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.
Allow me to de-code Clinton speech. Hillary is going to lose her rear end unless Obama agrees to make her a running mate. Question is; why would she want to run with a guy who she claims is not ready on day one? Am I missing something or is she bi-polar????
GO HILLARY !!!
The best thing for the USA is to get rid of the Clintons all together in their public service. To me they just bring out the bad side of politics and their old school tactics. I’m amazed at why people put up with all the scandals and accusations the Clintons bring with them.
Another desperate act from the Clinton’s camp to save their political life which is heading into the gutters. They know fully well that this election is a lost cause for them. The whole world is watching and know already who the clear winner would be, and that person is Obama. Now the clintons want to go for the crumbs after an inevitable defeat by paving a way for a Hillary as Obama’s VP. Obama is the clear winner and knows there is no place for a clinton in his administration. Obama is the person that can save their political life from going down the drain, and the clintons know that.
Even if Hillary won the nomination, I don’t believe that Obama would want to be V.P. anyway. Hillary presidency would be a disaster and I think he knows that and wouldn’t want to be any part of it ruining any future runs for prez he might have. Anyway what a super disaster the both of them would be. Good bye liberty, good bye economy, good bye pay check!
Hmm, lets see. 2 days ago Hillary ‘embraced’ McCain as having crossed the threshold- like her- of the presidency.. and Obama only has a speech he made in 2002. See Bill’s remarks for what they are, American voters- just ONE More pathetic stratedgy on the part of the Clintons. One day she’s all over McCain and the next day it’s her and Obama on the same ticket.. which is of course ironically at the same time they headed to MISSISSIPPI to attempt to entice away the African American vote. PUHLEEZ.. Bill.. Hillary- STOP~ you two are like the newest worst comedy team to hit our tv screens since Dean & Jerry.
MISSISSIPPI~ Vote your hearts & inform yourselves- do not be swayed by the Clinton’s no holds barred attempt to con you of your VERY IMPORTANT and worthy votes.
Yesterday in Wyoming, Obama stated to a local reporter: “I am not running to be VP. And it is premature to discuss choosing a VP. Barack wants EXCELLENCE around him in the White House~ He has said that clearly… Ask yourself this does: Clinton = Excellence? NOT
A McCain/Powell ticket would crush and Obama/Clinton ticket.
Can you imagine Powell and Obama in a debate?
“Joint ticket,” both Bill and Obama know quite a bit about “joint” ventures.
This is just like the Clinton’s win at any cost strategy, unfortunately for America this would be devastating. Primary focus would be on domestic and social issues and thus, put us deeper in the hole, the result of a rudderless and ineffective foreign policy and war on terror. Tax increases would fund numerous entitlements and deprive our Intelligence and Miliatry capabilities to adequately protect and defend the American people and our interests abroad. I am an American of Hispanic decent, a combat wounded and decorated Vietnam Veteran that supports strengthening our borders, and DO NOT believe in amnesty. I am sick and tired of the liberal democrats telling working class minorities that feel they don’t have a voice, that they, the democrats will continue to provide programs that enable the working class. Bottom line is that both Hillary and Obama are empty suits and have ingnited a groundswell through rhetoric of change among those who have forgotten the devastating aftermath of 9/11. We are the greatest, strongest and largest free market economy in the world, and I want to keep it that way. No more empty suits and rudderless leadeship like the Clinton and Carter years.
Joint ticket? As a republican I like the idea. I think many who vote for Obama do so because they hate Hillary (and the old school 4 more years scenario). These voters would be so dissapointed with Obama for doing that, they may move to Mcain or just not vote at all. Then again, would Obama really want Bill & Hill as the VP’s? Look what happened to Gore with those two.
The reality? Hill & Bill know “they need Obama”. But Obama does not need the Hill & Bill dirty tricksters attached to his presidency.
Even as a republican, I like Obama’s style. However the world has changed with war and terrorism and nuclear wana-bees. Let alone Russia, North Korea and China. I am not comfortable with a non military experienced person as a next president right now.