CNN is reporting that Obama has personally donated $2,300 to Clinton’s campaign. I think these make-nice gestures are proof he’s not really considering her.
Why the hell is Obama retroactively financing the campaign against him?
When people mentioned this as a possibility, I thought they were nuts. I guess not. Does Obama really believe that Clinton wouldn’t do her best to help him win if he didn’t pay her off? If she’s even remotely sincere in any of her stated beliefs, a McCain presidency would be anathema to her. Surely she’s not petty enough to throw McCain the presidency over sour grapes . . . right?
You’re right. Canada is a state and its residents should be allowed to vote, damnit!
Obama has supporters who have maxxed out what they can doante to him; Clinton has donors who can’t give her any more either. Both sets of supporters are still able to give full amounts to the other.
Is it a literal quid pro quo? No, but there is an expectation and an understanding. Obama gets his maxxed out supporters to donate to her and she gets hers to donate to him.
Would they donate any way? Maybe. But she was more big roller based than he was and fully exploiting that group is wise.
I do not think that Clinton will be VP but the fact that he no longer is perceived as “needing” it, and the fact that her supporters no longer demand it, makes it a shade less unlikey. She’d be fine in the job more likely than not but keeping Bill in a subordinate role, subordinate once removed really, would be perhaps too much to ask for.
Campaigning for him? Her future depends on her being perceived as a good team player.
Because she’s deeply in debt and he needs to win over her supporters.
It’s not really about her, I think. She knows she has to do her part or it’ll come back to bite her in the Senate. It’s about her voters - particularly the older ones, who I figure are the most likely to consider voting for McCain. Obama doesn’t want just their grudging votes in November, he wants to gets their volunteer efforts and their donations and their enthusiasm. Showing respect to Clinton should help with that.
No, it means that millions of Democrats were Clinton supporters.
Let’s assume the worst case scenario and say Obama/Clinton gets elected, and Obama gets assassinated. Would a Clinton presidency honestly be worse than a McCain presidency to you?
I laughed, so hard.
Obama needs to ask Hillary to campaign hard and publicly for him over July and August, after which he’ll make his VP choice.
If she can do it–wholeheartedly and firing on all 12 cylinders, bringing Bill aboard doing some enthusiastic things that will his skin crawl, even dragging that simp Chelsea along to college campuses where she can pretend to be a teenager in need of protection at nauseating length, then Obama should consider putting her on the ticket, stomach-churning for me as that would be. But even he decides otherwise, what’s she going to do? “Ya know, I was wrong the last few weeks, saying that Obama’s a regular working slob, that he likes to get toasted, ya know, and fall asleep in front of the TV with his dick peeking out of his tighty-whiteys, with NASCAR blasting at top volume…”
IMO, the hiring of Patty Solis Doyle was definitive; he will not choose Hillary Clinton as his running mate. It was actually a kind of gentle way of saying “Hell, no!” It would be an utter waste of Clinton to make her VP. She should be AG, where her bulldog tenaciousness and willingness to go for the jugular would be appropriate and much needed to counter the abuses that are just now coming to light from these past eight years.
Clinton has a lot of positives among Democrats. But there are too many Independents and Republicans who for reasons that escape me utterly hate her, not just on the board here, but in real life - I’ve heard more people than I can count say that they simply can’t stand her - even people who are otherwise good liberal Democrats. I think choosing her as a running mate would not only be a waste of her abilities, but ultimately a negative on the ballot. I seriously question whether or not Clinton could ever be elected; she’s simply too disliked.
It’s like winning at Texas Hold 'Em and giving the second place person his buy-in back.
If Hillary is the VP candidate, I will NOT vote. I’m not going to vote for McCain over it, but I’m not going to go through the hassle of the absentee ballot to put Hillary in the White House.
Doesn’t matter anyway, because he’s not going to pick her. As long as that holds true, I’ll vote.
As a long time admirer of Hillary, I hope she doesn’t get on the ticket. I don’t believe that she’ll be as effective in achieving her political goals or further develop her credentials as VP, an office on par with FL. I fully expect that Obama will do a better than average job as president, but Bill’s presidency was the best in my lifetime and it didn’t help Gore. VP’s are obligated to support the president regardless of their own opinions, and if Hillary seeks the presidency in 2016, she doesn’t need any undeserved negatives like her “support” of NAFTA which was strictly her support of the president in her role as First Lady.