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• Wednesday, August 27, 2008 02:34 PM

  Hey PUMA .. On Obama's choice of VP

  For those of you who are still unhappy, angry, bitter over Hillary not being chosen to run for VP, I have some questions.

  Knowing that you agree in principle with someone, but that you don't enjoy their company, would you start a business with them? Knowing they are going to stand at your side and that you want to be able to sit for long hours with them, working through plans and thoughts that you hope to bring to fruition, would you choose someone who is more forceful, adamant, and tense than you are comfortable with? If you knew that this was a marriage you would have to live with for four to eight years, would YOU choose someone whose personality simply doesn't mesh with yours?

  I absolutely do not believe Clinton would choose Obama to be her running mate, and it makes complete sense that he should not. To not choose her, does NOT equate to his not seeing her importance for our country. And frankly, I can't imagine Hillary wishing to be his VP. But I'm betting she'll have a very strong roll in helping us to clean up the mess Bush has created for us.

  I love Hillary. But you are doing her a great disservice to wish her into a roll that would surely chafe. The lady isn't into sitting back and letting others move the world for her. Let it go. I believe in her too, and don't want her as VP because I don't want her to be second in command and don't want her to bite her tongue or have to write any more speeches that we didn't want to have her need to write.

  It's Obama's time, in part because his touch feels healing. Clinton's still reminds too many of open wounds.

  —SilverGuardian Read SilverGuardian's other letters
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