--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > It seems that many in the Hillary camp are not willing to > accept her defeat [including herself] - even though it's > clearly obvious. It's like they're in an alternate world.
"Clinton told her advisers that one reason she was committed to staying in was out of loyalty to [her] supporters, and her belief that they could be rallied to Obama more easily if she was allowed to finish the campaign on her own terms." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060404312.html tinyurl.com/4f9baj > Also, the statements that Hillary wants to 'negotiate' for > VP are totally inappropriate in my view. Obama won the > nomination. He holds all the cards and the earned right to > make a choice for VP. To suggest otherwise as if HC has > some kind of entitlement to the position, or that Obama > 'need's' her as a running-mate to win, is insulting. It's > *totally* Obama's call. From all I've seen I personally > don't think he'll want Hillary on the ticket. Ultimately, of course, it's his call. But no, he certainly doesn't hold all the cards. More than 18 million people voted for her, half of the Democratic primary voters, and that gives her a very nice hand in this round of play. The idea that Obama doesn't have to take her supporters into consideration is unbelievably foolish, not to mention arrogant. There's no way he can possibly win without them. Whether the way to get them is for him to run with her as VP is another question entirely. In my view, he should offer it to her as a gesture of respect, and she should turn it down. (Interestingly, in the most recent polling, a majority of Democrats think she should run as his VP.) She'll do, however, whatever she thinks is best for the party.
