Letters to the Editor
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Obama/Bloomberg? Hmmmm. I LIKE it!
For those of you upset by the fact that Bloomberg is a Republican, remeber he's a NYC Republican, which pretty much makes him a Democrat to the rest of the country. Fiscally conservative and socially liberal, Bloomberg's got some real potential.
While he may not have been my first pick (personally, I would love an Obama/Edwards or Obama/Richardson ticket), I think I'd be very happy with Bloomberg on an Obama ticket, and I think it has potential to be one of the truly great administrations.
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If He's a Superdelegate, Fine
Otherwise, it doesn't mean much, other than further evidence that those closest to Hillary like her least and don't want her anywhere near the phone.
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Faithless?
Interesting word choice.
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Hillary has already endorsed McCain
as more qualified than Obama. She has no one to blame but herself if she does not get the nomination, then finds herself excluded from the ticket. Who in their right mind would take on a subordinate who spent the last year telling them "you suck, I'm more qualified for your job than you are"? By taking Hillary on the ticket Obama could expect nothing but 4 years of a VP who, with Bill's help, would probably be trying to create her own shadow government.
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Wes Clark...
...would be a good choice, and being a Clinton guy he could salve some of the discord. Obama has to pick someone with alot of foreign policy and/or military experience.
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@AncientAssyrian
Hey, be fair to Alex...he covered the Bosnia thing.
Granted, it was in a post where the headline was about Rev. Wright, but he just did that to slip it by Joan.
Seriously, Alex, just blink out some Morse code in your next Current video, I have a team in place to extract you if you're being held against your will.
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Bloomberg
I could see Bloomberg in Obama's administration somewhere, but not as VP, and not anything that has to do with Middle East policy. As for Hillary Clinton, I don't think she wants to be Obama's VP anymore than he wants to be hers. If she can drop out of this race with her self-respect in tact (and the time is running out) I am sure there are some important things she can accomplish in the next 4 years.
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@sonofloud
You're kidding, right, with that list of Obama friends?
Do the names "Norman Hsu" or "Peter Paul" ring a bell?
The New Republic ran an article headlined "With friends like these," which detailed the list of Hillary donors who have been indicted, or convicted, or linked to shady characters. The list is a doozy.
Oh, and as for Rezko, Obama recently sat down with the staff of the Chicago Tribune, and agreed to answer any and all questions about his ties to Rezko.
When the interview was over, the Tribune -- a conservative-leaning paper -- ran a glowing editorial about Obama's openness.
When is Hillary going to sit down and allow someone other than Greta van Susteren or Richard Mellon Scaife to grill her about her ties to shady donors?
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The People Who Want Hillary To Drop Out
Are a distinct minority.
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A really really really BAD idea
If (us Clintonians have to keep our hopes up) Obama gets the nomonation, he is going to have a Democratic party to bring together. The way to do that is with a VP that everyone will like. On the other hand, how about this kewel bumper sticker:
MoveOn for Bloomberg!
...and maybe Kos can get a weekly column on Bloomberg, eh?
...and who wouldn't like to see Olbermann with a Bloomberg lapel pin, I ask you?
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What Happened To Will Of The People?
When it comes to Hillary dropping out?
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Obama-Bloomberg not likely
But an endorsement soon from Mayor Bloomberg would do a great deal to help wrap up the nomination for Senator Obama. This seems a reasonable scenario to expect in the next few weeks.
As others have written here, Obama will most likely pick as a VP candidate an older white man with strong foreign policy and/or military credentials. Picking a Southerner or Westerner would also make electoral college sense to me. In terms of temperment, I think that the Obama cool, intellectual approach needs to be balanced by a little bit of wild man/attack dog in the VP candidate.
So I put forward Senator Jim Webb of Virginia as a plausible candidate for second place on the Obama ticket.
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hey suze
ask anyone on the street who Norman Hsu and Peter Paul are, no one will know or care.
the rezko trial hasn't even started yet and just wait until the right wing gets ahold of that.
the media bias for obama won't help him then because he won't have bill clinton to attack.
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What New York-centric speculation!
Hillary Clinton is still polling badly anywhere west of the Mississippi. Please don't wait until Oregon's May primary to be reminded of this. Check the SurveyUSA matchup that shows Obama trailing McCain by only a point in Texas.
Obama will benefit from someone like Kansas governor Kathleen Sibelius, far more than another urban face. Yes, Bloomberg as VP might help Obama win Jewish votes, but where he needs those votes most is in Florida, and the Cuban community there is already dooming a Florida win for him.
Sibelius clearly demonstrates that there are other women with distinguished presidential-quality leadership. It really astonishes me that a very conservative force of old feminists (yes, I'm their age) thinks Hillary Clinton is the only woman who will ever make the White House.
A couple of kitchen sinks that Obama has yet to throw involve Hillary Clinton's arch-conservative prayer group at The Family, and her law firm's quite un-feminist and autonomic legal defense of Bill against numerous charges by young Arkansas women. Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem, what the hell are you thinking??!!
As so many boomer women I know say, "Yes, we need a woman in the White House, but not this one!"
I've been voting for women all my life, from governor and senator (and Mondale-Ferraro) to food co-op board member, and often almost nonchalantly because they were women. I can't do that with Hillary Clinton. God, anyone would always remember dodging sniper fire, to say nothing of how incompetent the Secret Service was to allow that to happen. Face it: Clinton is the same kind of liar her husband is, and Democrats don't need her running the country or the party.