Yes, and if she really want it, he's the just the guy to ensure it doesn't get done.

In my dream scenario, Barack Obama would answer Mr. Johnson like this: "Bob Johnson? The same guy who owned a network that set black people back 20 years with its minstrelsy and sub-par Hip Hop? Bob Johnson, the same guy who insinuated that I was a drug dealer a few months back? I know that this isn't very presidential, but FUCK Bob Johnson - please quote me on that!"

This is just ANOTHER example of the poor execution and strategy of the Clinton camp. The only persons WORSE than Bob Johnson to head up this effort is Lanny Davis and Joe Wilson.

She's not going to be VP.

Was cocaine involved in the decision to make Bob Johnson the guy to lobby for this idea?

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Doesn't look like it's happening - more people are coming out saying Hillary's strategy for gaining the Veep is exactly how not to do it.

She's not done one thing right if that's what she was looking for. If that was it, she should have conceded last night, with a great deal of grace.

She didn't. And now it's all threats and attempts to box him in and people are starting to push back.

She hasn't done much of anything right throughout this campaign, and that's a fact; except to stir up some "white working class voters" trouble, when she could.

Adding Hillary to the ticket allows the GOP to attack both, and use her lightning-rod personna to rally their base. It would likely weaken Obama's chances of winning in November to have her on the ticket.

I imagine what she wants is to be publicly offered or privately guaranteed the VEEP slot before she will concede.

But I wonder how willing she and Bill would be to undergo the vetting process. Will Bill hand over the names of all his foundation and library donors and the details on his business dealings with Burkle? Will he be willing to hand over his travel records of the past eight years? Or will they insist that they have been "vetted" already and should be offered the position blind?

Imagine what a fit they would have if he offered it to her and said that they had failed the vetting process, as they no doubt would by any objective standard. The goal is to pick a VP with no exploitable weakness.

Remember that the secret service has intimate knowledge of both their activities of the last eight years and that they report to Michael Chertoff. Remember that Hillary has a reputation, at least, of abusing her secret service detail. Obama claimed not to have people doing any oppo-research on Hillary's non-political life, and it doesn't seem like he has. But the Republicans have been doing that research for eight years. So the Republicans no doubt know far more dirt on the Clintons than Obama does.

He is absolutely a buffoon! I have a few other choice words to describe him but I don't want to waste digital ink on him.

Johnson's tour of the all the major media sites today reminds me of William H. Ginsburg, Monica Lewinsky's preening, self-infatuated lawyer. The guy is definitely in love with his own importance, and the message he's claiming to deliver seems to be at odds with what a lot of other Clinton confidantes (eg, Rendell) are saying. I guess owning a tv station does not make one immune from lusting after media attention.

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Just. Say. No.

FYI -- I will be using the phrase "PANTIES ON THE HEAD!" for at least the rest of this week.

Bob Johnson, Lanny Davis, Terry McAuliffe, Harold Ickes, Big Time Money Moguls, and the Clinton Apparachniks et al, are in the last throes of their tenure as Democratic Party power brokers. These soon to be EX-Party Big Wigs are trying to push Sen. Clinton onto the ticket as their only path to relevancy moving forward.

This is about Power (Capital P), and after nearly a generation of controlling the machinery of the Democratic Party they are fighting tooth and nail to prevent the completion of the cleansing of the party begun by Gov. Howard Dean almost four years ago.

Clinton should not accept if it is offered.

She would more effecive as Senate Majority leader than as Obama's lawn jockey.

Let's just get this straight, once and for all: Barack Obama should not, and will not, offer the vice-presidency to Hillary Clinton. Doing so would be one of the most bone-headed and asinine acts ever committed by a politician: Barack Obama is neither bone-headed nor asinine. Q.E.D., no Vice-Presidency offer.

I find her answer: "I'd take it if it was the best thing to help us beat John McCain" really dirty.

But if she or anyone else thought that Obama would be easily intimidated - they need to talk to Lieberman, stat.

LOL!

There is a very simple solution to the Clinton dilemma, and I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet (to my knowledge).

Spending 8 years with the Clintons would be no picnic for anyone, and I doubt that she would really be necessary after several months of campaigning against McCain. I don't think older Americans in particular are going to be all that divided when they see the difference in the two health care proposals between Obama and McCain, nor will women.

Which brings me to my point. Obama should offer Hillary Clinton a cabinet-level post as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Given the choice between ambition and caring about the welfare of hard-working Americans, I'm sure she'd stay in the Senate.

Obama will seem gracious for offering, Clinton will be lessened by declining. Which seems just, considering the awkward position she is putting him in currently. Even if she accepts, she and Bill would still be forced to leave the White House on at least a nightly basis.

OMG, OMG, this impossibly sleazy fool is Clinton's go-to man for the VP push... I can't stop laughing, I can't. And for the first time I think that Ionesco, or Jarry or some master of the absurd was in charge of the Clinton campaign all along. What's the word for this?? The one that means, sad, mad and pathetic all at once?

She wants to be VP. Fine. Fill out an application and agree to allow Ken Starr to do the vetting. He would only have to go back ten years.

When I saw BET founder earlier I just skip over the piece knowing it was bullshit and it it IS.
Senator Clinton would feel "compelled to take it in the best interest of the party". Yeah, right. First Senator Clinton is never ever "compelled" to do anything ESPCIALLY for the party. Also, why would she put Bob Johnson in charge of her VP campaign. She already has enough boneheads in her employment to run her VP campaign. I think this is just bogus drug induced crap. (not you Greg, Johnson)

I agree - no to Hillary Clinton as running mate. With her "white voters" statement (based in fact or not), Clinton demostrated at least a certain tone deafness. If she has inroads to this segment of voters, then she can share that insight and leverage with the ticket, leading to a win for Obama in November.

If Hillary were chosen as the veep candidate, the Republicans will rev up their Clinton hate engines, and we're in a mess. When I voted *for* Obama, I considered Senator Clinton's and her husband's baggage as too much for the Presidential run.

Versus the good values I know she possesses, this was a cold calculation, but I think realistic. In my opionion if she were the nominee, the issues that make a Democratic victory very likely would have been lost in the Republican ad hominem garbage (and I don't overlook the possibility of racist whispers and innuendo garbage instead).

I believe Hillary C. truly wants and supports a Democratic victory. She can lead with her strengths: fund raising and appealing to "Reagan democrats", and not insignificantly, women. Do Democrats need to lose even a small segment of these voters who want to leave angry and dissapointed? Perhaps, even a few of those who never voted for Democrat could understand the message Hillary could bring. We need work that gives the Obama-??? ticket the high ground. Who better to get it done than Hillary Clinton?

Some would say this is putting her to the side to do thankless work, i.e. "woman's work". I for one would give her my deep thanks if it gets the job done. Certainly loot and leadership won't be wanting against a deep well of Republican money and the trickery and lies it funds. Look at the impact Ted Kennedy has had across the board after losing to Carter in '80.

Hillary can have a very important role and impact on this election and in the future, but not as running mate in 2008.