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.
The Clintons are using a ploy to steal Obama’s vote.
They are acting like their doing him a favor. They
have the nerve to say he’ll make a good VP to her…
He’s winning. The spread will be evn larger after
Wyoming and Mississippi go for OBama. The
Clinton’s have lost but act like they’ve won…
She wouldn’t be a good VP we want Al Gore as
VP to President Obama…
Why would the individual with the most delegates consider taking the “back of the bus” to the individual in second place? Shouldn’t Bill and Senator Clinton be talking about a Obama/Clinton ticket?
Talk about Clinton and Obama being on the same ticket has been circulating for months.
It’s a scary thought. Personally, I think Hillary does have a more extensive background knowledge on foreign policy versus Obama, but I would hestitate to put her in office due to the probable political favors she owes others from special interest groups to friends of friends. I think it would be very frustrating for Obama to be VP to Hillary. On the other hand, I can’t see Hillary being VP to Obama. She comes across as a controlling individual and it would be her way or the highway. Nevertheless, I am voting for a democrat come November . . .
God help this nation if Obama gets elected. The man’s policies are socialist at best. This country is full of “sheeple” that vote for a candidate due to his or her empty rhetoric, good looks, or some other non-significant feature. Be informed people. Look at the man’s voting record. It’s enough to scare any non-socialist American. Our founding fathers must be farting peas at the moon right about now.
Hillary is trying to position herself for vice-president. Wont work. Obama short list for vice president is Nunn, Gov. Sebalus from kansas, or BillRichardson.
Really, Obama wants to run a clean honest campaign and a civilized one against McCain. How can he do that with mud slinger hillary around?
We all know what HIllary’s campaign tactics will be against McCain
He’s too old
he was born over seas
he’s not a conservative
he’s not liberal
he didn’t fight in vietnam, he was imprisoned for most of it
he’s offer no ideas
his middle name is sidney
he is endorsed by bush
he’s a vietnam baby killer
his only foreign policy is war
he is inexperienced
he’s all talk no substance
he’s what the bible talked about in revelations
he doesn’t deserve president
McCain attacks back at hillary over anything like say whitewater and her response will be:
“waaa shame on you mccain, why are you so negative, how come I got to answer questions, how come I have to be honest? why does everyone pick on me, You are Karl Rove, you are Ken Starr, you are Joseph Stalin, media is beating up on me, media is too soft on mccain, why do people have to vote they should just select me for president, waaa”
Please, please Mr. Obama, do not let them suck you in to their scheme. They will do and say anything to get elected. They are making these statements so people who haven’t voted yet will think you would be agreeable to second place on her ticket. Please come out now and reaffirm your previous statement that you would not accept second place. You have the votes to be the nominee. Don’t let them take it away from you. Please standyour ground.
Bill Clinton assumes it will be a Clinton/Obama ticket. Would the Clintons be as enthusiastic for an Obama/Clinton ticket? I don’t think so. They are both so predictable….trying to convince the public that it’s inevitable Hillary will be President. I don’t think chances are very good for that at all.
Neither person wants to be the VP, they are both to into themselves. They each want to be President and they have said terrible things about each other. I know this if either one gets to be president I may just move to another Country.
Obama on top - he would never take the bottom. Hilary would take anything.