I am blown away by the strategic brilliance of the Obama campaign throughout these 17 months.
So I assume they know exactly what they are doing about the Hillary Clinton as VP question.
But I want to make one point:
Bringing Clinton on to the ticket in order to attract the Hillary voters in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, South Dakota, Indiana, Florida, etc. makes no sense.
Even if it worked, it would weaken his presidency in a significant way. Obama would never have those constituencies behind him, only behind his Vice President. This would be untenable for a President -- being forever beholden to his VP.
Obama must win those voters to his candidacy through his own merits. Bringing Hillary Clinton on now, with her citing her 18 million supporters as if it is a static number, would eliminate that opportunity.
Making Hillary VP would be a decision based on fear not hope.
Tom Clyde.
Do you remember me? I saw your post in the Andover bulletin, with a reference to your blog, so I decided to visit, and have read a few of your insightful and touching posts. I plan to catch up and read more. I live in Oakland, and would love to reconnect. I am thinking about your wife and your beautiful family and wondering how you all are doing. Cancer sucks. I would be honored to be of support.
Best,
Shannon (Rachel Laro's old roommate!)
Posted by: Shannon Carey | June 10, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Hello Tom,
We think about you and Coley and the kids a lot and extend once more our warmest thoughts and embraces.
I recently saw an info you might be interested in :
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-their-own-words-political-videos.html
Google just launched a widget that allow you to access and search political speeches on YouTube, indexing a transcript of the spoken words (using an advanced speech-to-text technology).
All the best to you,
Amaury
Posted by: Amaury | July 16, 2008 at 02:47 AM