Comments on: Hillary To Concede Tomorrow?

By: Steve Levine

Steve Levine — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:09:44 +0000

I’d be happy with either Senator Jim Webb of Virginia or former Senator Sam Nunn.

And either one would make a good choice for Sec. of Defense.

By: Joshua Rosenstock

Joshua Rosenstock — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:36:32 +0000

I think either retired General Wesley Clark (who instantly gives the ticket more foreign policy credibility) or (this will never happen because he technically is not a Democrat) Mayor Michael Bloomberg would be a great running mate for Obama.

By: Steve Levine

Steve Levine — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:25:54 +0000

Yes, she has agreed to concede, but only after being pressured to do so by her closest colleagues. And only after her arrogant, tasteless attempt to “negotiate” with Obama and blackmail him into putting her on the ticket.

For someone who has been on the political scene for so long, who was by her husband’s side when he TWICE ran for President, she displayed a shocking ignorance of the protcol involved in presidential politics… specifically that the choice of a vice-president must be made by the presidential nominee. Voluntarily.

So while I applaud her decision to concede the nomination — however late and however grudgingly — her performance has given us a glimpse of the true Clinton character that has generated such negative feelings: arrogant, entitled, self-centered.

The Vice-presidency is a subservient position; she’s not capable of accepting that role, and would be a disaster if chosen and elected.

By: Joshua Rosenstock

Joshua Rosenstock — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:18:19 +0000

She could be a very useful and effective Senate Majority Leader.

By: Steve Levine

Steve Levine — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:16:07 +0000

By asking her to join the ticket, Obama would be caving in to pressure. It would be a HUGE mistake. He needs to be seen as his own man, making his own decision.

Better to make her Ambassador to Botswana, and get her out of his hair…and out of the country.

By: Joshua Rosenstock

Joshua Rosenstock — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:59:37 +0000

Sources inside her campaign are telling me that she will officially drop out of the race on Friday. Better late than never.

The $64,000 question this summer will be whether Barack caves in to pressure, a la Walter Mondale in 1984, and asks her to join him on the ticket.

By: Steve Levine

Steve Levine — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:29:32 +0000

Josh: I’m surprised that YOU’RE surprised at Hillary’s refusal to concede.

For all the reasons you cited…for all the reasons that her campaign blew this race…it was a certainty that she would not go gentle in that good night.

Her unbridled narcissism…her sense of entitlement…her desperate attempts to play the gender, race and victim cards…were all a sign of things to come at the end.

At this seminal moment in America’s political and social history, Clinton didn’t have the good taste, the good manners, the sense of propriety to relinquish the spotlight.

If Hillary haters needed another reason to despise her, this ungracious, selfish refusal to accept reality and get behind her party’s candidate is it.

It will be her legacy.