Without Obama, the Democratic Party loses the Presidency. Badly.
Don't put a loser at the top of the ticket.
WASHINGTON - Hillary and Bill Clinton have been talking up the idea that Barack Obama, whom they have called too inexperienced to be president, would make a strong running mate on a ticket headed by the New York senator.
Campaigning in Mississippi over the weekend, the former president was quoted as saying his wife and Obama could form "an almost unstoppable force."
After winning the Democratic primaries in Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island last week, Senator Clinton suggested that she and Obama might end up on the same ticket, with her at the top of it.
Obama won the Wyoming caucuses Saturday, and the latest polls show him leading in tomorrow's primary in Mississippi. He is ahead of Clinton in pledged delegates, but neither candidate is expected to obtain the 2,025 needed for the nomination in the remaining state contests.
As of last night, Obama had 1,578 delegates and Clinton had 1,468. Democratic leaders worry about the damage that could be done if neither Clinton nor Obama has a clear lead by the August nominating convention.
In hailing Obama as a possible vice president, the Clintons are reaching out to him and, perhaps more important, to his backers, whose support she would need to defeat John McCain in the November election.
"The Clintons are in a difficult position," said Dennis Goldford, a political science professor at Drake University in Iowa, who has tracked the presidential race.
"If she wins the Democratic presidential nomination, she would need Obama's supporters. But she needs to be careful. If this talk of him on the ticket is seen as a cynical maneuver, it could backfire and hurt her," Goldford said.
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If Obama does not have
If Obama does not have enough experience to be president then how could he have enough experience to be a heartbeat away from being president? Billary's move is seen as being cynical because it is cynical. What does Billary bring to the table save for their appetites?
COULD Backfire? Delusion city
Don't nobody in the Obama camp see this as anything other than the racist insult that it is. The Negro needs to get to the Back of the Bus and be happy that he's even on the bus. Well, Miz Hillary. Kiss.My.Black.Ass. And, Obama, once he's gotten the nomination, just needs to say, " I can't in good conscience choose a Vice-Presidential Running Mate who has no confidence in my abilities as Commander-in-Chief. Senator Clinton is clear to think that way, but she understands that's why it disqualifies her as an option."