Reply #39: It's not going to be personal [View All]

Whether Hillary get the nod or someone else does is not going to be either a gesture of conciliation or of pique. It's going to be a result of discussions with the DNC and internal polling. Of the qualified people, who best can deliver at least one state that Obama couldn't get on his own? Will his chances be better or worse with Clinton on the ticket? That'll be the determining factor, I'd imagine.

If he needs to pick her, he will. If he doesn't want to, I doubt if it would be because of the campaign. More likely it'll be because no president would want an former president as his co-vp and right now it seems if you get Hillary, you get Bill. It would create a very difficult situation for a new president. If he does, what I'd like to see is that it's done with an agreement that she jettison every bit of staff that ran her campaign into the ground. No Mark Penn, Ickes, or the rest of them. We don't need those guys damaging our chances in the GE.

In any case, Obama's going to go into the convention knowing what's going to happen. You can bet on that.