Reply #33: 1. she's still running for POTUS

[iconicgnom]

and she's yet to concede that Obama has won the nomination, saying she's taking it to the convention. Even if an Obama/Clinton ticket didn't mean a certain loss in the GE, and it does and Obama must know it, were he to "offer her the VP slot" at this point he'd simply be attacked for his presumption.

2. she's still running a negative campaign. Even now McCauliffe is blaming Obama for the fallout from her assassination remark, claiming that the MSM (except for FOX, and isn't that a hoot? doesn't that alone tell a story?) has teamed with Obama to attack her unfairly. Even though Obama and his campaign has acted 100% honorably, not only here, but throughout their responses to Clinton's totally negative campaign intent on smearing him with Rev. Wright, "bitter-gate elitism" (good lord, what a reach that smear is!), and so on.

Those two points are enough for now. Why would Hillary's supporters, who are incessant in their claims that the Obama campaign spreads "hate", that there's nothing but "hatred" on DU, etc., why would they expect Obama and the rest of the Dem party to grovel and submit? To put Hillary above all the other good and *uniting* choices for VP. Just because otherwise Hillary will continue her negativity right to August? Because she hints about how her supporters will switch to McCain? Because - she offers only continued negativity otherwise?

3. Obama is in a very good position for the GE, a position that he defined, that he built. Why would Obama acquiesce to pressure from the most negative source, even more negative than McCain's campaign (I'd never have believed it if I weren't seeing it going on and on, right before my eyes!)?

His responsibility to the party and the country is not to acquiesce to that kind of pressure, from anyone, nor to pressure from lobbyists, or any other power broker, but to make his choices based on careful consultation with his trusted inner circle. Nothing more or less is required, and demands from Bill and Hillary or their supporters, or from the MSM or polling companies or etc., should take a back seat. By Hillary's own choice, this is still the primary and it's a primary where negative campaigning from her team is now expected, it is no longer a surprise. Talk about "Hillary for VP", esp. from her supporters, is totally out of sync with that reality.

If it makes me a "hater" in some peoples' eyes to point that out, well, what else is new?