Posted by
Ken Maes on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:39:38 PM
Democrats and Republicans alike felt that an unbeatable ticket would have been Obama/Clinton.
In fact that ticket was often referred to as the "Dream Team". Yet is was not to be as in the end Joe Biden was selected to be Obama's running mate.
Granted that we vote for the top of the ticket, yet with all his weaknesses Obama was in serious need of help due to his lack of experience. Hillary could have shored up Obama to help carry him over the top.
So why was Hillary passed over . Why was she dis-respected by not even vetting her. A lot of reasons have been given and I also have my reasons and they are as follows:
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Picking Hillary Clinton would have upstaged Barrack Obama because the spot light would have been on her instead of him and as everyone knows by now, Obama has a huge ego and that ego would never allow him to be upstaged.
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Hillary is by far smarter than Obama. She has more experience on the national scene, being very involved for eight years in Bill Clinton's administration.
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Her tenure in the U.S. Senate is far supeior to Obama's mere 140 days.
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Hillary received more of the popular vote than Obama and actually won the bigger states. So there is that bitterness that still exists in the fact that she is liked more than he is and again out comes his ego.
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Barrack and Michele were hoping that they could make history by being elected to be the first black president but here again Bill and Hillary beat them to it as Bill Clinton was known as the First Black President.
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Hillary would have at her side Bill Clinton who is far superior to Barrack although lately Bill has had diarrea of the mouth.
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Lastly, Barrack would spend the majority of his time looking over his shoulder to see when the knife would be inserted and twisted in his back.
So as everyone can see The Dream Ticket would not have been so dreamy and Barrack did what was the safest thing he could have done and that was pick poor old Joe Biden.