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.
What next?
A junior Senator got to where he is by using tried and tested systems. Now he wants to be a big man, saying he will change everything.
How Senator?
I submit, either you have your own private agenda to further your own interests and destroy what America has always stood for [let me tell you now, America will not allow that] or you are a liar looking for votes. Which one is it, Sir?
I submit: You are a Liar, an Imposter with a big mouth, Senator, inside a hollow, but very shallow, one massive empty ego; that is all.
So, Senator Obama is not interested in the Veep position with Hillary. Nothing small like that. He aims at [his own words] “winning this nomination and changing the country.” It tell me he wants to make the Rules and Call the shots.
I always wondered about the man. Now it makes me wonder whether others in the Party or those in leadership in the Democratic Party really know what they have in their breast. Does he want to change the Party too, or is he just planning on creating as much havoc as possible, in which he is successful right now, and then see the Democratic Party and the Country being torn apart, asunder, and destroyed. Meantime he uses the Party as a platform?
The Senator is running wild, firing from the hip, an uncontrolled loose cannon or I must be going nuts if I am the only one seeing this.
There is something like this in history somewhere …. ?
Makes you think?
Hillary AKA Cruella De Ville
Do not worry all you Hillary supporters let’s wait in see how pissed off Hillary can angry all the Obama’’s supporters. I am not just talking about Obama ether; just the people who support him in this election. She underestimated him before the election and now she is underestimating his strong support. Remember this is a movement will see what happens after she steals the election. This is going to go down as a classic battle in the history books. Your grandchildren will be talking about the 08 election; what happened?. Do not worry; Obama does not have to say a word the people who support him will.
This is Hillary’s scorched earth policy, slash and burn. If she can’t win then her policy is to destroy everything and everyone including the Democratic Party. She is willing to loose her legacy and her dignity all in the name of power. I feel really bad for her if she does this she will regret it later in life.
YEAH for Senator Obama. He is a man not a dance partner swinging to the Clinton’s beat. Their rhythm is off and they know this.
She and her husband seemed to need Senator Obama- more than he needs them and he is not following their lead.
Their are two people wearing suits in this race! Senator Obama wears the power tie.
GO Campain in Florida Obama. PLEASE stop crying and get on with it.
He should be Honored or be VP. But personally I think Edwards would be better. Obama was riding on the Medias coats tails, intimidating cacaus voting, and OBprah.
He has cult like followers, and the Obamedia. Of course Obama would want Cacaus voting in Florida because he does better. I read that some people in Texas who wanted to vote for Hillary in the Cacaus vote and were not allowed in the building and were harassed in some areas.
PRIMARY IN FLORIDA -
Hillary President - Edwards Vice-President
Someone said does it matter who is the president or vice-president–yes it does according to Hillary. Who will answer the phone at 3:00am? Isn’t the vice-president supposed to be chosen so he or she could replace the president if anything were to happen? Look at Johnson, Truman, and Johnson. All of the men became president because something happened to the elected president. If Bill and Hillary feel the Obama isn’t the correct person to keep America safe, how can they feel he would be able to do the job. Remember one president, Harrison, became ill and was dead is six weeks. Is that enough time to be ready to answer the phone? Oh yes, Hillary doesn’t really care about the children, but will do anything to win. Even have a vice-president she doesn’t think can do the job.
The Democratic Party has been using emotional sound bites for so long that a large number of Democrat citizens don’t really know what they’re rooting for. They just know how they feel. Beware, Democratic National Party, play the game long enough and the reason for the game is lost.
You’ve done well in smearing Republicans in both the national and international press. My question to you is; is your first loyalty to the Democratic Party or the United States of America? If you’d come forward and be honest about what you believe instead of hiding behind emotional fifteen second sound bites, I think I could agree with a few things. As it stands now, neither Democratic Candidate has stood by any particular plan of action. Just more emotions.
Way To Go Obama!!!! No VP with Hillary “The Monster” Clintoon.