For me, the two biggest reasons I've said for a year now that she shouldn't be
on the ticket are her husband, and her own ambition. As listed below, Bill
can't keep his thoughts to himself. I can't even imagine what it'd be like to
have him: angry at Hillary being only the veep, disparaging of Obama's "lack
of experience", full of himself and the advice he'd have to give as a two-term
Prez, ticked when Obama would (inevitably) not seek out, and actively ignore,
said advice, and frankly, jealous of the spotlight Obama would have.
The second reason? Hillary's ambition. This lady wants to be Prez, and
everything from her veiled racist strategy ("I get hard-working, white voters")
to the other dirty tricks show she'd work behind the scenes to undermine Obama.
I think-and I believe Obama thinks--that she'd be plotting against him all the
time she's grinning in his face.
She's in her 60's now, think she wants to wait *eight* years and try again? No
way in hell. And trying to be a VP who then steps out and challenges your Prez
in the next election, how damaging would that be? Has that ever been done, a VP
challenging his sitting Prez for the nomination? Talk about a mess. I can't see
Obama wanting to deal with that potential hazard.
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From: "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-change_dems_bd18may18,0,7163200.story
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Top reasons Clinton should not get on dream ticket
Tribune staff report
May 18, 2008
The Democratic primary battle may not technically be over, but I'm
ready to move on to the next phase of windy speculation and gratuitous
strategery.
So here are eight reasons Barack Obama should not offer Hillary
Clinton the No. 2 spot on the Democratic ticket:
1. She's a familiar Washington insider and a major premise of his
candidacy has been changing the ways of Washington.
2. She's pandered brazenly and attacked personally on the campaign
trail, showing herself to be the embodiment of "the old way of doing
politics" Obama has disparaged.
3. Her husband, the former president, has shown an inability to stay
on message and keep his foot out of his mouth.
4. She's polarizing. Clinton's unfavorable ratings are from 7 to 16
points higher than Obama's in recent national polls.
5. She'll star in Republican attack ads against Obama: The "I believe
that I've met the qualifications to be commander-in-chief" ad will
show her saying, "Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you'll have
to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy."
6. She crossed the line when she repeated this thought several times
to reporters in early March: "I have a lifetime of experience that I
will bring to the White House. Sen. John McCain has a lifetime of
experience that he'd bring to the White House.
And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002."
7. She's toting unpacked baggage. Obama's high-road approach has kept
him from doing what Republican operatives are itching to do: Dig up
the half-buried Clinton family scandals of the 1990s and turn over
every rock from the last eight years looking for more.
8. Politically, a teammate is better than a counterweight. Bill
Clinton himself demonstrated this when he picked another young
moderate Democrat from the mid-South Al Gore of Tennessee and the
two ran a vigorous, consistent campaign.
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