Hillary Clinton is not a good choice for VP - petition drives
June 4, 2008 | Filed Under Election 2008 | No Responses
The following sites offer an opportunity to be heard on the question of Hillary Clinton as a Vice Presidential running mate for Barack Obama. These petitions are free, can be anonymous, and are without vitriol in stating the logical, practical, and ethical reasons why Hillary Clinton would be the wrong choice for a Vice Presidential running mate.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-to-hillary-for-vp
You can also send a message directly to the Obama campaign at:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/contact2
Last night’s speech from Senator Clinton (following the last of the state primary elections) is just the latest in a series of revealing episodes and remarks that show her lack of integrity and judgment. Personally, I think that Senator Obama is too principled and too intelligent to make such an error in judgment, but in light of the pressure of the Clinton machine, and in light of how Senator Clinton exploited her voters and used them as a chip to leverage her own ambition, it is important to add the voices of people who do not want to see her do what has always been unthinkable in politics and government–that is withhold her concession and her support for the nominee and instead hold a sort of quasi-election to get into the VP office. (Soliciting the votes of her supporters to say what she should do next when her intention about the outcome is clear is a new and parallel election for her as VP.) The primary election is over, and Senator Clinton should be focused on ways that she can truly serve–by continuing to be a Senator, by opening discussions about a cabinet position or Attorney General or Supreme Court justice. Those are places where she belongs, not back in the White House in what she would regard as a co-presidency. She thought that she was Bill’s co-president as First Lady; imagine what she would do as Vice President.
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Polls suggest Clinton might bring women voters, but would lose independent and Republican voters.
“A substantial 32 percent of independents strongly dislike Clinton, 10 points more than say so about Obama, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll conducted over the last several months. Independents, a group that both Obama and McCain won during their party primaries this year, comprised a quarter of voters in the 2004 election and have been closely contested in every presidential election since 1992.
In addition, 67 percent of Republicans have very unfavorable views of Clinton, 24 percentage points more than feel that way about Obama. Among conservatives the spread is similar — 58 percent say they feel very negatively about her, 18 points more than say so about Obama.” See the full Associated Press story.
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