Oh please. Hillary’s done. And if Obama doesn’t hand her the VP slot she’s doubly done. No one is going to want to go through this with her again in 2012. She’s shown her colors. She’s in it for herself and some misplaced feeling of entitlement. Good riddance.
I wonder how many of you folks who are so sure Obama won’t win the presidency will come back here in November and admit you were wrong.
Your argument is the same as Hillary’s — lacking imagination and living in the past. Obama’s plan (and one reason he has been so attractive to superdelegates) is to change the traditional map so that Democrats can win, specifically Colorado, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Those total 66 electoral votes. The future is not in the Rust Belt, where population is leaching away. It’s in the South, with independents, entrepreneurs, and professionals.
Offer Hillary? And here I thought appeasement was frowned upon?
I think the best Hillary can hope for, at this point, is regaining her respect and clout in the Senate. It will be up to her to do that too, by campaigning vigorously for the Democrats and Obama.
Backward thinking get’s people one way and one way only…backwards. There are more registered democrats right now in all 50 states who are ABSOLUTLEY not going to vote for a republican administration, than there are republicans to get McCain in. Guess what - McCain tried this once before and lost…it’s going to happen again.
Clinton says she’s open to taking the VP spot.
Really did not see that coming. Why would she want it?!
So you’re going to concede MI, OH, PA, NJ, WI, MN (total 93 electoral votes) and labor /working people to McCain.
Brilliant. I can see the second coming of Reagan Democrats.
That’s a pretty weird comment. The post you’re defending was worried about red states. Democrats have won MI, MN, WI, PA, and NJ in the last four presidential elections. Those are blue states. Democrats won OH twice.
Other than hardcore racists, I don’t think we’re going to see very many McCain Democrats this year; and there will be a lot of Obama Republicans.
Yup. Just ask Trent Lott and Bill Frist about what a difference a friend in the Oval Office can make.
The thing about Press Secretary is that they have to lie and dissemble. She’d be very good at that, but then she’d just continue and start making up shit – like the time she gave a briefing on the East Lawn under sniper fire.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, if God forbid he offers her VP (and loses some of my respect), he should offer Bill, not Ambassador to the UN, but create a position of Ambassodor to the World – someone to actively go around the world helping to rebuild the United States’ reputation. Definitely keep him traveling outside the country for eight years to minimize his meddling and grandstanding in D.C. (Bill could get all the side action he wants.)
Otherwise, Obama owes Hillary nothing, in cluding paying off the self-imposed debt of her in-the-red campaign.
You don’t get to be POTUS by making enemies of your former allies. Election to high office is the politics of additon, not subtraction. She’s going to spend the next four years mending fences with those former allies and hoping that they will support her the next time around. If she spent her time alienating the lot, she’d very quickly find herself marginalized and discarded by the political machine.
…I feel this bears repeating.
Not even a reacharound?
He should drop out of the race and offer to support her.
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Ah, but it’s an evil grin. And I’m palming this. 
To rephrase the OP, do you think it would be in Obama’s interest to offer her a position in exchange for her campaigning for him? She does have a lot of supporters she could possibly sway to his side.
Depends on the position. VP? No way. That would be making a bargain with the devil. I would reconsider my support for Obama if he offered her the VP slot.
A big kick in the ass.
