skippy the bush kangaroo

Saturday, March 08, 2008

frontier days

news from the front range:

obama wins the wyoming cauci big time. cnn has obama w/59% of the delegates, and clinton w/40%, w/96% of the precincts reporting.

clinton actually campaigned in wyoming this last week, hoping that her apperance in casper would make the state friendly. but she didn't have a ghost of a chance. (damn...couldn't make that joke work...oh well...)

but the disconcerting news from wyoming is that obama indicates he would not accept a vp slot on the dem ticket this fall. latimes blog top of the ticket:

campaigning in casper, wyo., friday night for the 12 delegates to come out of saturday's democratic county caucuses, sen. barack obama refused the notion of becoming the vice presidential candidate on this fall's party ticket.

obama was asked by a television reporter, "can you ever see yourself on the same ticket as sen. clinton?"

and the freshman illinois senator replied: "well, you know, i think it’s premature. you won’t see me as a vice presidential candidate -- you know, i’m running for president. we have won twice as many states as senator clinton, and have a higher popular vote, and i think we can maintain our delegate count."
tho we are not at all surprised by sen. obama's stand (word on the street is the two candidates really don't like each other, and john edwards didn't like either one of them, either), we are disheartened.

in our opinion, if sens. clinton and obama were to hold a joint press conference and pledge to america that whichever one of them won the nomination promised to choose the other as vp, it would have an immediate and miraculous faith-healing effect on the fissures in the dem party.

beyond that, it would make every repubbb crap their pants, and the gop would not see the interior of the oval office for 16 years.

but we doubt that the candidates would do it. obama has already indicated he wouldn't, and that, in our view, reveals his ego triumphing his party loyalty. espcially because, at this point, he's ahead no matter which way you count the delegates.

it would do him no harm (other than the indiginity of being vice president, which, we do admit, is pretty lame) and it would do the party and the country a world of good.

now we will sit back and wait for the obamabots to flame our comments section.

(tip o' the kangaroo tail to buzzflash and memeorandum for the links!)

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posted by skippy at 5:21 PM |

13 Comments:

obama did not say he is against hillary being vp. By what measure do you think he should get the second slot? delegates, popular votes, number of state won?
commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 6:51 PM PST  
I am an Obamabot, or whatever your Hillary talking point is.

Sure would be nice if you learned to think for yourself.

I am mad at what Obama said.

He should have told her to shove it up her ass and go give her boyfriend McCain a hummer so he would pick her.
commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 7:01 PM PST  
lol! i am bad. i should have left the "obamabot" comment off.

but i have found that when i write something either pro- or anti- hillary or barack, the other's fans invade my comments section w/diatribes as to why i'm off my nut.
commented by Blogger skippy, 7:18 PM PST  
At this point having Hillary Clinton on the ticket would be about as good as having Joe Lieberman.
commented by OpenID Michael, 7:31 PM PST  
Which is to say, not good at all.
commented by OpenID Michael, 7:31 PM PST  
Any candidate for the top spot is not going to say they will run as VP. It can only hurt as some voters will think they can get both candidates by voting for the other in the primaries.

John Edwards also stated he would not run as VP while he was running for the presidential nomination in 2000, most likely for this reason. We saw how meaningful that was.

It is a sign of desperation on Clinton's part to make such suggestions.

Of course in Obama's case, it would probably be a mistake to run as VP should he not get the nomination. He could probably do more to advance his future hopes to run for president if not tied down with the limitations of the VP office.
commented by Anonymous Ron Chusid, 8:23 PM PST  
i must say i consider it incredible hutzbah for hillary, who is behind on delegate count, popular vote and number of contests won, to talk about offering the #2 spot to somebody.
commented by Blogger skippy, 11:20 PM PST  
I've been reading this site for years, and have always enjoyed the writing, until today. I didn't realize that this is now an anti-Obama site. I must say, I no longer feel welcome here. Maybe I'll check back after the convention.

In the mean time, I'm sure your site will get lots of new viewers from Hillary's base of women over 60 years old.
commented by Blogger buddhistMonkey, 11:43 PM PST  
Skippy's not anti-Obama..... as far as I know. :-D

Honestly, I nevah! It's an Obamanation this VP talk!

I think Senator Obama can handle this on his own. The Clintons' can keep their training wheel offer. blech. The need to attend math class instead.

;-)
commented by Anonymous Myrtle Hussein June ::==, 1:58 AM PST  
I meant "They need to attend math class instead".... :-)
commented by Blogger Myrtle June, 3:02 AM PDT  
i can just see the GOP ads if the ticket is Obama-Clinton --- with Hillary talking about how McCain is qualified and Obama has a speech

beside hillary never is a bottom, just a bottom-feeder
commented by Blogger Distributorcap, 4:20 AM PDT  
buddhistmonk, it's not an anti-obama site. i'm neither pro- nor anti- obama nor clinton.

but i find when ever i write something even slightly anti- either one of them, their rabid fans over-react in the comments.
commented by Blogger skippy, 11:25 AM PDT  
I feel like arguing, so I guess I won't. But I have to say, that if we continue to count the number of states that a candidate wins instead of the popular/electoral vote, we may as well hand this over to the GOP every time.

IMO, Obama would do nicely as a VP -- he'd finally have an excuse to do nothing but talk and then run on that without any credibility issues the next time he'd run for President.

Still, I do see a problem with Clinton or Obama's taking the VP slot. With those egos, taking Cheney's slot would make either of them likely to think they'd be running the country.
commented by Anonymous sean on li, 11:59 PM PDT  

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