<p>I’d love to have been a fly on the ceiling listening in to HRC and Obama today.</p>
<p>After Bill’s latest flap (and the expectation that there could be more), Obama would be wise to run very, very fast (and far) in another direction.</p>
<p>Whoops, the headline I made is wrong, but the basics are true: She told members of Congress today, not AP, according to the AP story.</p>
<p>"WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton has told congressional colleagues she would be open to becoming Barack Obama’s vice presidential nominee, saying she would consider it if it would help Democrats win the White House.</p>
<p>Clinton, a New York senator, made the comment on a conference call with other New York lawmakers Tuesday, according a participant on the call.</p>
<p>The senator’s remarks came in response to a question from Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez who said she believed the best way for Obama to win over key voting blocs, including Hispanics, would be for him to choose Clinton as his running mate."
[Clinton:</a> Open to being Obama’s vice president - Hillary Clinton News - MSNBC.com](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24953561/]Clinton:”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24953561/)</p>
<p>Noooooooooooooooooo!!! I hope he does not succumb to the pressure. It will be a huge disappointment if he asks her. She represents everything he has campaigned against, ugh! And frankly, IMO, I think it’s a losing ticket. Too many people are so over the Clintons. Sen. Obama needs to choose someone who will bring independents and disgruntled republicans to the voting booth to vote for him, not against him.</p>
<p>“I think it’s a losing ticket. Too many people are so over the Clintons.”</p>
<p>That’s my take on it, too.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>What CelticClan said!!!</p>
<p>I just finished reading the new Vanity Fair article on Bill Clinton. I hope Barrack Obama will read it carefully or get a good executive summary from his staff.</p>
<p>I will be very dissapointed if she accepts the VP (assuming it will be offered). </p>
<p>Hillary, I will advice you to go back to the Seante, your supporters will be better served if you are in the Senate. Don’t be part of any deal.</p>
<p>Cynic’s view:</p>
<p>1) Question planted by her campaign, conveniently with a Latina.
2) Leak planted by her campaign.
3) He doesn’t want her, she knows it and is using this to scare him into giving him anything she wants, such as help paying off her debt, the primo speaking role at the convention and more.</p>
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<p>A good kick on her fat behind would be quite appropriate. </p>
<p>Ready to accept the VP position? The arrogance of Clinton never ends.</p>
<p>She would carry him through the general and he will take all the credit. Clinton would not like that. I have serious doubts Obama can win.</p>
<p>“he will take all the credit”</p>
<p>Even if this scenario played out as you say, it is in fact usual for the newly elected president to take credit for the victory.* It would be strange indeed for a candidate to be elected to the most powerful position in the world and then say, “Well, I’m just hanging on to the VP’s coattails.”</p>
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<li>Actually, they all say “This is all due to you, my supporters and friends! This is your victory, not mine!” But they don’t give all the credit to the VP.</li>
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<p>She’ll take whatever she can get. VP, Supreme Court Justice, World Bank, UN Ambassador, Attorney General… anything.</p>
<p>I don’t think she’ll take anything, but will choose another Senate run in order to legally pay off her Presidential-run debts.</p>
<p>I actually hope she doesn’t take VP position with him. She will make the win too easy for him if she takes the ticket. </p>
<p>There were nearly half the democratic voters in this country who may not support him if he doesn’t select her. There are a bunch of older ladies in my work place who may either stay at home or vote for McCain if he doesn’t take her as VP.</p>
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<p>Obama will be our next President.</p>
<p>I don’t really get all this spiteful hostility … elections aren’t an ego contest – both of them are talented individuals who IMO are more attractive (in terms of platform) than McCain.</p>
<p>Makes no sense. Then they are only voting for gender - not issues.</p>
<p>How is that any different than saying “I will only vote for a white person, if a black person is nominated I will either stay at home or vote for McCain”.</p>
<p>Or is that what they are really saying?</p>
<p>“both of them are talented individuals who IMO are more attractive (in terms of platform) than McCain.”</p>
<p>It’s really that simple to me. In spite of everything that’s happened during the campaign, if the supers decide to give it to Hillary, it’s an easy, easy choice that I will vote for her. I look at the war and the Supreme Court…I don’t have a shred of a doubt about the right thing to do.</p>
<p>If the superdelegates overrule the popular vote (ignore Hillary’s fuzzy math) then the Democratic party will self-destruct.</p>
<p>It will never happen. The race was over 6 weeks ago. Hillary should have put the good of the party ahead of her own coronation plans and bowed out then.</p>