So even Joe Biden is wondering: what was Obama smoking when he failed to pick Hillary Rodham Clinton for the VP slot?
"Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. . she is qualified to be president of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me."
If it's not about party unity and winning with Hillary's 18 million votes, then Barack Obama did the right thing when he shunned the candidate who could have won this thing. And if it's not about party unity and winning, then clearly it is about ego before country.
And there's another reason we need more women in office. American women obviously have less of an ego problem than the men do, else we all would have moved to Sweden -- where women get respect -- a very long time ago.
“I have never seen such excitement in the Republican Party as we’re seeing in response to Sarah Palin I’ve had a lot of Democrats and independent women in Maine who say they’re happy to see a woman on the ticket. Many of them saw an Obama-Clinton ticket as unbeatable. ... That is significant and remarkable.”
“Every woman in America knows what Barack Obama did to Hillary Clinton: He looked at her and thought, ‘There’s no way I’m doing that.’”
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