Clinton Kabuki

Obama needs Hiliary on the ticket to secure the White House. This is to his benefit not hers. Wake up DNC you are trying to send a complete newcomer to the White House and you've disenfranchised millions of women voters and some. Shame on you. You have set yourself up to lose a given White House this Fall unless you do something substanitial in pulling the party together.

In my mind there is one thing that is certain, Hillary Clinton will strive mightily to do whatever is best for Hillary Clinton. If that coincides with what is best for the Democrat Party or "the people in general" (e.g., Iraq war, economy, health care education) that is naturally good and necessary for her political fortunes. Like any good politician she wants to be percieved as being driven by the latter 2 considerations (Party and People), but despite her voluminous and vociferous rhetoric, I don't believe it for an instant. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

Thank you for letting me post my personal thought. I believe appointing Hillary as the VP would turn a lot of Republicans like myself away from voting for Obama. I have never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in my 37 years of voting. However, I will vote for Obama this year if he does not appoint Hillary for one main reason, I want change! By appointing Hillary he would attach himself to the same old politics we have had since Bill Clinton was elected.
I am a white male Republican and fed up with the way are Government and President is performing and I???m sorry to say I voted for most of them. I travel extensively throughout the world for business and I am embarrassed with our Government and George Bush and the way it portrays the United States. Often when I???m asked where I???m from I say ???Canada Ea???!
Thank you.

A vote for McCain is NOT a vote for Hillary. A vote for McCain is a vote for Geo. W Bush.

There are many McCain supporters posing as Clintonites, urging you to vote for McCain. They are trying to manipulate your mind.

Clintonites everywhere have to ask themselves some hard questions. I know that Obama has been your rival in the Democratic primary, but it pays to know who your real allies are. If you voted for Clinton because you believe in her policies, you would NEVER vote for McCain, whose political stand is OPPOSITE to Clinton's. Even if your don't like Obama or you are ticked off at the fact that Hillary didn't get the nomination, remember, it is not about who you like as much as it is about WHAT they will do in office. Obama's plans and politics are almost identical to Hillary's. Voting for McCain because you are upset that Clinton lost is like shooting yourself in the foot. Do your REALLY want four more years of a failed economy? Do you REALLY want the recession to become another Great Depression?

I am a Republican who decided to vote for Obama, partly because I think he is a great candidate, but even more so because I am very concerned about the economy. Early in the race when it wasn't certain who was going to win the Dem nomination, I used to say that if Obama lost I would vote for McCain. My reason for that was that I'm a Republican, but also because I hated the Bill Clinton drama years, and I just couldn't warm up to Hilary's personality. But two months ago I realized that if Clinton gets the nomination, I would have to vote for her, even though I really don't like her, because voting for McCain would be so dangerous for our economy, which is on the brink of ruin.

I really respected Huckabee's morals and loved his personality, but when I thought it through, I couldn't see him as President, he just wasn't strong enough to tackle the problems facing us today. McCain is in the same boat. You may not like Obama, but you have to admit he ran a great campaign and has some serious chops as a politician. He can get the job done. Hillary could have too.

I don't think Hillary wants the job of VP nor should she take it if offered. I think she could play an important role of reformer in the sense of cleaning up the election process in this country. The democratic party in their actions on the rules committee has disinfranchised about half of the party and I think about one quarter of them will never come back. And that's a lot of votes. Most aggregious is a caucus process where votes basically have to be estimated and where people can voice their choices more than once. I never heard of super delegates before and now it seems that their sole purpose is to sabotage certain candidates for reasons that are numerous, thus becoming self-serving, with the ultimate result of appearring to spit on partyof their own constituency. Never should the parties pick and choose who gets to "go first". It is insulting and basically unfair. Regional primaries (without the flawed concept of caususes) should be held at the same time across the country. By doing so the parties could level the playing field and be fair to everyone. Of course, then the voters would really count and that scares them to death. Don't think that all democrats will fall in line if they feel a process was flawed and unfair. They won't. Obama supporters had better hope that enough will come over so that they can put their candidate in office. Praising Hillary to the sky in the hopes of winning over "stupid" women is just the most patronizing thing I've ever seen and the entire Obama team is falling all over themselves to do it and it doesn't ring true, not for a minute.

John McCain said it right----------the pundits and the elders in the party decided who was going to be the nominee! The pundits, Obama's camp and the DNC did everything they can to destroy Clinton's campaign. And now that Obama is the presumptive nominee, they all expect Clinton to simply forget everything and rally behind Obama!

They are STILL disrespecting Clinton and her supporters and still expect for her and her supporters to rally behind this man! I am just wondering what the heck are people thinking? And people have a nerve to have antipathy towards Clinton because she isn't playing the the game the media, Obama's camp AND the DNC laid out for her!

Clinton-- Your party treated you like trash AND now they want you to fall in line--PLEASE DONT DO IT!

You received more votes than Obama and last night, you both won a state and although he is the nominee he only won his state by a small margin! That speaks VOLUMES!! That is telling you that people are NOT happy with what the Dem party is doing to you! YOU OWE OBAMA OR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOTHING!!!

PLEASE DO NOT CONCEDE! YOUR SUPPORTERS ARE STANDING RIGHT HERE WITH YOU!!

My view, the DNC and Obama did everything in their power to destroy Clinton's campaign and chances-----the Bible say an eye for an I. I say what comes around goes around AND GIVE THEM HELL!!!

I am a male supporter of Hillary, and if she is not on the ticket, I will not vote for Obama (I may not vote for McCain either, but we'll see--and Alvy, you shut up: there!

The person that said it would be a "nightmare ticket" without her is ridiculous...actually, the nightmare would be if she was on the ticket with Obama. She is demonstrated throughout her campaingn the she is about, and solely about one thing, and that is Hillary. Everything else is act, to disguise the real objective and that is for 'her' to accumulate power, and wield it as she will...she does not care about all of the women she rallied in her campaign, short of her getting what she wants and that was the White House. For her, unfortunately...she will have to go about getting that in whole new way!

This so ridiculous. Hillary deserved the democratic nomination and now she won't even have the chance to be the Vice President. In relality she had just as much voter backing as Obama did and in states that will matter in November. Doesn't anybody see this? Obama, contrary to a lot of people's belief, does not walk on water nor does he have much experience in any area. At the very least he should make the offer to Hillary and mean it. She was a viable candidate so why does she have to play this cat and mouse game?

It might actually be a good idea for Obama to make Hillary his VP...It would be a really good life insurance policy..nobody would assassinate Obama..because Hillary would go into power...Its worked for Bush so far. =]

I just want to say this at the perfect time for Hillary to unite the party she decided to continue to be in denial. The entire world knows this election is over and Obama secured the nomination. Why is the heck didn't she support his nomination on DAY 1 - and then I here people saying she wants to be his VP are you sick. She is making it hard that she can be trusted. She can't hold her supporters hostage they know better than that.
OBAMA 08'

Hillary would make a great cabinet member, but for the Department of Health and Human Services. Turn her loose on the insurance industry and watch what happens!

Obama/Sebelius '08

My personal feelings, being a supporter of Hillary Clinton, I would NOT accept the Vice President position but instead continue being in the Senate and help with the convention to gather support for the Democratic party . After what has taken place with the Michigan/Florida fiasco due to the Democrats taking delegates from Hillary and given to Obama that were rightfully hers, because they feel Obama has majority of the delegates instead of being fair and going with the MAJORITY PUBLIC VOTE which CLEARLY shows that Hillary has won, I would say it's going to be hard for Americans to be swayed over to Obama's side. Barrack is going to have to do LOTS of sweet-talking (which he seems to be so good at speeches lets see if it works on us). In my opinion, the Democrats have screwed this up again and if they cannot get a Democrat in the White House this time, well, I'd say the party is in serious trouble. More so than ever. My mother always talks about what it was like when she was little (she was born in 1943) and how they used to stay up REAL late listening to the radio waiting for the voting results to come in BETWEEN the TWO democrat candidates in the National Convention, to see who would be the Democrat Presidential candidate. What ever happen to that process??? That was a true & fair election b/c it was the PEOPLE's vote, not the Super Delegates or whoever makes the decision of how they should distribute the votes. It was done by POPULAR vote. Our government is once again dictating to us how our votes they think should be. Talk about communism - when are the Democrats ever going to get it together??? I think Hillary Clinton should head-up the Democratic Party and help change the system so it's FAIR VOTING and do away with the Super Delegates - b/c they are not so SUPER, they suck. I hope Hillary doesn't settle for Vice President - she is better than that.... and Bill Clinton can do better than being Obama's co-chair.

You guys are still mad at Hillary?? Did she take ths spotlight off your Rock Star?? You all just keep it up...Dems, LOL!!!