Obama: "I'm not running for vice president. I'm running for president of the United States of America"

I thought this was poignant:

Barack Obama dismissed as "gamesmanship" on Monday his rival Hillary Clinton's suggestion that he become her running mate on a Democratic White House ticket headed by her.

"I'm not running for vice president. I'm running for president of the United States of America" and commander-in-chief, Obama told a rally in Mississippi.

Clinton and her husband former President Bill Clinton in recent days have talked up the idea of a joint ticket. But Obama's supporters have suggested that was little more than political maneuvering by Clinton, who is lagging in the race to become the Democratic nominee to face Republican Sen. John McCain in the November election.

It does take some chtuzpah, some pelotas grande, to be in a runner-up position in a political race and from that position suggest a ticket where the current runner-up would be the headliner. 

Serious chutzpah or serious desperation. 

I tend to go with former Clinton administration big-wig Dick Morris' assessment of the situation:

The real message of Tuesday’s primaries is not that Hillary won. It’s that she didn’t win by enough. 

The race is over.

The results are already clear. Obama will go to the Democratic Convention with a lead of between 100 and 200 elected delegates. The remaining question is: What will the superdelegates do then? But is that really a question? Will the leaders of the Democratic Party be complicit in its destruction? Will they really kindle a civil war by denying the nomination to the man who won the most elected delegates? No way. They well understand that to do so would be to throw away the party’s chances of victory and to stigmatize it among African-Americans and young people for the rest of their lives. The Democratic Party took 20 years to recover from the traumas of 1968 and it is not about to trigger a similar bloodletting this year.

Well... let's hope the bloodletting is even worse actually... for the good of the country, we're looking for serious Democratic bloodletting... and wouldn't it be especially sweet that a Clinton is at the center of it all.

I think so.

Comments

[Morgan K Freeberg]

Clinton's tactic is ingenious when you consider how few options she has available to her, and Obama's reply is no less so.

This is a REAL toss-up. The talking points say the Republican party is the instigator of racism in our country...the facts say it's the party of that guy who thought Obama was "articulate." Rhetoric on one side, solid evidence on the other. We're split right down the middle here!

I hope the supers hand it to Hillary, I really do. The issue of who will make the best President is just a complete wash-out here...all three would stink. But at least we'd have that 1968 redux to look forward to. The message would be broadcast far and wide exactly what the democrats think about these designated victim classes they're supposed to be there to be helping. Everyone from Seattle to Tallahassee would see this racket for the naked exploitation it is.

democrat bosses are just a bunch of spoiled rich boys, all as Xerox-white as Kennedy, Kerry, Biden and Schumer, giving away other people's money to keep skeletons hidden. And that is all these democrat bosses do "for" women and persons of color. They don't care. They don't even claim to care. All they do is hint at caring. I swear, next to two women recognizing each other in a coffee shop, nothing else in all of human existence makes more wake-the-dead racket than a liberal politician caring about non-white non-male persons or animals. Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk...people who are genuinely compassionate and who genuinely want to help, are relatively quiet.

It all shapes up to a triple-serving gut-busting banquet of embarrassment for them this summer...and I will be so disappointed if something comes up to bollux it. If it's served up as planned, it will be a wonderful educational experience for the entire country.