a crowd of supporters at a campaign stop today and addressed why Hillary Clinton is qualified to be not only president but also vice president. However, Biden went further and commented that Senator Clinton would have been a better vice presidential pick than himself. Eyeblast.tv has the video.– Kerry Picket

IT’S POSSIBLE MCCAIN WOULD HAVE CHOSEN HER EVEN IF HILLARY WAS ON THE DEM’S TICKETTo anyone that doesn’t recognize how brilliant McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin is, might I suggest you are one of people that usually sees the trees and misses the forest. If one is looking at the totality of what she brings to the ticket, it’s easy to see why there is panic on the Dem’s side. Let me state up front, I have never been excited about a Republican candidate, never, not once! I’ve been a Democrat/Independent all of my life. I’m a PUMA now and...

It doesn't take a political genius to realize that Barack Obama needed to nominate a woman for vice president. Obama's key problem is that there is no gender gap. In the most recent Zogby poll, he runs only 2 points better among women than among men. A Democrat should be running 10 to 15 points better among women. If Obama is to have a hope of winning, he needs to improve his performance among female voters. The Fox News poll indicates that only about half of those who backed Hillary Clinton in the primaries are voting for Obama and that...

Barack Obama’s campaign fired back Sunday against John McCain’s ad accusing him of snubbing Hillary Clinton for his running mate slot, calling the attack “demonstrably false.” The ad, released at 3 a.m. Sunday, suggested that Obama did not choose his former rival because she pointed out his character flaws during the Democratic primaries. “She won millions of votes. But isn’t on his ticket. Why? For speaking the truth,” the narrator in the ad says. “The truth hurt. And Obama’s didn’t like it.” The ad sought to exploit tension between Obama and Clinton’s supporters — tension that continued to simmer after...

In a blistering new ad, John McCain’s campaign accused Barack Obama of passing over Hillary Clinton as his running mate because she pointed out his flaws during the Democratic primaries. Obama announced Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential pick Saturday, following reports that Clinton was not even vetted for the job. McCain’s ad capitalizes on the lingering tension between Obama and Clinton’s supporters, with just one day remaining until the Democratic National Convention in Denver. “She won millions of votes. But isn’t on his ticket. Why? For speaking the truth,” the narrator in the ad says. The ad...

[snip] Obama hasn’t the time to provide much assistance to Hillary on her debt. Right now, with the DNC doing such a poor job of raising money, Obama has to focus on his own fundraising just to keep up with the Republicans. With his reversal on public financing and his polling numbers falling all summer long, Obama can be forgiven for focusing on his own woes. This is why it will be difficult, if not impossible, to add Hillary to the ticket. Obama may or may not be required to cover her debt by law, but practically speaking, he’d be...

SNIP The ad was supposed to be embargoed until 3 a.m., though the script leaked out before then. What's the significance of that time? Well, the campaign's not saying. But it's not hard to imagine that the 3 a.m. time was meant to be an inside joke referring to Clinton's famous ad, which asked the question about who voters want answering the phone in the White House at 3 a.m. The full text of the ad is below: Script For "Passed Over" (TV :30) ANNCR: She won millions of votes. But isn't on his ticket. Why? For speaking the truth....

No sooner had Barack Obama publicly announced his new running mate had John McCain’s campaign produced an attack ad asking: Why not Hillary? “Passed Over” will hit the airwaves at (you guessed it) 3 a.m. Sunday. The timing is a reference to Hillary Clinton’s national security ad during the Democratic primary and the same time the Obama campaign sent out its text message announcing Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden as the vice-presidential nominee. “She won millions of votes. But isn’t on his ticket. Why?” an announcer says in the 30-second spot. The answer? “For speaking the truth.” The ad, which has...

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama has ruled out Senator Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate, a senior Democratic official told CNN on Friday night.

There is very little time left to roll-out and brand the candidate. As Stu Rothenberg notes, it is actually the norm rather than the exception to have the VP named relatively close to the convention. Still, there is cutting it close, and then there is leaving yourself no time at all. Geraldine Ferraro and Al Gore were named 4 days before the opening gavel at the convention, Lloyd Bentsen 6 days, Joe Lieberman 8 days, and John Edwards 20 days ... so this pick will set the modern record for the Democrats, although the Republicans have sometimes waited even longer....

Barack Obama is on the verge of his first major choice as would-be President of the United States. As early as Friday, he will announce his running mate, with all signs indicating that he'll bypass the class of the field: Hillary Clinton. If so, Obama will chalk up a huge missed opportunity to boost the Democratic Party's chances of victory and to add a major asset to his White House in the event he is elected. Clinton is head and shoulders above the names that have been bruited about as being on Obama's short list: Sens. Joe Biden and Evan...

ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton took questions from local reporters in Tamarac, Fla., Thursday and was asked twice if she is going to be on the 2008 Democratic ticket. Clinton responded saying, “Anything about the vice presidential choice should be directed to the Obama campaign.” Clinton said she is all about winning, and any tension between the two camps regarding the nominating process or the convention is nonsense. "I think some people are trying to make something of what’s not there. You know we have worked through this. Both of us agreed that this would be in...

This is a rush transcript from "Your World With Neil Cavuto," August 20, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: CAVUTO: Ralph Nader says he has figured out something, that Barack Obama is desperate, and he is so worried he is going to lose, he is going to go for Hillary Clinton as his running mate. No one says that. Ralph Nader does. Ralph is here to explain. Mr. Nader, good to have you. Thank you for coming. RALPH NADER, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Pretty good, Neil. • Video: Watch Neil's interview...

Looking at the possible vice presidential running mates for Barack Obama - chiefly Evan Bayh, Joe Biden, Tim Kaine, Jack Reed, Kathleen Sebelius, Bill Richardson, Wesley Clark - it is clear that among those most discussed there are few good choices, which is why the Illinois senator's No. 2 may be someone else entirely. The crux of Mr. Obama's problem is Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton was arguably the preferred choice for vice president when it was clear that she could not win. But the negative tone of her campaign alienated Mr. Obama's supporters, and Mrs. Clinton is still a looming...

RALEIGH, NC -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is almost always diligent about saying "he or she" when discussing his potential running mate. But at a lively town hall meeting in the Tarheel State Tuesday evening, the senator -- who is expected to announce his vice presidential pick at the end of this week -- used a decidedly male pronoun. Asked what his plan is to utilize his vice president as President Bush utilized his, Obama said, "Let me tell you first what I won’t do. I won’t hand over my energy policy to my vice president, without knowing necessarily what...

Count Ralph Nader as unimpressed by the crop of supposed finalists to be Barack Obama’s running mate. “I don’t think he’s that dumb,” said Nader, commenting on widespread speculation that Obama’s choices are down to Sens. Joe Biden, Evan Bayh, or Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine. The smart pick, according to Nader, is Hillary Rodham Clinton. Nader phoned into Politico Tuesday afternoon to offer his prediction that a surprise nod to Clinton is actually what Obama has in store—never mind the talk of mistrust between the Clintons and Obama. “He just has to swallow hard and do what JFK did” in...

"Everybody is starting to whisper that if Obama has any prayer of winning, he has to choose Hillary. And if he chooses Hillary, he's going to have to have somebody taste his food and start his car for him every day."

Many of the foremost activists in the women’s movement ardently believe that Hillary Rodham Clinton should be Barack Obama’s running mate — and primary wounds that are just beginning to heal may be torn back open should the Democratic nominee select someone else, as it seems very likely he will. Geraldine Ferraro, a Clinton supporter who in 1984 became the first woman on a major party presidential ticket, said Obama should be “gracious” enough to offer Clinton the vice presidency, considering how narrow the race was. Marcia Pappas, who heads the New York state chapter of the National Organization for...

There's no current wisdom more conventional than that which has Hillary Clinton entirely out of the veepstakes. Take the opening of yesterday's Hardball, for example, with Mike Barnicle sitting in for Chris Matthews. MIKE BARNICLE: It didn't get much notice in the media and it didn't show up in any newspaper obituary pages, but the idea of a Democratic ticket of Obama and Hillary Clinton died a very quiet death this week. How did the dream-team ticket disappear so fast and so quietly? Introducing a later segment, Barnicle displayed a statement from a group that had been pushing the idea...

Barack Obama told a potential donor to his campaign that Hillary Rodham Clinton is on his list of possible vice presidential running mates, but that her husband's status as a former president makes matters "complicated." Jill Iscol, a faithful Democratic donor who was an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, said Obama reached out to her because he heard she was unhappy about the way the New York senator had been treated by the Democratic Party and the media. Obama replied that she is on his list, Iscol recounted, and that it would be a mistake not to have...

Barack Obama and his advisers have begun the process of vetting vice presidential running mates, and Hillary Clinton and several former military leaders have landed on the soon-to-be Democratic nominee’s list of 20 potential candidates. Clinton, Obama’s rival during the primary contests, reportedly made the cut by building an energetic coalition of support among women, working-class voters and Hispanics in her unsuccessful bid for the party’s nomination, and, according to Obama, “would be on anybody's short list.” Clinton finished strong by winning six of the last nine and nine of the last 15 primaries, including decisive 10-point victories over Sen....

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have endured an incredible amount of damage… from each other! Whenever Senator McCain, the Republican nominee would charge against Obama, he did so on the substance of the issues, or call him on his radical changing of positions. In layman’s terms, he’s kept it pretty civil. The damage inflicted on Senator Obama has come mostly from the Hillary Clinton campaign, and because of that, Obama might not win the general election because of it. There are many reasons as to why Hillary Clinton should not be the Vice Presidential nominee aside from the damage...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton would agree to be Barack Obama's vice presidential running mate if offered the slot on the Democratic ticket, Sen. Charles Schumer said Friday. Schumer is Clinton's New York colleague in the Senate and a top supporter.

Barack Obama said today the most important decision he has to make is choosing a running mate, and that he will rely on his three person search committee for guidance, rather than surrogates or the press. Reporters pressed Obama on whether or not Hillary Clinton is on his short list; however, he refused to answer the question. “She is an extraordinary talent and a major leader in her party as she showed during this campaign. But I am not going to discuss who is being considered, how they're being considered,” Obama said. “We're just not going to talk about this...

WASHINGTON -- Supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton suggested she would like to be Sen. Barack Obama's running mate, but close advisers to Sen. Obama are signaling that an Obama-Clinton ticket is highly unlikely. Some in the Clinton camp also noted a possible deal-breaker for a party-unity ticket: Bill Clinton may balk at releasing records of his business dealings and big donors to his presidential library. Sen. Clinton scheduled a gathering for her staff at her house Saturday, where she will end her campaign and concede the nomination, three advisers said. A day after his history-making declaration that he had enough...

The Obama camp has moved quickly--and deftly--to shut down the Hillary Clinton bid for the vice presidential pick. The well-sourced Jackie Calmes reports in the Wall Street Journal that "close advisers to Sen. Obama are signaling that an Obama-Clinton ticket is highly unlikely." The way they’re signaling it is by suggesting that, even for Hillary to be considered, Bill Clinton would have to “release records of his business dealings and big donors to his presidential library.” No one thinks Bill Clinton is inclined to do this. And even if he did, there would still be no guarantee for Hillary: “Even...

Please throw us into that briar patch. A lot of Democrats continue to think that if Barack Obama picks Hillary Clinton as his running mate (if, that is, he actually gets the nomination at the convention, which I still think is not entirely a done deal), their party will have a "dream ticket" that will unite women, black voters in droves, the chablis-and-brie set (i.e. "limousine liberals") and white working class voters in an unstoppable juggernaut. If only conservatives could be so lucky. But maybe we can make our own luck. Maybe we can express fear and trembling, beg the...

Just when it seemed on the last Tuesday of the presidential primary season that Hillary Clinton would bow to the inevitable, she enraged Democrats who expected her to start strengthening Barack Obama as their party's nominee. During a conference call between Clinton and other New York members of Congress, Rep. Nydia Velazquez suggested that only an Obama-Clinton ticket could secure the Hispanic vote. "I am open to it," Clinton replied, according to several sources.

In clinching the Democratic Presidential nomination, Barack Obama is now the leader of his party. The first test of his leadership as a potential President will be his response to the extraordinary campaign already underway to bully him into choosing Hillary Clinton as his running mate. Mrs. Clinton's tenacity in the primaries deserves credit, and she has earned the respect that Mr. Obama's remarks on Tuesday night gave her. But as he prepares for November, and perhaps for January, he has earned the right to choose a Vice Presidential nominee with whom he's comfortable, and on his own timetable. On...

Just when it seemed on the last Tuesday of the presidential primary season that Hillary Clinton would bow to the inevitable, she enraged Democrats who expected her to start strengthening Barack Obama as nominee. During a conference call between Clinton and New York members of Congress, Rep. Nydia Velazquez suggested that only an Obama-Clinton ticket could secure the Hispanic vote. "I am open to it," Clinton replied, according to several sources. That message, promptly made public, infuriated Democratic activists outside the Clinton camp. Clinton was horning in on the climax to Obama's amazing political feat. Worse yet, she was going...

Barack Obama can’t possibly be bright enough to capture the Democratic presidential nomination and dumb enough to immediately undermine it by offering second spot on the ticket to Hillary Clinton. He certainly must know that. He can’t say as much at the moment, since blatant honesty would alienate the Clinton camp, and Obama could still use the Clintons’ drawing power in the months ahead as he sets out on the second leg of his White House quest, the one in which he actually campaigns against the Republicans. In making her plug for the vice-presidency, Mrs. Clinton spotlighted all the elements...

Hillary Clinton is "absolutely ready" to discuss the vice presidency with Barack Obama and has authorized supporters to encourage Obama to pick her if he feels that will help unify the party and help Democrats win the White House, according to Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television and a prominent Clinton supporter. Johnson said he began discussing the vice presidency with Clinton last month and that they talked about it at a dinner in Puerto Rico last Saturday and again by phone and e-mail on Tuesday. "Let me be clear," Johnson said in a telephone interview Wednesday morning....

NO MÉNAGE-À-TROIS FOR OBAMA By DICK MORRIS Published on TheHill.com on June 3, 2008. Putting Hillary Clinton on the ticket for vice president creates a ménage-à-trois. Bill will be the unexpected roommate. Even if a President Obama can discipline Hillary and get her to play second fiddle, there is not the remotest chance that he can get the former president to accept such rules. Even if Bill Clinton wanted to rein in his newly prolific public expressions of rage and frustration, there is doubt that he is any longer capable of doing so. Hillary, who likely desperately wants to be...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton told colleagues Tuesday she would consider joining Barack Obama as his running mate, and advisers said she was withholding a formal departure from the race partly to use her remaining leverage to press for a spot on the ticket

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton on Tuesday told New York lawmakers she is open to being the running mate of Sen. Barack Obama, her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, two of the lawmakers told CNN. Sen. Hillary Clinton trails Obama by 159 delegates and is 201 delegates shy of capturing the nomination. Rep. Charles Rangel, a senior member of the New York Democratic delegation, also told CNN, "I have reason to believe she is open to the [vice president] slot." One of the sources added that former President Clinton has been privately pushing for a couple of weeks...

Hillary has reportedly told N.Y. lawmakers she would be open to becoming rival's veep nominee, saying she would consider it if it would help Dems win

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton has told congressional colleagues she would be open to becoming Barack Obama's vice presidential nominee, saying she would consider it if it would help Democrats win the White House. Clinton, a New York senator, made the comment on a conference call with other New York lawmakers Tuesday, according a participant on the call. The senator's remarks came in response to a question from Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez who said she believed the best way for Obama to win over key voting blocs, including Hispanics, would be for him to choose Clinton as his running...

By Wednesday morning, Hillary and Obama will up neck and neck in popular vote, give or take 100,000 votes between them. That means the pressure will be on for him to make her his running-mate. But she may not be interested. In fact, she will likely turn down recruiting efforts. If you take the Clintons at their word Obama is doomed to failure so why would she want to go down in flames with him this fall against McCain? It’s not like she hasn’t made this perfectly clear. Her feelings about Obama’s inadequacies have been articulated and broadcasted for months....

There is a growing effort by the Clintons — led by Bill — to convey a sense of entitlement for Hillary's newly minted vice presidential ambitions. The theory seems to say that she has earned the designation by her strong showing in primaries throughout the nation, particularly by her recent victories in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Indiana. Her supporters are demanding a place on the ticket as their right after a bruising primary season. But ever since Aaron Burr rose from a vice presidential candidacy to contest Thomas Jefferson for the presidency in the House of Representatives, the...

Senator Dianne Feinstein says that if Barack Obama becomes the Democratic nominee, he should select Hillary Rodham Clinton as his running mate. Feinstein, a longtime friend and supporter of Clinton's, says Clinton and Obama have "garnered a different constituency and different states." The California senator says that combining them would form the strongest ticket. It isn't clear if Clinton would accept the vice-presidency, but Feinstein says she thinks that anyone accepts if they're asked. The Obama campaign has dismissed reports that there are talks going on between the two campaigns about putting Clinton on the ticket.

While Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers insist that she is determined to win the Democratic nomination, friends of the couple say that former President Bill Clinton, for one, has begun privately contemplating a different outcome for her: As Senator Barack Obama’s running mate. The reports about Mr. Clinton’s musings surface as the Obama camp has quietly begun the process of searching for a partner on the Democratic ticket. The prospect of an Obama-Clinton ticket has been fodder for political gossip for months, with some Democratic leaders pushing the idea as a way to unify the party. The Obama...

CNN is reporting this morning that the Obama and Clinton campaigns are in formal talks about ending her quest for the Democratic nomination and possibly giving her the VP slot. These apparent talks are described by CNN as being in a ``very preliminary'' stage and as "difficult." It's really unclear what this means or what's really going on here. CNN doesn't have anyone on the record. Just anonymous sourcing. We'll have video of their report up shortly. On first blush I'm skeptical that there really are "formal talks" in the usual sense of that phrase. The report appears to lean...

Barack Obama yesterday launched his search for a running mate - as Democratic calls for a "marriage" to rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton reached new heights. With the party sharply divided after a bruising primary season - and with Clinton having won many key states - a growing number of Democratic officials are now openly talking about an Obama-Clinton ticket that could unite the factions and take back the White House in November. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a Clinton booster, told The Post, "I am one that believes that if it works out that Senator Obama is the nominee, the...

The Field can now confirm, based on multiple sources, something that both campaigns publicly deny: that Senator Clinton has directly told Senator Obama that she wants to be his vice presidential nominee, and that Senator Obama politely but straightforwardly and irrevocably said “no.” Obama is going to pick his own running mate based on his own criteria and vetting process.

It is possible to muscle your way into a vice presidential nod: You have something the nominee wants, and he has to give it to you. The question is: Does Hillary Clinton have that kind of muscle? Her victories in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia and her strength with women and white working-class voters have fueled the argument that Barack Obama must put her on the ticket if he wins the nomination and wants those states and those votes in the fall. And, as a senior Obama adviser told me Wednesday, some Clinton supporters are “pushing real,...

Back in March Barack Obama compared the Democratic primary to a "good movie" that has lasted "half an hour too long." The movie has long since gone bad, and half an hour has dragged into an eternity. Surely it is high time to roll out the Hollywood ending. And what could be more Hollywood than a dream ticket? This has the support of plenty of senior Democrats such as Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York, and Ed Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania. Why stop at having a nominee who has the support of 51 percent of Democrats, the...