Strickland: "If drafted, I will not run. Nominated, I will not accept. And if elected, I will not ..

[babylonsister]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/06/ohio_guv_absolutely_not_obama.html

"If drafted, I will not run. Nominated, I will not accept. And if elected, I will not serve. So, I don't know how more crystal clear I can be.''

Ohio guv: 'Absolutely not' Obama mate
On a scale of 1 to 10, Ohio's governor rates difficulty of winning there a 5.
Posted June 10, 2008 4:20 PM
The Swamp

by Mark Silva


Count one name as out of contention in the Democratic veepstakes - if he ever truly was in.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland says, if asked, he would "absolutely not" join the presidential ticket of Sen. Barack Obama.

"Absolutely not,'' Strickland says in an interview with Michele Norris, host of National Public Radio's All Things Considered, airing this eveing. "If drafted, I will not run. Nominated, I will not accept. And if elected, I will not serve. So, I don't know how more crystal clear I can be.''

Don't they all say that? Norris asks.

"No, I don't think they all say that. I've heard people say, "you know, if I was asked, it would certainly be something I would have to consider,'' says Strickland, who supported Sen. Hillary Clinton in the party's primaries. "That does not mean that I am any less committed to helping Barack Obama become the next president.''

Asked to rank the degree of difficulty for Obama to carry Ohio in November, the governor responds: "I would say somewhere around 5 in a scale of 1 to 10. I think it's, I just think it's a challenge because of the nature of our state."

[DS1]

1. A bit dramatic, this one, eh?

[Fenris]

4. A simple no would have sufficed.

[ProgressiveFool]

8. well, it's an answer in a grand tradition

A so-called Sherman statement to end any speculation about whether a candidate will run.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_statement

[tekisui]

2. Good, mark him off the list.

[featherman]

3. Strickland is 67 years old... a problem for me thinking about 2016

[Warpy]

5. I don't think any sitting governor would accept

a post as an appendage and understudy to a job he already has and loves doing, that of chief executive. At least that's how my own governor indicated it when he turned down ideas of running on the ticket, whatever it turned out to be, in the past.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. *nods*

[rucky]

7. So his head can bobble left and right, too?

Gov is pretty versatile.

[LSparkle]

9. Never seemed like a good fit for Obama anyway