Actually, not. But I think the rumors Billary have been floating all weekend about what a swell VP boy-wonder would make deserve to be filagreed but good. The woman as much as told America that if they had a choice between McCain and Obama, they’d be in better hands with McCain. Now she wants to tell us how good a job he’d do as her doormat–er, I mean doorman.
Have you ever heard anything so cynical?
“I know that she has always been open to it,” the former president said, “Because she believes that if you can unite the energy and the new people that he’s brought in and the people in these vast swaths of small town and rural America that she’s carried overwhelmingly, if you had those two things together she thinks it’d be hard to beat.”
Citing their demographic strengths, Clinton said of Sen. Obama and his wife, “he would win the urban areas and the upscale voters, and she wins the traditional rural areas that we lost when President Reagan was president.”
What he’s actually saying is that he’s worried Hillary can’t win without Obama. He’s not saying Obama can’t win without Hillary. But the idea that grafting Obama’s candidacy onto Hillary’s would be oh so lovely for Hillary is the height of presumptuousness. Bill, did anyone ever suggest you butt out of the campaign?? Every time you open your big mouth you embarrass your wife, yourself and the Party.
Obama had 2 brilliant responses:
1) “I don’t know how somebody who’s in second place can offer the vice presidency to someone who’s in first place.”
2) ‘If I am not ready, why do you think I would be such a great vice president?’
Did you notice that Obama didn’t offer Hillary the VP spot in his ticket? She claims to want him but I doubt he wants her. And btw, her sincerity can be seriously doubted. After she won the nomination she’d do whatever the hell she pleased & would ignore Bill’s blandishments to Obama during the primary campaign.
Two observations, the first of which I can in no way claim as my own, but stumbled upon in BuzzFlash, and that is to endorse an absolutely unbeatable national ticket; namely, by having Hillary run as McCain’s VP. Just think what that would mean for national security. This modest proposal has success splashed all over it because (1) Senator Clinton has succinctly stated that Senator McCain is absolutely ready to be commander-in-chief and (2) has just as succinctly has stated that she is, too. Of course he being older and thus more experienced, she would have to yield to her own logic and take that number two spot, but then after they win and we have another war or two, or simply just stay the course in that budding democracy, Iraq, she will have taken her experience to new heights from which she might rule as our First Lady President. Voilà! Now, on to my second observation, and it is just that, an observation, of what seems to be a fait accompli, maybe already well noticed by the public, but then again maybe not. Have we iwitnessed something of a modern bio-poltical miracle? Has Senator Joe Lieberman undergone a sex and name change, and is he now none other than Hillary Clinton? You needn’t answer because these thoughts of mine are hardly even thoughts so much as simple idle musings between bottle of beer.