Hillary, already 72½ years old, doesn’t check the ‘Young’ box. Otherwise I’d agree — Yes, she’d be a great choice.
Hillary would have been a great president, and not just in comparison to the idiot we ended up with.
But putting her in the VP slot just reboots the 30+ years of hate leveled at her. Just no way it is a good idea.
But bringing it up does serve to distract the idiots on the right, so it is possibly a good thing to discuss.
I figured it was a lock Biden would have a black woman help him pick his VP and he did that. Lisa Blunt Rochester.
Biden campaign announces vice presidential selection committee | CNN Politics
I’m still hoping for either Whitmer or Harris, myself. But I also don’t think a VP pick has a lot of impact on the outcome of the general election.
I agree that experience should be the thing, here. More than policy or geography.
Remember this: If Biden wins the election and falls over dead at 12:06pm on Jan 20, 2021 he will have accomplished the largest part of what we needed him to accomplish: he will have unseated a sitting and disastrous President who was systematically destroying our institutions and culture. After that, whatever else he accomplishes is a bonus.
Not sure anyone would be better qualified to stump for the ticket!
Dinsdale, if that’s a joke it’s in very poor taste.
No warning issued, but don’t be a jerk, dude.
Susan Rice has been suggested recently. She’s young and has more foreign policy experience than any of the other contenders. But she’s never held elected office and she turned down an offer to replace Clinton as Secretary of State because the hearings would be all about Benghazi.
Biden would be a idiot to allow that to overshadow his campaign. She’s in the same class as Clinton and Obama. He needs someone with no right-wing baggage. The VP must add and never subtract.
I think Susan Rice is brilliant. I wonder whether she’d seriously consider it.
Susan Rice sounds excellent. Ready to step in as commander-in-chief and also someone that Biden would have seen a lot of during the Obama administration.
Rice might prefer sec of state.
Yeah, the only fundraising Susan Rice would inspire is of the right-wing variety. Biden needs someone who has at least a bit of online savvy and can excite fundraising. Yet another reason I think it’s going to be Warren, or possibly Abrams.
Agreed. Good Lord, enough of the Clintons already.
She could come back for State, she was good there.
Can someone explain why Biden would choose Chris “waitress sandwich” Dodd as part of his vice-presidential selection committee ?
Well, if you read his bio, it should be clear:
*Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011.
Dodd is a Connecticut native and a graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Maryland, and Providence College. His father, Thomas J. Dodd, was also a United States Senator from 1959 to 1971. Chris Dodd served in the Peace Corps for two years prior to entering the University of Louisville School of Law, and during law school concurrently served in the United States Army Reserve.
Dodd returned to Connecticut, winning election in 1974 to the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut’s 2nd congressional district and was reelected in 1976 and 1978. He was elected United States Senator in the elections of 1980, and is the longest-serving senator in Connecticut’s history.
Dodd served as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1995 to 1997. He served as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee until his retirement from politics.[1] In 2006, Dodd decided to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, but eventually withdrew after running behind several other competitors.*
She should just retire. There is no shortage of capable people. She has too much imagined baggage.
I like her. I voted for her and sent her money. Fair not not (I vote not) she hurts the Democrats every time her name is mentioned.
I’d think he could find a number of well-qualified candidates without a conspicuous instance of sexual harassment in their records. Why - especially in current circumstances - would he want to be dealing with that?
If the American people fall for the Benghazi trap the country deserves four more years of Trump.
This line of reasoning makes no sense to me. The “Benghazi trap” is a known quantity of negative, destructive baggage. It’s not about what anyone “deserves.” If there’s a fucking bear trap right in front of you with big signs marked “BEAR TRAP”, and you step into the bear trap and die…you’re dead. That’s all there is to it. The “you” here is the Democratic Party. It would be squarely on THEM for fucking up in this situation, not the “American people.”
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Hillary didn’t lose just because people disliked her personally. She lost because she represented to many people an “establishment” that had failed them. Biden represents the same establishment, so he’s already handicapped by that. He needs a fresh, younger face to counter that perception. Hillary on the ticket would guarantee four more years of Trump.