Here are five reasons why Obama should offer Clinton the vice presidential nomination—and why she would take it.
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An Obama-Clinton ticket would definitely be out of the ordinary. But 2008 is not an ordinary year. Here’s why the skeptics may be wrong. Five reasons why Barack Obama should offer Hillary Rodham Clinton the vice presidential nomination — and why she would take it.
1. It’s not his choice. Clinton’s support among her most loyal partisans, women’s groups especially, is as intense as Obama’s is among African-Americans and young people. The pressure he will be under to unite the party by selecting her may be insurmountable. Without Clinton, Obama would have to spend enormous amounts of time and political capital bringing blue-collar voters, Catholics, Jews and Hispanics on board. There would be no better signal to potentially wary constituencies than bringing their preferred candidate into the fold. Hillary and Bill Clinton could be tasked with bringing these folks home, allowing Obama to focus on growing his base and reaching out to independents and disaffected Republicans.
2. It’s a character test for him. Obama does not like Clinton. Who cares? Dwight Eisenhower did not like Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy did not like Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan did not like George H.W. Bush. Obama’s ability to rise above personal sentiment will be an early and decisive test of whether he really has the ability to transcend divisions and be the uniter he says he is.
3. The Sicilian hug. If the Clintons have an independent power base — and they do, even in defeat — it is better to have Hillary Clinton under close watch in the White House than in the Senate (and, in Bill Clinton’s case, in foreign capitals around the world) making mischief.
4. It’s an unbeatable merger of strengths. Obama is nothing but disciplined in pursuit of victory, and he and Hillary Clinton might be, as Bill Clinton said, an “almost unstoppable force” (even if he was envisioning a different order on the ticket). The combination would align nearly all of the top operatives in the Democratic Party around the same goal and would swamp Republicans with the most potent fundraising operation in history. The ticket would start off with a paid staff of approximately 1,500 people, and an organization from the national level down to precincts in every state in the country. While John McCain is recruiting county coordinators, precinct captains, etc., Obama-Clinton would on day one have an operation that would surpass what Bush-Cheney assembled in 2004.
Nothing scares me more than Obama putting at risk all he has worked for and everything his campaign symbolizes to have HRC on the ticket due to outside pressure..... it would be TRAGIC! I mean come on, she is resorting to the race card when everyone knows she is dead in the water along with all her supporters... its disgusting, she is trying to bring down the democratic nominee for her own delusional ambitions... psycho. Obama is way too good for that. He can have Donald Duck as his VP and will wipe the floor with the corpse that is McCain.... 15-20% win is a lock in november....Mwa ;)
Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead. Hillary destroyed the democrat party. She raised MULTIPLE taboo issues and went against the politcal correctness that Democrats strive towards.
She's done! Obama surpassed her in Super Delegates. SHE IS DONE!!!!!!
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Obama-Clinton speculation is nuts. If the nomination is swiped from Sen. Clinton, Obama will crash and burn in November and the Democratic Party will be a train wreck. Hillary supporters will be voting McCain. McCain will be president, and we will see a third term of Bush under McCain and Roe v. Wade may vanish.crat3
Is Obama Wright? - Pastor Jeremiah Wright & Senator Barack 02:39 From: NHaleMedia Views: 798,958 This video will haunt Obama for the rest of the campaign. I understand him being the nominee, but if they keep running addds in NC and other places we may loose house and senate if any democrat is accussed of endorsing Obama and that is what really worries me. This video will be ran all ovewr the country, if he is nominee.So at first I was fine with him being nominee, and inmy opinion we still keep house and senate, but now that i think of it if they keep running video like they did in NC,and the one above this could be trouble for obmaa thisi willalso be bad for obama and now the new reverend otis moss wil damge obma tommrow breaking news THIWS WILL BE BAD NEWS!!!
Expose Obama Expose Obama New Commercial Shows Obama Is Soft on Crime...Obama Crime commentary analysis gotcha! grassroots outreach news political commercial Added: 1 week ago From:ExposeObama Views: 280,106 CLICK ABOVE LINK OBAMA LETS MURDERS OF 14 YEAR OLD HISPANIC KID BY BLCK GANG MEMBER IN CHICAGO. HE PARDONS THE GANG MEMBER AND THEN HE KILLS ANOTHER KID JUST FOR NOT FLASHING GNAG SIGNSS, AND OBAMA PARDONED BOTH GANG MEMBERS!!! THIS IS TRULLY DREDFUL AND PUT TEARS INTO MY EYES!!THIS WILL BE WORSE THA WILLIE HORTON
DREAM TICKET --- WOULD BE A --- NIGHTMARE --------------- BECAUSE:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HILLARY DOES NOT WANT TO PLAY SECOND FIDDLE ---------- Hillary, would not be happy as VP unless she was a Dick-Cheney-like co-president. Since she is so ambitious --- and has such an elevated opinion of herself and her importance --- she might well try to upstage Barack and, thus, introduce discord into his administration. Look at how willing she is to hurt her own party for power, there is no reason to think she would be any better behaved as VP.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHE COULD HURT IN FALL ELECTION ---------- Hillary has very high negatives and would probably actually hurt Obama?s chances more than help them. There is substantial evidence she has committed enough crimes to put her and her husband behind bars for the rest of their lives --- Evidence suggests these crimes include blackmail, death threats, financial corruption, illegal campaign financing, treason, and murder. A lot of people like me would be very tempted to vote for McCain (and I don?t want to have to do that), rather than risk having someone as dishonest, selfish, and criminal as Hillary being a heartbeat away from the Presidency. ---------- In addition, as VP candidate Hillary might purposely try to hurt Barack chances of being elected so she might run in 2012.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DANGER OF ASSASSINATION ---------- There is evidence the Clinton?s have committed, and gotten away with, multiple political assassinations (i.e., Vince Foster, Ron Brown, Jim McDougal). It would be insane for Barack to let his death be the only thing between someone as vicious as Hillary and the Presidency. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HILLARY?S CURRENT --- IT?S-MY-PARTY-AND-I?LL-CRASH-IT-IF-I-WANT-TO ---- CRASH IT IF I WANT TO --- BEHAVIOR PROVES SHE?S NOT A TEAM PLAYER ---------------- AND A VP PICK NEEDS TO BE A TEAM PLAYER
IFN SHE WINS WEST VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY 70-30 THEY ARE A COMBINED TOAL OF 80 DELEGATESAND IN BOTH POLLS SHEIS UP 66-32 ON AVERAGE, AND IF YOU JUST COUNT FLORIDA WHICH WILL COUNT SHE IS 4 HUNDRED THOUSAND BEHIND YOU FIGURE THEIR WILL BE 1.5 MILLION DEMOCRATS TURNING OUT IN BOTH STATES COMBINED. SHE GAINS 620,000 VOTES SO SHE WIOL GO UP BY 220,000 VOTES , AND THEN PUERTO RICO,MONTANA.,SOTH DAKOATA AND OREGON WILL CANCEL OUT AS EQUAL!! SHE WILL BE UP BY 2 HUNDRED THOUSAND TO 250 THOUSAND POPULAR VOTES. AND SHE WILL GO ONTO NOMINATION!!THIS THING IS FAR FROM OVER!!! AND MICHIGAN SHOULD HAVE A REVOTE.BUT LEETS WAIT A MONTH AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!! CALL YOU TOMMORROW THIS THING IS FAR FROM OVER HILLARY CHECK THESE STAT OUT!!! THE OTHER PROBLEM IS THAT CHIRS MATHEWS BASICALLY CALLED PUERTA RICAN IRREELVANT AND SPANISH TRASH, LIKE THEY DO NOT COUNT IN PUERTO RICO I AND IN FLORIDA- NEXT THEY WANT TO TELL SHISPANICS INCALIF. THE SAME THINGAS A JEWISH PERSON ALL THIS BITTER STUFF AND WANTING TO DIIFRANCHISE HISPANIS IN PUERTO RICO AND THEN FLORIDA!! AS A JEWISH PERSON IBLIEVE NO ONE SHOULD BE DISIN FRANCHISED,INCLUDING PUERTA RICAN IN PUEERTO RICO AND HISPANICS IN FLORIDA!!!MARION BERRY OF NAACP ALSO SAYS THIS YOU HAVE TO REVOTEEITHER WAY SHE WINS POPULAR VOTE AFTERPUERTO RICL WITH JUST FLORIDA!!
Any Obama or Clinton supporter who wouldn't support a joint ticket has completely bought the fake conflict the press has fed you for a year.
Have both campaigns said edgy and offensive things about the other?
Yes, but it's the press who has twisted them into ridiculously overwrought outrage. Besides, they're all exactly the same things the Republicans would have thrown up if they didn't get it out of the way now. It's called method to the madness.
You're as susceptible as the average FOX News coma patient if you can't let go of the fun frustration of rough campaigning between two candidates who are FAMOUS for agreeing on just about everything in principle. I mean, come on, a gas tax holiday was all they could seriously argue about. It's not a very big bone of contention. You should notice that and adjust your thinking accordingly.
They're made for each other, and you're not paying very close attention if you've swallowed the narrative, hook like and sinker.
Last night I went to a comedy club. There were 10 acts, a mixture of blacks, whites, men and women. Only two discussed the election, they were both black men. They both supported Obama and were thrilled about the prospect of having a black president. One of them made fun of Hillary for not wearing skirts instead of pants. He insisted that a woman should wear skirts. I walked away from the evening thinking that blacks (en masse) know it is in their best interest to have a black president, but females (en masse) do not know that it is in their best interest to have a female president. (Each would be breaking their own barriers.) So I guess we can conclude that blacks are smarter than women (en masse).
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