Jun 04 2008
Can We Talk About a Dream Team Now? Please??
Several months ago someone asked Senator Hillary Clinton about a joint ticket and she said she would be happy to consider Senator Barack Obama as a vice president candidate. Today she should be making a call and asking him to consider the same thing.
In her speech last night, Senator Clinton refused to concede the nomination to Barack Obama, even as he was in St. Paul, telling the world that he had clinched the nomination. Instead, Hillary asked her supporters to go to her website and send her their recommendations for her future. Ummm, Hillary? They already got a chance to tell you what to do and they’re weren’t quite enough of them.
Quit playing childish games and asking for reassurance that your supporters love you. They do. And, quite honestly even some of Barack’s supporters like you, we really do. But now is the time, to go, hat in hand and ask the man of the hour to do the right thing.
Between you, the two candidates got some 36 million people excited enough to vote in primary elections. Quite honestly, you only need about 10 million more to win the general election outright. So pick up the phone and call him. You already implied, rightly ro wrongly, that you were one bullet away from the nomination. Yes, it was crass and yes people misinterpretted what you meant, but shouldn’t you be the one waiting to take the reigns if something were to happen?
More importantly than that, vice presidents have a great track record of going on to win the White House. Take your place in history as the first woman vice president, support Barack and make his time in office successful and then go on to write your own legacy. You are a history maker too…why let it end as an also ran?
Make the call, Hillary. Apologize for your arrogance. Invite his wife to tea. Make the effort and the deal. Senator McCain isn’t much of a candidate, but neither was George W. Bush and he got elected twice.
Call Barack and ask to be vice president and then show the world what a united and energized party of change can do.
Please?
