Democratic National Convention '08

[scaeagles]

I have oft been one to think that the very reason Obama would NOT choose Hillary is because if he's one breath between her and the Presidency his last is very much more likely.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I have oft been one to think that the very reason Obama would NOT choose Hillary is because if he's one breath between her and the Presidency his last is very much more likely.

Really, i would think the opposite - that many of the nutbags who hate the thought of a black president also hate the thought of a girl president, and would thus have to kill both of them, and be deterred by the double difficulty.


Yep, I think making Hillary his V.P. would have been an Obama life insurance policy.


But seriously, I hope he is the most well-protected president in U.S. history. But past U.S. history gives me little hope. There was a close-to-successful assassination attempt as recent as Regan ... and I've personally lived through an actual presidential assassination where I believe the Secret Service was either complicit or negligent.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Really, i would think the opposite - that many of the nutbags who hate the thought of a black president also hate the thought of a girl president, and would thus have to kill both of them, and be deterred by the double difficulty.


Yep, I think making Hillary his V.P. would have been an Obama life insurance policy.

I mean HILLARY would have pulled the trigger....or been behind it.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

many of the nutbags who hate the thought of a black president also hate the thought of a girl president, and would thus have to kill both of them, and be deterred by the double difficulty.

Actually, killing both of them would make Nancy Pelosi president, so the degree of difficulty would be even higher if they didn't want a female president.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Tom

Actually, killing both of them would make Nancy Pelosi president, so the degree of difficulty would be even higher if they didn't want a female president.

And getting all three would get us a 90+ year old former Klansman tottering on the edge of senility for president. Which would, I'm sure, make everybody happy.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Alex

And getting all three would get us a 90+ year old former Klansman tottering on the edge of senility for president. Which would, I'm sure, make everybody happy.

Would that really be worse than what we have now?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Heard a good point today - Clinton did not say Obama is "ready to lead" or otherwise repudiate any of her old claims against him. Will Hillary's backers be ok with him answering that phone call at 3am? I'm hoping Bill will attend to some of that tonight....but God alone knows what he's going to say

[scaeagles]

She did quite a job dancing around supporting him without taking anything back. It's exactly what she had to do for herself because she does want Obama to lose and can't act that way.

Bill will make it all about himself. I doubt he even mentions Obama.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

She did quite a job dancing around supporting him without taking anything back. It's exactly what she had to do for herself because she does want Obama to lose and can't act that way.

Bill will make it all about himself. I doubt he even mentions Obama.

Well ya know, it was the primary, do we really expect people to make nice in the primaries? Do we really believe all the politic-nasty-speak in the primary season? I take all the nasty back biting in the primary with a grain of salt. Hillary and Obama and McCain and Romney (if he gets the veep end of the ticket), it's the same.

I don't expect her to take anything back and I fully expect McCain to keep using her primary-era quotes in ads.

[Gemini Cricket]

I'm confused as to what Hillary's nomination means. It was announced at the DNC along with Obama's.