I don't believe Obama is a free agent to offer Hillary a VP spot if he wanted to.

[CK_John]

I think he has already made a deal with Bloomberg to be/or select the VP position in return for not running as an independent 3rd party.

[thunder rising]

1. Oh, bite it

[Muttocracy]

2. hmmm

:tinfoilhat:

[JohnnyLib2]

3. Uh-oh.

:scared:

[jkshaw]

4. The other worry is that he may be forced to accept

her as vp in order to satisfy her and her followers and unify the party. I would rather see her as Senate majority leader. I think she would do a good job of whipping the senate into shape and furthering Obama's agenda -- if she winds up happy with him, that is.

What a mess. I've been wondering if I put my head under a pillow for a couple of weeks, would it all be cleared up when I emerged.

[calmblueocean]

7. I think that's why she's still running - to force her way into the VP position

Which I think would be disastrous.

I don't even think she really wants to be veep. She wants to be president. But if she's Obama's veep, and he fails, then she's set herself up for 2012, and if Obama wins, then she's set herself up for 2016 (with the side benefit of spending 8 years as a Cheney-esque crypto-president).

Given what she's said this year, and how she's behaved, I can't see an Obama/Hillary ticket making a lick of sense anymore, but I don't think that's going to stop her from demanding it anyway.

[CK_John]

8. This is her last chance and she knows that and also feels she is the only one with a chance in Nov.

[calmblueocean]

10. Hillary has a decade more in politics, at least.

It's common for candidates to lose in the primaries their first time around, and win the nomination later on. Happened to Reagan in 1976; he ran and won in 1980, and he was older then than Hillary would be if she ran in 8 years. Gore lost his own primary bid in 1988, before hooking up with Bill in '92 and finally winning the nomination in 2000. And McCain ran and lost in 2000 before winning it this year. So I don't have any reason to doubt that if Hillary wants to be president -- and I'm pretty sure she does -- that she'll put herself in the ring one more time.

[CK_John]

9. If he breaks any deal with Bloomberg, I'm sure we will hear about it.

[Orangepeel]

5. maybe he made a deal with John Roberts. n/t

[CK_John]

6. Things are not always as they seem. n/t