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.
NO JOINT TICKET OBAMA YOU’LL LOSE WITH HER NAME ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR NAME
I WOULD NOT WANT OBAMA TO PART OF HER TICKET SENSE SHE WANTS TO STEAL THE ELECTION FROM HIM NO I DO NOT WANT THAT AT ALL JUST LET HER DO HER OWN THING
If Obama refused Hilliary for the V.P. slot, she would be much better off chosing the very young, bright, experienced and charismatic Rep. Ford from Tennessee versus the arrogant, inexperienced, middle-aged Obama. REP. FORD, YOU ROCK!!!!!
Obama is SO arrogant….I will have to change parties if he is nominated.
Why would Obama be Vice President? He is winning all contests - wonder what the Clintons will say if they are winning and someone suggests she sould be a Vice President - As always, its only FAIR when it works for the Clintons.
Bill and Hillary are doing whatever they can to get back in the White House. It is incredible the lengths they will go. They know they won’t beat Obama, so now they are going for the only other option - VP. I hope Obama does not succumb to the Clinton tactics.
Ann, BOTH the Democrat candidates are JUNIOR Senators. Besides your justification for a Democrat in the WH based on International perceptions is obsurd. I too have lived a couple of decades overseas and have living foreign relatives in three European countries and none of them share your sentiments. It is the individual, NOT the Party that is important.
You can see the divided nature within Democrats just in these responses. There’s a reason close to 1/2 so far haven’t gone Barrack’s way. Just like there’s reason 1/2 haven’t gone Billary’s way. You think the complete 1/2 of either side is just going to fall in line and support the other (go for Hillary if you support Barrack thus far and vice versa?). That’s wishful thinking on the democratic party’s part if the case. If Barrack were a clear cut favorite choice, he would have taken bigger states. The fact he hasn’t to this point doesn’t bode well for him in November.
This is John McCain’s election to lose. Most of you won’t believe that based on media slant toward obama/clinton coverage (normally a democratic slant). Whomever suggested a McCain/Powell ticket. That would be a pretty power counter to hillbilly or barrack. The democracts unfortunately are caught up in the glitz and neatness of a (1/2) black man, and woman running. Back to the issues, you think the economy is weak now? Wait til you gotta pay more taxes on a weak dollar, with 90 percent of middle america in debt. You want a weak military in this wacked world? Vote democrat. McCain isn’t Bush. Chaney would be gone. It’s McCain’s to lose.
Its amazing how some are talking about Obama when it comes to his time in politics. When you have to dig for crap to make someone look bad it simply shows you have no class . John McCain all he says is war and being tough lol wow. So if I can stop a war just from talking I’m weak no no no that makes me extremely strong,but its also saying don’t ever make the mistake of thinking I won’t go to war.
Please, someone, help us make sure these two don’t get on the same ballot!
My God, don’t get me started…