Clinton's Top Gun: "I Have Seen No Evidence Of Interest" In VP Spot

CNN:

Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign rejected suggestions Sunday that Sen. Hillary Clinton is staying in the race in hopes of brokering some kind of agreement with the likely Democratic nominee.

"I don't believe that Sen. Clinton is looking for a deal," Obama's chief campaign strategist, David Axelrod, told "Fox News Sunday," when asked about suggestions she may want the Obama campaign's help retiring her campaign debt.

"I don't think that's what this is about," he said.

Last week, Obama sparked rumors that his campaign would pay off Clinton's campaign debts once he secured the nomination.

Read the whole story: CNN

Comments

[LaVieEnRose]

"Clinton's Top Gun: "I Have Seen No Evidence of Interest" in VP spot"

PHEW!...Th­at's a relief...b­ecause we have no interest in her.

It has nothing to do with hating Hillary, because that's simply not the case. It's about a candidate who through her own machinations destroyed beyond repair any goodwill that existed or could have existed. At the end of the day, it's a shame really, because of everything that could have been.

[donaldw6]

A fitting denouement for this thread, in my opinion -- except, oops! Here comes 14 more.

[VolvoBirkenstock]

Even though Huffy scrubbed, I caught it!

IAM4CLINTON
As a loyal Democrat, I will vote for Obama in the fall-...
posted 05/12/2008 at 00:02:14

After yesterday posting the following.

IAM4CLINTON
This has been hard for a proud card carrying Democrat to say- I have decided, with a lot of pain, that I will vote for John McCain in the general election for President and Democrats down the ticket.
posted 05/08/2008 at 23:16:10

Seems as if we have another tr0ll who can't keep their stories straight.

[ssmit98]

Maybe IAM4CLINTON had a change of heart? Yes?

[VolvoBirkenstock]

No. Just another one who slipped and didn't remember what they had posted earlier.

[AMJordan]

A ditto-head having a change of heart? Don't they need one to begin with?

[kellygrrrl]

nice screen cap Volvo

they have been in such a twitter all weekend, maybe their crashing and gonna need to send in a new shift

[VolvoBirkenstock]

I had pulled up its profile to copy what it had said yesterday. By the time I got back to the thread, its post had been removed.

[TocinoHumano]

Any time you see the phrase "card-carrying Democrat" you know you're dealing with a troll. Simple as that. I'm a Democrat and I don't have to carry a card to prove it. It's in how I live my life every day.

[AMJordan]

Which is how I twigged onto it yesterday. "Card-carrying Democrat" is code brought back from the 1950s when the Repulsives were connecting Democrats with Communists.

[HumeSkeptic]

IAM4CLINTON is having a tantrum. A candy might do the trick. However, in my experience, you give him/her a candy AFTER he/she stops the tantrum.

[AMJordan]

Yes! This is the one that I pointed out was DEFINITELY a Repulsive badjur because of the clumsy "card-carrying Democrat" bit.

[Tages72]

Give her Secretary of State then. She's hawkish enough to talk about bombing Iran, but unlike the Bush Regime, Hillary wouldn't be able do anything without Obama's consent, much less Congress approving beforehand. She's smart enough to do the job, and it may help appease her supporters.

Anything would be better than having Rice there right now.

[ErnestineBass]

OH, HELL NO!!!

We need a DIPLOMAT as SOS.

Do you REALLY see Hillary as diplomatic?

[Kalima]

Not even in a month of Sundays.

[buckygreen]

Off topic, but I'm trying to think of which states McCain will carry in November, after 6 more months of a cratering economy, 6 more moths of constant bad news from Iraq, 6 months of people learning that he means 4 more years of Bush or worse. AZ, and then what?
MS, AL, FL, ID, WY. WV, KY, TN, MS, TX, IN, OK, SC? Then what?

[Dragon5616]

I wouldn't count on FL, TX, IN, and SC if I were the RNC.

[AMJordan]

I think he'll take "God's waiting room".

[AMJordan]

I would say that he will carry AZ, NV, FL, WY, OK and maybe MS, if that.

[buckygreen]

I agree I was trying to be generous. I can't see McCain realistically winning 10 states by the time November gets here.

[realtalk]

People you have to see this article: Bill Clinton is out to ruin the Democratic Party .
Bill Clinton is guaranteeing that no voter from Kentucky or West Virginia will vote for Obama if he wins the nomination, look at the outrageous things he is telling the voters there.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/bill-clintons-m.html

[ErnestineBass]

I suggest that Bill and Hillary start their own party...th­e Hillbillarys.

[buckygreen]

LOL Let me tell you all a story bout a man named Bill,

A rich former prez with an ornery wife named Hill,

Etc Etc :)

[kellygrrrl]

I thought they pretty much already had
They sure didn't do much to help Kerry in '04
and they've obvs got their eyes on 2012 now.

Can you uninvite The Clintons from The Dem Party?
gonna be tricky

[AMJordan]

The Democratic Party was founded essentially by Thomas Jefferson in reaction to Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Party. If in over 200 years someone hasn't been able to ruin the Party, then I really doubt Bill Clinton will be able to.

[Sabreen60]

I don't think the Clintons can ruin the Democratic Party. But what they most certainly are trying to do is damage Obama as much as they can. I think the Super Delegates need to step in now.

[abby4ever]

They needed to step in about 5 weeks ago at the latest.

[williamg]

Yeah, I saw that. He is really stirring up alot of tensions down there.

[ChiGuy]

He's despicable.

[williamg]

A second McCain aide resigns. Marc Ambinder:

Doug Davenport, the regional campaign manager for the mid-Atlantic states, founded the DCI Group's lobbying practice and oversaw the contract with Myanmar in 2002.

"Doug has tendered his resignation and we have accepted it," Jill Hazelbaker, McCain's communications director, wrote in a e-mail.

He joins former DCI Group CEO Doug Goodyear, who resigned yesterday from the post of convention CEO after Newsweek reported that DCI was paid more than $300,000 to represent Myanmar's ruling junta.

Goodyear and Davenport were recruited by McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, who has been accused by some current and former McCain advisers of take insufficient care of McCain's reformer brand by appointing lobbyists to key positions. Ironically, as Newsweek reported, Goodyear was asked to become convention CEO after Davis's lobbying firm partner, Paul Manafort, was nixed because of his own close ties to foreign governments and controversial companies.

[AMJordan]

See, TocinoHumano, what we were talking about? Everyday is another opportunity for the McCain Campaign to put another bullet into it's own foot. Getting stressed about it right now is wasting energy that'll be needed over the long hot summer.

[ChiGuy]

Given that last night there was a thread about this same topic, and it was filled with postings containing some of the worst invective bile directed at Hillary that I've seen @ HuffPo in some time, the sooner she is ruled out as a VP candidate, the sooner some people can calm down.

(Before you attack me for supporting Hillary, I don't. In fact, I volunteer here in northern IL for Obama. I just can't stand gloating or clinging to bitterness­.)

[HumeSkeptic]

Hillary a$$-kisser. And a jihadist.

[VolvoBirkenstock]

Doesn't wear a flag pin, either.

[macbeth]

I don't think she is that. after all she is prepared to nuke Iran. No one else has the guts to unleash that big atomic bomb on the Iranians. Let her at 'em.

[ChiGuy]

LOL!! This coming from a America hating commie dhimmicrat !

[TocinoHumano]

There are some who post here that have nothing else going for them but their hatred of Hillary. Hell, they don't even care about McCain. Hillary is Satan incarnate. Without that they would have no reason to wake up tomorrow. They'd have no reason to go on living. They hate Hillary more than they support Obama. It's all they have. It's pathetic.

[macbeth]

I think it is time for her to give up gracefully before her reputation is irreparably damaged, if it isn't already. A good trainer knows when to retire a nag.

[AMJordan]

Ah, true colors coming out...anot­her teeny-bopp­er...shoul­d have known.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

Are you a new poster, or a reincarnation?

[Trittydi]

This is exactly true.

And they desperately want Hill to be the VP nominee. They just dying to run against her -- in any capacity.
*

[lornejl]

I blame dumbya , the last 7 years has brought anyone paying attention to the brink of insanity.

[ChiGuy]

That, or they've been taking copious notes.

[TocinoHumano]

Yeah, I read your post. Very astute observation. You know your history.

I tip my hat to you, sir/ma'am.

[TocinoHumano]

For some reason my replies are showing up under postings other than those I was responding to. This was to AMJordan.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

Noucant See Profile I'm a Fan of Noucant

Hmmm...did­n't win a single primary between Feb. and just last week...not exactly a streak of victory, eh??? posted

Reply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05/11/2008 at 23:40:40

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Obama won Mississippi

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY March 11, 2008
Open primary: 40 total delegates*

In fact, I remember neo posting the very same false claim about 2 weeks ago.

[SpookyTooth]

sock number 5,228....

[VolvoBirkenstock]

She's still running NoSpinTruthZone on another thread.

[KQuarksSuperKollider]

and VT.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

Additionally, Obama won Vermont

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY March 04, 2008
Open primary: 23 total delegates*
15 tied to March 4 primary, 8 superdelegates

[AMJordan]

I wondered. I might have known it was a badjur. Sorry for mis-labeling it a teeny-bopper.

[tene]

And Edwards' Iowa delegates or most of em at least.

[williamg]

John McCain's top economic surrogate, Carly Fiorina, says that Economists don't matter:

STEPHANOPOULOS: How do you defend that gas tax holiday? I was talking to Senator Clinton last week. and asked her if she could name a credible economist who could support it, and she couldn’t. Can you?

FIORINA: No, I can’t, but, you see, I don’t think it matters. I’m a…

(CROSSTALK)

STEPHANOPOULOS: How can you say that, though?

FIORINA: Because I think economists sometimes argue about the theory. Economists, right now, are arguing theoretically about whether we’re in a recession or not. An American family who is sitting around the kitchen table wondering how they’re going to pay for groceries, fill their gas tank, whether they’re going to stay in their home, whether or not they can send their kid to college this fall. For them, the economy is in difficulty, and all the theoretical discussion is, sort of, irrelevant.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/11/this-week-campaign-surrogate-carly-fiorina-doesnt-believe-in-economists/

[AMJordan]

It looks like McCain got a deal on all those surplus Clinton campaign advisors.

[KQuarksSuperKollider]

People have to realize that McCain would head this country into compete economic collapse. I am not using hyperbole his new tax plan and staying in Iraq for 100 years for a war or occupation would bankrupt this nation. Then the true challenge of the 21st century Chinese economic, political and military expansion will dominate the century.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=mccains_delusional_tax_plan

The worse possible thing the next president could do is lower the corporate tax rate and not get rid of tax loopholes. US Corporations already pay far less then most countries based on the real measure of their tax burden as a percent of GDP. Republicans are trying to run a scam by pointing only to corporate tax rates rather than what taxes they actually pay. Let's not get fooled again.

[macbabe]

FIORINA ruined Hewlett Packard, she lost respect and credibility.

Early retirement was the best thing she offered us before she left.
She was so into moving 50s+ out to make room for the young up coming smart asses, and now she's helping McCain... too funny LOL

[TocinoHumano]

Obama hasn't offered, Hillary wouldn't accept. End of story. Why are there (as of this post) 715 comments on something that isn't even an issue? God, we're going to be so busy talking about unimportant crap like this that the McCainistas are going to run right over us in November. Let's talk about something that actually matters. Who needs Operation Chaos when the Democrats are voluntarily wasting time and energy on this stupid, pointless sh*t?

[AMJordan]

Because it's not there.

[TocinoHumano]

What?

[buckygreen]

Relax. By November, after Obama debates McCain and everyone knows that McCain is offering nothing but more of the Killer Chimps policies, and the voter registration drive turns out millions more new voters, and the recession deepens, gas goes up to $4.00, and the war continues to deteriorate, McCain will be lucky to approach Dole territory.

And actually, discussions about Obama's running mate are perfectly relevant right now.

[TocinoHumano]

I'll relax when Democrats stop tearing each other apart, when they stop repeating 1997 Rush Limbaugh talking points about the Clintons. We have much more important things to see to.

[AllenD]

Good! I am glad that Billary has no interest in the VP spot as I sure as hell don't want to see her there.

[VolvoBirkenstock]

Hillary could pay off her campaign debts by selling raffle tickets.

First prize: the right to burn that yellow pantsuit.

[doneflyin]

I vote for the orange one which is by far the most unbecoming.

Makes her look like the Giant Pumpkin.

[HumeSkeptic]

Not with her in it, I hope.

[AMJordan]

I'd pay at least $50 to watch her take it off, but then again I'm a long-time fan.

[abby4ever]

You're naughty---but funny.

[AMJordan]

I would pay ten buck for that.

[ErnestineBass]

But she gets to take it off first, right?

[VolvoBirkenstock]

Depends on how much she wants to raise, and how quickly.

[TocinoHumano]

Why do you waste time and energy talking about Hillary's pantsuit when, day by day, McCain gets stronger and stronger? Hillary's pantsuit is not important. Stopping McCain is.

[AMJordan]

I'm sorry TH but watching the campaigns, it seems that everyday, McCain takes another chance to shoot himself in the foot. Besides, talking about the pantsuit is stress relief. (Remember the definition of stress).

[buckygreen]

I beg to differ. Every day McCain opens his mouth he weakens an already weak position. McCain won't win 20 states in November.

[VolvoBirkenstock]

"Ya gotta lighten UP, Annelle."

~Clairee Belcher, Steel Magnolias

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

Please find a sense of humor. It was a quip and it was on topic. We can't very well post about McCain when the main threads are consistently Obama/Clinton.

[HumeSkeptic]

With Hillary on the ticket, can Obama get the dumb and racist vote? I doubt it.

[williamg]

As far as I know.

[buckygreen]

Good point Hume. That demographic is not in play for Obama. Hillary would be a fatal drag on the ticket in my opinion. I like Jim Webb.

[HumeSkeptic]

Bill Schneider of CNN now calls Hillary supporters as Red Democrats and Obama supporters as Blue Democrats.

[TocinoHumano]

What an inane comment. What does that have to do with keeping McCain out of the White House?

[HumeSkeptic]

Everything. You might not realize this, but getting more votes is how one gets elected in the GE.

[AMJordan]

Wondering about who would be the best VP won't keep McCain out of the White House? Think again. We need someone who'll strengthen the party so that the juggernaut can just roll over the Repulsives.

[abby4ever]

It's misleading to talk of keeping McCain out of the White House when there's little hope of him getting in.

[ErnestineBass]

You've inadvertantly touched upon something that needs to be discussed, Hume.

[HumeSkeptic]

Is that a polite way of saying that I stepped on sh*t?

[Poohnc]

Why do you hate hardworking white Americans ?

Hillary 08.

[StillIRise]

I agree, and I think it's something that's been overlooked in this discussion, not only between us but by the MSM as well. Both the media and Hillary have been talking for some time about this racist demographic that will never vote for a black man. They call them "blue-collar" workers; but we all know that blue-collar workers come in all colors, and many of them are in fact supporting Obama. Yet, the "blue-collar workers that Hillary and the media have been referencing are white people who will vote for Hillary solely because she is not the black candidate. What's troubled me is the media's blatant indifference to this shameful sector of our nation, which they have virtually sanctioned as an acceptable reality of the electorate. I realize that it IS a reality, but should it be acceptable as well? Can you imagine the outrage if African Americans or Latinos or Asians were known to never vote for a white candidate, solely because of the color of their skin! It would immediately be perceived as something very wrong, and all kinds of psychologists and sociologists would be brought in to try to explain it or fix it somehow. I know that no earthly being is capable of changing the hearts and minds of people who are unwilling to embrace change, but to ignore the implications of this circumstance and the fact that Senator Clinton is consciously appealing to racists to save her campaign, is unconscionable.

[AMJordan]

I could see him getting the dumb vote, maybe, but the racist one is a bit of a stretch.

[KQuarksSuperKollider]

One thing Obama should search out for in the general is Republican support on foreign policy, no not the neocons but the Howard Baker types. I even think an endorsement by Colin Powell would be huge. I think Obama really passed Clinton on foreign policy matters during the campaign. He turned a perceived weakness into a strength. This is another reason that Jim Webb may be the best name on the ticket with Obama as well. Webb is an old school foreign policy conservative which is one of the few times conservative is a good thing.

[TocinoHumano]

Screw the Republicans. They're toast. They don't matter. They're irrelevant. If Obama is half the candidate some say he is, he will brush their America-hating asses aside and get on with the the business of fixing this poor, battered, broken country.

[focher]

I think you fundamentally don't understand what kind of politician Obama claims to be. His entire premise as a politician is that the vilification of those from the other party (or even in the same party, it seems) is the root cause of the division in the country. This is because it leads to the 50% + 1 governing model, which inevitably leaves almost half the country alienated. It seems like you can reject Obama based on whether he can deliver a different approach, but it's harder to deny the consequences of this divisiveness.

In all honesty, McCain is no Bush and to suggest he is seems a bit disingenuous. Granted, he is a conservative and holds positions which are easy enough to disagree with but he hardly can be attacked for being a Bush/Cheney. I will defiinitely vote for Obama in the general and hope he runs a campaign that will allow him to lead ... and not just govern.

[TocinoHumano]

Yeah, that's what Neville Chamberlain said about the Nazis. I say squash them like bugs and sweep them aside. That's exactly the same as they feel about Obama. Only a fool would break bread with those who want nothing but to destroy him.

[kvass]

Why? Why? Why?Would it even be offered to her and to repeat myself - why? why? why? would she ever accept, considering the way her husband managed to marginalize his vice-president. As the media keeps suggesting - her options are still open. But now she must consider her real career. One in which she has proven herself and she is damn good at -- the Senator from new York. From now on she can only jeopardize her possibilities in moving up to leadership positions in that august institution. This week will be really interesting to see if she wants to commit political suicide.

[AdLib]

Hillary's not seen as a "damn good" Senator by all New Yorkers. Unlike Obama, she hasn't sponsored a meaningful bill on important issues...u­nless you include her pork barrel earmarks (she may be the "porkiest" with earmarks in the billions).

Many in NY and around the country would support and contribute to a more progressive Dem challenger when she is up for re-election.

[kvass]

Well she seems a lot better then her running mate who is up one side and down the other on so many issues plus his nonsensical couple the "Baileys". When she comes up for re-election this whole episode will be history -- but a history that could cost her.