Michelle Vetoes Hillary As Veep Pick

Chicago Sun-Times:

Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama.

The Democratic front-runner's wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party's nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility.

A footnote: Support is growing in Democratic ranks for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland as vice president. He would bring to the ticket maturity (66 years old), experience (six terms in Congress) and moderation (rated "A" by the National Rifle Association). He is very popular in Ohio, a state Republicans must carry to elect a president.

Read the whole story: Chicago Sun-Times

Comments

[booker52]

I wouldn't want Hillary on the ticket either!! Gee that would be like having Hillary and Bill!!!

[julieeiluj]

Well honey, that kind of thinking is not going to make you 1st lady. How you think you can push aside a candidate and her followers that has just 100,000 less votes in this primary, and hope to win in the fall is pretty silly. The very woman you veto for v.p. is the only and best hope for your hubby to get into the white house. This is not a time for petty bickering and profiling...there is a world to heal.

[vschicago]

Michele's thinking is right on; you know that Clinton & Clinton cannot be trusted...even as a Clinton/McCain supporter you should know that ;-) BTW, you are right: this is no time for petty bickering and the world will heal faster with all the troublemakers (namely,the Clintons) out of the way.

[cmeans29]

100k? Hillary's math. 600k is the number

[MizFlagPin]

They may be a member of HRC's base she described this week.

[kgb999]

And there is a propaganda story by Robert Novak on the Huffington Post ... Why?

[mcnairbo]

Because the Huffington Post is nothing but a propoganda site. "Duh!"

[NoSpinTruthZone]

Two Huffington Post “reporters” attend a McCain campaign event where one Huffington Post “reporter” asks McCain if he really called his wife a C**NT while the other, Keith Dinsmore filmed him.

[Catharsis]

Sounds like a reasonable question.

[campgranata]

I don't believe Michelle Obama is the over-riding reason but I do believe anyone who would pick Hillary for VP doesn't want to get much sleep. Picture MRS Clinton one death away from the presidency and the president would be dead by the end of January. It is no secret she would do anything to be president and we know breaking the law is not beneath her in her mission.

[Oldtt]

Isn't this a little excessive?

[PennP]

In a word, NO.

[voteobama2008]

I can't picture a day of Obama with Hillary, let alone Michelle with Bill. I really don't think it will happen.

[eXcommunicate]

Strickland's an okay choice, but it smacks of cold hard political calculation. Such a choice lacks a certain sizzle. I'd try to get Hagel. If he accepts, that would certainly be a shock to the Republicans and signal to everyone else that Obama is serious about bipartisanship. Jim Webb would be a great choice well.

[pupbayer]

Please do NOT pick Strickland. We NEED him in OHIO!

[siri2k]

Just one more on the LONG LIST of reasons why I admire Michelle Obama. Sound common sense and she's open and honest about her positions, opinions and estimations.
She'll be a certain asset to President Obama's administration!
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[gladys46]

Michelle will be a class act in that white house. they will continue to come after her for whatever they can get ... that disgusting hanity monster is already at it!

there's something about a "scorned" woman ... hillary may need more therapy .. the manner which she sics bill out there to polarize the nation just for her is telling ... he owes her ... the nation does not! and, i think bill has reduced himself enough at this point!

[ggmome]

This WOMAN, Michele Obama, is no Stepford Wife! This WOMAN, will not be sent out to make comments about a Typhoon that hit a foreign country, and change the subject and speak incessantly about her daughters wedding. This WOMAN is of substance, who will not make derrogatory remarks about Katrina Victims holed up in deplorable conditions after the Katrina disaster.

THIS IS A WOMAN, IN ALL HER GLORY! Watch her lead!

[flydoghead]

Novack hears Satan fart and thinks it is the voice of God.

[olivia]

I think it is usually Dick Cheney farting, and Novak drinking it in.

[gladys46]

Hopefully, this is one time Novak speaks truth.

Hillary is old washington .. precisely what Obama wants to move away from .. her politics seems what Obama wants to change .. slash & burn, pandering for points, etc., etc. So what would hillary bring to Obama white house ... there are many as "smart" if not smarter than hillary ... afterall, she gave GBush "authority" to do something ... geez!

[siri2k]

Exactly, gladys46! And don't forget to also list "back room deals" on Obama's list of "get rid of's".

And her "justification" for her "obliterate Iraq" vote was something like that she really didn't think he'd go so quickly to the war option she helped authorize. i.e. She TRUSTED him!
A double dose of some exceedingly poor judgment there if not down right ignorance. We're toast if she ever gets near a 3AM phone call, I hope you know!

[gladys46]

just imagine what that woman actually said ... she would obliterate Iran ... she's pandering to our jewish bros. and sis. ... i thinks she nuts ... our jewish bros and sis (the masses) just want peace ... they don't people "obliterated" they want peace as does the palestinian masses! alll this kill, kill, kill has to stop somewhere, if not we'll all be just damn dead!!

hillary, a mother, should speak of obliterating a nation ... what about the women and children ... just collateral damage uh!! Sad!

[gladys46]

Hopefully, this is the one and only instance Novak is telling truth.

Hillary is diametrically opposite Barack's platform and his view for our nation. Hillary panders, conjoles and does anything else for her own political advancement ... damn the nation! Hillary, smart you say ... gives GBush "authority" to do anything!

Now, i ask you!!!

[NYC80]

Hillary and Obama will have one thing in common after November and that is that both will go back to the senate. Billary has one goal and that is if I am not the president, then I will not let him be it. So take this VP no sense out of the window, because even if he offers her the VP, she will not take it. The clintons don't play for second place that what you need to realize in your little brains. The masters behind the curtains know that Obama can't be trusted because he is not as vicious or as ruthless as the past 4 republican presidents. Obama is being set up and he knows it, but his rewards is that he will have the credit for being the one that put Billary out of the political scene.

You idiot lefties should know that is a big power behind the government calling all the shots, if you continue ignoring that , and claiming that is conspiracies well the North American Union will hit you in your A$##$.

[KarateKid]

This was "written" by Bob Novak. He dates Ann Coulter. Need I say more???

[Myshkin57]

Yeah... why is Novak ever counted as a reliable source? What a joke.

[patch61]

Conservative columnist Robert Novak alleges in a new column that Michelle Obama has nixed the idea of Hillary Clinton as a VP candidate:

Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama.

The Democratic front-runner's wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party's nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility.


But the Obama campaign brushed off the column in colorful terms:

[Barack Obama] dismissed it with a flit of his hand. He nearly didn't say anything, but then offered: "My wife does not talk to Bob Novak on a regular basis."

Communications director Robert Gibbs suggested afterward that the article should be set aside "in case of a toilet paper emergency."

how did they hear that then? obama

[Insightful]

How does this Obama wife have the temerity to even offer her opinion. The thought of that violent angry woman as our first lady is really sickening.

Who the hell cares what Michele Obama wants anyway. She hasn't done one single thing for this country except grab every advantage the system was doling out and then denounce the USA in a speech which was unforgettable. She is a dangerous ingrate.

[belief08]

This is from and elitist, that hasn't done a thing but sit back and condemn the less fortunate than herself. When you can get out and do something for someone other than yourself then you can voice your racist comments, you and all your fellow elitist racists.

[kcam44]

Angry?

[MizFlagPin]

Better go buy some Pepto Bismo because she will be the first lady of our great nation.

[pupbayer]

Maybe it is Obama's plan that the press and his critics will be so wound up with Michelle and her big mouth and inappropriate remarks they'll never notice what he is or isn't doing. I think it'll work!

[Oldtt]

For a better picture of Michelle Obama, read her Princeton thesis which is easily found on line. She is the quintessential angry black woman. I doubt she would be very satisfied with being first lady in the traditional mold.

[belief08]

It's incindiaries like the media, the white wing conservatives and youself that make up lies about Obama.

TAKE OFF THOSE ROSE COLORED BLINDERS YOU HAVE TAPED TO YOUR EYES AND BRAINS, USE YOUR BRAIN AND EYES FOR YOURSELF. IF YOU SIT BACK AND LISTEN TO WHAT OTHERS SAY WITHOUT DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH, THAT SAYS ALOT ABOUT YOU AND YOUR CHARACTER. YOU'RE A FOLLOWER AND NOT A DOER, YOU THINK!!!!!

[heal57]

I am in total agreement with Michelle Obama; no Hillary on the ticket or she puts Barack in her freezer! Go Michelle!


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