I think the spot I’d most want Hillary in is the Senate Majority Leader. She’d be good at that and she would be in perfect position to shepherd UHC through congress.
I’d also offer her a great amount of input on that legislation, perhaps even conceding to her own vision. It’s been her pet project and her greatest legislative ambition for years. I’d do what I could to get her that legacy and that credit.
I might even throw in a lousy copy of the home game. 
There are some really bitter, spiteful responses in this thread. Obama will be put on the spot with this question from The Liberal Media, so he has to have an answer ready. And that answer ought not to alienate Clinton fans lest he have even more trouble in the swing states than he already appears to have now.
“ABSOLUTLEY not going to vote for a republican” ≠ voting for a democrat.
Obama probably wins through a fortunate combination of charisma and McCain being a poor opponent. If McCain were a slightly stronger candidate or Obama not quite as appealing, I don’t think he’d have a chance.
None of those states are a guarantee.
Kerry didn’t win Ohio in 2004. Gore didn’t win it 2000.
And Obama won’t either if he treats the people of that state as if they were “leaching away.”
Did you watch is speech tonight? He won’t.
That was vulgar, inappropriate, and wrong.
I’m laughing my ass off.
I agree.
Offer to pay off her debts, and then show her the door.
Man, Hillary showed how low she really is tonight.
Hillary has nothing.
She offers nothing to help him win the nomination, so her part of this process is over now. She can try to play the spoiler if she likes, but it will never work.
Nothing whatsoever, is what he should offer her. He was way too kind in his remarks about her tonight.
Its about John McCain now. If I have to eat some shit to keep him from being CnC…here’s my spoon, here’s my grin…
He may lose some Hillary die-hards by not explicitly offering her anything and in particular snubbing her request for a VP offer. But he will win the votes of many more who need to see that he has a spine. In short, if he proves that will blink against Hillary’s implied threat to bring the party down with her if she isn’t on the ticket, then he proves to many that he will blink against the other petty dictators of the world. Stand up to her petty demands and you show that you deserve respect.
No pandering and that includes to the Hillary die-hards.
As I said in the other thread, I think she has now thrown away her last chance to get anything out of this campaign.
I rescind* the suggestion I posted above that Obama might pay off her debts.
She deserves nothing more than directions to the door.
He’s been gracious and conciliatory and she’s been rude and arrogant. What should he offer her? The same courtesy he always has, as he shows her to the door. And shuts it. And locks it. And melts the key into a blob and drops it into the Potomac.
What a piece of work she is. If I was an American and if he makes her his choice for VP, I’d move to Canada.
In exchange for Hillary’s full and immediate concession and serious campaigning for the Democratic ticket in November, which Hillary would not be on, I could see Obama offering to assist in retiring her debt (not outright paying it off, but assisting her with some kind of fund raising), and an offer that he would not see to it that she had a challenger in the next New York primary for her senate seat (the implication being that, while he won’t prevent one from appearing, he would see to it as de facto head of the party that there was one next time around if she refused the deal).
I don’t have a problem with him paying off her debt in toto. I think it would be a worthwhile investment. I also think he should promise to make UHC a centerpiece of his administration, with her taking the legislative lead, and he should offer her a big, fat prime time speaking spot at the convention.
A one way ticket to Mars.
Nevermind what a nightmare it would be to have her as vice president; can you imagine what a nightmare it would be to have Bill Clinton as the husband of the vice president? Every week he’d be making headlines with one ridiculous comment after another, the two of them would be unmanagable and impossible to keep on message.
The Clintons in campaign mode are completely different people than the Clintons in non-campaign mode. I’m not afraid of Hillary as vice president.
She has apparently decided to be in campaign mode permanently.