Is she angling for a VP nod?
Does Hillary want to be picked as Obama’s veep? Here’s the statement her campaign put out yesterday: “While Senator Clinton has made clear throughout this process that she will do whatever she can to elect a Democrat to the White House, she is not seeking the vice presidency, and no one speaks for her but her,” Howard Wolfson, one of the campaign’s chief strategists, said in a statement. “The choice here is Senator Obama’s and his alone.”
The Los Angeles Times on this statement: “Her statement on the vice presidency was part of a minuet that has played out over the last several weeks as Obama’s nomination appeared increasingly likely. Some Clinton supporters threatened to withhold their votes unless he ran with her; other Democrats called the pairing a ‘dream ticket’ that would counter Obama’s apparent weakness with some groups, including Latinos and working-class white voters. Clinton boosters had been operating with at least tacit approval; in a private conversation Tuesday that soon leaked, Clinton told members of the New York congressional delegation she would be open to being Obama’s running mate. Some in her inner circle have talked up the prospect.”
Some supporters are very public in their campaigns to push the idea. However, some Clinton supporters are NOT happy about the public campaign because they worry it only discourages Obama from picking her. You don’t pressure your way on the ticket and now Clinton’s well-meaning VP supporters risk humiliating her.
