Give it a month. The Hillary as VP chatter will become a whisper.

It's just a consolation prize for Hillary Clinton to have her name mentioned as a veep possibility.

Jackson is a long time Clinton crony. Remember when he went to the White House to pray with Bill.
Jackson is just trying to make himself relevant again. Ignore him. His time has passed.

HELL NO! Have you lost your f-ing mind Jesse???

No nightmare ticket, period. Do you need someone to explain the reasons to you?:

http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/06/why-no-nightmare-ticket-lets-count.html

The more people who come out saying BO should pick HC for vp the more it will seem like he is being pressured. The more it seems like he is being pressured the likelihood of him picking her gets lower and lower. This is a blessing in disguise for BO because he doenst want her and the pressure from hillary's camp will be the reason the pundits talk up when she isnt picked.

The perception shouldnt be that your PUBLICLY CAMPAIGNING FOR VP!

Look, I'm a political news junkie like the rest of you guys. But can't we go one day withouta story about someone trying to ram Hillary down Obama's throat? I mean, first, he might be able to win without her (!). Second, how many second-place finishers in recent political history can you remember at all, let alone remember having muscled their way onto the ticket? Tick tock. The magic of the passage of time.

Greg, please stop with these diaries, they're not newsworthy, interesting, or new.

The will he pick her or not? storyline is something that we make fun of the MSM for being obsessed with. A blog like this should do better.

Hillary who?

Oh Jesse, please shut the fuck up already.. I'm sure the good reverend means well, but this is just one of a long list of quotes from prominent African Americans that happens to be the furthest thing from being helpful. Bob Johnson's drug innuendo, Andrew Young talking about Bill Clinton being with more black women than Obama.. Crabs in a fucking bucket, I swear..

For veepstakes watchers, this quote really stuck out for me from Obama rally in Virginia with Webb and Kaine. After praising Webb, Obama said this about Kaine:

"When you're in the political business, there are a lot of people who are your allies, there are a lot of people who you've got to do business with, but you don't always have a lot of friends," Obama said. "The governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia is my friend."

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2008/06/obamakaine_obamawarner_obamawe.html

das2003 said:

"Greg, please stop with these diaries, they're not newsworthy, interesting, or new.
The 'will he pick her or not?' storyline is something that we make fun of the MSM for being obsessed with. A blog like this should do better."

I agree strongly. If you must discuss this issue ad infinitum, take a poll of TPM readers' choices listing several, repeat several, possible candidates for Obama's Veep.

"As he surveys the field, it must be someone who is compatible with him philosophically, someone who is loyal to his agenda and someone who brings a constituency that matters and the capacity to become the next president, as the Constitution requires should disaster strike," Jackson said.

Not to mention, A) Hillary is NOT compatible with him philosophically (status quo vs change), B) Hillary is loyal to no one but her own political ambition, you needn't look further than how comfortable she was stabbing her own party in the back, and C) This goes back to the Bobby Kennedy remarks, and all I have to say is I NEVER want Hillary in a position where she would benefit politically from Obama's death.

Jackson is a fool. Every one of those reasons he listed were on my list of reasons NOT to pick Hillary as VP:

http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/06/why-no-nightmare-ticket-lets-count.html

Seriously, if you don't know what you are talking about, don't open your mouth. You know know better, and you just embarrass yourself, and probably piss off a lot of the African American community in the process.

I'm with Jesse. Winning is the sine qua non.Or , to quote Vince Lombardi " the only thing".

Whether she'd be a VP who'd complement Obama is irrelevant. Her duties and rights as VP would be only those he assigns.If she want's to play ball she'd be a great asset If not it would soon become 'Hillary who?"

But without the army of her disappointed, no heartbroken, women supporters- who right now want to punish Obama , he won't win. Her speech was fine , but it will take more than that. A lot more, like her name on the ticket.

In June of 41 Churchill, asked how he could welcome Russia as an ally, said that if the devil himself wanted to fight Hitler, he'd manage to work a favorable reference to hell into his next Question Time.Seems about right.

I think Hillary would make a great vice president and be the perfect running mate with John McCain....eight more years of fear mongering, just the ticket for poor judgement.

To all of the established politicians going public w/ the promotion of the dream ticket...please realize that it's just that... a dream!

Hillary as VP makes no sense to me and adds some many more negatives to the ticket! Barack will name his choice when he is ready and I'm all for that! I actually enjoy seeing a parade of people making speeches with or for him!

I'm in favor of rotating VP's.
First year -- Webb
Second year -- Sebelius
Third year -- Richardson
Fourth year -- Go with the hot hand.

One more time. Repeat after me. No woman as VP, no Obama as President.

Sure the cliche is true that voters vote for the President not the VP. Except this time.

McCain's fixing to add to the usual die-hard reps a formidable combination of racists in general and low income whites in particular plus moderately liberal previously Clinton-supporting women.

Which will defeat Obama.

For that not to happen Obama must, repeat must, have a woman as VP. I mostly discount the HRC supporters who claim they'll still walk if the VP is any woman other than her. A.Nother Woman would bring them grumbling back into the fold.Most of them.

But there's no point in almost jumping over the Snake River.

The ideal , indeed the necessary, candidate is whoever would bring the ticket the equivalent of the extra 280 Florida votes (they never did include West Palm's recount)which would have spared us the last 8 years.

Absent polling data to the contrary I think that's HRC.

Yes, Obama will risk his entire political future on the bet that Bill Clinton won't be caught with his pants down with a bimbo in the next 8 years. Yep, that's a bet anyone would take.