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Where better to get reasonable analysis of the Veep sweepstakes than the GOP Propaganda office...er, FOXNews? As far as FOXNews is concerned (okay, to be fair, pretty much everyone else too), the race is over and now it is time for Obama to pick his running mate. Of course, the FOX punditocracy would love for it to be Hillary Clinton, because they can just recycle the same smears she’s been vetted, and doubly beneficial it gives them a continued outlet to get their Bubba-hate on. Even the token “voice of reason,” Juan Williams, says that the biggest negative of picking Hillary is not the strained relationship between the two rivals, but the out-of-control Bill.
Kristol: I think Bill Clinton-I’ve thought about this-I assume is intrigued by a Obama/Clinton ticket about a week ago. I think Bill Clinton is probably the showstopper there though. It’s just too complicated. She can’t even control him when she’s running for President, how could she…how could Obama control him if she’s on the ticket as the VP nominee? It think it’s just too…the addition of him to her and all that baggage is just too much.
Williams: So I think it would unify the party, I think these are two candidates that are very popular with Democrats across the board and the downside is what Bill said, that Bill Clinton would be in the mix and Barack Obama would have to be watching his back all the time, because you don’t know what these people are up to-they’re trying to overshadow you, that will be a problem.
For added fun, the Washingtonian expands the guessing game to suggest who might be on an Obama Cabinet.
No Trackbacks To “FOXNews Sunday Panel: Playing The “Name The Veep” Game“
Not interested in their opinion.
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The Fox Electronic Leash.
Nothings going to get accomplished watching this crap.
L.A. Confidential @ 3:
The Cons know it too thats why they do this stuff.
Trittydi @ 1:
ditto
Really………..who gives a shit what they think.
How about Ron Paul for Obama’s running mate? I think he would be a perfect compliment to the ticket.
Shooot, even Bill Wingnut Kristol can get one right every once in a while. This may be his first.
The Clinton’s have done nothing but show their ass this entire campaign. Their day is over. Time to move on.
Clinton has no place on the ticket.
Vince Vaughan for Veep!!!
Veep….veep
Jay @ 8:
Like it or not Clinton left office with the highest approval rating of any President in U.S. History.
Now, what you going to do without those votes?
Think Now. Think Hard.
Since Fox has taken over all the local news content in many towns and cities…
Hey even the sports fans are concerned..
They want to get the truth out there…
At all of the baseball games breaks… and at local sports halftimes…
Schedule a traveling news troupe of journalists that were fired for reporting the truth
along with professors, police, whistleblowers
It would be just a matter of time..
Week 1 - Rove would be in jail.
Week 2 - McCain would have to resign
Week 3 - The republican party criminals would be exposed
Week 4 - The Bush Cheney evil plan would be thwarted
Week 5 - Bush and Cheney would be in handcuffs
Week 6 - The republic would be saved.
Jesus, I’m so tired of this “maybe Hillary will be Obama’s VP” bullshit. First of all, Hillary’s ego won’t even let her admit that’s she’s losing the Democratic Party nomination, so I doubt she would be content with the #2 spot on the ticket. Second, if Democratic voters wanted Hillary on the ticket, they would have fucking voted for Hillary, not Obama.
Of course Jay might be some freeper wing nut I forgot to mention that possibility.
“Aint’ no we gonna’ have a black person as Preznit in this Country fella!”
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 12:
You know you parrot the media to much on this issue.
Ever think about that?
Please refrain from using the word “vetted” in the future.
No, thanks…
Obama does not need Hillary…unless he is planning on losing in November.
She already shredded his reputation,and she will bring nothing but headache for Obama.
There are many good names that are much superior to hers that will help Obama.
Hillary and Bill will be hard to control besides she is not popular in the South. People will not vote for him in the South.
She will be a burden rather than an asset.
The Clintons’ closet also is full of many things that will be a fair game to Republicans to attack her when the race for presidency begins between Obama and McCain.
Remember that she will be the President should any thing happens to Obama. Obama should look somewhere else because he will be in much better shape.
The selection of Lieberman in 2000 did not help Al-Gore ,but instead it hurt his chance of becoming the president in year 2000.
If Obama is stupid enough add Hillary to his ticket- that will send a message to America, that yet again we have been duped. I wonder how long it would take for a Clinton henchman to take him out? SHe wants the presidency so badly that I believe she would make sure he got whacked.
We have all been hearing the clinton race card rhetoric. I could McCain winning simply because Hillary is on the Obama ticket. I really hope people will wake up.
McCain will pick a duck as his VP, perfect excuse for losing and edible after the defeat.
Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on the same ticket?
Wouldnt that be the dream team, Bill agreeing to help tutor Barack on his job yet knowing that as VP he cannot overrule the decision of his commander?
Hillary would divorce him, and its win-win.
Randy @ 16:
Bullshit one of the first things Clinton did when he realized Bush Sr had lied about the debts and deficits he and Reagan dropped on him was assemble the largest economic task force EVER to address the problem to keep the U.S. from going over the economic cliff. Thats not A Bill Clinton Dictatorship thats a team effort where people left their EGOS AT THE DOOR.
He had his faults but your basically full of bullsh*t and don’t know what your talking about.
Fox News has been pushing hard to get Hillary into the White House. The evil Reagan-Bush-CLinton-Bush-Clinton Globalist want Obama to have a babysitter.
Missing was the tray and little box of milk from the Jr. high caffeteria.
Well for one thing Bill Clinton is the only person I know of who is a natural born citizen, over the age of 35, and is not eligible to be Vice President. He served his two terms and the qualifications of being the Vice President are the same for being President.
You can sense, watching Fox, that they really are exhausted carrying the water
for the Republican heirarchy. They’re at a point where they need to be savaging
Obama, and it just isn’t happening. In fact, Brit Hume was actually shamelessly
DEFENDING Obama today. The most they can really muster is dragging out shit
like Rev. Wright and the like. Which might be due more to laziness and grabbing
for an easy, shallow topic than any desire to see anyone win or lose.
You know it’s bad for McCain when, after the first week of Obama
being the (almost) official nominee, Fox takes a big sigh and shuffles
down the street.
Darrell Kern @ 17:
Roveinian spin at it’s finest.
I don’t see Obama choosing Hillary as his VP. But it’s useful for Fox Noise to use this possible scenario for ratings.
OBAMA/ GORE!!!!!!!!
the clintons helped cover up the crimes of bush 41 and will do the same for dubya, no thanks to that ‘dream’ ticket…. notice how the media coverage went very negative for obama when he stated he would continue to investigate any crimes committed by the current administration and not a similar statement was issued by the clinton campaign shows signs of her ‘ staying the course ‘ with the agenda.
Michael @ 27:
Gore isn’t interested, and neither is Edwards.
23 RayC
Actually, I think Bill Clinton could be allowed as Vice President.
Look at LBJ, he finished JFK’s second term which he barely started, had a term of his own, and was considering running for reelection, but decided against it. If he had that would be bordering on three terms.
The only thing is if anything happened to the president, Bill Clinton couldn’t take over (I think), and the office would have to pass to the next in line which if I remember correnctly would be the Secretary of State and then the House Speaker.
Anyone who can’t see that the Republicans are purposefully creating a fight between Hillary and Obama supporters (from day one when they dropped the race bomb on Bill) really needs to take the next 30 days off and go out into the desert and let the pollution clear from their heads.
Michael @ 27:
Gores he’s not interested in that or a cabinet position.
Nancy Pelosi for VP!!!
L.A. Confidential @ 32:
Gore said sorry
Leslie [Hussein] @ 33:
You can’t be serious.
L.A. Confidential @ 35:
I mean it’s a miracle Pelosi can even sit up straight in a chair.
L.A. Confidential @ 35:
Go suck lemons.
I think the Clintons have revealed themselves to be ruthless and those are not the kinds of people you want as your Veep. Hillary, wishing she were presidents, would go into Cheney mode and try to do her own thing. Bill would be out of control. Barack is a fresh start and needs to pick a VP with unimpeachable integrity and qualifications. But not Hillary. Oh, lord no.
Obama should NOT ask Hillary Clinton to be on the ticket, for all the reasons listed above.
Frankly, while I still think the Clinton’s were unfairly attacked by the right wing machine, Mrs. Clinton’s behavior in this campaign has changed my opinion of both she and Mr. Clinton. I very much appreciate what they did for our country, but putting your own agenda ahead of the party/country when three months ago the race was already over is not only selfish, but damaging to goal of capturing the executive and gaining a veto proof majority in the legislative.
This selfishness leaves a lasting impression upon some and smacks of old school, politics as usual. As such, Obama and the party need to further project a “new kind of politics” as a brand for the upcoming general election - and that doesn’t include Hillary given she and her husband’s abhorrent behavior.
I should mention that it’s my understanding that LBJ didn’t run for his second term because of the nightmare Vietnam was becoming for him, not because of constitutional provisions against the idea.
Actually Nancy Pelosi is already in the line of succession to the presidency, as mentioned above here.
Regarding the Pelosi comment, I wish both she and Reid would be stripped of their positions, given they have done little or nothing to protect our constitution during these past two years. Truly do nothings.
Any analysis and speculation from the sly FOXES…. on Who will be the Atty General nominees.??
First requirement: Recite the Constitution from memory.
Red Flags: Do not confirm a person …
who sings goofy songs like… “As the Eagle Flies” …
and is so disliked….he lost an election in Missouri to a deceased person.
Speaking of an Independent Judicial System..
The honest should carry this message… front and center.
Independent voters are looking for Justice.
37 Leslie [Hussein] Says: L.A. Confidential @ 35:
Leslie [Hussein] @ 33:
Nancy Pelosi for VP!!!
You can’t be serious.
Go suck lemons.
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That causes sphincter face.
Obama-Dean “08
41 Sheesh Says: Regarding the Pelosi comment, I wish both she and Reid would be stripped of their positions…
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Won’t we need some raunchy nasty jazz accompaniment?
steve @ 28:
Obama can be successfully trapped as the successor regime into maintaining the Big Lie and the cover-up for the sake of global economic stability also don’t kid yourself.
First of all, as far as doing without ‘those’ votes regarding people who support the Clintons, if they’d stop being so arrogant and have Hillary drop out they could both work to be formidable supporters of Obama and rally those voters and put all those issues to bed. But that is ONLY if they care more about the good of their party than themselves.
Secondly, do you want to imagine a scenario 2 years from now when VP Clinton wants to start some new initiative thats important to her and for his own reasons, Prez Obama says no? * SHUDDER* Can you imagine Bill Clinton always around with nothing to do in the WH? *SHUDDER*
Obama will get an edwards-like VP, a white male from the heartland, who will help his ‘electability’.
or he’ll get another brother to let america knows he means biznazz
L.A. Confidential @ 10:
I voted for Bill twice. I never, ever considered voting for Hillary. His high ratings don’t automatically transfer to her. They aren’t the same person, remember? People are now judging Hillary on what they are seeing of her now, not what the warm fuzzy feelings they might still have about Bill. Although those might be waning in light of his recent outbursts and statements in this campaign.
If your theory is even remotely correct, she should have won be now and she hasn’t.
Sheesh @ 39:
I agree. Hillary is costing many Dems $ and support they’d otherwise get for their campaigns. The DNC is low on funds and can’t help. Plus, she’s dividing the Democratic electorate with racist comments, even if she doesn’t mean them to be racist. [I have a hard time believing she does. Nevertheless, her comments are hurtful.] What is her reason for staying in the race at this point? She continues to smear Obama: I have the “hard working” white vote, as if blacks aren’t hard-working.
When she returns to the Senate she may not have much support. Because a majority of the Senate, among those who’ve decided, now support Obama. The House currently favors Clinton, but that may change the longer this continues. So she’s hurting herself along with everyone else.