For Democrats, Relief That Clintons Have Ceded Spotlight to Obama
Staying out of the news could help Hillary's prospects as the vice presidential nominee
Democratic insiders are pleased that Hillary and Bill Clinton have stepped out of the spotlight since she conceded the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama several weeks ago.
Neither the former president nor the former first lady has been making much news lately as they cede media attention to Obama as their party's presumptive nominee. "It's good that they dropped out of the spotlight," says a former Hillary adviser. "It was the right thing to do"—because it allows the party to more easily unify behind Obama for the general election.
It also could have a beneficial effect on Senator Clinton's prospects to be Obama's vice presidential running mate. The more she and Bill seem to be team players, the more Obama might take kindly to choosing her as his No. 2, the former Hillary adviser says.
Still, Obama aides retain strong doubts that Bill, as a former president with strong policy ideas and simmering resentment over his wife's loss, would be fully loyal to Obama in the White House.
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Hillary
Well, Michael, I certainly agree with you re intelligent women. But you may not know that Hillary Clinton is an egomaniac, just like her husband, "Goat Boy" Bubba. Check your facts re recent history, and please don't include this phony, phony female in the pantheon of remarkable women of the 20th century!Many of us have highly paid, intelligent wives, sisters, daughters in our families, and this fool is a disgrace to the female gender. Equal means identical, or able to do the same job, she's just phony.
Vice President Hillary
I am from another country but I am a proud American citizen now. I am constantly shocked and ashamed at how men in America are afraid of strong, intelligent women. I tell my daughters in America everyone can be anything they want to be, but they see girls and women put down everyday in school and on television. And boys being dumb bullies. All your polititians, men and women, play the game to get where they are. That is your politics. When Hillary plays it as good as the boys, the boys become angry. Many women too fear strong women like Hillary, because women know they are in many ways much stronger than men, and they have not been doing their jobs either to raise strong, intelligent daughters, and to raise strong intelligent sons. So Hillary embarasses them and they become angry. Our country is very great, but we the people, do not yet measure up to its great potential.
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