(Via Ben Smith)
Ted Kennedy joins Nancy Pelosi in nipping the "Hillary as VP" idea in the bud saying:
Obama should choose a running mate who "is in tune with his appeal for the nobler aspirations of the American people," Kennedy said. "If we had real leadership — as we do with Barack Obama — in the No. 2 spot as well, it'd be enormously helpful."
HA! First of all...that is a quite a shameless diss!
Secondly, I can assure you that this is precisely what Barack himself is thinking about. He has worked 7 days a week for 16 months. And he has seen Hillary pander on the gas tax, falsely accuse him of disenfranchising voters, recklesslesly assert that he "hasn't passed the Commander in chief threshold" while insisting he should be Vice president, threaten to obliterate Iran and generally behave without integrity.
I have no doubt that Barack dislikes her greatly. There is so much handwringing about him taking her as VP, but it would undermine his message of "Change" in such an extreme way that I can most certainly say, that he won't do it, he doesn't WANT to do it, and after all the hard work he's put into this campaigh, NO ONE is going to make him.
Unrelated to all that: Check out this great interview he did with Wolf Blitzer!