Hillary Asks Joe Scarborough To Be Her Running Mate

Hillary Asks Joe Scarborough To Be Her Running Mate

Huffington Post   |   March 5, 2008 10:54 AM


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Hillary Clinton's rocky relationship with MSNBC appears to be on the up: just weeks after sending NBC News President Steve Capus a scathing letter over "the pattern of behavior on [MSNBC]" that led to "degrading language" from the mouths of David Shuster and Chris Matthews, Clinton appeared comfortable and jocular on "Morning Joe," asking host Joe Scarborough to be her running mate if she wins the Democratic nomination.

Scarborough set the tone with his opening question, asking Clinton, "After last night, do you need to drop out of this race to unite the Democratic Party?" and continuing the light-hearted tone by saying "There are larger considerations than your own personal ambition."

Clinton responded by saying, "Actually, Joe, I was coming on this morning to ask you to be my running mate," comparing him to Ronald Reagan and prompting Scarborough (a former Republican Congressman from Florida) to announce, "You have just finished my political career. It's over! I'm in TV until I die."

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The republicans plan to out Hillary as a lesbian. Why not beat them to the punch, but in a more positive manner?

Obama should stand up for gay rights and praise her for being the first lesbian to run for the presidency. Wax on about the challenges she must face having to keep her private life under wraps.

That Hillary sure is one brave woman!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:52 PM on 03/06/2008

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. STFU

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:42 PM on 03/06/2008
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Given Scarborough's dead-intern problem, that's a pretty sick joke for Hillary to make!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:30 PM on 03/06/2008
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It makes me wonder if Hillary is not flirting with Republicans to make the case for the Super-Delegates that she could do well with Republican voters and Independents in the general election.

Whether that's true or not, I find it rather creepy to have a Democratic candidate complimenting Republicans and trying to "peel the bark off" of Senator Obama. I've never seen a Democratic Presidential hopeful use all of the talking points of the right-wing radio hosts against a Democratic opponent.

Barack lost Ohio and Texas by a much smaller margin than they had predicted two weeks ago. Some are saying that he might have even won Texas, although that remains to be seen - they are still counting the votes.

I see Hillary's "comeback" as hollow, and her chance at the nomination simply wishful thinking. She had better rethink her slimy campaign tricks, or she will lose her Senate seat in New York in the next election. And when I say "slimy", I don't mean being aggressive. I mean tactics that are based on lies and half-truths. Hillary has said several times now that she won Michigan and Florida, and includes them in her list of victories.

The Canadians know that Hillary really supports NAFTA. That is why their right-wing government wants her to do well. She has campaigned for NAFTA. However, Hillary says she had nothing to do with it. Which is it Hillary? I realize that you were not in on the meetings where these things were discussed. However, if that's true, then your claim of experience by being the First Lady is false, as you were never there when these decisions were being debated.

Did Bill Clinton go over the minutes each night for each meeting that he had that day, explain what was debated, the pros and cons of each position, and then ask Hillary for her input? I don't think so.

This so-called "35 years of experience" that she brings is nonsense. She brings a "life-time of experience" of cheating, lying, being greedy, working for corporations, and calculating her every move as to whether or not it will promote her agenda. She cares only for herself, not America or the Democratic Party.

What we see in Hillary's campaign will be what we would see in her presidency. Aren't we all a little tired of being lied to every time the President speaks?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:58 AM on 03/06/2008

Take it lightly if YOU want.

Watch "Morning Joe"-----Scarborough PROMOTES Hillary DAILY (just as Limbaugh). Their strategy is to get a Democratic nominee so the Republicans will have NO PROBLEMS defeating.

Besides----Hillary will talk ONLY to Joe. (She can't appease Shuster, now that she made every effort to take away his livelihood.) Hillary needs assistance to SEAT the delegates in MI and FL through the media. Joe is doing a fine JOB for her.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:30 AM on 03/06/2008

Why not, two of a kind. He even has his own body count.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:37 AM on 03/06/2008

Joe Lieberman in drag. She's not winning points with the DNC- I sense she will jump ship if she loses the nomination and totally hand the election to McCain by trying to run as an Ind.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:43 AM on 03/06/2008
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Your scaring me!
After all she has stooped to, I believe she would do this.
But then again the Independents hate her too.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:02 PM on 03/06/2008

Damn you Hillary I have been trying get to Joe Blow off that program and get Imus back. Joe is nothing more than a no sale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:20 AM on 03/06/2008

Great combination - the Cackler and the Red Neck Bigot.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:36 AM on 03/06/2008

LOL...bullseye too

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:13 AM on 03/06/2008

YES!!

David Shuster just ( finally) brought up on MSNBC;

Have any of her Democratic opponents, including Obama, sought more detailed answers from her about stories such as:

* Norman Hsu and his bundling of money for her campaign?

* How "dishwashers, waiters and others" poured "$1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton's campaign treasury?"

* Bill's trip to Kazakhstan with Canadian magnate, Frank Giustra, that netted Giustra $3 billion and Bill's foundation a $131 million contribution from Giustra?

* How powerful foreign donors to Bill's presidential library, such as the Saudis, may pose a serious conflict of interest to Hillary's foreign policy actions as president?

* How Bill's tangled ties to an investment concern of Clinton friend, Ron Burkle, and it's dealings with Dubai may yet, again, threaten to compromise Hillary Clinton's execution of foreign policy as president?

* The fact that the with all of these questionable financial dealings, the Clintons have been unwilling to release their tax returns, especially in light of Hillary Clinton claiming that the $5 million she lent the campaign was "her own money?"

* And, finally, though we, as Democrats, don't care who Bill schtupps (and, no, none of us believe he has kept his fly zipped the last seven years), you can be damn sure the Republicans will be digging hard (no pun intended) to see just what Bill has been up to since leaving offic

plus Whitewater

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:14 AM on 03/06/2008
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Well said!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:22 AM on 03/06/2008

this woman is so sick making . . .

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:41 AM on 03/06/2008

Maybe because he is practically a neighbor (100 miles), or maybe because , as a Southern boy myself, I don't see Joe as a yokel, I fail to understand the animosity expressed towards Mr. Scarborough. While I disagree with him on practically every issue, I find the fella to be charming, witty, polite, and not a rote speaker of Republican talking points. He is an independent speaker of Republican talking points, and I think he is truly embarrassed by the pigs-at-the-trough looting of the treasury by the thugs in power. Grow up, people! You can disagree without animosity, if you try. Save the vitriol for Cheney, Bush, and Delay, reprehensible human look-alikes who deserve to be pilloried in the public forum, if not actually hung from cherry trees in the nation's capital.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:15 AM on 03/06/2008
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What does this tell you? He wants Joe as her running mate, she endorses McCain (he has experience), and this morning on Fox News, she jokes with Karl Rove. Wow! Is this the woman you want on the Democrat ticket?
Ask her to release her tax returns. She is buying time to release them. Why?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:24 AM on 03/06/2008

well said rosal . . .she is buying time for releasing her tax returns because just like her mccain support . . . she is hiding something . . corruption must be the clintons middle name

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:42 AM on 03/06/2008

Rosal , I would say you pretty much summed it up .

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:07 AM on 03/06/2008

i noticed on wed morning that hillary, in her victory speech from the night before, in naming the states she won started with florida and included michigan. i also heard an interview with terry mccauliffe where he said the same thing. this is their new approach to thwart the rules to which even they agreed. i caught this on election night but heard no commentator catch it until christopher hitchens pointed it out on morning joe. all acted surprised. as hitchens said, thei is blatently false as these electioin results were disallowed by the party and clinton's know it. is this not the same misleading and dishonest politics we have endured for the last seven years. will it ever change? because this is exactly the "change" the voters want in this election.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:48 PM on 03/05/2008

i wouldn't let joe scarborough run to the store for me, he'd probably bring back his boy friend mike(squirrel eater) huckabee.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:12 PM on 03/05/2008

Makes perfect sense, Joe's been carrying water for her for weeks now!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:53 PM on 03/05/2008
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