Bill Clinton: A Clinton-Obama ticket would be 'unstoppable'

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Source: CNN

(CNN) — Even as Hillary Clinton's campaign attacked her rival, Barack Obama, for failing to "deliver on his promises," her husband, former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that a joint ticket pairing the two would be "almost unstoppable."

The former president referred to his wife's own comments that indicated a willingness to consider the prospect. "She said yesterday and she said the day after her big wins in Texas and Ohio and Rhode Island that she was very open to that and I think she answered explicitly 'Yes' yesterday," said Clinton during a Mississippi campaign appearance.

"I know that she has always been open to it, because she believes that if you can unite the energy and the new people that he's brought in and the people in these vast swaths of small town and rural America that she's carried overwhelmingly, if you had those two things together she thinks it'd be hard to beat."

He added that, in his view, Obama would win the "urban areas and the upscale voters" while Clinton claims "the traditional rural areas that we lost when President Reagan was president. If you put those two things together, you'd have an almost unstoppable force."

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It looks like Bill is getting ready for the inevitable. Especially since it looks like Obama will win this thing if even by the narrowest victory.

Edited by Admin to fix Source; link was messing up homepage formatting.

[pbca]

1. Obama has already said No n/t

[skooooo]

7. Is Bill stalking Obama??

I mean Obama has already said NO to this. What doesn't Bill understand about the word "no?"

I think it speaks to the desperation of the campaign. On the surface, the Clintons are acting like they still are viable, but they are not. They want to bargain with Obama before they lose any more status with the voters.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

25. Bill, dear - if at all, it is Obama-Clinton, please get it right!

[donheld]

74. NOT LATE BREAKING NEWS

This is an item on a blog dated 3/8/2008.

[donheld]

75. NOT LATE BREAKING NEWS

[Missouri Blue]

50. No matter what Obama might say, it's being considered.

But Obama knows there's going to have to be a lot of negotiating if there's any deal. Obama saw what happened to Al Gore under the Bill Clinton administration. He would have to be assured that won't happen. Also there's the question of: what will they do with Bill who will obviously will come in as the closest adviser, which is likely going to hang Obama out to dry.

It would almost have to be a power-sharing deal: Obama on domestic concerns, Clinton on foreign affairs. Even with that, Obama would have to be on top of the ticket.

Or they might come to some agreement, like HC gets the presidency this year but in 4 years Obama will run.

HC wants this election bad, because in eight more years, she will be 68. That's almost John McCain ancient. This might surely be her last chance to be president.

[frog92969]

56. ????????!

[Iceburg]

68. Good -- now she is free to ask Wesley Clark to be her VP/nt

[Cha]

2. Ya guys are nutz bil...go back and dish

on the rush limpbaugh show and quit your pipe dreamin'

[Kittycat]

3. Too bad bill. You're going to have to find a way

to pay off your promises some other way.

[Larkspur]

4. Hillary will be like John Kerry in 2004

she'll turn off more people than Obama can attract.

[roseBudd]

64. It's neither of their faults, people just don't feel them

[karynnj]

78. John Kerry nearly won in 2004 in an environment that was hostile to any Democrat

There is absolutely NO comparison between the high road, decent campaign John Kerry ran and what the Clintons are doing. Get over the fact that Kerry SOUNDLY beat Dean and the others running in 2004. The fact is that he got 9 million more votes than Gore in 2000.

I talked to a swing voter who voted for Bush - she had no problem with Kerry or his wife as people - the problem - as someone who was a teen during WWII, she thought it was wrong to question a war when we were in it - thus "Wrong war, wrong time, wrong place" was not ok. Furthermore, she knew that his constant comment that it was not a "war of last resort" meant that it was not a just war - and she gave him enough credit as a Catholic to know that. She also thought that questioning how the war was run should not be second guessed. Now, how would any Democrat win people like this - and there were many - just in her circle of friends. (She had voted Gore, but 6 months after 911 was saying that it was a good thing that Bush won. She was a classic case of someone who rallied around the President, because to her that's what you do when the country is imperiled.)

Kerry is now an excellent surrogate for Obama - and many people who learned a lot with Kerry in 2004 are with Obama.

[thunder rising]

5. BC said the same thing about Hillary!

[DJ13]

6. Dear Bill

Get screwed.

Your wife has lost, move on.

[orleans]

8. dream on, bill n/t

[aquart]

9. It's polite and generous.

Not what one can expect from the Obama contingent.

[MercutioATC]

20. How is the losing candidate offering 2nd billing to the frontrunner "generous"?

it's laughable...and it's not going to happen.

[judasdisney]

44. Losing candidate offering 2nd billing to frontrunner is AUDACITY of JOKE

MercutioATC is correct. What a joke.

Who do the Clintons think they are? Royalty?

[John Q. Citizen]

28. Maybe in Hillaryland losing is really winning? Which Hillary is she today?

[TwilightGardener]

29. It's neither. It's lying to blacks in Mississippi for the black vote. Shameless

and unconscionable, but that's the Monster family for you.

[roseBudd]

65. Hmm, you are right, timing anyone? Missisippi?

[Cant trust em]

35. Not sure that offering the person you are are behind

to play your second fiddle is polite. There's no good reason for Obama to be Hillary's wingman.

[Yael]

43. Generous? It is flat out rude

[Botany]

10. No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clinton Obama or Obama Clinton

28 years of a bush or a Clinton on the ticket is enough.

Time to stop dynastic rule. We had something called the
American Revolution in 1776 to put a stop to that crap.

[tularetom]

11. Um she really has not carried "vast swaths of small town and rural America"

Face reality klinton you fuckin idiot. She may need Obama but he doesn't need her. Mostly thanks to you and her incompetent campaign team.

[roseBudd]

66. Especially since TX & OH had crossover Rs whose nom had already clinched

[dbonds]

12. Lets make a deal you can't refuse.

I know you are beating us now, but we are going to bloody you to death where McCain will walk all over you. You can step out now and still have the VP slot with Hillary or we will see that McCain wins.

[ingac70]

13. Bill and Hill need to find someone elses coattails. n/t

[MercutioATC]

14. Bwaaahaaahaahaaaa

Even Bill's downgraded his message to include Obama.

The only way Hillary's going to get a piece of this is with Obama's help...

...and she's not going to get it.



Clinton/Obama? Hardly.

...not even Obama/Clinton.

[AlinPA]

15. After she trashes Obama they expect his supporters to go along with that? B.S.

[OhioChick]

16. Get Real, Bill. n/t

[Me.]

17. Looks To Me Like He's Using It As A Ploy To Get Obama People To Vote For Hillary

You can go ahead and vote for Hillary, cause she's going to put your candidate on the ticket. It's extremely presumptuous on his part. Sorry to see it, as I used to be a fan. Wonder how HC would like being veep, not that I think Obama would go for it, but why do they presume, the numbers being what they are, that she would be the head of the ticket?

[jordi_fanclub]

24. She needs to be in the ticket to do the same as Bush...

Keep closed the Clinton & Bush dinasties WH files!

GO OBAMA!!!!

[RamboLiberal]

18. Bill after the way you, Hillary and her campaign minions

have trashed Obama - why the hell would he want to be the third wheel in her presidency? If she finds some way to steal the nomination, then Obama would be wise to sit back and watch her probably lose to McCain. After 4 years of McCain Obama would look attractive to Dems. And even after 4 years of Clinton he could have a good chance of challenging Clinton in 2012. We may all have grown weary of her by then.

[speedoo]

19. Right, Bill. Unstoppable for McCain because Hillary is toxic.

Bill, if you are really a Democrat, tell Hillary she's done.

[uppityperson]

21. I wonder what he says about an Obama-Clinton ticket?

[ingac70]

22. No way the Clintons will allow that. n/t

[thereismore]

23. He's delusional. He is not in a position to offer VP spot!! nt

[seafan]

26. To Hillary: Why would you want someone you say is **so inexperienced** to be your VP???

She is beyond Tonya Harding now.

[mzmolly]

73. Please don't blame Tonya for those tears,

she was dodging bullets and it mangled her skates.

[proust78]

27. Why not a McCain-Hillary ticket, since isn't Obama prepared to be commander in chief?

Hillary has said only two people in the race are prepared to be commander in chief. Should't she be getting aboard the "straight talk express"?

[rocktivity]

40. Let's hear it for the Straight Talk Express!

rocknation

[1monster]

30. DAMN! Can't you guys please keep this in GD:P??? Even blocking GD:P

doesn't work when you all start flame wars in Latest Breaking New, Editorials, and Political Campaigns.

[OhioChick]

32. Why'd you click on the article then?

[1monster]

33. Because it was supposed to be late breaking news, and should have had

late breaking news in it.

It didn't. This subject has been covered for a couple of days at least now.

It's just more fuel for the incredibly middle schoolish (and detrimental) squabble the pro-Obama/pro-H.Clinton types have been indulging in for far too long.

Keep it in GD and I won't click on it because I won't know it's there.

[OhioChick]

46. LOL...

Gotcha.

[Zhade]

31. No. A wannabe-cheat like Clinton doesn't deserve the VP slot.

And she's not going to win the nom, so - bye, Clinton.

[rocktivity]

34. Is the DLC that desparate?

Only THEY would be unstoppable!


rocknation

[Cant trust em]

36. This is another way to minimalize Obama

it's just putting out a meme that Obama is second fiddle to Clinton.

[undeterred]

37. Do we need to pass special legislation keeping Bill out of the White House?

I'm beginning to think we do.

[skepticscott]

38. If Obama is smart

that will never happen. Hillary will never play second fiddle for another 8 years. I would really hate to be the only person between her and the presidency. Two years and a day into my presidency, I'd start watching my back.

[Yael]

39. But she lost Texas

[Ameridem]

41. I thought a Mc Cain/Clinton ticket was unstoppable

[mth44sc]

42. Well now heck

if you all would just hand this one to Hillary - Obama could one day have the same shot Gore got.

Just who the hell are these Clintons anyway?

[Baby Snooks]

45. Interesting little slip of the tongue...

"He added that, in his view, Obama would win the "urban areas and the upscale voters" while Clinton claims "the traditional rural areas that we lost when President Reagan was president. If you put those two things together, you'd have an almost unstoppable force.""

What he's really saying is that the more intelligent voters will vote for Barack Obama while the not-so-intelligent voters will vote for Hillary Clinton. And I will leave it at that.

The Clintons are obviously worried - they keep offering the vice-presidency if Barack Obama concedes now. Why should he concede?

Like it or not, Barack Obama can also pull some Republicans who reject the rabidness of their party which John McCain has begun to pander to as well as some Independents. No Republican will vote for Hillary Clinton. Few if any Independents will.

Reality is America has enough of the dynasty.

[mcollier]

47. Obama Is Unstoppable

Why try now to jump on a fast moving train the Clintons have been trying so hard to stop the Obama train...
The Clintons cannot be trusted...

Obama has a huge amount of suppot and Im confident he will choose a running mate that is trustworthy and represents the type of change in Washington he believes in.... Hillary doesn't represent that change... The are no options for the Clintons... They are the past...

[Forrest Greene]

48. That Is Just Hilarious

Behaving as if he's doing Obama a favor. What a jerk.

[quiet.american]

49. I understand Bill supporting his wife, but my first reaction was -- Bill must be inhaling now. nt

[Kitsune]

51. Clinton would be an albatross around Obama's neck.

I'm no huge fan of either of the two, but I can tell a candidate that will never in a million years win the presidency when I see one.

[JeanGrey]

52. Boy the Clinton's are REALLY getting desperate,

it is comical!! They just won't let go of his knowing it is her only chance. If Obama does he's an idiot. Who would want Hill and Bill breathing down their necks for years?

[Fiendish Thingy]

53. This appears to be a Rovian technique to change the narrative to a new "reality"

I forget the exact quote about the "reality based community" vs. crafting a narrative through repetition, which then creates it's own reality...

In this case, narrative a) Clinton is behind, and cannot mathmatically win the nomination from the remaining primaries (unless she gets Mich. & Fla delegates from the unauthorized votes, plus most of the superdelegates) is being changed to:
Narrative b) Obama may not be good enough to be President, but a Clinton/Obama ticket would be unstoppable against McCain.

[wisteria]

54. No thank you Bill. I don't want a Clinton on any ticket. We need a real fresh start. n/t

[hisownpetard]

55. So Hillary's gonna spend the next 6-7 wks. trying to devalue Obama's candidacy while bolstering

McCain's, and then she's gonna turn around and say that she and Obama should be BFFs and run together?

Yeah. That'll happen.

[dkf]

57. Bill is in lala land. What a blithering idiot.

[susankh4]

58. Bill is correct!

And we will have a combined ticket.

One way or the other.

These two maps explain why:









Obama and Clinton are both gonna have to get over their own egos, and work together... to unite the party.

End of discussion.

[jordi_fanclub]

59. WRONG Bill...

What the two maps shows is:

Clinton edges McCain by a mere 14 votes, while Obama tops him by 22!

[susankh4]

60. Either way, we win!

And together it's a landslide!!!

(Actually, both maps are too close to call. Cuz alot can change between now and November.)

[jordi_fanclub]

61. Nothing points to a landslide...

In fact any day added to the race only reduce the potential landslide!
By several factors, including: a)-increase of opposite opinions and b)-dilapidation of resources.

[w4rma]

70. Hillary needs Florida to win and Obama doesn't? No Democratic nominee for President can win Florida.

Florida's election machinery is corrupt to favor corporatist Republicans.

[Doctor_J]

62. That would be tough now that Hil has declared Obama unfit to be CINC

she already wrote the GOP ads for them.

[roseBudd]

63. I find the Clinton arrogance astounding, shouldn't he be referring to an Obama/Zinni ticket

[cliss]

67. Sure, you bet (wink wink)

Just like the Power Sharing agreement with Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto. Looks like one bit the dust on that plan.

So....Bill...
Who gets the throne?

[ckramer]

69. Obama must say NO to Hillary

Do not team up with a warmonger.

[depakid]

71. Talk about the worst of both worlds

that would be landslide alright....

[Windex]

72. Woo Hoo...let's hear it for Michelle

Hillary:  Excuse me Mr. President but your wife just scratched
out Bills' eyes.

lol


Anyway, it isn't "change" we can believe in.

[and-justice-for-all]

76. Im ok with BO/HRC ticket.....

ANYTHING BUT ANOTHER FUCKING RETHUG ADMINISTRATION!!!!

[DuaneBidoux]

77. I think an Obama/Clinton ticket would be even MORE unstoppable.

Considering he is ahead in every way that matters and there is little hope she can win.