Barack Obama Veepstakes begin...Anyone but Clinton!

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Despite its superficial appeal, this so-called dream ticket could be a nightmare for both: 1)He's trying to be a unifying force. Obama's appeal to independent voters and disgruntled Republicans rests on the promise of a nonpartisan approach. Hillary Clinton is a super-partisan figure. Putting her on the ticket would be like John McCain picking Newt Gingrich as his running mate. 2)All but one reason for selecting a running mate don't apply. Geographic strength (Obama can win New York without her); ideological appeal (she's just slightly more conservative); and compensating skills (both are senators) don't favor her. The role of attack dog, however, is one Clinton, among others, could handle. 3)Race would be back. Clinton's declaring that Obama is weak with "hard-working white Americans" would allow the news media and McCain allies to more legitimately discuss Obama's race and bigoted voting. 4)Working-class voters aren't permanently attached to her. Winning blue-collar and older white voters against a black man is one thing; winning them against a white man (and war hero) is quite another. 5)Bad chemistry. Remember Obama's comment at a debate after she said she liked him? "You're likable enough," he replied with what was called the warmth of a divorced man handing over the alimony check. Clinton has since called him "patronizing" and "elitist" and said she would never have stayed in his pastor's church. All of this can be seen on YouTube, the website that could affect politics in a big way this fall. It's already made Rev. Jeremiah Wright a source of misery for Obama. 6)Her experience argument worked against Obama, but it doesn't work against McCain. She said, "I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002." More YouTube material. 7)Her negatives haven't gone away. In February, polling showed 49 percent of American voters were favorable toward her, 49 percent unfavorable. Today she's 46 percent favorable, 53 percent unfavorable. 8)The baggage. Obama doesn't want to spend 10 seconds discussing Travelgate, Whitewater, the Marc Rich pardon, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Monica, and donors to the Clinton library. But the Clintons don't believe in letting anything slide. 9)What about Bubba? If Bill Clinton couldn't control himself during his wife's campaign, how can he hold his tongue to "help" the man who beat her? 10)They have differences on some fundamental matters, such as change vs. experience, going to war in Iraq, negotiating with America's enemies, and making health insurance coverage mandatory. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/05/22/not_the_ticket_of_dreams/ The Field can now confirm, based on multiple sources...Senator Clinton has directly told Senator Obama that she wants to be his vice presidential nominee, and that Senator Obama politely but straightforwardly and irrevocably said "no." Obama is going to pick his own running mate based on his own criteria and vetting process. And that is all that anybody needs to know to understand the childish and wounded behavior of Senator Clinton yesterday, grandstanding hypocritically to senior citizens in Florida, telling them they should consider themselves under sniper fire in Bosnia, er, Zimbabwe, aggrandizing herself as some kind of civil rights leader (MLK? or LBJ? She didn't say this time) and attempting to corner 30 members of the DNC's Rules & Bylaws Committee that will meet on May 31 to resolve the disputes over whether, and, if so, how, delegates from Michigan and Florida might be seated at the convention in August...Senator Clinton, whose spouse just can't help himself and obviously is not helping her. Through being so indiscreet about his obsession with getting near the levers of state power again that the first major media confirmation of the Clinton vice presidential aspirations involved a report that he's the one who wants it most, he has definitively reinforced that the "nightmare ticket" is deservedly off the table, and created a monstrous distraction that impedes Senator Clinton from consolidating all she has built for herself this year in the short term...For Bill, it is about wrestling back "the Clinton brand" from his spouse. How's that for petty?...now that Bill has pushed himself so unnecessarily into the photo, confirming that he is the most compelling reason why an Obama-Clinton ticket will never happen, and you shall know them also even by those who oppose it but who worry, fret and gnash teeth aloud that somehow it could be forced to happen after this latest development. http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=1248

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