Novak: Michelle Obama Nixed Hillary As VP

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."

Comments

[PAposter]

There are so many f*cking reasons not to offer her the VP spot, Michelle wouldn't be able to get a word in edgewise if I were in the room when that opportunity presented itself. AS IF anyone is shocked that there may be some resistance to Hillary and Bill hanging out with the First Couple. LMAO!

[jubo]

Indeed there are many such reasons. Hopefully her name will become an adjective in future politics, a la McGovern et al Goldwaters­...

[MiddleRoad1]

Absolutely. And if Michelle resents the bludgeoning that Hlllary has been doling out to her husband, can anyone really object to that? I am just a supporter and I resent her like hell.

[Zogtastic]

His article doesn't even make any sense.

Bill Clinton's been attacking Obama... why? Because it's what the First.. umm... Person does!

Hillary said it best, it's because he loves her (she said, not me) and wants to defend her honor. So goes Michelle, she's a strong woman and when she sees her husband under fire, she's gonna fire back.

Neither Bill nor Michelle reflect on the VP pick.

[enskog]

go obama

[Tropiholic]

Why have they put a picture of a corpse next to Obama? It's distasteful.

[casey451]

Gotta give it to Obama. He didn't pick a spouse based on how she would embellish his political image. They should muzzle her and stick her in the basement.

[DesertLight]

I think the point is they tried. She just keeps getting loose.

[maribelle1963]

God help the poor fool who tries. That woman has a rod of iron running up her back-and more power to her for it.

You who'd like to see a shrinking violet in the role are too much. Give me a brassy woman who knows what's what any day.

What did Laura Bush ever do with her seriously powerful pulpit as first lady? Pitifully little.

[casey451]

DesertLight, did ya notice how JiminNC dumped my two posts? What a pus*y.

[maribelle1963]

It takes a strong man to marry a strong woman and a smart man to love her for it. She'll be a fabulous first lady--part Jackie O, part Eleanor Roosevelt.

I can't wait until she gets into the White House and really lets down her hair.

Go Michelle!

[DesertLight]

The media is salivating as well.

[Independent voter]

I can't quite see where you got anything negative out of this brief piece.

[PAposter]

Independent_voter: Are you being facetious?

[rabrophy]

Do you really believe what Novak writes?
I'm sure the Girls and boys at Huff Po put this in for a goof!
Good Grief, in the same column the flaccid old fool calls Gov. Strickland a Moderate because he got an "A" rating from the NRA!

[kgb999]

Robert Novak - conservative mouthpiece. Do you think:

A: He's really got insider information.

B: He thought of what would really piss off Clinton supporters and is trying to make this a "catfight" between Michelle and Hillary based on fabricated super-secret "inside" sources.

Answer: B

[getoffmedz]

Someone really ought to tell Bob Novak he's irrelevant and out of a job.

[Canukistani]

Does this twisted and miserable old fool still have an audience that's willing to put any stock in what he says? That just doesn't seem possible.

[abby4ever]

Huffington put enough stock in it to do a headline and thread on it. My question is: why?

[Mapleave]

Michelle is going to be demonized by the GOP. Part of their shameless arsenal. She can handle them just fine. Just like her husband. Grace under fire.

[uheardme]

Good, then it should be open season on Cindy McCain. Or open prescription cabinet, that is.

[overclocker1980]

Anybody with half a brain wouldn't want her having running anything more then a lemonade stand at a KKK rally. This isn't really news.

[QLorraine]

I have some beachfront property in Idaho for you if you believe Michelle Obama would be speaking to that windbag Bob Novak.....­....

[JiminNC]

And clearly you have half a brain. Fortunately, the vast majority of Americans have full and intact brains, regardless of how they use them. You will be OK, just remember the 1st and the 15th.

[DesertLight]

Is Rev Wright speaking again? Oh, wait that was just Michelle talking.

[maribelle1963]

How interesting that NO ONE EVER CALLS HER MRS. OBAMA.

She should be lucky, I guess, that they don't call her "auntie".

Invariably, when Michelle enters the conversation, you get a racism/misogyny twofer!

[DesertLight]

How interesting that no one called Mrs Clinton, Mrs Clinton. What is your point?

[sharonh]

You mean the way they say "Mrs Clinton"? Does that mean that people who don't refer to me by my formal name are: (1) male--misogynist, (2) female--racist.

[uheardme]

I hear you. You're right.

[thegreatgiginthesky]

Ah yes, Bob Novak the neo-con Bush dog who has never met scum or a-hole he wouldn't sniff and lick.

[donaldw6]

Traitor!

[nellie]

Absolutely.

[eurydice]

No, I think that EVERYBODY has nixed Hillary as VP.

[ErnestineBass]

Is it just me, or does Novak bear an uncanny resemblance to...

http://usersites.horrorfind.com/home/horror/blackylagoon/

[iBgood]

Why is this hideously repulsive jerk still around?