No Clinton VP slot, please. That would contaminate Obama's message and platform. And they could run ads showing Obama's VP candidate calling him elitist, etc.! In whose mind can that possibly be a good idea at this point?

I'm all for going with a Clinton surrogate as a gesture of reconciliation. Bayh. Even better, Clark. But no Clinton, IMO.

Ford is director of the DLC, which in the mid-1980s designed the type of campaign the Clinton camp has run this year.

I agree that his comments you have reported are very significant.

I don't know why anyone would want to run with a candidate of whom over half the voters consider negatively.

Never. She will be a tremendous liability in the general. Kathleen Sibelius would be my choice as well.

And if she thinks she can tank the Dems this year and run in 2012, she ought to think again. I am not alone in being willing to vote for Ralph Wiggum over her then, if it comes to that.

Choosing Sibelius might be seen as pandering even if she is qualified. I still think Obama needs National Security protection with his VP choice. I still really like Jim Webb.

Some believe all this talk of taking it to the convention and the nuclear option is trying to leverage for the VP spot. I just think she made a mistake with her attacks and has made it impossible to have a joint ticket.

Besides I don't think she'd accept her spot as working under Obama, and really selling him to the electorate - especially after she has praised John McCain over Obama at times. That is a GOP ad asking to be made - Even Barack Obama's VP thinks he isn't qualified, isn't ready to be CIC. What is Clinton going to say? Well I'm ready and I'm his VP? That's not how that spot works.

An Obama/Clinton ticket: never. And certainly not the opposite.

Pelosi's right - there will be a fabulous Democratic ticket, but it won't be one of the above.

Obama and anyone HE chooses for VP satifies me.

Hillary stands for everything that Obama does not.

Hillary in the VP slot would be ludicrous.

Thanks for the suggestion, Ford, but no thanks. Hillary can go back to New York now and bless us with not having to hear her voice again for a good long while.

I think Bill Richardson would be a good choice for VP. The guy is really smart, has unparalleled foreign affairs credentials, and would appeal to Hispanic voters, whom are moving heavily this year toward the democrats.

Ford has just thrown all shame to the wind at this point. He's back on again plugging for Hillary as VP (despite the fact that this isn't what he was asked about). DLC influence in the party in trouble, Harold?

I saw that and said, "Who give a flaming flapjack (my kids were there) what Harold Funkytown (the kids would not leave) Ford has to say? My compost heap is more productive that than tool!"

It seems to me that Barack Obama is not an easy man to push around. Neither the DLC nor the DNC will be telling him who his VP is. He's not going to name someone who has already shown she'll do whatever it takes to bring him down so she can become President. I can't see many Democratic politicians expecting him to do that. Remember what Nancy Pelosi said?

Put me in the camp of people snorting at the idea of Republican ads showing Obama's VP candidate calling him an elitist who's out of touch with the American people. And endorsing McCain.

Clinton just said, "I will work for the nominee of the Democratic Party." (Sounds like she might be expecting to lose Indiana after all.)

Glad she'll work for him. Just not as his running mate.