Here you go. Obama put an end to Hillary's "back of the bus" strategy of Vice President offerings.
"You won’t see me as a vice presidential candidate," he says. You know, I’m running for president. 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.
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I know some will object to the back of the bus analogy but if Obama leads in pledged delegate, popular vote, and states won accepting the VP position would indeed be taking an unequal stance.
This is a game Hillary is playing with the voters. I don't blame her for it. For leaners, she's implying that Obama may be able to try again later. Vote for me now you'll get him later. Obama is too smart to play the Gore role and subject himself to a losing ticket in November. He'd lose much respect in taking vice president also.
So superdelegates, you have your answer. Democrats can win this year or Democrats can lose this year, you make the call.
I'd like to make a special comment on the diary by teacherken on the rec list. I watched the Bill Moyers Journal last night and was scared out of my mind with the prospect of a Hagee loving McCain in the White House. I was ready to write my "I'll regretfully vote for Hillary in November if she steals the nomination" diary. Then I woke up to teacherken's diary.
It woke me up to the facts of our history. History is important. The history of fellow African-American's in this country is not one of fear. My ancestors were murdered, jailed, beaten, bombed in the fight for freedom and equality. There was always a clear goal in mind. We didn't make progress by standing down, waiting our turn, and being stepped on. This is not a short-sighted battle but a marathon. I won't be bullied into getting into the back of the bus and toeing the party line. Sometimes we have to take a stand in order to make progress. If the superdelegates want to take this fight to the brink, I will follow them there. If they walk over the cliff, I'm walking the other way.
Update [2008-3-8 15:22:26 by Hope08]:
"She said yesterday and she said the day after her big wins in Texas and Ohio and Rhode Island that she was very open to that and I think she answered explicitly yes yesterday," Clinton began, referring to Hillary's own answers on the topic in recent days.
"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. I mean you look at the, you look at the, you look at the map of Texas and the map in Ohio. And the map in Missouri or -- well Arkansas’s not a good case because they know her and she won every place there. 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 went on to say.
No Bill, Hillary would salvage her chance at beating McCain, Obama would destroy his political future. DON'T FALL FOR THE OKIE-DOKE BARACK! This is a clear strategy to undermine Barack with undecideds. He needs to address this forcefully and quickly otherwise leaners will assume he is going along with this. Why vote for him now if he'll be in the WH anyway. This is a destructive meme for his campaign. I hope they take it seriously.
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