I think Hillary would make a great VP

[MannyGoldstein]

She's a ferocious attack dog, which is what we need in a #2 on the ticket. Although President Warren would need a food taster if it happened, it'd be worth it.

An all-female ticket would be great, too.

[monmouth3]

1. Oh boy, tighten your seat belts, we're in for a bumpy ride...LOL..n/t

[longship]

7. Bette Davis. "All About Eve" nt

[Paulie]

8. Though it would be more like "Whatever happened to baby Jane"

[longship]

11. Nope! All About Eve. Marilyn Monroe is also in the scene as Miss Caswell.

Classic Hollywood movie about famous actors pretending to be famous actors.

Great script, but it's merely a movie about actors pretending to be actors.

[Paulie]

13. No, I'm saying Hillary and Elizabeth would be my Betty Davis movie

[L0oniX]

58. Oh the similarity in apperance...

[Beacool]

2. You must be joking.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. I don't know, Manny, that's a lot of responsibility.

I think we ought to let Joe Biden stay in there as VP. He's done pretty well. Maybe Hillary could be Press Secretary or something.

[Beacool]

5. Everyone is a comedian................

[Courtesy Flush]

4. Nice trolling

Made me laugh to beat the band. Parts, anyway. I didn't like seeing Donny go.

[Whisp]

65. LOL!

[madinmaryland]

6. A great Veep for Martin O'Malley. nt

[Nye Bevan]

9. One thing I can absolutely guarantee is that it will not be an all-female ticket.

Hillary's running-mate will be a man. John Hickenlooper is one name that has been mentioned, for example.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/john-hickenlooper-hillary_n_3625052.html

[truebluegreen]

10. Frackenlooper?

Last edited Sat Nov 16, 2013, 10:57 PM - Edit history (2)

Meh. O'Malley, Sherrod Brown, any number of people but please not another DINO.

[Laffy Kat]

16. You can say that again.

I live in CO and can't stand him. I'd have to vote holding my nose.

[truebluegreen]

23. + a zillion

from a native but former resident (i.e. Restless Native). I get cross-eyed with anger when I visit...

[Autumn]

14. My Governor, John I fucking love fracking so much I drink the fluid Hickenlooper??

Fuck that. PASS

[Eleanors38]

57. Yeah, they only do that crazy-ass shite in Texas.

[spin]

12. I don't believe that Hillary would accept the role of VP. (n/t)

[DonCoquixote]

27. she sure wanted it

after Obama beat her in the primary.

[spin]

64. But what she was hoping for at that time was to run for President in 2016. ...

Being the Vice President would have been a great launching pad.

Hillary was born in 1947. If she ran for VP in 2016 she would be 69. Assume her running mate gets elected and serves two terms. If she ran for President then, she would be 78. If she won twice she would be 86 at the end of her two terms. Many people would feel that she was too old for the job and decide to go with a younger candidate.

John McCain was 72 when he ran for President in 2008. A number of people I know were hesitant to vote for him as they feared the stress of the job might kill him and Sara Palin would assume the office.

[NuclearDem]

15. I don't want Hillary anywhere near the WH.

Especially after that TPP bullshit.

[dflprincess]

21. +1000

[woo me with science]

49. +100000

Even jokes about it make me need my blankie.

[hrmjustin]

17. I think Hillary would be a great president and should play second to no one.

[Scuba]

51. Righ, with Jamie Dimon in the number two spot!

[Chan790]

61. LOL. Bullseye.

That's what a Clinton presidency would be about: The continued selling-out of the American middle class to the banking class by Democratic Presidents started by her husband.

[hrmjustin]

75. I hope not. He should be in jail.

[wilsonbooks]

18. LOL

[libdem4life]

19. Must be a dark and stormy night.

[brooklynite]

20. Alerted...

for insinuating, even in jest that Clinton or her supporters would try to kill Elizabeth Warren.

[Beacool]

28. Let them.

It'll be even sweeter when Warren says for the umpteenth time that she's not running. They are childish and offensive, that's all they got.

[BainsBane]

39. Reality is meaningless to many.

They love to waste time on idle speculation. They know it's bad for the party because this endless, mindless focus on 2016 plays into the Republicans hands by taking our attention away from the 2014 election, but they don't care.

[Chan790]

67. You've missed the problem...

there is a large and determined block of the left, and not just on DU, that has made it clear they will not countenance a Hillary nomination.

It doesn't matter who bears the standard for liberal Democratic positions in the 2016 Presidential primary if Libby Warren does not because someone will...and we will turn out for that person. We will campaign harder against Clinton in the primaries than we do against the GOP in the GE because we view her as the larger visceral threat to Democratic economic values than the eventual GOP nominee; she is the enemy within, a cancer of RW economic values that must be excised and irradiated to insure the survival of the Democratic Party.

There is no possibility of a non-bloodbath primary as long as Hillary runs. What is energizing the rising economic left is the possibility of strangling out Third Way economics in the Democratic party with a second denial of Hillary ever being President at the same time we're taking contesting the local offices and roots of the party. This is the left's Waterloo of a larger campaign for the future of the Democratic party: are we to be the party of corporatists and moderately-progressive social positions or are we to be the economic & socially liberal party? It's going to make 2008 look like a hands-holding Kumbaya campfire sing-along.

This isn't about Libby Warren...it's about Hillary Clinton.

[Beacool]

69. Well, they'll be a much larger group of the Democratic party who will fight back,

if Hillary does choose to run (which at this point we don't know). The Left can push their candidate, the rest of the party will push theirs and let the bloody candidate who is still standing at the end go and fight the Republican nominee in the g.e. Of course it will be a weakened candidate, but the Left wouldn't give a crap about that. This won't be like 2008 where people were so disgusted with Bush that Mickey Mouse would have won if he had been the Democratic nominee. It's going to be hard enough to keep the WH in 2016.

BTW, I give a lot more credit to Elizabeth Warren than some of you do. If it's clear that Hillary runs, I doubt that Liz would want a bloody confrontation with her. They like and respect each other. One thing is for Warren to go after Wall Street and another would be to use the same tone going after a fellow Democrat. I don't see her wanting to do that.

Now that the battlefield is clear, let the games begin.

[Metric System]

78. They got the candidate they wanted in 2008 and now they're basically calling him a DINO, so why

should we trust their judgement now? Apparently they're easily fooled.

[Beacool]

80. Yes, now some are disappointed.

It was to be expected.

[woo me with science]

73. ...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

74. How many times has Hillary said she's not running? n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

31. If I had a buck for each time I had a post alerted on...

We'd need my former neighbor, Carl Sagan, to meaningfully explain the magnitude of my wealth within the context of our universe.

[JI7]

32. what were the results ?

[brooklynite]

34. 4-2 to keep it

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: Enough. I'm not supporting Hillary in the primaries but some people clearly want this to be Green Party Occupy Ralph Nader Roolez underground. Hillary is a Democrat. Deal with it.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Seriously?
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT and said: Yea, Manny is stepping over the line - yet again.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: It's a joke. Geez.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Lighten up, people.

Perhaps someone could explain how this joke is funny? Perhaps then we could all enjoy it.

[MannyGoldstein]

36. Ha! Cheated the hangman again!

But next time, my luck might not hold:

(I was likely at that concert... I was cool once...)

[Eleanors38]

62. Went to the one in Austin...

Some guy named Stevie Ray Vaughan opened to tepid applause. The only concert (1980) where capacity of the torn-down Coliseum was reached (3,500), and the band was impromptu-scheduled the next night in the same venue. The day in between, the band did the "Rock the Casbah" music video locally. Great old times.

[MannyGoldstein]

66. What'd you think of them?

I saw them at Bond's in NYC, 1981. Twice. They did something like 10 nights there. Best concerts I ever saw.

[Eleanors38]

70. Musician-wise, they were fairly good technically...

What made them good was the authenticity, the grand sound of the times; they were a Part of humanity, not some shock rock. They seemed to prefer the sun to the moon, a smiling face to the endless skulls, what happened to someone rather than what they could do to someone.

I loved "White Riot."

[LiberalElite]

82. Here's the original -

[joshcryer]

86. I'm going to miss you Manny when Hillary is President. :(

[quinnox]

43. Wow, ridiculous alert of the month

It really is good to have a sense of humor, even regarding the Queen and Absolute Ruler of the Universe, Hillary Clinton. Amen.

[davidpdx]

45. For once I agree with you

If the person sat down and thought about it, logically what was said made sense. The number 2 person on the ticket is usually someone who can go after the opponents. The rest was just opinion. It's too bad it wasn't 6-0 to let it stand.

[quinnox]

46. Indeed. Then I looked down and saw post #33, and just had to facepalm

Yes, Manny was seriously speculating that Hillary would plan to kill Elizabeth if she was the Vice President under Warren.

Something in the water apparently regarding posts in this thread.

[winter is coming]

22. I doubt her ego would allow it, and I don't mean that in a negative way. n/t

[arely staircase]

24. I think you would make a great VP candidate

Clinton/Goldstein 2016!

[daleanime]

41. Non, non, no.......

Warren/Goldstein!

[Wilms]

25. I think Hillary would prefer to be the #2 under Sachs.

I'll bet they pay waaaaay better than Senator Warren would deem appropriate.

[Deep13]

26. What a back-handed compliment. nt

[demigoddess]

29. really?? Veep to someone less qualified??

or just more male???

[Chan790]

68. I prefer to think of it as simply someone not Hillary.

I'm sure there's an equally qualified female we could run for President who has the added benefit of not being a center-right Democrat in the pocket of Wall Street, big banking and the oligarchy like the Clintons are. (I know there is at-least one, I also know why she's not running.)

They're just not as exciting as Libby Warren to talk about at this point.

[fadedrose]

30. That's exactly what my Republican neighbors

said about Obama if he picked Hillary.

They were voting for Obama because their son had adopted a black child..but uh, uh, to the First Black President's wife (well, he used to be).

[JI7]

33. you think Clintons would try to kill Elizabeth Warren ?

[MannyGoldstein]

35. No.

It was tongue-in-cheek.

[woo me with science]

50. Please, they have people to do that.

[MannyGoldstein]

55. DUzy

Laughed so hard I woke the missus up.

[PETRUS]

37. Yeah, as long as I don't have to attend that high school.

But why demote Elizabeth Warren?

Oh wait... you didn't mean Vice Principal. Nevermind.

[Agschmid]

38. For real...

[Whisp]

40. Manny, Manny, Manny...

what do we do with you

[NYC_SKP]

42. "An all-female ticket would be great, too."

Um. Now I get it. OK...

[Fumesucker]

44. The most dangerous job in the world?

Food taster for President Warren.

The woman is making some remarkably implacable enemies.

Ming the Merciless would look like Barney the Dinosaur next to some of them.

I'm reminded of that old saying, friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

[ProSense]

47. Howard Dean supports Hillary for President

Get in line. Sheesh!

[Bluenorthwest]

53. When Howard was Chairman, he went on TV and insisted to the world that the Democratic

platform had a plank opposing marriage equality. Of course he was lying. Or alternatively he was utterly uninformed about our own platform and about the voters in our Party.
I called his office, they called back all apology and muttered chagrin, but Howie failed to go back to that show to correct his spewed verbal bullshit.
Howard supports lots of things I don't support. His support is reason to be cautious.

[Morphia]

48. I for one would prefer if Hillary just retired from seeking elected office

She was elected Senator and Appointed Sec of State she has done enough, it is time for her to step aside, it is time for some new blood in the party to lead the party in a new direction and I just don't see how a former Goldwater Girl will lead the party in a direction that will be good for the country.

[B Calm]

52. I'm not wild about Hillary either. Don't get me wrong, I'll

vote for her if that's my only choice. Between her and a no good republican, you have to go with Hillary. I'm sick of these DINO's presidents, and Hillary is a DINO.

[demigoddess]

79. If we want to get rid of DINOs,

we have to start lower down and get rid of republicans in the lower offices. More democratic control means dems will be freer to be more left leaning in their policies.

[B Calm]

81. I couldn't agree more with you!

[Beacool]

71. Even as a joke, that inference is disgusting!!!!

Particularly since next week will be the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination.

WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH SOME OF YOU??????????????

[LiberalElite]

83. Glad that

it was alerted on.

[Beacool]

87. I don't get what the hell is going on over here.

I understand political differences and preferring certain politicians over others, but this nastiness and inference that the Clintons would kill people is just sickening. It's even worse when it's coming from a Democratic site. That's the kind of vile behavior that one sees on RW sites.

[LiberalElite]

88. Agreed and

The use of that photo in service of making a joke is insensitive at best - I was a teenager at the time of the JFK assassination.

[Beacool]

89. I wasn't even around and I still find it a lot more than insensitive.

It was a terrible time for the country and to use that photo in an attempt to make some lame joke is offensive an divisive.

[cali]

56. I think she makes a great retiree n/t

[L0oniX]

59. Message removed by jury decision.

[jsr]

60. Manny, we're in the middle of an election campaign right now.

Please do not disturb the results.

[Romulox]

63. LOL. Love these "Third Way" Manny posts.

Oh, wait, you're serious? And you want to be the voice for the Left here on DU? Does not compute.

[Nye Bevan]

72. If Manny is comfortable with Hillary being a heartbeat away from the presidency,

that makes me feel even better about supporting her for president.

[Romulox]

90. If you feel better about it, I feel much worse.

[MineralMan]

76. People made the same ugly food-taster comments

when Hillary Clinton was being considered as Obama's running mate. The people who said that were thinking ugly thoughts.

It's a bad association you bring to mind, Manny. A bad one, indeed. Please think longer before posting, OK?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

77. Even a VP candidate she might exceed my nose-holding abilities.

Maybe if Warren, or another progressive, would promise her Vice-Consul to Andorra.....

[Kingofalldems]

84. I pretty much like all Democrats.

Don't understand all the attacks on good Democrats.

[bigwillq]

85. I don't want her anywhere near the White House ever again (nt)