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Sen. Feinstein Speaks Out in Favor of 'Dream Ticket'

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June 08, 2008 11:47 AM

ABC News' Mary Bruce reports: Clinton supporter Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., pleaded the case this morning for an Obama-Clinton "Dream Ticket."

"If you really want a winning ticket, this is it," Feinstein said in a "This Week" interview with George Stephanopoulos. "I've looked at every other possible candidate.  No one brings to a ticket what Hillary brings -- Eighteen million people committed to where she's going."

Feinstein, who facilitated a secret meeting between the former rivals earlier in the week, was adamant that "she [Hillary] has a chance" to be Obama's running mate. She also made clear that Clinton is committed to uniting the Democratic Party.

"She expressed to me the depth of her concern and caring, the fact that she had 18 million who put their hopes and dreams in her ability to create new opportunities for people. She wants to continue that.  She recognizes that it's over, and I think every instinct in Hillary Clinton is to help."

Clinton officially conceded her White House run on Saturday.

In discussing the strong support among women that Clinton could bring to the ticket, Feinstein pointed to sexism as an element that derailed her campaign. "She got treated poorly ... I think, to a great extent, by [the] press, yes, I think she did.  I read column after column where it was personal and malevolent, and to some extent, even venal.  And I don't understand why that was necessary," Feinstein explained.

"I think that played a role in developing this strength among women that saw this kind of thing for her candidacy."

Feinstein also suggested that Clinton's meeting with Obama helped her to begin moving forward after her 17-month battle for the nomination. "The nerve endings have to be healed.  They are being healed.  She did a lot to begin that process.  But I know from the times I've been invested in a campaign, it's very hard to go on," Feinstein explained.

"She wanted to have that meeting ... She wanted one opportunity to sit down with Senator Obama, just the two of them, and, I think, establish a sense of rapport between them, I think put aside what had happened on the campaign trail, and I think be able to see if -- I used the word nerve endings for such -- that they could forge some kind of a positive bond and working relationship.  And I think that came of it."

Watch the "This Week" interview with Feinstein by clicking HERE.

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I just wish Feinstein, Pelosi, Dean and Reid would have spoken out about the hatred and misogony while it was happening. Maybe they could have quit calling for Hillary to drop out, instead of playing favorites. NOW she mentions all this stuff! If the Dems would have just left the race alone, to play out as it would, perhaps the outcome would have been different.

That said, bring on the dream ticket! Still think it should be the other way around but...

Posted by: beth | Jun 8, 2008 12:14:48 PM

I think in this case, Obama hast always shown that he hast a sense of judgement and I think he should in no case be influenced in the case of a VP and I know he will do it well. Clinton has called on her supporters to back Obama´s White House quest right?

Posted by: Ngemason | Jun 8, 2008 12:15:04 PM

I would NOT vote for him if she is on the ticket,,,,,,To much baggage and to self centerwed would try to take over and then BANG guess who is sitting in the oval office stranger things have happaned.....

Posted by: me | Jun 8, 2008 12:15:55 PM

"I won't quit on you," said Hillary Clinton over and over again. Well, guess what! She quit. I read all kinds of comments, justifications, and speculations as to why, but the bottom line is, she lied and now is asking us to support the unsupportable one! What a shame! Seems that "our Hillary" has no problem remaining loyal to a Democratic party that sold her down the river, but can't be loyal to those of us who sent her money and worked our ##### off for her BECAUSE she promised to stay the course. A pox on you, Mrs. Clinton. I now have no candidate to vote for.

Posted by: La Chatte | Jun 8, 2008 12:24:13 PM

Hillary Clinton doesn't owe Obama or the Democratic party anything. As a matter of fact, she owes it to herself to take five months off and let them hang themselves for nominating (again) another unelectable, left-wing elitist.

As for the Dream Ticket, why should Hillary hitch herself to a sinking ship? It's clear swingcrats, Reagan Democrats, and moderate women have no intention of voting for the DNC's left-wing version of Bush and his "You forgot Idaho" strategy. McCain is going to wipe the floor with him Mondale style. Hillary should want no part of that.

Posted by: DavidK | Jun 8, 2008 12:27:19 PM

I just wanted to commend Senator Kerry for successfully drawing the distinction between John McCain and Barack Obama. Hats off for you Senator Kerry. It was very gratifying to see Senator Graham struggling with making a distinction between McCain and Bush. Indeed, that's what this election is about--electing a person that will give us more of the same blunders of the past 8 years, or someone that will have the courage to fight the interest groups and give back average Americans their right to live a peaceful and dignified life. Thanks again Senator Kerry!

Posted by: Harerta Tesfa | Jun 8, 2008 12:28:58 PM


La Chatte.

I feel the same way as a man but i
will vote for McCain strait ticket
to punish the whole democratic
establishement.
They MUST be punished in november....

Posted by: Nicholas | Jun 8, 2008 12:29:39 PM


This will depend on how hard Hillary will work to help Obama be elected.

If she will show the eager and make her women remain engaged, then she should deserve the VP position.

Posted by: Peace | Jun 8, 2008 12:30:32 PM

La Chatte,
An unsolicited advice for you just because you said you have no candidate now. You will always have a candidate (perhaps not always the best one) if you support a candidate based on your principles of life. Please don't be angry with Senator Clinton. She is a rational person that knows when fighting is warranted and when fighting can be destructive.

Posted by: Harerta Tesfa | Jun 8, 2008 12:37:26 PM

No Hillary on the winning ticket. Let the spite-minded losers vote McCain so that our true dems can be united and move forward.

Yes we can, 08!

Posted by: 18 Million+ Votes | Jun 8, 2008 12:39:47 PM

It would be a mistake for Hillary to accept the VP position under Obama. She has class, experience and everything he doesn't have. Obama will lose big time and I would not want to have any association with his losing ticket.

Posted by: debbie | Jun 8, 2008 12:42:47 PM

I would support a Obama/Clinton ticket. As long as it's Obama leading the ticket and making the decisions.

What I don't support are the Clinton surrogates basically forcing Obama to chose Hillary. Their not helping her situation.

You can't pick Sebelius because that would be personally disrespecting Hillary.

If not Hillary Jim Webb.

Former Republican

Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan

Vietnam War Hero

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs under the Reagan Administration

Junior Senator of Virginia (big battle ground state come Nov)

Born in Missouri (another battle ground state)

Posted by: Vanessa | Jun 8, 2008 12:43:18 PM

Senator Feinstein,
Why didn't you speakup sooner about the sexism?

One more reason I am leaving the democratic party. Standing up against sexism is not part of their agenda.

No to "dream ticket".

Posted by: saren | Jun 8, 2008 12:44:30 PM

And What is Hillary. She is the biggest and most leftist of them all.

All these Hillary sympathizers need to remember who they are talking about. She thrashed Obama and went out still saying she will be a better president than he. That is not a VP to have. Second there is all this garbage in her and Bills past that will be hung around Obama if he chose her.

I agree the Clintons need to just take a vacation for a while.They and the Bushes need to give the world a break.

Further it is Obama's decision to make about who will be his VP not Finstiens, not Carter's, not Pellosi's, not Hillary's. If they were the nominee they would make their own choice.

He deserves the same respect.

I'm not hearing anyone saying who MaCcaine should choose.

Posted by: mal | Jun 8, 2008 12:45:11 PM

Sen Feinstein is an embarrassment to truth - as she often is.

(She's often full of BS and so we Californians will have to vote her OUT! at the next senator elections... )

And dream ticket is a marketing slogan that if came true would doom any hope for honest change.

Tom

Posted by: Tom | Jun 8, 2008 12:46:41 PM

Paul, don't move next to me. Because voting for McCain, or not voting, means I DON'T GET HEALTH CARE!!!

Posted by: Sallie | Jun 8, 2008 12:50:03 PM

Many polls have claimed that if the primaries were held today Hillary would lose a significant amount of the votes she won early on in CA, NY, etc...
She acts like she 'owns' these voters forever!
Well sorry Hillary, not after your bad behavior...
T

Posted by: Lydia | Jun 8, 2008 12:50:39 PM

Because of the men in the party I left the party last week Nunn and Alixs Hermen sitting on the board Of General Electic who own msnbc and nbc Alixs aloud msnbc and nbc to say what ever they felt about Sen.Hillary Clinton and President Clinton. This election remined alot of us who thought we had won the battle of equal rights for women that it has really not happened.

Posted by: Bishop | Jun 8, 2008 12:50:53 PM

The dream ticket sounds like a nightmare to me.

What really does Hillary bring to Obama.

Not Arkansa, Not New York, not Illinois mnot certainly not those so called swing states she won in the primary because many of those people that put her over the top in those states didnt vote for her they were voting against Obama.

If they are going to vote for him to be president he will have to convince them. lol. to leave their 1900's thinking behind.

Posted by: mal | Jun 8, 2008 12:53:10 PM

La Chatte wrote: "I now have no candidate to vote for."

Not that I expect a coherent answer, but what is it you would have her do? Start a third party? Or just what exactly?

well I guess it doesn't do any good to put Hillary '08 anymore.

how about independent now, sitting this one out. McCain will win Florida readily againt Nobama. That's the way the electoral votes will crumble for the Obama Marxists.

No one in their "right" mind is going to vote for someone who's entire history is oriented around Wright / Fleger / Rezko / Auchi / Ayers / Farrakan and Black Liberation Theology version of Marxism.

Not to mention San Francisco Muslim fundraisers and bitter white people clinging to their guns and Bible.

yeah, people are going to vote for this guy.

And for the I'm a troll people, my name is on the Democrat Party rolls in Florida but coming off. I won't be registering Republican, just going independent. The Democrat Party southside Chicago GD America wing doesn't represent me.

I am a hard core Hillary supporter, but can't buy into the unity thing.

And yes, people are dying in Iraq and died in NYC. We are at war. Everytime peaceniks take over the party they win about one electoral state, the home state of the peacenik Marxist.

So fittingly, that's Illinois this year.

rd

Posted by: rd | Jun 8, 2008 12:53:39 PM

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