CAMPAIGN WIRE: Obama Says He Won’t Be Clinton’s VP
(6:40 p.m. ET)
Responding to speculation about a joint ticket, Barack Obama says he will not play second fiddle to Hillary Clinton.
Obama told KTVQ in Billings, Mont., Friday: “You won’t see me as a vice presidential candidate.”
“I’m running for president,” he told the television station. “We have won twice as many states as Senator Clinton, and have a higher popular vote, and I think we can maintain our delegate count — but you know, what I’m really focused on right now, because all that stuff is premature, is winning this nomination and changing the country.”
Clinton herself has kept talk of a joint ticket alive, saying it’s a possibility.
Bill Clinton on Saturday (see below) even said the two Democrats would be an “unstoppable force” if they teamed up.
Actress in Clinton 3 a.m. Ad Is Obama Backer
(3:18 p.m. ET)
One of the sleeping children pictured in Hillary Clinton’s controversial “3 a.m.” ad has come out as a Barack Obama supporter.
Washington state resident Casey Knowles, 17, told KING5.com in Seattle that the Clinton ad used stock footage of her from eight years ago when she worked as a TV extra. And her family was shocked when they saw the ad for the first time Thursday.
“It’s really sort of ironic that my image would be used to advocate for Hillary when I myself do not,” Knowles told KING5.com.
Knowles said she is an Obama supporter who’s campaigned for him and even attended one of his rallies.
The Clinton ad showed several images of sleeping children, and then asked viewers who they wanted “answering the phone” in a crisis. The ad was widely credited with boosting her performance in the Texas primary.
The family does not own the footage, but Knowles said jokingly that she hopes Obama will get together with her to make a counter ad.
Click here to read the full story at KING5.com
Bill Clinton Says Joint Ticket is ‘Unstoppable Force’
(12:44 p.m. ET)
Bill Clinton said Saturday in Mississippi that a joint ticket between his wife and Barack Obama would be an “unstoppable force.”
The former president is the latest Hillary Clinton backer to stoke speculation about the two rivals joining forces once the dust settles on their heated primary race.
“I know that she has always been open to it, because she believes that if you can unite the energy and the new people that he’s brought in and the people in these vast swaths of small-town and rural America that she’s carried overwhelmingly — if you had those two things together, she thinks it’d be hard to beat,” Clinton said at a town hall meeting in Pass Christian, Miss.
“But you look at most of these places — he would win the urban areas and the upscale voters, and she wins the traditional rural areas that we lost when President Reagan was president. If you put those two things together, you’d have an almost unstoppable force,” Clinton explained.
Hillary Clinton again raised the idea of a joint ticket Friday in Mississippi, saying “that might be possible some day.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Clinton supporter, also says he’d support a Clinton-Obama ticket.
Obama has not ruled out the joint ticket idea, but says it’s premature to talk about those hypothetical scenarios.
– FOX News’ Shushannah Walshe contributed to this report.
I would vote straight ticket Republican if Billary is anywhere on the ticket. After what they have said about Obama it would be a travesty! I can’t vote for her or any Clinton after Rwanda.
If Obama wins he does not need the Clintons. The fairy tale book closes. And if they steal a win
OH NO! Bill will be ALL the cabinet member she needs. Some people are voting on that two for one ticket!
IF THEY STEAL THIS ELECTION WE WILL CHANGE MICHELLE’S MIND AND HE WILL BE BACK AS OUR PRESIDENT.
Hillary, is very smart, I personally would rather see her win without him. But if she cannot win without him then they join as long as she is the one on top “Clinton-Obama”…..Which would be smart on his behave because if he was vice president then in eight years (two terms of HRC) no one could say he was unexperenct then and he would be a sure win….but he would have to wait till 2017….(Barack would only be 55).
Thanks for the early warning from Texas and Ohio; they have arrived but we won’t let them stay long. Two peas same pod, no Hat no Cattle; they’r a’commin down to Mississippi next, we hear. Lock up your children and the aged. Nail everything down inna groun’
Both a’wanna bring ‘em troops home from them fighton Arabs, an we gather, yessum, them Bin Laden Fellows, El Caida’s an hem Taliban’s an ‘hem Gadaffi will be commin right behind our troops, to take over here. We will fight them our way on our soil, but you folks down there beware, hey.
An a’then you keep ‘em woman with ‘hem fake smile, an the young Messiah, you keep ‘em there for good. We don’t want them.
That is an interesting point. It would make the race much more difficult for McCain. It’s better for Republicans with the Hillary Democrats and Obama Democrats split. But if they are united, under one ticket….how do you even attack that? Blast Hillary for being an insider? But McCain is too. Blast Obama for being young and inexperienced? But Hillary has expereince.
I’d be more concerned about Obama’s safety if he gets a Clinton as VP.
well, it would be interesting.
My main problem is that I am from Michigan and Sen Obama feels that my vote is worthless. What people do not seem to understand and the media refuses to explain is the the Democratic National Commitee (DNC) did not tell or pressure the candidates to remove their names from the Michigan ballot - they CHOSE to. Barack Obama made a conscious CHOICE to remove is name from the ballot by signing an affidavit. He turned his back on the voters of Michigan. Men and women, young and old, blacks, whites, hispanics, etc. Those very voters that he vowed to protect by comparing himself to Martin Luther King.
Another thing the media will not tell you is that Hillary Clinton CHOSE to leave her name on the ballot. She CHOSE to support the voters. From the first day it was announced that we would loose our delegates she has said that it was wrong. The media will tell you that she only just complained about the delegates because she needs them. That is not true.
Another thing the media tells us is that the caniddates agreed that the delegates would not count. That is not true either. They agreed not to campaign. The DNC has violated their own bylaws by punishing the voters and making their votes worthless. They have violated their own bylaws by refusing to seat the delegates. Read the bylaws at democrats.org - the DNC website. See if you can find anything anywhere that supports or authorizes the DNC throwing out votes and refusing to seat delegates as punishment for anything.
For this reason alone I cannot support Obama as my president. I cannot imagine a president who would not stand up to the DNC and tell then that every American vote had to count - no matter what. Especially when that candidate claims to be so like Martin Luther King.
I wish the media would tell the whole story the way it really is and stop playing games with it. The simple facts are that Obama turned his back on the voters of Michigan by CHOOSING to take his name off the ballot. Clinton supported the voters of Michigan by CHOOSING to keep her name on the ballot and the DNC has violated their own bylaws which do not provide for punishing voters with their votes or delegates.
The DNC needs to admit that they have violated their own bylaws and agenda and correct their mistake. The only just and correct solution is to seat the delegates and count the votes. Anything else is voter suppression.
What has happened to all the comments? Are you just leading us on? I have written several comments and yet nothing shows up……………by me or anyone else.
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Bill Clinton will say anything everything to get the power. Of course, they’d be happy to get a VP ticket for Hillary so that he can stir her into the power and cut Obama to chops.
Bill Clinton wants Obama’s votes so that the people will side with Hillary.
The Clintons will say anything to get a win…anything!