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Top 10 Reasons Why Hillary Should Not Be VP
No Hillary for VP.
1.) The Republicans are foaming at the mouth for the possibility of Clinton on the ticket to salvage their original attack plan when they thought she would be the candidate to unite Republicans and hand them a sure win.
2.) She represents everything that Barack Obama represents and has campaigned against.
3.) Megalomaniacs Bill and Hillary would hijack his administration.
4.) That RFK assassination comment.
5.) That twisted "Shame on you Barack Obama" attack.
6.) Her vile injection of racism into the campaign.
7.) Michelle hates her, and a happy Michelle means a happy President Obama.
8.) Al Gore and what her 2000 ambitions did to give us 8 years of Bush. (He can't stand her either).
9.) She's a neo-liberal hawk like Joe Lieberman.
10.) Her vote for Iraq puts her more in line with McCain.
11.) Tonight's Non-concession speech.
( I know that's eleven, and I'll bet you have more. I'll be writing my Reps and Senators (hopeless since one is Feinstein to let them know: No Hillary. I'll follow Hillary's advice too and write into her campaign since she wants to know how I feel.)
I'm
sure you have more to add to the list.
Comments (16)
I'm in awe of your intellect... how did you sort through all of that for just 10????
June 4, 2008 2:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Those are about as good as anything I'd come up with your list has my endorsement.
June 4, 2008 2:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
11. Praising McCain as commander-in-chief while snubbing Obama
12. James Carville's attacks on Richardson as Judas
13. Carville's "three cojones" remark and the whole week of surrogates and their demasculination rhetoric about Obama
14. Bill in the White House? Break out the chastity belts!
15. Toll booths for lobbyists at the Lincoln Bedroom
June 4, 2008 2:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think you should change your #1 reason to read, "Because I don't want Hillary and I'm a spiteful, spoiled brat who is used to getting everything I want."
June 4, 2008 2:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think you Otto F uck off.
June 4, 2008 2:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
I chose one of your links at random and clicked on it, this one:
Did you even read it?!!!
It says the Obama campaign says its bullshit:
Why are you posting stuff the Obama campaign says is bullshit?!
It's about a column by Bob Novak! Don't you know who Bob Novak is? Google Bob Novak on talkingpointsmemo.com and find out.
Not going to bother to click on any of your other links. Really, you should read the entire thing before you post a link.
Or are you one of those McCain bloggers?
June 4, 2008 3:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
She's a resident troll.
June 4, 2008 3:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Our own Bobby Novak? How special.
June 4, 2008 3:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
12.) She comes with a guaranteed 18 million votes.
Oh wait. Wrong list.
June 4, 2008 3:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Correction: 2.) She represents everything that Barack Obama has campaigned against.
p.s. Didn't I tell you to run along and blow your gasket already, you weirdo stalker. The only troll around here is you, freak.
And Lamont, you should be well attuned to 'Bullsh*t,' I've read some of your posts. Of course they said it's not true, they needed Hillary's voters back then too (everybody except you didn't know that she was a sure loser
"Michelle Obama has not hidden her dislike for her husband's front-running rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, a frequent and favored guest on the morning show. Mrs. Obama has predicted that black voters, who currently favor Hillary over Obama in the polls, will turn to her husband as the primaries approach."
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/11/michelle_obamas_appearance_on.html
She was furious as was Obama's whole campaign after her awful RFK assassination comment, but they played it off pretty well in public. It's called political savvy. You need to wisen up there sport.
I beg to differ, I am convinced that both of you and those of your ilk are the McCain boosters: you seem to be working awfully hard to fight against the Democratic Party's Presidential nominee and for the Republicans.
I'm betting that you actually did click on the other links-they're right on and great reminders. I can understand why you wouldn't want anybody to see them. Trolls indeed.
June 4, 2008 4:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
She was so furious she had to run out and speak about little children getting shot in the classroom and in school buses. She made me feel so...so... hopeful!!!
June 4, 2008 7:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Does anyone really believe that 18 million people who voted for Hillary won't vote for Obama?
Get real.
Ok, maybe I can see a few hundred thousand staying home or voting for McCain. Not to be rude, but to them I say, "Sayonara, baby." America can't wait around for you; time is too short.
Obama's ongoing 50-state voter registration drive will replace them with new voters who are ready to participate in a resurgent grassroots/Main Street politics. He will continue to promote fresh ideas and new energy into the party by recruiting volunteers to the Obama Fellows program, a grassroots-based leadership development program that is training local volunteers to be community organizers who will lead information/advocacy campaigns to advance future legislation on issues like universal health care, affordable education, the global climate crisis, sustainable energy policy and jobs for a green economy. Obama's vision doesn't just stop at changing the guard at the White House; he wants to change the American political system, starting in the communities where Americans live.
The train's at the station, people, and it won't wait for cynics and footdraggers. As the old saying goes, "if you aren't part of the solution, you'll become part of the problem."
June 4, 2008 10:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not sure he would win with her as the VP candidate. She's sure to help McCain consolidate his base (because there is nothing the ultra conservatives hate more than the Clintons). And, she'll drive away indpendents and Obamicans.
That's in addition to all of the liabilities she'll bring to the White House.
I hope he doesn't pick her.
June 4, 2008 8:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Great list. Obama's is bright enough that I really don't see him choosing a caustic individual as his VP.
June 4, 2008 8:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
you know RFK was shot in June.
who in their right mind wants her one bullet away from being POTUS?
June 4, 2008 8:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe we should start by asking what a president would want in a VP?
VPs don't have much value in delivering constituencies in the general.
VP candidates have to be the presidential candidate's #1 surrogate, booster & promoter on the campaign trail.
Obama is now the head of the Democratic Party. He sets the tone and the agenda for change. The vp has to be 100% on board with that, as well as be able to serve as the president's lead political advocate behind the scenes.
I think the #1 reason why Hillary should not be Obama's VP is because she (her campaign) typifies the old style of Washington politics that Obama has campaigned to change. She is not a team player and I think she would inevitably undermine him (to say nothing of what Bill Clinton would do).
This is who should be Obama's VP:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/243
June 4, 2008 9:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
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