What about the Bob Johnson and Lanny Davis campaigns which are equally as stupid. Hell, they might as well have Geraldine Ferraro running the campaign to elect Hillary as Obama's VP.

HRC supprters are not without political will and savy. Let's watch them move and move quickly to the nominee. Hell, when I learned that the campaign callled certain congressional supporters to ask for help in getting her to endorse and quit her bs...that was good news! On to the GE with full support and hard work. We'll need each other as the GOP unleashes a ton of hate and garbage at Obama. Since McFlub isn't worth a damn as a campaigner, they will put all in their money into garbage 527's and ads that will cross every line of decency.

It is unbecoming for her to stand up now, hand waving in the air, "Pick me! Pick me!"

She wants time? Give Obama time.

This whole "Hillary angling for veep" thing has me most perplexed. For the life of me I don't understand why in the world Hillary would want the veep position. Why would she want to give up her fairly powerful position in the Senate -- that would only grow stronger after this election cycle -- to become a bit player that wields little to no power? Could she really be considering a 2016 run?...because that's the only scenario I could imagine would interest her.

** This, of course, is setting aside all of the obvious negatives of having her on the ticket in the first place **

Awww, why? Is blatant identity politics not working for you? Or is it the fact that Obama has almost as many female supporters as Hillary?

Hillary has no chance of being VP. The Clintons are unwilling to submit to the vetting process (think the Clinton Library and the Clinton foundation.)

James A. Johnson, who vetted potential nominees for Sen. John Kerry in 2004, is playing a major role. He has advised Obama and the campaign about the architecture of the process, though it is not clear whether he will reprise his role as head of the search committee. Ex-Sen. Tom Daschle is also providing advice.

"As always, we don't have anything to say about it," said Dan Pfeiffer, Obama's deputy communications director.

Kerry began his three-month search process in March of 2004. Johnson and his team looked at scores potential candidates and vetted about a dozen of them, ultimately settling on Ex-Sen. John Edwards.

Johnson, a former CEO of Fannie Mae who is currently vice chairman of Perseus LLC, a merchant bank, also vetted vice presidential candidates for Walter Mondale, whose campaign he chaired. On the eve of the convention in 1984, Mr. Mondale was set to choose Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, only to find irreconcilable political problems with the business dealings of Ms. Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum. Mondale chose Geraldine Ferraro instead. Ironically, questions about Ferraro's husband, a real estate developer, would dog her throughout the general election campaign. Mr. Johnson said later that the experience if 1984 had taught him to start much earlier and vet much more thoroughly.

The vetting process entails a rigorous schedule of interviews focusing on everything from politics to potential embarrassments -- Did they ever employ a nanny on whose behalf they did not pay Social Security taxes, for example; did they experiment with drugs or people in college? -- and potential candidates are required to give the search team access to their tax returns and other financial records.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/quietly_obama_begins_the_quest_1.php

Alternate headline:

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ FINALLY SHUTS HER OVERSIZED PIE-HOLE!

Few people actually make me shudder at their sight.

She's one!

Yay!

She's not going to be the Veep - that's just as plain as day.

And Obama is not going to be pushed around - that's also plain as day.

If anyone doubts that - talk to Droopy Lieberman. I am still cruising on that story about Barack backing Droopy into a corner and leaning on him. Do you know how long I've waited for someone to finally do that? And it was Barack who did it.

Boy, did I make the right choice of which candidate to support.

The Hillary camp didnt anticipate such strong backlash, further proof that neither Hillary or any in her camp is adept at reading the mood of the people.

1-Denial
2-Anger-
3-Bargaining-
4-Depression-
5-Acceptance-

We're almost through this, folks.

In their exuberance, they nixed any hope that she could be the VP. A bunch of novices trying to contribute.

Clinton 17,802,300
Obama 17,501,751

His campaign plane barely touched down in West Virginia and Kentucky, where he ceded both states to Clinton. Why the snub? On Tuesday night, Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, was touting the emergence of a changing Democratic Party chock-full of new voters. But why convey, even inadvertently, such dismissiveness toward the old?

This is the sort of slight Clinton may have had in mind when she riffed on Tuesday night about "what does Hillary want?" One of the items on her list: "I want the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected, to be heard and no longer to be invisible."

Obama's own election-night speech was beautiful in its cadence, mesmerizing as political theater. Still, the blue-collar and middle-class voters Obama needs to lift him to the White House aren't much interested in joining a movement. They want their meat-and-potatoes concerns to be met. They want to hear why Oilbama voted for Dick Cheney's Energy Bill, while Hillary and McCain did not. Is Oilbama in the pocket of Big Oil? One can only assume so given his vote for this horrific bill crafted in secret by Big Oil Lobbyists.

I agree with all I've read so far by thejoshuablog.
What a refreshing voice of clarity and sanity.

I am beside myself at the thought of a Cabinet that might include Edwards as Attorney General, Biden as Secretary of State, and other prominent, forward-thinking non-partisan leaders around the table, advising President Obama.

HE'S ALREADY BRINGING CHANGE:

from AP:
"In his first order of business as his party's presumed presidential nominee, Barack Obama is instructing the Democratic National Committee to adopt his policy against accepting donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees.

The change will make the party and the candidate have a consistent position..."

link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080605/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_money

He means it. He's doing it. We're moving forward.

Smart move on the part of these congress people. You definitely don't help your cause by shoving it in obama's face. The clintons should take the hint.

From "Head of State"

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/vice-presidential-candidate-clinton.html

Friday, May 23, 2008

A Hypothetical Speech by Vice Presidential Candidate Clinton

Thank you for welcoming me here tonight. I know that we are all proud of Barack, who has risen from humble beginnings to such heights--great heights, perilous heights. As you may know, 30% of serious accidents occur from a height of 10 feet or above.

And so we now set out together on our journey--a journey of hope, a journey of change, and yes, a journey of great demands. For the Presidency places great demands on all of those who hold the office--we have seen how amazingly quickly it can age people in the poignant photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was succeeded by Harry S. Truman while still in office.

In this journey, we will put forward our shared goals--of expanded health coverage, against the unexpected and often fatal illnesses that can rob even those citizens that seem the healthiest of their ability to work, even of their lives.

Of protection against unexpected attack on our country, often aimed at those who are placed in the most critical positions to lead this nation. Of conservation of our precious energy resources, without which, even the most powerful of us can wind up stranded in a desert motorcade, without food, water, or wireless reception to contact others for help. Of greater support for culture and the arts--beginning with increased support for our very own Ford's Theatre here in Washington, DC.

Many of you will hear Barack speak later today, from a platform in Norman, Oklahoma--a humble platform, a rickety platform, a platform susceptible to Norman's notoriously strong and unexpected winds. There--god willing--he will tell you of what we hope to accomplish. He will speak of the unity that he and I wish to achieve for this nation, just as Andrew Johnson and Lincoln strove for such national unity. And he will tell you of our wish for change.

Change. An important word. None of us can know the changes that will occur in our lives. None of us can predict what momentous events, what disasters may befall us. A simple damaged left engine turbine stabilizer in a campaign plane. A frayed electrical line dangling, unseen, from a remote access satellite hookup van. A safe, falling, unexpectedly, to the sidewalk from the 8th floor of the Hotel Aldion in Norman, Oklahoma.

And so, we must dedicate ourselves, consecrate ourselves, to reach these most important national objectives today--while we still can. And like Kennedy, Garfield, McKinley, and other Presidents before him, we know that Barack will strive to achieve these goals--in the face of the awesome unknowns that lay before us all.

Thank you.

Cite:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/vice-presidential-candidate-clinton.html

How long Lord, how long will we have to suffer the domination of the news cycles by the Clintons? Can You Lord God Almighty just make them go away? I'm starting to think that the corporate media will never focus on Obama and McCain, because the comparison is laughable. Even Fox and Free Republic are ashamed of their guy. The longer they can keep us thinking about and talking about Hillary and Bill, the longer they keep the glaring inadequacies of the "maverick" out of plain view. Expect the MSM to drum up something outrageous that will allow the Clintons to hog attention as long as possible--Bill gets public BJ by famous actress? Hillary falling down drunk in the Senate? Marriage counseling and legal separation (finally acknowledged)? Hillary living with a lesbian? Doesn't have to be true--just plausible. Just enough to keep us entertained and distracted until it's time to vote. We have no need to know what the policy differences are between the two candidates--the MSM will tell us who we prefer when the time comes to cast our vote.

I'm glad they came to their senses. The last thing this party needs is more of its own running amok and behaving badly. If they really want unity, as they keep saying, then doing things like "demanding" she be on the ticket is certainly not the way to go about it. Has there ever been a public demand made of a nominee in this way before? How absolutely insane and juvenile. This group had no idea what they were doing, but apparently someone with some brains and a lot of reason informed them, and now they see the light.

This whole episode is truly sad. Clinton and her surrogates have managed to ruin a great moment in American history. I hope they're proud of themselves. Later -- years from now, maybe months -- I predict they'll look back on this whole affair and be very, very ashamed.

Great news! Howard Dean is staying on as the head of the DNC!!!

So, since Dean is taken how about Hillary as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Personally, I think she'd be great and would really push to get our healthcare system in order, and hopefully give us universal healthcare (a tall order). You know she'd work hard for it!

Bill and Hillary Clinton has shown nothing but contempt and disrespect for Barack Obama, and for the people who voted for him.
Rewarding them for the consistency of their contempt seems like a really depressing idea.

Finally realizing that Obama can't be blackmailed, eh?

Where's gotnolife when you need him? Obama is a very shrewd politician. Carolyn Kennedy? Good move. Taking his time? Good move. Leading Lieberman (by the hand) to a deeper understanding of party? Great move. This is one black man who will not allow himself to be "one-downed" by anyone. I'm sure that's what pisses his critics off most. Once all the air has been let out of the Clinton inflatable sheep the race against McCain is going to get really interesting. Can't wait to see who he does pick for VP.

In the delusional world of Obamaniacs, trashing Bush constitutes "false GOP talking points."

LOL!

Hillary who?

Nobama.

Do you realize what your name means, and yet you are lamenting the lack of party unit. Get thee to a detox clinic, at once, so that you can break your addiction to Stupidity Pills.

What false GOP talking points did Obama repeat?
Name one. Insted of still trying to pull Obama down why don't you try to find out what Obama really stands for. Insted of the smear job you are trying to do to him.
You are going to vote for McBush because Obama is like GWB? Now that's funny!!!

More inane comments from the stay at homes who have never ran a political campaign. If the choice of the VP running mate was ever going to affect the outcome of a race then explain Dan Quail.

melvo: If the choice of the VP running mate was ever going to affect the outcome of a race then explain Dan Quail.

"Dan Quail?"

Is that some kind of newfangled bird?

1992 explains Dan Quayle very well - he did eventually affect the ticket (from the Wikipedia):

As Bush lagged in the polls in the weeks preceding the August 1992 Republican National Convention, some Republican strategists (led by Secretary of State James Baker III), viewed Quayle as a liability to the ticket and pushed for his replacement.[15] Quayle survived the challenge and secured re-nomination.[16]

You implicitly claim to be some kind of political campaign insider who has it all over the "stay-at-homes" and yet are totally ignorant of how to spell Dan Quayle's name.

God, the arrogance and ignorance of Obamaniacs is appalling.

You can't even take two seconds to google Bush 41's VP to come up with the correct spelling.

There is nothing worse than an elitist Obamaniac who demonstrates no reason for his/her self-perceived and self-anointed elitism, but instead shows how truly uninterested in detailed facts he/she is.

Just like the Bush administration and its supporters who have consistently championed emotional sound bites over scientific, technical, or even just basic facts.

Bluesplashy is right but you did leave out Travelgate from the Clinton's long resume.

I cannot see clinton anywhere in the WH. HHS either.
Its kind of like that Ben Stiller/Jack Black movie Envy.
His wife chose a platform to run on. The environment, while at the same time her husband was the wealthy inventor of Va-Pooh-rize(sp)
So, in short, Hilary wouldnt be able to tell us where the shit goes - until you look in her pocket.

Losers do not dictate the terms. The gall!

Oprah for vice president! Oprah for vice president!

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