This Team of Rivals business
I'm still for Barbara Mikulski of MD (only partly tongue in cheek). Short, female, tough, blue-collar, white, probably Lesbian, what' s not to like?
But there was a letter in the SF Chron today suggesting that Dean broker a deal with Clinton heading the ticket in 2008, then they switch in 2012.
Well.
That certainly worked well for Gordon Brown with Tony Blair, didn't it?
There are other items saying that Clinton money people are suggesting they might get stingy if she is not on the ticket. Team of Rivals and all that sort of thing.
Well, well.
Although the Clinton camp says any talk of angling for the VP slot is untrue, who can believe anything they say?
Maybe Clinton is figuring she can be the "good" Cheney.
The unspoken -- until today -- additional item here is that Clinton will be in place if, uh, something should happen to Obama. Suddenly, the increased likelihood of an Obama assassination has come back into consciousness. It was there at the beginning, you know it was, but I for one haven't thought about it for a while. Maybe you have. There is no doubt in my mind that the Clintons have. They think of and about everything. This will also give the paranoidistas (not me, not me) a chance to talk of dark Clintonian plots. Gives me a bad feeling, let me tell you.
But there was a letter in the SF Chron today suggesting that Dean broker a deal with Clinton heading the ticket in 2008, then they switch in 2012.
Well.
That certainly worked well for Gordon Brown with Tony Blair, didn't it?
There are other items saying that Clinton money people are suggesting they might get stingy if she is not on the ticket. Team of Rivals and all that sort of thing.
Well, well.
Although the Clinton camp says any talk of angling for the VP slot is untrue, who can believe anything they say?
Maybe Clinton is figuring she can be the "good" Cheney.
The unspoken -- until today -- additional item here is that Clinton will be in place if, uh, something should happen to Obama. Suddenly, the increased likelihood of an Obama assassination has come back into consciousness. It was there at the beginning, you know it was, but I for one haven't thought about it for a while. Maybe you have. There is no doubt in my mind that the Clintons have. They think of and about everything. This will also give the paranoidistas (not me, not me) a chance to talk of dark Clintonian plots. Gives me a bad feeling, let me tell you.
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Well, at the least, I wouldn't want someone standing behind ME who talked about my assassination as a reason to stay in a race against me. Not, because I was all that worried about an assassination attempt from the person behind me, but simply because, well, it would feel strange having someone at my back who publicly had indicated they were there because "you never know."
May 23, 2008 5:25 PM | Reply | Permalink