Senator Kennedy knows he is too old. Senator McCain, are you listening?

"Well, the first is always a demand that you're going to have someone that's going to be able to assume the responsibility". Did he really say that Clinton would not be able to assume the responsibility of being President? If he did, and he doesn't either clarify or simply back down, I'm leaving the Democratic Party, because I will not in any way support a party that will tolerate that kind of misogynist attitude. Clinton has more experience than Obama. Period. If he's qualified, then she's qualified. Period.

Hillary has no military experience, she lives in the northeast, has the highest negatives of any candidate, doesn't appeal to independents, and she'd rally Republicans to the polls like nobody else. Why would Obama even consider adding her to the ticket? The only people Obama can't carry himself that Hillary would bring to the polls are Republicans.

Terrible idea.

Jim Webb is your ideal VP, a moderate Dem from Virginia who has more and more relevant military experience even than John McCain. He would be terrific.

Jon Stewart had it right the other night while interviewing John McCain. The obvious dream ticket at this moment of history where change is so crucial is NOT Obama-Clinton but McCain-Clinton! Finally, the American people have a way out of the nonsensical gridlock of politics. This way John can serve for four years and Hilary can serve for eight and we all can turn off the cable news channels, once and for all!

No need to leave the Democratic Party. I don't think Kennedy meant to suggest that Clinton is unqualified (although, as edited, it may read that way). Looked like he responded "No" to the possibility of an Obama/Clinton ticket. Then in response to the follow-up question of what qualities Obama should consider he included "qualified to be President". I don't think he was arguing that Clinton didn't have any of the listed qualifications - just that they were things that Obama should bear in mind. Hope that helps, because the Dems will need you in November.

Because there's no way a rational person could read that story and take from it that Ted Kennedy said Hillary Clinton isn't Obama's choice for VP because she isn't qualified. While it's true that the story is incomplete without supplying the reason that Kennedy dismissed Clinton as a running mate, you are making a leap to draw that information out of the criteria Kennedy cites for selecting a running mate. Kennedy was listing the things you look for in a VP. He did not supply a list of things that disqualified a person from being a VP. It is quite possible -- probable even -- that Clinton makes the list of "things we're looking for in a VP" but is disqualified for other reasons. I could think of about a dozen of those offhand, starting with the possibility that Kennedy might believe that Clinton has no interest in the job.

Again, I apologize if you were being ironic. I don't follow this forum enough to know which posters are irrational, jump to a strange conclusion type, and which are not.

earlier post...

Please tell me this is a misquote

"Well, the first is always a demand that you're going to have someone that's going to be able to assume the responsibility". Did he really say that Clinton would not be able to assume the responsibility of being President? If he did, and he doesn't either clarify or simply back down, I'm leaving the Democratic Party, because I will not in any way support a party that will tolerate that kind of misogynist attitude. Clinton has more experience than Obama. Period. If he's qualified, then she's qualified. Period.

-- jebldmm

To quote from one of your other posts "McCain is a brilliant man with a well-deserved, if overstated, reputation for being a moderate. He is not as moderate as I would like, but he isn't a neocon either. He is certainly capable of dealing with a crisis. Wheter or not he would deal with it in a way I approve is the real question." We don't need you on our side

``I don't think it's possible,'' Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy said in an interview on Bloomberg Television's ``Political Capital With Al Hunt,'' airing this weekend.

Kennedy, 76, without naming names, said Obama should pick someone who ``is in tune with his appeal for the nobler aspirations of the American people.''

To the poster who thought Kennedy was saying Clinton wasn't qualified, this is what he said. It's her character, not her experience, that is at issue.

When she says truck like"Senator Obama's support among hard-working white Americans is weakening again," she doesn't deserve the offer. Sorry.

...and '12!

that is all.

either is head and shoulders above Clinton.

Translation: "I'm too embarrased to admit that my endorsement is so useless that Obama may need Clinton to carry my home state Massachusetts, the bluest state in the country"

Both would make great VP candidates.

Webb: ex-military. tough. eloquent. charismatic. southern. could pick up those "hard-working" white votes. lol

Richardson: different strategy, but still viable. forget those "hard-working" white votes and instead try to make greater inroads into the Latin community, which Clinton won, and with whom McCain should actually do pretty well. lots of foreign policy experience.

I like both suggestions.

"Please tell me this is a misquote: 'Well, the first is always a demand that you're going to have someone that's going to be able to assume the responsibility'. Did he really say that Clinton would not be able to assume the responsibility of being President?"

That's reading a lot into Alex's article. There's no reason to think that Kennedy was saying that about Clinton. I think it was just standard boilerplate language, or a CYA alternative to saying "uh..." while he tried to think of an answer.

And it's great that you "will not in any way support a party that will tolerate that kind of misogynist attitude" but if you're willing to quit the party because of that perceived slight, how can you be so supportive of someone who says:

"Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

In all seriousness, don't you understand how such a statement can be perceived ?