Question: Why does Hillary want to be VP?

[theboss]

I understood why Edwards wanted to be VP in 2004.

He was out of the Senate. It's a national position. And it automatically makes you the front runner 8 years later.

Why does Hillary want it?

It's a shiity job.
She can't be more "national" than she is now.
There are fewer more prominent jobs than Senator from NY.
Is she really going to run in 2016 when she will be 68?

I really don't get it.

[PBS Poll-435]

1. A few reasons

1. History-making.

2. It is freaking Vice-President

3. House in NY has termites.

[scheming daemons]

3. Some more....

1. She can work behind the scenes for 4 years to get Obama impeached

2. She can hope that the target she put on his back (the "assassination" comments) comes to fruition.




Yeah... I'm not afraid to say it.


She's that power-mad.

[PBS Poll-435]

9. Impeached?

Hillary Freaking Clinton?

Who went through MISERY because of an unfair impeachement?

[scheming daemons]

Yes.... so she could step in.

[PBS Poll-435]

15. You didn't read the text

[weezie1317]

30. Because she can't let go. I'd have a hard time with it, too.

[damntexdem]

2. I'm not sure, but Obama had better get a food taster.

[PBS Poll-435]

6. Why is that?

:shrug:

[scheming daemons]

13. She used the "A" word....

[PBS Poll-435]

16. So has Michelle, hasn't she?

:shrug:

[scheming daemons]

20. Nope.... never used the word...

[PBS Poll-435]

22. That's right...

She just said Barack could be shot going to the gas station.

Not the same thing at all.

[dbmk]

56. In fact it wasn't

It was more of a "you can get hit by a car crossing the street" remark. That there is always a risk when leaving the house. It was not tied to Obama, the political candidate. It was dismissive of the idea.

[goldcanyonaz]

4. To bring the party together and win the White House

[theboss]

8. Seriously, what is the real reason?

[BlooInBloo]

(snarfle) No, seriously.

[Adelante]

5. This is part of her own little Operation Chaos going on today nt

[mudesi]

7. Bill really wants back in the White House (nm)

[Growler]

10. She left her cell phone in the WH

... and hasn't had a good excuse to go back and get it?

:shrug:

[razors edge]

11. She's thinking LBJ.

[Skwmom]

12. In OH they said Hillary WOULD be the VP b/c she would be in the catbird seat.

In other words she would be like Johnson was to Kennedy. It had to be the Clinton camp pushing this idea.

[CakeGrrl]

14. I have an idea

"We all remember Bobby Kennedy..."

"Anything can happen."

One teeny, tiny step from Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton.

[bunnies]

17. Because "Obama cant win without her".

See, she's doing the Democrats a favor... Isnt she a darling?!

Thats the new bullshit talking point. Just heard on MSNBC. :nuke:

[Window]

29. That is such utter bullshit. If anything, she might cause him to lose.

[bunnies]

34. You and I know that. But the Low Information Voters???

It pisses me off. :nuke:

[krawhitham]

18. "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated"

[DefenseLawyer]

19. She continues to be relevant and will have a public forum

so she can continue to sabotage the Obama campaign and get ready for 2012. Machiavelli, part of one, your table's ready.

[Andy823]

21. Because now

She can bring it out "she will accept" the VP slot, and if he says no, her radical supporters will go crazy, and keep this crap going all summer, which in turn could help McCain. And we all know that if Obama doesn't win in November, Hillary will be running again in 2012.

If Hillary is on the ticket, Obama's odds go down because it will rally the republican base to get out and vote like nothing else will. Republicans that were read to cross over and vote Obama will not do so if Hillary is on the ticket. Independents who would have voted for Obama because of his stand on the Iraq war, will not vote for him with Hillary on the ticket.

It's all calculated to help her, nothing else matters in their world!

[Meshuga]

23. I thought she said something like, "only if it helps the party"

So this VP story might be just bogus stuff pushed by the media.

[AzDar]

24. Because Bobby Kennedy.......

:puke:

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[MiniMe]

26. She won't wait until 2016, she will run in 2012.

VP or not, she just thinks she will be in a better position if she is VP.

[Blue_Roses]

47. she can forget it. Her supporters will be much older and the young

voters now, will remember.

[MiniMe]

51. I didn't say it would be successful

I was just refuting the OP who said 2016.

[Lautremont]

27. "We all remember John Kennedy was assassinated only three years into his presidency."

[Hart2008]

35. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

Hillary just loves thinking about assassination scenarios....

[spoony]

38. All of you who are implying she'd murder Obama to be president

desperately need to get some fresh air, as exposure to GDP has numbed your brains. Clinton is not a murderer. She did not kill Vince Foster, either.

[Lautremont]

39. Look, I don't even know who Vince Foster is.

And I don't think Clinton would murder Obama to be president. However, if you believe the thought that someone else might would never cross her mind, you're a little naive.

[spoony]

45. Well for one thing I should've

put that post in response to the OP, because there are other posts that suggest far more than yours did. Mea culpa on that. But even though I've sometimes been disquieted by her campaign, I don't attribute the malice to her that so many do. I don't think her plan is to step into the Oval Office over Obama's body, whether by her hand or someone else's. It isn't naivete, but a disagreement with the way some here view her character.

[billyoc]

28. She doesn't want it, she just wants to be able to turn it down.

She knows she wouldn't get 10 feet through the vetting process, she just wants to be offered the spot.

[WA98296]

31. Only a heartbeat away

[Stephanie]

32. So she can poison Obama's soup.

[onenote]

33. Because she believes Obama will win.

That is the only possible reason. She thinks Obama will win and she thinks he will be president for 8 years and basically this is her only shot at national office.

If she thought Obama was going to lose, she would stay off the ticket, since being the losing VP candidate doesn't set you up very well to run for president yourself (ask John Edwards if you don't believe me). And if she thought Obama would win but then fail as president to the point where he was vulnerable in 2012, she'd be screwing herself because, as part of the administration, she would be in a difficult position to run against Obama. She'd be better off outside, looking for an opportunity to take the nomination away from an incumbent Obama (a la Kennedy going after Carter).

So basically, if she really wants onto the ticket, it reflects her wagering that Obama is going to win and he's going to be reelected.

[spanone]

36. cheney has greated elevated the veep spot

[LoZoccolo]

37. She thinks she won't get the spot, Hillary supporters will thus get angry...

...and not vote for Obama, he will lose, and then she can run again in 2012. She is still employing the Tonya Harding strategy. Most people don't announce that they'd like to be VP.

[skiekite]

44. Do what I want or else

I will bring everyone down with me even though "I don't deserve to be on Obama's ticket" because I'm a disgusting politician.

[Matariki]

40. What's wrong with a presidential run at 68?

[skiekite]

41. If Obama Picks Hillary as VP

why should people vote for him?

[greguganus]

43. Exactly!! n/t

[greguganus]

42. She wants to seduce Bill in the Oval office. n/t

[LucyParsons]

46. I agree; I don't get it either

It was my fellow Texas John Nance Garner who pronounced the vice presidency "not worth a warm bucketfull of spit".

[americanstranger]

48. Numer One condition of becoming VP...

She gets to be president.

- as

[Crunchy Frog]

49. I think she's hoping that he'll lose and she'll be positioned for 2012.

[apocalypsehow]

50. Precisely. n/t.

[moondust]

52. She wants a seat at the head table.

She wants to be in on all the briefings and the intelligence and the state dinners and on and on so that she and Bill will have all the information they need to run the country and make life impossible for the real President.

[nebula]

53. Hillary is nuclear toxic waste

She scares away more voters from the ticket then she attracts.

[LordJFT]

54. she will take whatever power she can get

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

55. To a narcissist, life outside the spotlight is unbearable.

[Stop Cornyn]

57. Bill wants her to be VP. I see no evidence that she wants to be VP.