Obama: 'If I am not ready, why do you think I would be such a great vice president?'

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Obama: 'If I am not ready, why do you think I would be such a great vice president?' - Ben Smith's Blog - Politico.com

My colleague Carrie Budoff Brown e-mails from Columbus, Miss., with Obama's response to the Clintons' flotation of the notion that he could be her veep: scorn.
COLUMBUS, Miss -- Sen. Barack Obama delivered an animated rebuke today of suggestions from the Clintons in recent days that he could run as her vice president.

“Now first of all with all due respect, with all due respect," he said here during a town hall meeting. "I won twice as many states as Sen. Clinton. I won more of the popular vote than Sen. Clinton. I have more delegates than Sen. Clinton. So I don’t’ know how someone in second place can offer the vice presidency to someone in first place. If I was in second place I could understand but I am in first place right now.

He referenced comments from Bill Clinton in 1992 that his “most important criteria” for vice president was that person must be ready to be commander in chief.

“They have been spending the last two or three weeks” arguing that he is not ready to be commander in chief, Obama said.

“I don’t understand. If I am not ready, why do you think I would be such a great vice president?” Obama asked the crowd, which gave him a standing ovation during his defense. “I don’t understand.”

“You can’t say he is not ready on day one, then you want him to be your vice president,” Obama continued. “I just want everybody to absolutely clear: I am not running for vice president. I am running to be president of the United States of America.”
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I'm looking forward to watching BHO and HRC destroy each other over the next few months. Whoever comes out of that race will be bloody.
 
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HRC continues to make mistakes. In a way I'm glad to see the end of the Clinton stranglehold on Democrat politics, in another way I'm concerned because they're losing ground to a far more radical wing of leftist politicians.
 
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MG1968 said:
HRC continues to make mistakes. In a way I'm glad to see the end of the Clinton stranglehold on Democrat politics, in another way I'm concerned because they're losing ground to a far more radical wing of leftist politicians.
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I'm guessing that the only reason Hillary appears to be to the right of Obama is because she figures she needs some votes from the moderates to win. I think if she truly had her way, she would be an all-out communist.
 
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jamesd1628 said:
I'm looking forward to watching BHO and HRC destroy each other over the next few months. Whoever comes out of that race will be bloody.
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The Dems are essentially destroying their own chances of winning the white house back.

I'm sorry if this has been said before but I look at it from this angle. They are presenting the option of the possibility of having either the first female president, or the first non anglo president. Some say African American, but Im not real sure what that guys genetics are. Anyway, they are throwing a ton at the party all at once and will inevidably (sp?) split this party in the end, thus destroying the chances. The Republicans had a similiar problem when Bush Senior ran for Re-elect and that troll Perot ranand split the red states.

It will be interesting but I think they have gone "Titanic" on their own party. Over confident in success which leads to catostrophic failure.
 
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MG1968 said:
HRC continues to make mistakes. In a way I'm glad to see the end of the Clinton stranglehold on Democrat politics, in another way I'm concerned because they're losing ground to a far more radical wing of leftist politicians.
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I think this one came from Bill.
 
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Here's the video from that speech. He sort of comes off like a pro wrestler cutting a promo. All that's missing at the end is "If you smelllllllllll what Obama is cookin'!!"

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GAVol said:
Here's the video from that speech. He sort of comes off like a pro wrestler cutting a promo. All that's missing at the end is "If you smelllllllllll what Obama is cookin'!!"

ABC News
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one thing you have to give Obama is that he's one heck of a public speaker. If he gets the nod at president, I don't think we'd ever have to cringe for fear Obama might say something stupid like our current President does.

(obviously "something stupid" does not apply to his policy ideas. I think it should be understood what i mean)
 
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volfanbill said:
one thing you have to give Obama is that he's one heck of a public speaker.
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It amazes how much most of our populace can be swayed by words. Not actions... just words. Anybody can say all of the right things or hit all of the right notes, but if they don't have a track record of actually doing anything, how can you take them seriously?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
It amazes how much most of our populace can be swayed by words. Not actions... just words. Anybody can say all of the right things or hit all of the right notes, but if they don't have a track record of actually doing anything, how can you take them seriously?
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also to that, i think all populace's can be swayed by words. Obviously I'm looking past his words. I'm voting for McCain simply because the thought of Obama in office scares the bejesus out of me.
 
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volfanbill said:
also to that, i think all populace's can be swayed by words. Obviously I'm looking past his words. I'm voting for McCain simply because the thought of Obama in office scares the bejesus out of me.
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Obama scares you?...so you would rather vote for Bush's 3rd term, and he's done an awsome job so far(insert sarcasam)
 
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