Becuase from now til Denver, Obama will somehow get a 3am phonecall and prove his critics wrong. Is that the logic they are going with? Seriously?

It sounded like the press was very skeptical on this media conference call.

By the way, Bill Clinton was out this past weekend EXPLICITLY saying what an unstoppable ticket they would be.

Oh, and of course, what test has Hillary passed? She had her red-phone moment and failed.

In the next eight months Obi wan Hillary will tutor Obama in the depth of wisdom she gained at that women's conference in Bejing.
Then and only then will he become a Jedi knight!

What a wonder, words always seem to mean whatever is best for the Clintons. At least they are consistent.
Narcissistic, entitled, and antidemocratic , but consistent.

So long as the media is drinking up their bullshit by the gallons, there is ZERO risk of anything coming back to bite her. Hell, I bet no one asked about Sinbad on the call or her tea and biscuits meeting in Ireland. Or ask how presumptious it was to be talking about selecting a VP when you've lost 29 out of 43 contests.

It is a wonder that the Clinton campaign has managed to survive under this whithering scrutiny by the media.

Commander in Chief for Dummies.

More from Wolfson:
"The clearest test of any man's wisdom is the extent to which he agrees with you. It's clear that Americans have said, with a united voice, that Senator Obama has not passed the Commander-in-Chief test at this time. But we have hope for the young man. Being a qualified CinC is all about the exercise of judgment under pressure. Should Senator Obama choose to concede the race and endorse Senator Clinton, that would obviously speak to his wisdom and maturity, because a Clinton presidency is clearly in the national interest. In short, the only way Senator Obama can pass the Commander-in-Chief test would be to endorse Senator Clinton, and we'd be happy to consider him for Vice President if he did."

Wolfson, in both resemblance and rhetoric, is the splitting image of Ari Fleischer.

Obama, use a #2 pencil, stay within the little ovals, and carefully erase any stray pencil marks. Ms. Clinton will be proctoring the test. Your time begins NOW.

Again I say....

He's "NOT READY TO BE COMMANDER-N-CHIEF"?????

Yet the very first DECISION that Hillary would make as the Democratic nominee for president would be to nominate Obama as her Vice President?

The VP slot MUST BE READY ON DAY ONE also. Think about 9/11 folks. Just 9 months into Bush's presidency, if something had happened to Bush, Cheney would have been our PRESIDENT.

Who ever the Presidential nominee picks as their VP should be ready on day one.

Penn's saying that Hillary's FIRST DECISION/JUDGEMENT would be a FAILURE once again.

Ben Smith over at Politico has an interesting pro-Hillary take on this. Ben is an unapologetic Hillary supporter one loose screw short of Taylor Marsh, but it's interesting nonetheless.

So this mysterious threshold can somehow be attained while on the campaign trail in the next few months, despite him apparently not being able to reach that threshold in all of his years of public service?

Hmmm....

more stenography is EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

Wiggle room achieved, we suppose, though it is very hard to see how some of these comments from Hillary don't come back to bite in the unlikely event that she edges out a victory and offers the veep slot to Obama.

This is not really an issue because she knows quite well that Obama knows he has nothing to gain from a Vice Presidency in her administration and would clearly not accept. She would never offer it to him however much it seems she might need him in the unlikely circumstance that she manages to finagle the nomination. It would only hurt her chances in the GE to be publicly rejected by Obama. Floating the whole VP thing is pretty clearly a strategy to try and pull some voters right now. By the time it becomes necessary for the Dem nominee to choose a running mate, it will be but a fleeting memory.

Senator Clinton should be careful on this C-in-C issue, lest she too fall victim to the "Zell Miller" rule for excluding super-delegates to the Democratic convention. As people know, Senator Lieberman has been barred from the convention under this rule which prohibits convention delegates from endorsing non-Democratic candidates for president. If the Clinton camp makes the statement that Sen. Obama is not qualified to be C-in-C (i.e. president) even though he has a majority of the pledged delegates, but Sen. McCain is qualified, that might be enough to have Senator Clinton excluded as a super-delegate under a liberal interpretation of the Zell Miller rule.

It is nice to see the media finally pushing back on the endless loads of bullshit the Clinton campaign keeps pumping out. I guess two weeks ago when she was all but dead they figured they didn't have to take her seriously.

Maybe you should run Wolfson's statements by Byah, Clark, Vilsack and others who have sold their souls in exchange for the promise of a VP slot. As a matter of fact, have ANY of them been asked whether they were promised a position in her administration?

BTW I found a fantastic article…A MUST read for EVERYONE “The Hussein Dynamic” at http://savagepolitics.com.
Brilliant writing that goes beyond what the MSM is feeding us!!!!

Here is an excerpt: “The issue of Barack Obama’s religious definition has captivated many Americans to the point were charges of terrorism and counter charges of racism have been thrown into the fray of the discussion, aimed at either side. To many Liberal Americans, whether or not Obama is a Muslim (or was a Muslim) is irrelevant to the feelings of “hope” and “change” that he inspires in them, which they consider to have a higher merit than petty religious or ethnic associations. To many Conservative Americans, the mere allocation of any candidate within the realm of Islam is sufficient reason to vote against him, irrespective of the details that may lie in the penumbra of his personal story. Either way, it is impossible for any citizen to make an intelligent assessment of either perspective, without knowing the details and the relevant information regarding Mr. Obama’s past. Unlike the Mainstream Media, who has automatically assumed that Obama has no relation to Islam, in a vague attempt to paint themselves as “reasonable” and “progressives”, most thinking citizens should not follow suit. There is ample evidence to make any reasonable citizen conclude that the Obama campaign and the Media have been hiding some crucial elements of this candidate’s past that should become widely known and discussed in the open. Let us then ask ourselves; Is Barack Obama a Muslim?” get the rest at http://savagepolitics.com/?p=171

Wow. I've never heard this before. But these sources seem both numerous and credible.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/03/hillary-clinton-get-fcked.html

But maybe we could let ourselves be distracted some more....?

Great - more embarrassing Clintonian word-parsing. "At this point" must be the new version of "It depends on what your definition of Is is."

She deserves to lose if only because she and her advisors are such monumental jackasses.

Where? Surely would like to know where.

It is clear that the Hillary camp thinks that Commander-in-Chief gravitas is something they and ONLY they can CONFER upon Sen. Obama at a press availability on a bright summer morning against a photogenic background that would make Michael Deaver proud when they announce that will be her Veep on the ticket. They are walking delusionists.

They do not understand the numbers, the movement, the motivation or the intrinsic appeal of Obama. Their wacky fantasy devalues the Obama moment down to the ground.

I would argue that the same mindset that put Sen. Clinton on the wrong side of AUMF operates to this minute in their deliria about the dream ticket. She and her ragtag crowd of advisors are invariably, reflexively and unpleasantly on the wrong side of history.

HILLARY-SINBAD '08!!!!

Obama Responds

COLUMBUS, Miss -- Sen. Barack Obama delivered an animated rebuke today of suggestions from the Clintons in recent days that he could run as her vice president.

“Now first of all with all due respect, with all due respect," he said here during a town hall meeting. "I won twice as many states as Sen. Clinton. I won more of the popular vote than Sen. Clinton. I have more delegates than Sen. Clinton. So I don’t’ know how someone in second place can offer the vice presidency to someone in first place. If I was in second place I could understand but I am in first place right now.

He referenced comments from Bill Clinton in 1992 that his “most important criteria” for vice president was that person must be ready to be commander in chief.

“They have been spending the last two or three weeks” arguing that he is not ready to be commander in chief, Obama said.

“I don’t understand. If I am not ready, why do you think I would be such a great vice president?” Obama asked the crowd, which gave him a standing ovation during his defense. “I don’t understand.”

“You can’t say he is not ready on day one, then you want him to be your vice president,” Obama continued. “I just want everybody to absolutely clear: I am not running for vice president. I am running to be president of the United States of America.”

Pathetic Clinton Campaign doublespeak. That alone should be enough to make people not to want to hear this for four years more.

Clinton may not be transparent about her taxes or her White House records or her husband's donors to the foundation or library, but she is transparetly cynical.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

From a Kos poster via Andrew Sulivan's blog:

"Saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle."

Let me translate for Wolfson: "I was pushing the "he's not ready meme and, as is typical with our frayed, disorganized campaing, Bill and the rest of them were pimping the "maybe we'll consider him as VP meme," without telling me. So this is the best I can do to try to narrow the gap between these two shockingly at-odds positions..."

Isn't that so much more clear?

Troll alert.

How about Samantha Power? Sure, an Obama Power ticket might sound too corny, but oh, the schadenfreude.

An uncharacteristic projection, given that polls don't usually distinguish between the invasion and the occupation. Probably the Democratic Party doesn't make the distinction, but, without proper polling, we can't assume the rest of America doesn't. Or so it appears to me. I don't know tech stuff.

I believe Hillary as first spouse never had a secret security clearance. As senator she never read the NIE before voting for AMUF in Iraq. She voted FOR Kyl-Lieberman which is an AMUF for IRAN. Experience she may have, but is it the right kind?

True, she is more experienced than GWB was when he took office (didn't even have a valid passport), but isn't that setting the bar a tad low?

I think the experience/inexperience thing is bogus, we need someone with good judgement.

I certainly hope that Sen. Obama, also addressed the absurdity that Mr "Bomb-Bomb-Bomb Iran" has passed the threshhold to be commander in chief.
What BS. And he should be blasting McHillary for even suggesting such a thing, and pointing out that the fact that she did suggest that shows she is not ready to be C-in-C!

I must of have the announcement that Hillary had taken and passed the C-in-C test. Clearly she must have cheated and had Bill take the test for her. Of course, the 3 am phone call was Linda Tripp ratting out Bill...

But "with all due respect"... since when does the person in second place do the choosing? Hillary Clinton: Blind Ambition.

What makes Hillary qualified to decide who meets the threshold for Commander in Chief?
The longer Hillary persists with her "Vast Clintonite Conspiracy," to steal the delegate lead from Obama, the more she angers the millions of babyboomers who gave her and her husband unconditional love and support for the past 15 years. By the end of this primar season, she will have just as many friends in her party as Tricky Dick had when he resigned!

Clintonistas, where are you?

Mythology buffs and white, middle-aged, ex-Republicans.