I find this unsurprising.
While she fully intends to win the Democratic nomination, and well might, if she doesn’t I think she’d probably be foolish to turn down the Veep slot if it were offered by Obama. After all, she’d get to be, at minimum, President of the Senate for 4 years and in the history books as the first woman elected on a national ticket, and might conceivably find herself becoming President. Unless the ticket loses, in which case she continues as a Senator for another four years and then considers whether to run again or not.
It’s less clear to me whether Obama should take a similar offer if he doesn’t win the nomination. As a young freshman Senator he can think about a lot of other offices, including another run for the Oval Office. Hillary’s nowhere near as young as he is.
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I think people would tend to think of her the same way they thought of Dick Cheney during Bush’s first term: as the puppetmaster. She doesn’t seem the second banana type to me.
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i don’t know, the party is generally not favorable to second runs by failed primary candidates, while the VP is the presumptive nominee after the pres. has served 2 terms. Obama is young enough that in 8 years he will be sitting pretty after an 8-year VP position.
I think Obama accepting the VP spot would be a no-brainer for him, inexperience would then become a non-issue in his eventual second run.
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Just yesterday or the day before, I went out on a limb and predicted Senator Clinton would do no such thing. Which all goes to show that the emergence of fact can overcome conjecture and make an asshole out of he who dares to predict politics.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
no fair.
by the time it works in august we’ll only have like 3 months to dive into the steaming pile of dumb and dumber iii. won’t hardly know where to start…
It seems just a bit tidy and slyly larcenous on the part of Hillary Clinton to suggest that her VP choice after careful consideration of at least five minutes ought to be Obama.
In any event, win or lose Obama can rightly claim title to any prior self-appointed guardianship the Clintons have with black voters.
Has anyone considered that Howard Dean, chief thug of the DNC is somehow going to screw this primary process up royally and guess who loses—Senator O ?
I don’t think that a ticket with Clinton makes any sense for Obama.
If he takes on the prez slot, he gets to deal with the Cheney factor that Arnold Harris outlined above. If Clinton takes the top slot, then the Obama of 2016 will need political skycaps to handle the amount of Clinton baggage he’ll be toting.
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