In this week's Time Magazine, an article states clearly and unequivocally that Bill is pushing for Hillary to be Obama's Veep:
Her husband, for one, seems to have a pretty clear idea what he thinks she should get as a consolation prize. In Bill Clinton's view, she has earned nothing short of an offer to be Obama's running mate, according to some who are close to the former President.
Now are you starting to understand why she is pushing so hard for Michigan and Florida? Read on:
She may even finish the primary season with more votes, if you count those from the disputed primaries in Michigan and Florida. That gives her bragging rights for the No. 2 spot or for other demands. "This is about making her pile of chips bigger so she can use them to bargain with when the voting is done," says a longtime backer, who also believes she is making a play for a place on the ticket.
That is also why she is going to far out of her way to de-legitimize Obama's victory at the top of the ticket - to put him in a position where her passionate supporters will accept nothing less than Hillary Clinton on the ticket.
We've all gone through the reasons over and over as to why it's a bad idea - or, as I prefer to say - a horrible, insane, catastrophic idea.
But let me throw just this one: Obama will be placed into an incredibly weak position if he is unable to make the VP selection for himself. By being "forced" into taking Clinton (and no amount of eloquent speech-making on his part would convince anyone that he was anything other than forced), he will instantly seem smaller, less presidential, and a less powerful figure.
Count me as one who thinks the VP nomination is overrated. It rarely hurts a presidential nominee (although, in certain circumstances it can help). But this is a selection that absolutely would hurt our nominee.
But let us no longer delude ourselves: the Clintons want this. They want on the ticket. This is a fact. And by doing so, they will instantly knee-cap our nominee and in their own special way help the Democratic ticket collapse.
Note: the last time I wrote a diary that criticized Clinton, I was shouted down by so many commenters that I was being ungracious in victory should just let it go that I had to delete the diary to stop the vitriol. But as RenaRF wrote so convincingly, Hillary Clinton isn't letting this go and neither shall I.
By repeating her claims of disenfranchisement, comparing herself to the abolitionists, and raising the specter of Florida in 2000, she is stoking the passions of her supporters and, in no subtle way, is claiming that she was robbed of this nomination.
She must shut it down. The super delegates must shut it down. And Obama should resist every pressure to put this self-destructive person on the ticket.