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

[DocThink]

Oh puh-leaze! Huffington Post, please take this drivel article off your top stories. Kill it, or at least bury it! Novak is far from a legitmate source for this story.

[Relax08]

Don't be fooled folks. This is just the Neo-Con's decision to race bait some more by portraying Michelli as a mean old black person that holds a grudge. I wonder what we should start using to disparage that spoiled little husband stealing cheerleader? What would work there?

Don't like that RNC, well then stop this crap in it's tracks or it will come up and beat you across the head until you are silly. There's a lot more baggage in the McCain family and a lot more family traits there that would make anyone concerned about letting McBush get anywhere near the White House other than a social visit.

[bitabingbitabangbitaboom]

May Novak Die an Unnatural Death......................he is a Liability to the Union!

[hmmmmmer]

Novacula is a traitor to the US and a blood sucking scum bag. He needs to retire and shut up about anything that travels through the space between his ears.

[bioslois]

I would nix Hillary as the VP choice too!! Great minds think alike, Michelle. Hillary and Bill would do all that they could to jeopardize Obama's Presidential campaign from the "inside" and might do so anyway. All the Clintons really are concerned about are the Clintons.

[izAriver]

In the words of Jon Stewart, "bob novak is a douchbag".

[loball]

That is funny- When I saw the headline I thought how the hell would Novak get the scoop on that.
If it is true- as an Obama supporter- I second the motion.

The Clintons would never give Obama enough room to run his presidency. It would be like voting HRC into office.

[AxelDC]

How does Bob Novak know what Michelle Obama is thinking? Did Scooter Libby tell him?

[Grannysue]

Hey Novak, why don't you go out with Gramps McSame and bring along your girlfriend Ann Coulter, I hear there are a good many KKK meetings that want someone there to represent them.

[Chapmanp2]

I hope the response from Obama's campaign is indeed real.
Novak & the right will try to play this as a "story" to attempt to further alienate Hillary voters away from Obama. If anybody's got any extra cpoies of the Novak article I'm runnin' a little low on TP...

[olivia]

I don't know why the moderators keep deleting my posts merely pointing out that Michelle Obama is a strong woman, and feminists (I consider myself one) ought to warm to that.

What is offensive about that?

[lisakaz2]

Who knows. Someone deleted my joke about "bombing with Rice" to misunderstand the headline as launching Condi on 'em.

[4wehttam]

Novak is a republican pimp. Nobody listens to him and his inane rants.

[Tom95134]

You got that right.

[KarateKid]

This was written by Ann Coulter's boyfriend; talk about Bigot and the Beast.

[LABC]

The comparison to T.P is appropriate, seeing as Novak looks like constipated troll - I don't know why he just doesn't report directly from Cheneys' buttocks...

[marc1antony]

the toilet paper in every portapotty