Robert Reich just tweeted his guess for the upcoming election...

[NRaleighLiberal]

RBReich Robert Reich
2012 race: Romney/Rubio vs. Obama/Clinton.

[marmar]

1. With all of Rubio's ethical problems, that seems like kind of a risk.

nt

[ellenfl]

17. repubs don't care about ethics . . . or the lack thereof. eom

[tblue]

23. Or brains, or knowledge, or integrity

You just need an (R) by your name and to keep spewing hate and fear.

[lonestarnot]

25. Or people.

[Tx4obama]

2. President Obama already asked VP Joe Biden to run again with him and Biden said yes. n/t

[CakeGrrl]

4. What? I can't hear yooooouuuu...

...and apparently neither can some of the punditry.






:rofl:

[ellisonz]

32. +1

Bravo, Bravo...Bravo.

:rofl:

[dsc]

5. that can change

Until the convention ratifies Obama could change his mind. Is that likely, frankly no. Possible, yes.

[CakeGrrl]

7. Well sure, he could ask Alan Grayson or Russ Feingold or anyone else, too.

But the bottom line is this: Why would Obama jettison a VP whom he has already asked to run?

If there were a whiff of scandal, the MSM would parrot it nonstop. No problems there.



Reich sounds like one of the die-hard Hillary hopefuls clinging to the VP hope since 2008.

[dsc]

9. If he thought it would help in the polls he might

again, not likely but possible.

[CTyankee]

21. I am wondering the same. I love Reich but this is a bit over the top at this point

and with what we know.

Actually, Biden has really helped Obama. I can't see where he is a problem, not an asset, to the campaign.

[ellisonz]

33. Correct

He can't take Bo for a walk on the lawn, or Michelle out on a date, or his daughters to a bookstore without being hounded from afar by a million keyboard punching rage-aholics on both sides of the "political debate" - and I use that term very loosely - screaming "propaganda! propaganda! propaganda."

What would dumping a sitting VP produce?

We really need to do more than tea leaves as a society and accept things as they are sometimes.

:shrug:

[Cal33]

12. And Clinton said that she had spent almost all of her adult life in politics, and

it was time that she did something else.

[lib2DaBone]

3. Could be. Rubio is the love-child of Jeb Bush and the NeoCons.. However....

I still think General David Patreaus will sneak in at the last minute as the War Party GOP candidate.

The Neocons and Fascists will swoon.. and we will oficially be in the footprint of Nazi Germany- 1933.

History does repeat itself...

[Dawson Leery]

6. Obama will not be successfully attacked on foreign/military policy.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

24. Patreaus?

You mean, President Obama's current CIA chief? :shrug:

[ZenaD]

8. I'm not gonna lie. I like Biden fine but I'd LOVE Hillary as VP. Here's why:

I'm no fan of her hawkishness and centrism but she's a fierce fighter for choice. As VP she could really work the bully pulpit when GOOPers in Congress pull their anti-woman crap.

[Dawson Leery]

11. She would be strong on economic matters and

certainly she would draw the media's attention away from the GOP.

[lib2DaBone]

16. The only problem with Hillary.. she is a war-monger. She works for the MIC...

No doubt Hillary could wield some power.. but she is not "for the people".

If you follow the news.. wherever Hillary goes.. war breaks out.. just a coincidence I'm sure.

[ZenaD]

18. All the more reason to get her out of the SOS position.

[zazen]

10. I think he'll ask Sen Kay Hagan (centrist D of NC)

I'm not saying I agree with that, but she doesn't make waves and she'd help him carry North Carolina.

[MADem]

13. I have heard rumors for some time that Biden and Clinton were going to swap jobs.

Biden wants a crack at direct-action diplomacy. He's very gregarious and he has a good grasp of world politics.

I wasn't sure if they were going to make the flip before or after the election, though. Doing it now is a sure way to energize the D base.


What happens if Romney implodes enroute, though?

[bluestateguy]

14. Reich has shown himself to be an astute economist

and a lousy political prognosticator and strategist.

[tblue]

26. I remember he said John Kerry's running mate would be Vilsack

This was in person at a book signing. He was so sure about it but he was wrong.

[tularetom]

15. Bullshit - Clinton is ineligible to be VP - oh, wait, he means Hillary

In that case - :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :puke:

[aletier_v]

19. I disliked Reich during Clinton's admin but

Now he's one of the few with a clue.

[jmowreader]

20. My prediction

Obama/Biden vs. the two most unelectable fuckers the Koch Brothers can come up with.

Obama is actually a perfect president for the Republican Party--well, any Democrat would be but Obama's what they've got. As long as there's a Democrat in the White House, they can keep on stonewalling and obstructing and blaming Obama for the disaster they created. (You know how the schoolyard bully will punch some kid's lights out then, when the teacher comes to investigate, point at the kid he hates worst and blame it on him? That's Republican SOP.) If they actually take the White House, THEY have to try to fix the disaster they created, and with the limitations Norquist has placed on them they can't fix it. (Right now, the thing that is going to fix America is a return to pre-1980 tax brackets and heavy, heavy infrastructure spending.)

[tblue]

22. Rubio, to get the Latino vote?

Latinos aren't stupid, thank goodness. They know a turncoat when they see one.

[TBF]

27. I wouldn't be surprised - I've always thought Rubio would be the VP pick. nt

[markpkessinger]

28. Um . . . did anybody bother to ask HIllary if she would be interested? n/t

[CakeGrrl]

29. What fun would that be? She'd say "No thanks" and ruin the fun.

At this point, anyone advancing this notion in the MSM is a pot-stirrer who doesn't much care about sowing discord in the Dem party.

[tammywammy]

30. They already have and she said no way

Hillary Clinton shot down speculation she could join the Obama 2012 ticket as vice president in 2012 in an exclusive interview with TODAY. Switching positions with Joe Biden, per rumors swirling around Washington, is not "in the realm of possibility,’’ the secretary of state told Savannah Guthrie.

“I do not think it's even in the realm of possibility, and in large measure because I think Vice President Biden has done an amazingly good job,’’ Clinton told Guthrie in an interview that aired partially on Thursday. “He has taken on the burden of, you know, selling the economic plan, of traveling the country, of answering people's questions.’’

The possibility of an Obama/Clinton ticket in 2012 has not even been raised to her, she said.

“It's maybe a subject for speculation on Google, but it's not a serious issue in the administration,’’ Clinton said.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44887385/ns/today-today_people/t/hillary-clinton-vp-run-not-realm-possibility/#.TtLxkrKIm0s

[applegrove]

31. I'd love to see Clinton on the Ticket.

[madinmaryland]

34. Un-reccing for "tweetering" nonsense.