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.
IT SOUNDS LIKE BILL CLINTON IS COMING OVER TO BARACK OBAMA’S SIDE. I KNEW HE
COULDN’T SUPPORT A CROOK LIKE HILLARY, ENEN IF SHE’S HIS WIFE.
JIMMY FROM KY.
Fox why will you not allow me to post my comments about the paul vs. Clinton fraud case. I am only trying to encourage others to google this on their own time. This is a current case that should be brought to the limelight.
Readers if this post happens to post, which I doubt it will, please google the above. I have been trying repeatedly to post this, but the moderator will not allow. Check it out!! Also youtube Hillary uncensored!
Does Clinton feel she should be the President with O’Bama being the Vice Pres? If so, do you think O’Bama would know they mean he would be 3rd after Hillary, then Bill?
She must know by now she is actually going to lose this race and is trying to keep her foot in the door someway. When is she going to admit the people do NOT want Clinton’s back in the White House again.
obama exposed http://www.obamatruth.org http://www.stop-obama.org http://www.cityofbrass.blogspot.com http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor and his church that does not allow whites in it http://www.tucc.org white people dont be fooled by this man he lies and him and his wife are only for south africa, he will bring this country down u better wake up now im voting for hillary2008 send the obamas back to the south side mansion.
She wants to be his VP so then she could take over after he gets shot in the back.
If Obama wins, he would be crazy to put her on his ticket. She would not be his lap dog and they would be ready on day one to undermine him. If he wants to win, he needs to toughen up and take the offense against the Clintons, and keep them on their heels. The Clintons have a lot to hide in their tax returns and all of the 1990’s White House papers they are refusing to release. You can bet there are some very embarrassing papers not yet released, regarding all of the Clinton pardons for various criminals on his last day in office. He should pursue that strategy.
If I were Obama and she happens to steal the nomination, which she is desperately trying to do now, no way would I accept the VP nomination. She only needs his supporters to come to her side, and to Hell with him. He would be irrelevant as Hell as VP for her, after she brings in Bill and the other dirt bags into her administration.
She needs him more than he needs her. She is indead a monster.
If Hillary should win will she return the china she took from the White House or will she give it to Michele and get her some new china?
It is nice to see so many of you understand how detrimental the Clintons are to this nation. Obama needs to stay clear of the Clinton’s. They would severely tarnish his reputation. I am a Republican who crossed party lines to vote for Obama. I think he would make a great president. However, if Hillary is on the ticket he will not get my vote. She cannot be trusted, she is a scary “monster”!!!
Go-bama!!! Everyone needs to take the time and google Paul Vs. Clinton Fraud case. This is current news the media refuses to report! Why???
Check out Hillary Uncensored at youtube as well.
Hillary should be at the top of the ticket. Right now she leads in popular vote, not including Florida or Michigan
Everybody needs to pay attention to THIS….
If HRC steals the nomination (yes steal) at the convention, it will SHATTER young people and destroy the party. Period, end of story.
Her new tactic is this “joint ticket” crap, Clinton-Obama. Maybe I am slow and didn’t go to college, but with him leading in pledged delegates, which she CANNOT catch, shouldn’t it be Obama-Clinton? I can assure each and everyone of you right here and now, if Obama gives in to this crap about “let me lead the ticket and then in 8 years you get your turn”, she WILL turn on him in 4 years. No if, ands or buts about it. Do NOT trust her Barack, keep your focus and message of hope and change. If she wants a joint ticket, make sure she understands she will be Vice President AGAIN. What you thought Al Gore was VP during her husbands administration?