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  1. (www.dickmorris.com)
    NO VEEP SLOT FOR HILLARY at DickMorris.com

    It would be an act of terminal insanity for Barack Obama to name Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential candidate. It would not help him get elected, it would drag all the Clinton controversies into the general election, and having her down the hall in the West Wing would be a recipe for disaster, dissension and civil war. Other than that, it’s a hell of an idea!

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    Finally, having Hillary in the West Wing would be a nightmare. There is no way that Obama could trust her. She would be a throwback to the old days when the president did not consult the vice president on anything, a situation which led Vice President John Nance Garner, FDR’s VP during his first two terms, to call the office “not worth a pitcher of warm piss.”

     
 

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Could hillary ever become vp?

 

Dick Morris pretty much nailed it when he laid out the issues in this article. It seems to me that the VP can definitely hurt a compaign but can only do a limited amount to help it by adding gravitas, demographic appeal, and perhaps pointed experience in things like economic affiars, foreign policy, or military matters.

Hillary may be able to add a demographic appeal for women but beyond that, her experience is negligible. Gathering all the ideas of how harmful she and her husband (who I like less and less as the primary rolls forward) could be, it seems definitively unlikely that Hillary will be the VP.

posted by seemore | 1 year ago | to politics