I agree. In addition to worry about his safety (I'm only half
kidding). I think she and Bill wound work agressively to make him
politically impotent. They would triangulate and contradict his
efforts.
I think both are used to being in charge and struggle to "play nice
politically" and to working in the interests of all as evidenced by
loss of democrats at the federal, state and local level; her
reluctance to campaign for congressional dems, her reluctance to
contribute to to the campaigns of congressionals dems, her ease in
threatening those who do not do what she wants, her ease in taking
credit for the work of others; intentionally undermining Kerry last
year; siphoning fundraising money from congressional dems running for
re-elections and well as doing the same to Kerry and Gore for her
senate campaign. Her opponent had $4 million dollars and yet she
needed $140 million to run against him.
She is not a team player except for when she is leading the team
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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
> chicagotribune.com
>
> 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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