FOX News is so much fun…they’re saying repeatedly that Hillary Clinton received 18 million votes in the primaries, while Joe Biden received 9,500 votes, and yet SoetorObama never even put Hillary Clinton on the short list for vice president (thank Hera), and never vetted her.
Interesting.
Maybe SoetorObama is so confident about his electoral prospects that he thinks he needs just 9,500 votes to put him over the top, and that Clinton’s 18 million votes aren’t really needed, the same way SoetorObama surrogate Donna Brazile insists the Democratic Party, at large, doesn’t need the blue collar working class “bitter gun-and-religion-clingers” or Hispanics either.
Via TheRealBarackObama.wordpress.com
August 23, 2008 at 1:00 pm
The calculation, I think, is that “getting safer,” putting up a face that bitter-clingers can reflexively identify with, and otherwise going on the attack will help Obama get closer to the “generic Democrat” performance that in a Democratic year should shoo them in, even if it’s not the blowout that a Clinton at the top of the ticket might have earned the party. Hopenchange is pretty much over – it’s just Blues vs. Reds in battleground states from here on out.
August 23, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Biden isn’t going to help, though. Most Americans of both parties feel that if you’ve been on Capitol Hill for 35 years you’re part of the problem, not the solution. Biden actually helps distance John McCain from Washington. When Biden took his seat in the Senate, McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton.
August 23, 2008 at 6:19 pm
This pick says it all…”no one wanted to run with Sen. Obama…” Sen. Biden is already a sitting Senator with an unchallenged seat in Delaware. I personally believe Hillary told Obama to take a walk. Who would want to be Obama’s selection when we know all the facts that will be “found out” after the convention. This is our last chance. Superdelegates, please change your votes! Sen. Obama is too inexperienced, insincere, and inadequate for the Presidency.
August 23, 2008 at 6:35 pm
well Obama/Soetoro is not good at Maths. he thinks there is 57 States.
plus his Health care plan costs more, and does not cover everyone like Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton does.
also what States does Biden win.
a Hillary lead ticket wins all the big key swing states, Arkansas and neighbouring States. plus West Virginia and more.
with Obama’s bad math he probaly will think he has one the Presidential election with a hand full of states.
August 24, 2008 at 6:47 am
Her Tuesday speech will be the most telling event in Denver. Even if Hillary lost the primaries by 10 votes or 10 delegates, if in her heart she knew it was fair, I believe she would open her arms fully to the party with typical Hillary resolve. But since she knows the decks were stacked, the punch was spiked, the fix was in, she will give a speech that plays for 2012. She’s already done far more for Obama than Ted Kennedy ever contemplated doing with Carter in ‘80. She’ll cover the expected areas about giving voice to the have nots, the invisible, women of course, Dems must gain the White House, so on. Doubt she’ll mention Barack’s name more than 5 times in the speech. Her singular goal should be to soften Barack’s voting blocs towards her for another day. Political gymnastics at its best.