The Big Obstacle To Obama Picking Hillary Clinton For Vice President

Well it would be just swell if Barak Obama who based his entire campaign on the WAR IS A CRIME AND ANYONE WHO VOTED FOR IT HAS NO JUDGEMENT

Then he stands up there, flip flops and once again tells us that Hillary is smart and she understands and I was only kidding when I said that about the war. OH yeah and Bill Clinton is not a racist. I was only kidding. And Oh yeah, Hillary is........

Secondly two others I have seen touted as VP candidates voted FOR the WAR too. Biden and Dodd. Hows he going to square that with his message that is firmly tucked away in data banks all over the world where he said that I question the judgement of anyone who voted for the war.

In essence he hand tieing himself and even more so with Hillary then with any other group. Not only does 1/2 of the Democratic party hate Hillary but nearly all the GOP does. His presidency would be about Hillary and not Barak Obama.

This talk is nothing more then talk unless his judgment proves once again to be sorely lacking.

Hillary Clinton is suitable for the VP position and I suspect as the remaining months go by Bill Clinton will become less and less a subject of concern, too.

President Bush (current) hasn't let his father (a closer relation than the Clintons have with Obama) interfere or intrude, and the public hasn't worried about such an intrusion. (These days, I suspect many Americans would welcome such a thing.)

Well it needs saying so I'll say it: Barack Obama will not pick Hillary Clinton for VP because of her popularity. Remember folks what the VP position is soley for....since today's topic is death.... As president, the last thing you want millions of people doing is longing for the VP to replace you! Out of 18 million, statistics tell us that a few dozen will be highly unstable!

So yeah, she'll never get picked. And she wouldn't accept the position anyway because of her own aspirations..

In fact, Obama is in quite a conundrum with the VP thing. As insipid as his qualifications are for the Oval Office, he is faced with finding someone who is at once even more insipid than he is, but somehow still qualified enough to gain voter confidence as a co-runner and potential replacement for Obama, God forbid, should he not live out his term.

I don't envy Obama right now. I don't think that person even exists, much less in numbers to compile a list to whittle down from.

Good luck with that Barack..

Honestly though. Obama is a fool if he does not Pick Bill Richardson. Black/Hispanic. The election is his if it just wasnt for that durn energy crisis and a paralyzed Democratic party that is held hostage by the tree hugger element they have coddled for 30 years.

<wrings hands>

energy crisis+global warming+endless war = world we live in.


Will hug trees for food.

Neocon: "Not only does 1/2 of the Democratic party hate Hillary but nearly all the GOP does. His presidency would be about Hillary and not Barak Obama."

I guess an Obama/Hillary ticket (or even an Obama/Bill C ticket) would be (for Republicans anyway) the same as the Bush/Cheney presidency/vice presidency is for Dems and most republicans right now..... Can't get rid of the president because look at who his replacement would be! :) ROFL....

I hate Hillary Clinton too! I especially hate how she and Bill carved out the strongest economy in US history during her last stint in the Whitehouse. Damn her and all her experience and delivery!

I prefer the unknown and waffling Obama. Of course the GOP hates Hillary. She represents real change, whereas they know Obama doesn't...

Food for thought..

Absolutely Stockboy that is a very adept analysis and precisely on point.

Neocon, thanks!

"I especially hate how she and Bill carved out the strongest economy in US history during her last stint in the Whitehouse."

Sil -- I gather nobody has told you that Hillary wasn't actually president? Or even "co-pres"? I'm very sorry, but it was, in fact, her husband who held the title. She was part of the auxiliary...

The one thing that is sure to fire up the Republican base and get them energized to go vote in serious numbers, frankly, is Hillary on the ticket -- because she will bring Bill with her by default. It's a spouse thing, ya know?

If he picks her, it may very well be true that some folks will vote for Obama who might not have otherwise, but polls indicate (however unreliable they are) that the vast majority of those not-quite 18 million Hillary people have gotten behind the soon-to-be Dem nominee. The numbers that might be brought in w/ Hillary on the ticket would be swamped by the newly energized response from the currently somnolent Republicans.