Pelosi On The Dream Ticket: "No, I Don't Think It's A Good Idea"

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton shouldn't share the Democratic presidential ticket unless they really want to.

"No, I don't think it's a good idea," Pelosi said in an interview with CNN talk show host Larry King aired Thursday night.

"I think first of all the candidate, whoever he or she may be, should choose his or her own vice presidential candidate," said Pelosi, who will chair the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August. "I think that's appropriate. That's where you would see the comfort level on not only how to run, but how to govern the country.

"And there's plenty of talent to go around to draw upon for a good, strong ticket. I'm not one of those who thinks that's a good ticket."

But Pelosi added that if Clinton and Obama "think that it's a good ticket, maybe it is. But I don't think that we should thrust the vice presidential choice onto the presidential nominee. That's her or his decision to make."

Pelosi also said she agrees with Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean that the nomination should be settled before the national convention.

"I don't want a brokered convention. I think there's too short a time _ maybe just about eight weeks between the end of the convention and the election. And I don't think that's enough time to bring everyone together," Pelosi said.

"I do think that the campaigns have to work their way through this, that we should have all the elections, let the people speak and then we'll find out who our nominee is."

The last Democratic primaries are June 3 in Montana and South Dakota.

Comments

[eugenegerard]

If Hillary gets her hands on Cheney's safe, the world would come to an end.

[eugenegerard]

The Bad Dream Ticket

[americanwomaninpa]

eugenegerard

So true. Can't you just see what the Republicans would do with the two of them on the same ticket?
It won't be pretty.

[loki]

Pelosi and Hillary would be the dream ticket , for corporations and the Neo Con Elitist.
They would be the nightmare ticket for the people. Pelosi is famous for handing Bush anything and more than what he ask for. Only recently has she started to deny the Neo Cons and corporations their desires due to overwhelming disgust with her pandering to them. This will stop as soon as she thinks the air has cleared enough and voters short term memory is no longer focused on her treachery. Hillary, well that is self explanatory. Just look at how has been making the Clinton family Multi Millionaires, and you will see who she is working for. I will give you a hint,,, Its not the American voting public filling her and Bills bank account to over 100 million over the last couple years. 100 million is an awful lot of payback owed.

[CallMeDeaconBlues]

Only one queen bee per nest please!

[savemefromher]

Like anyone wants Mark Penn running around the White House. Hillary's entire staff and surrogates are too toxic.

[miltshook]

How could anyone imagine the two of them running together?

Strangely, regardless of the rhetoric thrown about recently, and the idiotic way Hillary's been running her campaign, their politics are remarkably similar. But they are not compatible at all, politically speaking. His choice of her would be the strangest in history, even stranger than Kennedy's choice of LBJ as his running mate. For one thing, if she would take it (and she wouldn't), imagine two co-Vice Presidents. (You don't think Bill would just sit on the sidelines and watch, do you?) And how could President Obama stand having two people potentially that close, who think they know better, and should be doing the job instead.

And she could never choose him as a VP (not that she'll be choosing one, anyway), because he's not the kind to sit back and play cute puppy, while Bill acts as the ACTUAL Vice President.

I think Obama has a huge array of VP running mate choices, and should not go with the "popular choice. The "Popular Choice" would probably end up being regrettable...

Milt Shook
http://www.pleasecutthecrap.com

[DeanLowe]

You think Bill would just abandon his foundation work?

[jelly450]

I don't think it will happen and hers why:
1st He can't talk about change and a new type of politics and make her the VP
2nd He would have to not only deal with his problems BUT all of the Clinton baggage that he may not bring up, but the republicans certainly will.
3rd: He really does not need her; I mean when was the last time a Republican won New York or California or Mass.
4th This idea that he needs her for the "low income white people" is not valid. When the election is REP vs Dem their ideas and policies are so different. People are either going to vote for their party or not. Also if the country is in an even worse economic recession I think those "low income white people" may start voting for the candidate that represents their best interest. It was a little different when Bush ran; the country was this bad off economy. People could afford to cast their vote based on fear.
5th: Another VP could bring them the Hispanic vote. Maybe someone like Richards
6th The Kennedy/Johnson theory does not hold water because one of them NEVER said that the other was less qualified to President than the Rep nominee.
7th- THEY REALLY DON”T LIKE ONE ANOTHER

[Stevelagain]

The war in the democratic party breaks down to one thing, can the radical left which is supporting one of their own, obama....defeat the rest of the party and asset their total control over the agenda.

This is about more than Hillary vs Obama.....this is about whether or not the far left now has absolute power in the democratic party. And it looks all but certain that they will prevail and take complete control.

Hillary failed to see this or she would have pandered to the far left on her war vote and would now be running against McCain. So the left had to find another candidate, someone who would cater to them....while pretending to not be one of them. Obama is flawed in that respect. His radial far left beliefs, the hateful ones, keep leaking out. and the left has to keep spinning them and recontextualizing them....pretending he doesn't believe exactly what he and they believe. Be it the hateful comments about Christians, massive taxation, huge expansion of government, weakness in the face of terrorism, wide open support of illegal immigration. You name it, Obama is marching in lock-step with the likes of Kerry, Gore, Kennedy, and the rest of the far left.

[CallMeDeaconBlues]

[BWonka]

Poor Steve - still foolish enough to think his and his fellow rethuglican's fear-moongering will improve the chances of the pitiful last-resort candidatee of his beloved dead-elephant party. Too bad his inability to see the flaws in his own party and his own candidate makes his opinion irrelevant.

[CallMeDeaconBlues]

Well don't look now but the party hacks are about to choose your candidate for you.

[castrochavez08]

The neocon tactic of branding very moderate Americans as "far left" is on display daily at FoxNews, MSNBC, and is featured weekly on CNN.

The "far left" label is being applied to moderates in a typical devious right wing fashion. It does not fit.

[Gandhisfist]

Unfortunately, the so-called "far-left" doesn't actually have a candidate in the race.

[LiberalBuzz]

Don't bother answering people like Steveagain. He is what is called a "concerned troll" not much different than a regular troll, but they try to come across as "moderate" when in fact they are just trolls using a different tactic. Using words like "Radical left" when they have no idea of what that means; it's just what they have been told to say.

Radical left...that is freaking hilarious.

The Far Left? Seriously?

Does anyone even buy that nonsense anymore?

[AjicNYC]

This website makes me thankful for MSM , Hello their IS a wright story lol , You guys are a joke , way to cherry pick your topics and keep Americans blind in a little box

[GBecker]

There's also a war in Iraq and you're disappointed HuffPo doesn't have anything on Rev. Wright? Wow, didn't know you were such a fan of his.

[LiberalBuzz]

What exactly IS the Wright story?

AND did you even ever hear the ENTIRE SERMON and not just the CHERRY PICKED PART?

Hearing the entire sermon changes EVERYTHING he said.

Trollz ya gotta feel sorry for their parents.

[deejsmom]

why are you here? Just curious - if this is a blind in a little box - go expand your horizons.

[marc1antony]

You lack any kind of substance in the statements you make. You say that this site is a joke, and yet you remain and make snide and nasty remarks of absolutely no value or worth to explain your position in this election.

[DELICIOUS]

TOO BLOODY BAD PELOSI. WE THINK IMPEACHMENT OF BU$HIT AND CHENEY IS A GOOD IDEA AND YOU HAVE DROPPED THE BALL BADLY ON THAT POINT SO YOU SHOULD SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND COUNT THE BLESSINGS YOU HAVE LEFT.

[CallMeDeaconBlues]

It never was the intention. The joke was on all the unsuspecting voters in SF who bought that line of garbage. Oh Nancy called, She is on her way to the bank, Laughing!

[Careful]

She's on her way to the bank??? What the hell are you babbling about?

[souris]

.........I'm in reverie, and guess what? The name "Clinton" NEVER comes up in my dreams for a new tomorrow in America..................every time I think of "Clinton" I think of bought-and-paid-for corporatism, and business as usual in D.C., and I really, really want to scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mcnairbo]

Thanks momma Pelosi but I think we can handle this decision on our own. Why don't you go back and keep taking impeachment off the table?

[CallMeDeaconBlues]

It never was on the table. It is just the ilk that was fed to unsuspecting voters.

[Ammobob]

Never has the POTUS race been between two sitting Senators, and I believe, only four Senators have ever been elected to the office. So combining a Senator with the House Leader is really stretching the odds of winning. It'll never happen and in this case, Ninny Nancy would be atrocious as VP in any world.

[CallMeDeaconBlues]

Might want to go back and read the article first then post. Otherwise you will be confused with just another "drive-by" poster.

[BWonka]

Uh, guess reading comprehension is still not your strong suit - this was about a Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton ticket. Not about Pelosi being VP. Typical - a simpleminded rethug who can't follow a simple story.

[CallMeDeaconBlues]

Hey don't push him over here on our side. You keep 'em. I find most "drive-by" poster are progressives (Marxists) anyway.

[Bluesero]

Hillary (as well as Billary) is becoming to the Democratic Party what Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee were to their respective political association; sidewalk detritus left by four-legged creatures. In the end, only the Republicans will be able to stomach the stench.

[savemefromher]

Huckabee and Ron Paul weren't destructive to their party. One can argue that they brought in new people, and Huckabee himself is campaigning with McCain in Arkansas, as we speak. Hillary is destructive.

[Jason357]

Clinton is proving how unworthy she is by all of the crazy logic she is trying to pass off. Jon Stewart did a good job of comparing what she said when she was the front runner with what she's saying now. Yet, the MSM never accuses her of a flip-flop, which she does all of the time. She is totally unsuitable for President of the US. I'd prefer Jim Webb, but of the three running, I'd choose Obama or just not vote.

[DELICIOUS]

NO SHE ISN'T ...JUST IGNORANT PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE EVERYTHING THAT THE RNC UNDER ROVE IS PROPAGANDIZING IS REICH UP YOUR ALLEY.

[CallMeDeaconBlues]

All this from a person who was gullible enough to believe that Pelosi was going to start impeachment hearings.

[savemefromher]

Another day, another defection from Camp Clinton.

"Well, NBC News has learned that a major fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, former Amb. to Chile Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon is leaving the campaign to join up Barack Obama's campaign. Officially dubbed a "Hillraiser," Guerra-Mondragon raised nearly $500,000 for Clinton's campaign."

"Among the reasons for Guerra-Mondragon to defect, according to one informed source, was he was uneasy with the tone of the Clinton campaign and was beginning to worry about what this would mean for the general election."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/25/946650.aspx

[gala1]

How short memories tend to be.

Or maybe you don't know that when Clinton first ran for NY Senator she got dumped on big time by those who had fifty million reasons why she couldn't win there either. Including endless polls saying just that.

Election Day came and voila.
That flyover neglected part of the population, that being the majority, dears, flocked to the polls and she won in a landslide.
And that was even before she showed how capable and accomplished she could be.

Like it or not, Hillary has no reason to be anything but first on a dream ticket.
The democrats are not running against Obama , they are running against McCain.
And you can't balance a stick with a career Senator war hero that triumphed over nightmares against a newbie rhetorician who has nothing to offer but talk of dreams upfront and a lot of swiftboating since. The public has caught on to the Swiftboating concept and now, sinc ewe ar eall inclined to want tangibles more, it will do nothing but sink its instigators

What would happen is Obama as candidate would create write-in groundswells for Hillary and split the ticket. The Clintons are the gutsiest people in politics and know how to take smart chances. And mostly they've been good for this country. Do you have any idea how many voters they can bank on to make this happen? No? Look at Hillary's NY elections, who elected her and count those numbers.



gala

[TiffanyHusseinBanned]

What is Hillary's path to the nomination?

[savemefromher]

Hey, sounds great! Unfortunately, it takes 2024 delegates to get there. Please explain how this will happen. If you so wish, I can easily explain how Obama gets there.

If this was the beginning of the nomination process, she would have a shot. Unfortunately, we have had 45 contests, and only 9 states are left (Only 1 big state - North Carolina).

As far as your notion that Hillary had no chance in the polls in NY, that is just not true. I was a volunteer for Hillary's campaign in NY, and your statement about being down in the polls is an absolute falsehood.

[marc1antony]

thanks for the link. Perhaps now the Puerto Ricans will see Ms. Clinton for what she has become. The American Imelda Marcos: "Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defense, anything goes."