Letters to the Editor
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that didn't work too well
The calculations spat out... Webb. And I don't believe Webb would be a good running mate for Clinton, for the admittedly unscientific reason that he looks like a total dildo. No one wants to elect Hillary plus a guy who looks like a dildo.
Right now Wesley Clark is leading. That might work a little better. Clark would lend her some gravitas.
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Umm. .. Obama?
Since it's now being broached that he might HAVE to take her, help me out, but even in this zombie world I sort of just assumed it was a fact she would pretty much HAVE to take Obama.
Unlike others I still think there's a decent chance she's working on or worked out some scheme to try and steal this nomination. And I still think there's a chance it works. Small but I wouldn't go as low as others say 20%.
But given that John Kerry got 84% of the black vote and lost the presidency, and African-Americans are currently FURIOUS at her, does she even really have a choice BUT to take Obama? If you're a Democrat, any Democrat, you have to get at least 90% of that vote to win. If you don't believe me ask Bill Clinton, he got 90 both times and barely eeked out a victory both times. Honestly, just didn't know it was still a question.
Add in his fundraising and most importantly the tens of millions of young new voters he brings and I just kind of thought she HAD to take Obama. Heck she and Bill admitted that 3 months ago when they hinted at the Dream Ticket.
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Clinton-Obama = winning ticket
This would be the greatest ticket. Unbeatable and they both get to win. She can answer the phone at 3 am and sit down to work in the Oval Office to clean up the 8-years' mess. Meanwhile he works out his plans for change that will take place when he's elected, unanimously, 4 years from now.
If he truly wants to make changes, this scenario is obvious. He can start putting his dreams into practice while getting the experience to be a super-candidate in 2012.
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Joan, the dream is dead
Stop entertaining the notion Clinton can somehow win. Then, we'll know who you really support: John McCain
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Why are we even pretending this could happen anymore?
Seriously. She's done.
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Clinton-Ahmadinijad
I could envision some real atomic sparks between these two, and they both share practically the same identical personality type!
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About the only way Clinton can win
now that she has deliberately pissed off her educated and African American bases, is if she goes with... not running in the general.
She needs to mend a lot of bridges before she can even begin to run properly in the general and she frankly, doesn't have enough time.
Post the general the reputational effect of her words during this election will keep her out in 2012.
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The thing with feathers....
Yea, it seems like a horrible long shot, this notion that the Democratic party will wake up one day from this long fantastic dream and start reading the exit polling data. Seeing that Barney Lunchbucket Bungelow Democrats do not vote for African American candidates for president, and never will, they put down their lattes, and it dawns on them that America has a vicious and horrific race problem that manifests itself to McCain's overwhelming benefit in the electoral college. Suddenly, they see the oportunity to regain the White House and her name is: Hillary. And we sail to a hard-fought victory.
Nope. Let's put up a black Chicago pol with nefarious ties whose voting record is straight out of Richard Daley's playbook and in a racially divided country and let McCain win. Dukakis '08 - er, I mean, McGovern '08, er....Obama '08 -I knew it was one of those candidates from the liberal wing of the party.....
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Those are Democrats?
They look like Republicans.
Sometimes I'll enjoy a moment of clarity and scare myself after realizing how far to the right the US has drifted. Retreating to the trailing edge of history.
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Beat the Odds?
Clinton's odds are somewhere down around lightning strike territory. Really Joan, why is Clinton included?
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Joseph
Lieberman
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Jesus Christ!
If Hillary Clinton should get the Democratic nomination, her running mate should be Jesus Christ himself because, after shattering the Democratic party into a thousand pieces by nominating Hillary, the Dems will need divine intervention to win the election.
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Moot Issue
For fun's sake -- since a ticket headed by Clinton looks as likely as a balanced budget, a housing price recovery, or an end to the Iraq war -- the dream ticket would be Clinton-Obama. It could and probably would win. A ticket headed by Obama, no matter who is second, will have a much harder time and probably won't make it.
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BILLARY Clinton is D-O-N-E.
No veep candidates, period. Give it up, people.
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WELL, AREN'T YOU SPECIAL?
"Take the following quiz and decide which of 15 prominent Americans is best suited to make coffee for Bill -- I mean serve as Hillary's vice president."
You know, it's crap like this that has all but guaranteed that no woman will ever be President in this country. Thank you, Clown Ass, for your thoughtful commentary.
Cordially,
Another Democrat Who Will Not Be Voting for Obama In November
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Cmon you're not trying
Hillary's running mate has to be Satan. On crack, raping a puppy.
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How about....
Bill Clinton? Then she might actually win the GE.
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Let's get realistic about this.
I think Hillary Clinton needs to call the Ultimate Superdelegate.
Santa Claus.
At least he exists in the same world in which she could possibly win.
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Please for the Good of America Stop pretending Hillary Can win
Hillary Clinton is an amazing politician and she would probably have been a good president. However, numerically she has now lost the nomination. It is impossible for her to get the requisite number of pledged delegates, EVEN if she seats Florida and Michigan. She can invent whatever other metrics she likes, but them's the rules.
Hillary must know that the race is over, as probably most better informed Salon readers do as well. Despite the fact that she has not yet withdrawn, she is no longer running for president. Hillary is merely trying to get some leverage so as to demand political concessions from Obama later.
So please Salon, stop tugging at our heartstrings with articles like this.
The game is over for Hillary.
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Remember Harry Truman?
In 1948, the Chicago Tribune headlines blared "Dewey Defeats Truman"!!!
Oh yeah??
As Yogi said, "It ain't over 'til it's over"
Bill Clinton waited until mid-June before he knew he would be the nominee...and there's a few more states to vote before then.