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All Right, People, Let’s Get Moving!

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

With Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign officially over, she is focusing on making sure her supporters back Sen. Barack Obama’s bid.

Throughout the primary season, Clinton and Obama expressed confidence the Democrats would unify once a nominee emerged.

As Clinton closed her campaign Saturday, she urged the cheering crowd of thousands to support Obama in his run for the White House, saying she and supporters should “take our energy, our passion and our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama … I ask all of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me.”

Clinton has vowed to do whatever she could “to ensure that Democrats take the White House back and defeat John McCain.”

The main page on Obama’s Web site has been updated with a message that says, “Thank you Senator Clinton,” and links to a form where visitors can send a message to her.

Clinton’s Web site now urges visitors to “support Senator Obama today.”

Obama released a statement praising Clinton’s presidential run.

“Obviously, I am thrilled and honored to have Sen. Clinton’s support. But more than that, I honor her today for the valiant and historic campaign she has run. She shattered barriers on behalf of my daughters and women everywhere, who now know that there are no limits to their dreams. And she inspired millions with her strength, courage and unyielding commitment to the cause of working Americans.”

(CNN.)

Dubya is, as always, fully in touch with the reality of the moment:

“I thought it was a really good statement, powerful moment when a major political party nominates an African-American man to be their standard bearer,” he said in an interview Friday with an Italian journalist. “And it’s good for our democracy that that happened. And we also had a major contender being a woman. Obviously Hillary Clinton was a major contender. So I think it’s a good sign for American democracy.”

Yes, THANK YOU, Mr. President…the prospect of four more years of McYou but without even the comic relief of your truly astonishing non sequiturs, mispronunciations and bouts of aphasia is…well, unspeakable.

So I think we all know what we need to do here.

On a side note: For those who backed the Hill, if part of the reason you did so had to do with her truly pathbreaking platforms on universal affordable heath care and increased access to college education for yourself and/or your fellow Americans, let them both know. Campaign links are above; click and type like there is no tomorrow. Now is definitely the time to make your voices heard.

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…Hillary the Veep?

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

I’m starting to upgrade my previous estimate of the likelihood of that situation actually occurring–my second upgrade in just a few weeks! (I sound like Microsoft Windows.) Honestly, while what shifted my thoughts on the subject previously from “no way” to “slight possibility” was the ardor and vehemence of many of Hillary’s fans, what has done it this time is the bitterness and outrage of some of Obama’s, at the very idea. Clearly, they would not be so extraordinarily worked up at the prospect if it wasn’t a “real possibility.” I don’t know what it is that they know that I don’t, but I’m willing to concede it must be something, to get them so excited. So that is my latest estimate of the likelihood of Clinton as Obama’s running mate.

Given my aforementioned feeling that I’m missing something(s), I decided to do some news trolling on the subject, and came across the following friendly little article. If the authors have a bias or a bone to pick with either individual, they are hiding it too well for me to detect. Here is the entire article for your reading pleasure, if you haven’t seen it already–if you’re just interested in a quick-and-dirty summation though, here it is:

Why Obama Should Consider Hillary For Veep:
1. White working-class male voter appeal
2. Highly convincing as backup Presidential material
3. Excellent attack dog skills, allowing the Presidential candidate to both benefit from that activity and distance himself from the ensuing strife
4. Strongly reminds people of Bill Clinton, the most recent living symbol of a Democratic presidential regime filled with peace and prosperity who also has great personal charisma
5. Women voter appeal
6. Hispanic voter appeal

Why Obama Should Reject Hillary For Veep:
1. Zero appeal, if not repulsion, to voters looking for a change in the Establishment
2. She doesn’t appear to be overly impressed by Obama in general, which is not exactly the impression you want the Veep candidate to give of her running mate
3. People tend to either love her or hate her, which is a lot of strong emotion aimed at the position of Veep and could have way too much sway towards the negative towards her running mate
4. Strongly reminds people of Bill Clinton, the most recent living symbol of a Democratic president who was completely unable to keep it in his pants, and was aggressively pursued for possible personal financial malfeasance throughout his terms of office, who lately seems to have fallen off the precipice of great personal charisma into making a caricature of himself
5. A black President and a woman Vice-President all at the same time might overload too many “tolerance” circuits in too many American brains

What do you think? Did they miss any major talking points on either side of the debate? The only two I noticed they didn’t really cover was the age aspect–both where it divides women between who supported Hillary and who supported Obama, and how it impacts Obama (young) running against McCain (fossilized)–and the perceived “experience” aspect.

PS: My next article on the subject (during my next work break) is going to be the much-less-gently titled: OBAMA-CLINTON! DREAM TICKET OR NIGHTMARE?! If it doesn’t make me wince overly hard, I may post on that as well.

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Hmmm?

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

From the beginning of the race for the Dem nominee for prez up to as recently as a few weeks ago, I would have said No, Obama would never really consider nor would he even particularly want H. Clinton as his veep candidate. However, given both the (a) extreme angst and (b) substantial numbers of the Clinton supporters, for the first time, I am considering otherwise.

How do I feel about that? Mostly indifferent. It would incline me more towards voting for the Dem candidates, rather than simply against McCain, if the Hill was Obama’s running mate. However, since the only change we’re talking about here in my voting behavior is how I feel about it internally, not any external action I would have taken, clearly it wouldn’t really impact anything.

My best-guess pick for the Obaminator’s veep candidate prior to this was Bill Richardson.

It’ll be interesting to watch how that selection process unfolds.

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