Bill Clinton was the best president of my lifetime, and I have deep respect for Sen. Clinton, although at times she ran a horrid and heartbreaking campaign for president.

Sen. Obama is the nominee because he outworked and outsmarted Hillary throughout the primary season.

Although my admiration for the Clintons runs deep, it baffles me as to why the Hillary diehards won't accept this simple reality: Obama is not going to pick Hillary as his running mate. There is no way in hell the Obama campaign is going to turn Wednesday of his convention into Clinton Fest '08.

Why do you folks keep setting yourselves up for further pain? It's just like the primary season. After Obama won Wisconsin, for all intents and purposes, it was over. That was in February. You fine folks kept being strung along until early June, when Hillary finally withdrew her candidacy.

Or "suspended," as you folks prefer.

Please stop setting yourselves up for more heartbreak.

I think it's fine for Clinton to speak on Tuesday as someone who has shattered some Glass ceilings and on Thursday as running mate. I'm sure the house will be full.

serious question.

it's a good parody if not snark...

I wish you could do paragraphs though, that was a hard read.

I do like her a lot, don't know if VP is the best place for her but it wouldn't begin to change my vote. She's a good Democrat I therefore heart her entirely ;)

So go Hillary*

*If that's what Barack wants :D

"Instant Unity," just add crocodile tears.  Seriously, you say you removed this diary once.  Is there any chance you could do so again?

I wish I could believe that our wonderful media wouldn't subject us to 8 years of turning every cliche of gender power relations into "stories"

Is she nagging, is he not masculine enough ....

he has practical reasons, but even better he has a theoretical reason.  Senator Obama is running as a unity candidate, and his claim is that he's uniquely qualified for unity.  He's been dissed for having controversial associations, but he's exactly the sort of fellow who can be friends with those he disagrees with and not do breaches over disagreements. He gave the 'empathy deficit' speech, I thought it was his greatest, and he says you can disagree without being disagreeable. he also says that he and Hillary agree 99% of the time and that she'd be on anyone's short list.

The point of him is that he'll pick a consensus vp, not necessarily the one he'd feel most personally comfortable with, but the one that shows he can bridge divides and brings sides together.

It's obvious to me that he's decided on HIllary and that he's only waiting for the rest of us to have time to ventilate. When he said he didn't think her supporters want catharsis, he was saying that they want to be listened to, heard, respected, and won over fair and square.  It's going to be a big unity moment, and for one I can hardly wait to get behind his candidacy with the same passion I have had for Hillary.  

go dream ticket!!!

Looks like somebody figured out how to get on the Rec.List on this blog. ; )

The bounce would be amazing.  I have to agree that it is the strongest ticket and I have ben puzzled by so much noice from the Obama campaign that there's NO WAY it could happen.

As to Clinton having run a "horrid and heartbreaking" campaign--I think that is pure bullshit.  The Obama campaign certainly tried to spin it that way and barely succeeded.  But (almost) anyone who heard Clinton on the stump would have to disagree.  She also closed very hard, with large victories in key states, and she won the three most important swing states.  I think the Obama campaign  was brilliant but Clinton was the victim of serious misogynism in the media and still managed 18 million votes and victories, sometimes huge ones, in key states come NOvember.

I think it is Obama and his campaign who have to stop running the primary campaign and get over the fact that she refused to get out when it would have been best for him and went on to beat him in Ohio, PA, IN, etc. He is the one who stands to be elected to the most important political position in the world.  He is the one who has to make the choice that may require overcoming resentment and a fear of competition for the spotlight.

How about a true hard hitting progressive from an important State?

Bob Wexler...
a taste...

http://wexler.house.gov/apps/list/press/ fl19_wexler/081408_snakeoil.shtml

If wishing made it so ... I hope you're right

What, was Bill Clinton in on the cover-up too, suggesting through his restraint that Obama wouldn't be qualified to be commander-in-chief?  

No.  You don't want the "Bill Clinton said what?!" side-show to derail two terrific politicians in one political season.

I'd rather have the utterly uninspiring Bayh if we want a unity candidate.

He's not going to pick Hillary. He's going to pick someone like Kaine, someone who is really just some sort of background type.

I'm going to start troll rating your diaries because you keep posting this same crpa over and over again. ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!

If Obama is willing to accept someone that gives him some discomfort, Clinton is the way to go. Picking Clinton is the best way to unite the party. However, I think Obama is going to pick either Evan Bayh or Tim Kaine.  

If Obama goes with Kaine, McCain should go with Palin. However, I don't think he will because Republicans still believe in the all White Male club.

You have me utterly convinced that this is going to happen. Thanks for sharing your conviction on this Politicalslave.

This is a Master Stroke and we will win in one move. Check Mate

Abso-fracking-lutely

Please note this isn't wishful thinking on my part. I understand why people would assume this. I just think this is a winning strategy that matches the Team of rivals theme. Strategy and Tactics that's what this diary is about.

Maybe I can read your mind faster than you can type. Ha Ha

I keep recing your diaries hoping that it makes them REAL!!!  I'm heading to Denver to see it for myself - I will come away totally devastated if it doesn't happen.

Would the diarist kindly explain how having Bill Clinton pass the torch to his wife, and not the Presidential candidate, as the diarist suggests, makes this anything less than a total nightmare. It is a pantomime which says that what the Party decided by a primary is irrelevant and she rather than O is the real candidate and the real leader of the party. Who are you kidding?

What it says, which some of you, and plainly the diarist like, is that it admits that although O may be the  nominal Presidential candidate, that is treated by the diarist and the Clintons as an irrelevancy, which is why Bill passes the torch not to Obama but to Hillary. A massive insult to all those who worked so that O won the primary and the ballots. It may be your dream but:
   -Clinton's supporters love the pants off her and shout a lot, but  didn't match their checkbooks to their passions and left her twenty million dollars in debt (unlike O), and the O supporters have NOT been willing voluntarily to bail her out, and may not be willing to support a slate with her on it under these circumstances either, financially or operationally.
    -it completely undercuts the central Change meme of the campaign, because the torch is being passed within a family from a Clinton to a Clinton, hardly a sign of change.
     - it massively demeans a huge contingent of the entire party, for whom there is provided no opportunity to celebrate the nomination of the first person of color as President. This focus on the Clintons and not the candidate will only remind them of the 'hard working white people' and her slurs on the black church and a host of other things that sensibe and practical black politicians like James Clyburn took umbrage at. All how the white folks will grab anything even if their candidate won fair and square, and celebrate by all of what the diarist loves how they managed to wrest O's win from him for themselves, after all the primaries were over. And all they have to do for the Democratic Party to lose is to stay home in any appreciable numbers. No democrat has won with the white vote alone in decades, and a hug