The telling part is the actions that Senator Clinton has undertaken in the past three days, which makes me think that Obama said no to her being VP.

Is it possible to quote me yawning?

Of course they are going to deny it! Clinton want to appear viable, and Obama doesn't want to appear he is pushing her out.

CNN sucks, for sure, but they didn't make this shit up.

If I didn't know better, I'd say those sound like denials...

Too funny.

Hey, CNN, thanks for helping these two campaigns to unify around something: CNN is full of crap!

OBAM, ANNOUNCE YOUR CHOICE FOR VP ASAP!!!! THIS NEW DRAMA WILL JUST DRAG ON AND ON AND ON....

i dunno. somehow i feel that if they were talks, howard wolfson would have released the exact same statement he just did.

i just think that if there were talks, its the kind of thing both campaigns would want to keep super secret so of course, they're going to deny deny deny.

Well, your interview with the Clinton fundraiser was real. There are clearly important supporters out their pushing this idea, whether the Clinton campaign wants them to or not.

I think CNN's Suzanne Malveaux broke the story. She seems pretty credible, but she has to be felling like crap now though. This was a total none story. I think she was used by the CLinton camp to gague the vibe from the public and the BO camp on her as a viable VP. i am watching CNN to see if she will come on and defend her source. has egg all

This underscores the problem of relying on anonymous sources. If I were Malveaux, I'd divulge the source.

And given the multiple sources coming out of the Clinton camp, I'd be far more willing to believe that it is a Clinton source. Obama's camp is holding ALL of the cards.

I do hope the denials are false. I see serious difficulties for Obama. Without Hillary on the ticket I don't expect us to win in November.

Here's a very interesting interview with Democratic strategist Doug Schoen discussing Obama's challenges.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/22/politics/politicalplayers/main4121305.shtml

And in the interview I was gratified to see that he made the same point I have been making, i.e., that the race issue has been overstated.

CBSNews.com: And to what extent do you think there are some white voters who will never vote for an African-American for President? Or do you think that the racial component of this is overstated?

Doug Schoen: I think the racial component is overstated. I think people have doubts about Barack. I think they have doubts about his program. And I think they have some doubts about people like Reverend Wright. And I don't think that is necessarily racially motivated, though I would suggest that black liberation theology and some of the outrageous things that Reverend Wright has said certainly raise the specter of concern about race--separate and apart from Barack Obama--with working class voters who might be very, very concerned with the message.

Why Hillary should not be VP:

From "Head of State"

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/head-of-state-reasons-that-hillary.html

Friday, May 23, 2008

Head of State: The Reasons That Hillary Should Not Be Vice President

Regarding Hillary Clinton as Barack Obama's running mate:

Originally, this seemed to be a potentially plausible choice--and if presented in the following way, could turn her divisive campaign into a potential coup as a VP candidate. The thinking was the following:

Hillary has run a divisive campaign. Now, just as the nation should mend its divisions in favor a greater unity that would serve the greater needs of our country, so now they would explicitly put these divisions behind them, in the interests of the unity that this nation, after a bitter and divisive Administration, is so in need of. This would serve as a powerful and vibrant example of the very ability to unify that Obama both offers and represents.

However, this would require a candidate that was willing to take such a position of relative shared selflessness in the interests of a greater good. While the Vice Presidency certainly offers its honors (now far beyond the "warm pitcher" of John Vance Garner's famous phrase) and positioning for later Presidential aspirations, such a plan would require the ability to think in terms of a shared effort based on the betterment of the nation, rather than in more grasping, combative and singular terms.

The Clinton camp's behavior over this past week has made such a positive scenario clearly untenable, showcasing the same characteristics that have signified her campaign throughout its long, chaotic march--its contradictions of previous statements when such changes have a slight possibility of adding a week or two of vitality, its sudden and implausible use of populist guises and specious historical parallels for transparently opportunistic purposes, its near-hallucinogenic transmogrifications of personality and central bases for further continuation,
and the central campaign tendency to place personal attainment over virtually all values that lay in its path.

These characteristics--self over nation, positioning over a consistent presentation of position, values and even self, the willingness to put personal viability over the need to transcend and transform the vast wreckage of state and international relations that remains at this critical time--are as present now, at a moment when wisdom rather than a remorseless, obdurate desperation could fill this gap, as they have been throughout much of the campaign. They would continue to make themselves present during a Clinton campaign for vice president, complicating, diminishing and often distracting from, in trivial internecine battles, the message of unity and change.

Perhaps Clinton could adopt a more unifying, integrated and less grasping position on the VP subject. However, thus far, the actions of the Clinton camp have made it clear: It's time to clean the slate. Hillary Clinton should not be the Vice Presidential candidate.

Cite:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/head-of-state-reasons-that-hillary.html

the folks at Kos seem to think Hillary camp leaked the story.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/23/9943/80416/609/521106

Clinton voted for the war and I don't think Obama wants Hillary talking about her Healthcare initiatives in the general election.

I think Obama needs to find a Veep candidate that is populist and that the Unions really like. Someone like John Edwards and I think the front runner is Virginia Governor, Tim Kaine.