Does this paragraph accurately sum up the train wreck that would result from an Obama/Hillary ticket?

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Hillary for veep? Are you mad? What party nominee worth his salt would chain himself to a traveling circus like the Bill and Hillary Show? If the sulky bearded lady wasn't biting the new president’s leg, the oafish carnival barker would be sending in the clowns to lure all the young ladies into back-of-the-tent sword-swallowing. It would be a seamy orgy of scheming and screwing. Hillary could never be content with second place. But neither could an alpha male like Obama. The vice-president should be an accomplished but subordinate personality. An Obama-Hillary ticket might tickle party regulars, but it would be a big fat minus in the general election. Republicans have shrewdly stockpiled a mammoth arsenal of past scandals to strafe Hillary with. Only a sentimental masochist would want to relive the tawdry 1990s.

-Camille Paglia

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008…

Upset Hillary supporters should read the entire column.

Answer 1

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Wow, what a great article and I think she is right on that it would be a disaster. Bill would be the biggest problem, IMO, I cannot imagine he and Obama could ever be civil to each other considering all the nasty tactics and dialogue he used against him.

I also agree with this:

But I've come to feel that Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is Obama's best bet. She is a polished public presence who epitomizes that cordial, smoothly reassuring, and blandly generic WASPiness that has persistently defined the American power structure in business and government and that has weirdly resisted wave after wave of immigration since the mid-19th century. An Obama-Sebelius pairing would be visually vibrant and radiant, like a new day dawning.

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Thanks. And I'm not quite on board with Sebelius yet. She didn't do a very good job with the Democrat response to Bush's SoTU address this year, compared to Jim Webb's response last year. However, I think she would help make a strong ticket for Obama.

Answer 2

OK, it's an opinion. Everyone has opinions and there's nothing that says this one is any better than any other. Hillary will use Obama to make back all those millions she loaned her campaign but she'd never run as VP with such a racist pig loser. She'd really be losing when he goes down and I don't think she wants to lose twice in one election.

McCain will be the next president and I'm voting for him.

Answer 3

Man, she actually made it sound like a whole mess of fun. Who wouldn't want an "oafish carnival barker" sending clowns everywhere solely for the purpose of finding ladies to practice "sword-swallowing"?

In fact, she just raised my fondness for Bill Clinton at least 10 fold. Not my respect for him...but my fondness.

Answer 4

Not entirely. It does a good job of describng day to day life with Billary but doesn't address the fact that Hillary is the antithesis of Obama's philosophical message about change. Putting her on the ticket would betray everything he's said.

Answer 5

I guess it does although I don't think the republicans had to "shrewdly stopkpile a mammoth arsenal of past scandals"..Hillary is what she is an we all know what that is...but at least we KNOW WHAT she is...and that she loves her country.
NoObama
McCain 08

Answer 6

Dosen't matter who Mcain or Obama picks. The election is already Obamas. The war, national debt and rising prices for everything is proof of Bush/Mcain failed policies.

Answer 7

I doesn't matter at this point now, because it looks as if Obama is looking elsewhere for his VP. I used to think it would be a good idea, but now, it doesn't matter we just need these issues to be resolved..

Answer 8

It won't happen. She won't betray her party but she won't betray her country, either.

Answer 9

I can't continue to read the column after she presumed that she knew how we all see McCain. How dare she think she can speak for everyone?

Answer 10

She would NOT accept it.

Answer 11

Thats a hell of an analogy lol

Answer 12

I must say....I kinda agree with Ms Paglia.

Answer 13

The paragraph sums up nothing but ignorance. The truth is that Hillary would be a fool to be Obama's VP nominee. the reason is that Obama is already looking for people to blame when he loses in Nov. They've already started pointing their fingers at Clinton supporters and blaming white voters. So if you put clinton on the ticket and the democrats lose, they will be blaming Hillary for it. Clinton would be well advised to keep her distance from Obama and the general election because it will mean nothing but trouble for her when he loses. And Clinton could do nothing but add support to Obama, why should she want to do that after the way she has been treated?

Answer 14

I agree but for diametrically opposed reasoning. To accept the VP slot on the Obama ticket wold be detrimental to Senator Clinton's political future! She would be placed in the classic "can't win for losing" situation. If that is the winning ticket Obama gets the glory, if the ticket loses "it is her fault".

The media is on a hate Hillary Clinton rampage and bloodbath. They have a new rock star and they are in an orgasmic state.
As a democrat I will vote for Obama but all my support, financially and otherwise will be invested in the "Take Back the Red States" program. Whether the Democratic party wins or loses the White House it is equally important to win a veto proof majority in the House and Senate.

Go Dems in 08!

Answer 15

I can't ever remember agreeing with Camille.

Until now.

Come on Dems!!!! Obama/Hillary for 2008!!!