"A Clinton-Obama Presidental Bid?"

[Wittlich]

Work with me here folks and just think about it:

What happends if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic Presidential Bid?

Let's go a bit further: She wins the bid and then chooses Sen. Obama as her running mate.

How we have the possiblity of President Clinton and Vice-President Obama.

Is this too far fetched? I for one, don't think so.

I feel that if Clinton and Obama join forces, the Republicans would be bulldozed under in the Presidential election.

I for one, hope this does in fact occur.

What does everyone else think about this possibility?

[Wycoff]

I'd be surprised if it didn't happen.

[Will9]

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169695

[Kassiopeia]

The ticket might suffer from the "I wish the names were reversed" effect.

[Apocalypse]

I am pretty sure Chris Rock explained why this would not happen. In detail. You fail.

[Darius871]

The very idea rests on the assumption that their opposition won't get nastier and nastier up to and during the primaries. I can't see any any reason why it wouldn't.

[snoopy369]

Having two candidates each of which will alienate some people is probably not a good idea... the set of "People who won't vote for a woman for president", "People who won't vote for a black guy for president", and "People who think Clinton is a female dog" might be somewhat similar, but they are different sets, and I think it makes the ticket less likely to succeed.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Having two candidates each of which will alienate some people is probably not a good idea... the set of "People who won't vote for a woman for president", "People who won't vote for a black guy for president", and "People who think Clinton is a female dog" might be somewhat similar, but they are different sets, and I think it makes the ticket less likely to succeed.

I think that the Republican ticket will be lackluster enough to overcome that effect.

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by Wycoff


I think that the Republican ticket will be lackluster enough to overcome that effect.

I concur.

[Apocalypse]

Both Hillary and Bill Richardson can be attacked quite a bit too. Hillary for the obvious stuff and Richardson for things people forgot about like how he took the fall for nuclear secrets going to China.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
Both Hillary and Bill Richardson can be attacked quite a bit too. Hillary for the obvious stuff and Richardson for things people forgot about like how he took the fall for nuclear secrets going to China.

We're talking about Hillary-Obama here, not Hillary-Richardson.

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by Will
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...hreadid=169695

Ah yes...I forgot all about Castro's speech about this. However, at the time I just chalked it up to Castro being...well, Castro.

[Wiglaf]

Originally posted by Wycoff
I'd be surprised if it didn't happen.

[Slaughtermeyer]

Remember, you can be president for only 8 years so I think Obama would go for being VP for 8 years and being president for the following 8.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Having two candidates each of which will alienate some people is probably not a good idea... the set of "People who won't vote for a woman for president", "People who won't vote for a black guy for president", and "People who think Clinton is a female dog" might be somewhat similar, but they are different sets, and I think it makes the ticket less likely to succeed.

And this is one of the things that we, on this side of the pond, don't understand about America. I remember wondering what all the fuzz was about when Dukakis choose Whatshername for his running mate way back then. It seems nothing has changed since...