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The Note: Clinton Drama Trails Obama to Hawaii
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ABC News' Rick Klein writes in Friday's Note: Five good reasons that Sen. Barack Obama is headed to his vacation without having named a running mate:
1. He’s not happy with his choices (and is there a better place to be Biden your time?)
2. He’s too happy with his choices (and is remembering his good-Bayh hug).
3. Isn’t afraid of competing with the modern pentathlon team competition (yes he Kaine.)
4. Doesn’t really want to enjoy Hawaii (briefing books make lousy beach Reed-ing).
5. Really does want to enjoy Hawaii (it’s better than leaving your veep to the lions in the lower 48 -- but what’s the matter with Kansas, again?)
One truly great reason he’s leaving town without having made an announcement:
He doesn’t want to make the call to Hillary (and God forbid Bill answers).
Read the rest of The Note -- and get all the latest on the 2008 election, Congress, the White House and the wide world of politics every day -- from Rick Klein by bookmarking this link.
Obama starts his Hawaii vacation with a mystifyingly long list of questions unanswered about the convention that’s barely two weeks away. He has no running mate, no set speaking schedule, no real sense of what protests he’ll face -- and no party peace.
As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hits the trail for Obama Friday in Nevada -- her first solo campaign appearance for the candidate she’s endorsed -- it’s time (again) to try and answer the question she famously posed two months ago: What does Hillary want?
“Advisers to Sen. Barack Obama are scrambling to reach a compromise with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to appease her supporters and find roles for her and her husband,” Anne E. Kornblut writes in The Washington Post.
“The back and forth with Clinton -- as well as questions about whether her husband will actively campaign for Obama after the convention -- threatens to distract attention from what Obama's backers hope will be one of the convention's central themes: change,” Kornblut writes. “Planners are hoping to create an event that looks and feels different from past conventions, with more interactive components and an emphasis on the grass roots, in order to mirror the core message of Obama's candidacy.”
(How much of this is about logistics, and how much is about respect? In which area can Obama afford to be more magnanimous?)
Clinton backers got some platform language: “Demeaning portrayals of women cheapen our debates, dampen the dreams of our daughters, and deny us the contributions of too many.” And: “Our party is proud that we have put 18 million cracks in the highest glass ceiling.”
(Proud that 18 million people voted for someone who isn’t going to be the nominee?)
Continue reading today's Note by clicking HERE.
ABC News' Hope Ditto contributed to this report.
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Sean: How can we call the war a win when we lied to create it??
Posted by: beck | Aug 8, 2008 10:48:47 AM
beck - I'm still waiting for an answer to that years old question - what does it mean to win in Iraq?
Now that the Iraqi government is set to tell us to get out, is that a win or a loss?
Posted by: Paul | Aug 8, 2008 10:50:51 AM
At this point I rather McCain win this year if he doesn't pick Ms Clinton as VP.
That way Hillary can RUN again in 2012 AND WIN EVERYTHING for 8 years.
Pick HILLARY AS VP or LOSE MY VOTE.
Posted by: Fenril | Aug 8, 2008 11:01:35 AM
Sean: On the news a few nights ago they showed a document that warned Bush about 9/11. Almost to detail what would happen, just now when... he received it 3 weeks before 9/11. Now you tell me what makes you think I would ever in life but a Repub in the White House.
Posted by: beck | Aug 8, 2008 11:10:02 AM
"Now you tell me what makes you think I would ever in life but a Repub in the White House."
huh..which side are you on? Repubs or Demo? You confused me since the start.
Posted by: Sean | Aug 8, 2008 11:28:10 AM
Who here really believes the McCain of 2000 would support the McCain of 2008?
Posted by: Paul | Aug 8, 2008 11:44:15 AM
Latest McCain gaffe:
Responding to violence between Russia and Georgia, McCain pompously said that Russia must pullback immediately, because, get this... they violated an international border and invaded a sovereign nation.
Hmmm. I wonder if McCain supports a timetable for Russian withdrawal?
Posted by: Paul | Aug 8, 2008 12:00:36 PM
Sean - feel free.
Posted by: Paul | Aug 8, 2008 12:00:55 PM
Obama can't win this election without Hillary on the VP ticket and he knows it. Probably why he took off for Hawaii for a week....my guess is the DNC all know who the VP is right now and maybe that's why Hillary has to suck it up and go out on the trail in Las Vegas for BO today. I love Hillary but I still can't vote Obama if she is on the ticket. McCAIN '08/HILLARY '12
Posted by: Debra | Aug 8, 2008 7:09:32 PM
I wouldn't even vote Obama for a ticket!Obama didn't earn anything he stole from Hillary.The democratic party planned this.I wouldn't put it pass Obama in setting John Edward's up in the call and getting John Edwards to take the bait-and bam pictures.Why?Obama wants his delegates.
I would never throw my voye away!
My vote goes for Hillary or McCain.
There is nothing with useing Hillary to get my vote.We all know that
Hillary has to do what she has to do.If you know Hillary in all her messages there is a message for all her 18 + suppoerters."HANG ON" And if no Denver nominnee and ballot- I am voteing McCain there is nothing anyone can say or do to chamge my mind-Obama is un-fit-His bad judgements -his flip flops -his lies.and his fake birth certificate-His cheating-steling ewwwwwwwww,He makes me sick and I am not giving him a free pass to destory our country!
Posted by: Madison | Aug 10, 2008 6:42:00 PM
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