Feinstein: Obama should pick Clinton to be VP, "anyone accepts if they're asked"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Feinstein: Obama should pick Clinton to be VP

Obama and Clinton campaigns have denied talks are taking place over graceful Clinton exit strategy



http://www.hoinews.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=138250

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senator Dianne Feinstein says that if Barack Obama becomes the Democratic nominee, he should select Hillary Rodham Clinton as his running mate.

Feinstein, a longtime friend and supporter of Clinton's, says Clinton and Obama have "garnered a different constituency and different states." The California senator says that combining them would form the strongest ticket.

It isn't clear if Clinton would accept the vice-presidency, but Feinstein says she thinks that anyone accepts if they're asked.

The Obama campaign has dismissed reports that there are talks going on between the two campaigns about putting Clinton on the ticket.

[natrat]

1. the queen of mean speaks

[baldguy]

2. Clinton needs Obama more than Obama needs Clinton.

[papau]

19. Perhaps "unity" is important in the fall? - perhaps a 72 or 80 repeat is not a good thing?

[Liberal Veteran]

3. Oh, fuck that shit!

I wouldn't trust the Clintons anywhere near the seat of power anymore.

No. No. And a thousand times NO!!!

[yardwork]

4. Too late.

I would have been ok with this before Hillary spoke of Obama's assassination. No more. I want her and her equally power-hungry husband to retire and go away now.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

5. of course. Cause Feinstein loves that military contractor bling

doesn't her husband make money off of that?

[NewJeffCT]

6. Of course they accept if asked

because the asker already knows the answer ahead of time.

[saltpoint]

7. Well, whatever. I like the other California Senator better.

Feinstein's comment is interesting in that it implies, very strongly, that Obama is the nominee.

Wonder if anyone in the Clinton campaign picked up on that.

[Demobrat]

15. Feinstein is a DINO.

Barbara Boxer, on the other hand, would be GREAT!

[sellitman]

8. What a great idea!

:sarcasm: :puke::sarcasm: :puke::sarcasm: :puke::sarcasm: :puke:

[NewJeffCT]

9. I think Obama picks a white male for VP

I like Wes Clark because he's been a Hillary supporter and has great military credentials and is also very, very bright.

[otohara]

10. Yes, Hillary Will Be So Loyal To Obama

and he can trust that she and Bill will have his back at all times. :sarcasm:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

11. These leaders have become so out of touch .

[Catherina]

12. Did Feinstiein ever have to return all that money she made off the Iraq war

I didn't think so. STFU Dianne. With luck, you'll be out very soon facing charges for war profiteering.

[SteveM]

37. She ever turn in her CCW after supporting gun prohibition?

[PoliticalAmazon]

13. YEAH, great strategy, Dianne. Choose as VP someone who has threatened to assassinate...

you. BRILLIANT strategy.

Here's an idea: you FIRST. YOU place an out-of-control power-mad loon (who has already threatened assassination as a campaign strategy) and her equally power-mad loon husband right behind you, with their only path to their goal being over your literally dead body.

That works for me, Dianne.

Go ahead, show Obama how it's done. You first. I'll applaud the outcome.

[KittyWampus]

20. Hillary didn't threaten to assassinate ANYONE.

[PoliticalAmazon]

25. I heard what she said and it was quite clear. She knew what she...

was implying. It was clear that she was sending a prompt to the bigots she worked up into a frenzy, such that she got them to act out their bigotry in the voting booth, bragging about it to TV cameras afterwards.

Hillary was saying, "Make me the candidate or the black guy gets it." While that may have been funny in Blazing Saddles (a comedic movie) it's NOT funny in our nationals blood-stained political landscape.

[marylanddem]

14. Feinstein's timing on this suggestion was hilarious

And she and her galpal can go to hell.

[Gore1FL]

16. Withour current spendng deficits

Could we afford all the extra Secret Service protection for Obama required for this scenario?

:)

[slinkerwink]

17. Feinstein needs to shut up

[KittyWampus]

18. Feinstein is as much a War Pig as Hillary.

[newmajority]

31. Actually she's worse.

Hillary might enthusiastically support the war, but at least she isn't personally profiting from it. ....as far as I know.

[SteveM]

38. Supports gun and pot prohibition: great political strategy. superb.

[jenmito]

21. Pelosi-It ain't gonna happen.

[Tarheel_Dem]

43. I agree with Pelosi. Too much has been said that can't be taken back.

Afterall, recent polling shows that Obama does better with Edwards.

[w4rma]

44. Agreed, Tarheel_Dem (nt)

[Richard Steele]

22. Dumbest. Idea. Ever. nm

[Joe the Revelator]

23. That ship sailed around 4pm Friday.

two hours after the article was submitted.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

24. Another shining example of cronyism protecting the MIC.

Not just no, but NO G'DAMN WAY!

[newmajority]

26. Feinstein: "My husband and I are making a lot of money off this war....

...and damn it, we need to keep it going!!!"

DLC wants DLC on the ticket. And in other news, water is wet. Film at 11.

[Norwood]

27. Shove it Senator

You're one of the last people Obama needs advice from.

[IndianaGreen]

28. The torture loving Difi, and her pal Schumer, gave us Mukasey as Attorney General

Their credibility when it comes to VP nominations is non-existent.

[Pisces]

29. No way.

[Overseas]

30. She would be better than Chuck Hagel //nt

[speedoo]

32. Great. One POS endorsing another POS. nt

[HooptieWagon]

33. Yes, DiFi wants that MIC money to keep flowing to her husband's Co.

[Garbo 2004]

34. I recently read Feinstein was lead contender for VP on Mondale ticket but her husband's business

dealings were deemed too problematic and so Mondale went with Ferraro. (Unfortunately I don't recall where I read that.) Ironically, it was Ferraro's husband's business dealings that sank her political career.

Not like there's anything questionable (or could be made to be seen as such) about the Clintons' business dealings before and since the WH. No potential "baggage" there? The GE is not the Dem primaries or a run for the Senate. Anyone think the Repubs would just ignore the Clintons if Hillary was on the ticket? So Obama would be fighting his own battles and those that arise from having a Clinton on the ticket as well? Brilliant idea, Diane.

[IsItJustMe]

35. Who the hell cares what Feinstein says or thinks. I sure don't.

[SteveM]

39. GOP does. She figures heavily in stirring up the 2A vote.

[LordJFT]

36. well now we know who the military complex's choice for vp is

[ccharles000]

40. Hillary would be a great VP.

[Radical Activist]

41. She will sink the ticket and ensure a loss.

I don't think Obama is so foolish.

[Irishonly]

42. DiFi is nothing more than a DINO

and a war profiteer

[quakerboy]

45. Consider the source

I am not saying that Obama should rule it out. But coming from Feinstein, I am inclined to not care at all. Not worth the paper that you didn't print it on.

[CreekDog]

46. that's like asking this one to dance