CAMPAIGN WIRE: Obama Says He Won’t Be Clinton’s VP
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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
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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’
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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.
Perhaps, this something of a concession on the Clinton’s part; it really is hard to see, with her lack of ethics and no integrity at all, what she brings to Obama, if he were her VP. Why would he dirty his hands with her? He’d most likely scare off a good number of his future supporters in a presidential run if he ran with her as he would be going against his word earlier in the primary.
She’s tainted goods. She probably won’t be able to win against McCain in the primary, though Obama might. If a Clinton/Obama ticket loses (and let’s face it, probably no one has ever been elected on the strength on the VP choice), where exactly does that leave him?
Hillary on top, that is the way Obama probably likes it!
That way he does not have to do all the work, he can follow Hillary’s lead, as he has been doing all through this primary.
I’m more convinced than ever from reading these blogs that the Democratic party is going to destroy themselves from within. All of the hateful, vicious comments between the Hillary supporters and the Obama supporters is a total waste of time. Your energy should be saved for November when it really counts. The Republican party are rubbing their hands in glee. The longer the battle goes on between the Hillary and the Obama camps, the weaker the democratic party gets. When are you democrats going to stand together and support one another? Does it REALLY matter if its President Hillary Clinton or President Barrack Obama? Either choice is going to create a change in government and thats what matters. McCain is waiting in the wings and he is building up ammunition and if the Democratic Party doesnt get its act together, he will be our next President of the United States and then….Heaven help us!!
An Obama-Clinton ticket would be great. A Clinton-Obama ticket would send me straignt to the write-in box.
Obama will not even consider it. Who in their right mind would with the hillbill team in WH. They both would destroy this young man one way or another. They would undermind him, accuse him, defame him and his wife and family. No chance
I guess if Bill can’t be the First Lady, maybe he’d take Hillary as VP and then he could be the Second Fiddle.
Bill-you already have a joint ticket-BILLARY!!!
The fact that Obama has done nothing of any signaficance during his short national political tenure and he is about ready to clean Hillary’s clock does not bode well for her in a national election should she get through. It is amazing to me Obama has been on campaign trail for over a year and all you hear is HOPE and Change. Both Hill And Obama are for the nanny state that will lead to the ruin of America.
I am not big McCain fan , but I can only hope that smart educated voters will turn out in force and keep the two bumbling socialist’s out of the oval office. Every 4 years our country faces a national crisis in keeping a Dem out of the office. Think about it… GORE!!???, Kerry and John Edwards!!!!??? was almost a heart beat from the presidency. Looking back on these individuals wackiness, particularly Gore and Edwards …America really dodged a bullet. Please dems come out with better candiates …PLEASE!! With dumbing down of America it won’t be long before …….
I cannot see them on a joint ticket. Clinton all the way. Obama is too inexperienced. However, what would be even worse is another Republican in the White House. Bush is the worst president in history domestically and he has no clue about international policy. Outside the U.S. his arrival is treated as a joke. As an American living outside the U.S. at the moment I can testify that his perception by the international media and the citizens of foreign countries is absolutely embarrassing. For that matter, many of the former Republican presidents are not seen in a favorable light. McCain while probably more qualified would not be greeted with open arms. We need a Democrat back in the White House and someone who has experience in many areas. A junior senator does not qualify in my book.
As the Clintons talk of a joint ticket I have not heard if they mean Clinton as President and Obama as V.P. only or would Hillary ever agree to being in the second fiddle position with Bill tuning the strings and Obama as President.