According to Game Change Ted Strickland and Evan Bayh topped her list. But could she have chosen Obama, or would he have declined for similar reasons to Hillary's IOTL.
I don't think SCOTUS would ever be considered, especially with the partisanship these days. Hillary is not going to have a Borking in her first year as President. Obama's never been a judge among other things. AG is a different story, but that would mean giving up his presidential ambitions: no one can move from an appointed Cabinet post to the Presidency. There would also have to be some ego trimming on both sides, especially for such an important domestic portfolio that can easily become politicized. Hillary can just keep Obama in storage as Vice President, thus rendering his 2016 chances between zero and nil.
I don't think SCOTUS would ever be considered, especially with the partisanship these days. Hillary is not going to have a Borking in her first year as President. Obama's never been a judge among other things. AG is a different story, but that would mean giving up his presidential ambitions: no one can move from an appointed Cabinet post to the Presidency. There would also have to be some ego trimming on both sides, especially for such an important domestic portfolio that can easily become politicized. Hillary can just keep Obama in storage as Vice President, thus rendering his 2016 chances between zero and nil.
Sadly, stealing elections has been going on almost as long as the republic has existed. John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, Woodrow Wilson[Innocent] (Taft stole the Republican nomination from Teddy Roosevelt, splitting the vote and giving the election to the Democrat Wilson), and George W. Bush. Flamers may fire, and who knows, maybe George IS right, maybe his Presidency WILL be rehabilitated. But how he got there is another matter. Stolen elections are stolen elections. The judgement of history has remained unchanged in the 186 years since John Quincy Adams' election, and all the sordid elections after him. No stolen election President has ever even been judged mediocre, never mind above average.Well, for starters, the question would be how Hillary wins the nomination.
If she wins via the super-delagates as she was desperately hoping, unless Obama agrees to become her VP she's sunk.
If she'd won this way, Obama's supporters, particularly his black ones would have been furious and would have seen this as an example of their guy getting robbed of the victory.
What would have been particularly damaging is that most blacks would have seen this as one more instance of a black man following all the rules and when he was about to win, the game was changed to allow the well-connected, wealthy white person to win.
Blacks would have stayed home in droves rather than voter for Hillary over McCain and the same would have happened with young people.
The only way to stop this would have been Obama accepting her VP nomination, but there's absolutely no way he'd agree to it. In fact, the Clintons would be lucky if Obama uttered more than the most tepid, luke-warm endorsement of Hillary's nomination.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he said something like, "Well, I'm a loyal democrat so I'll vote for Hillary, but I think it would be presumptious of me to tell the millions of Americans who supported me whom to vote for" or words to that effect that would cause members of the McCain campaign to high-five each other.
no one can move from an appointed Cabinet post to the Presidency.
The only way to stop this would have been Obama accepting her VP nomination, but there's absolutely no way he'd agree to it. In fact, the Clintons would be lucky if Obama uttered more than the most tepid, luke-warm endorsement of Hillary's nomination.
no one can move from an appointed Cabinet post to the Presidency.
As for the African-American vote in this scenario, they'd likely rally behind one of their own- Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (Green). THIS could be a future gamechanger, with possibly over 5% of the vote (say hello to matching funds) and DC's 3 Electors, it could put the Greens on the map nationwide.
Sadly, stealing elections has been going on almost as long as the republic has existed. John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, Woodrow Wilson[Innocent] (Taft stole the Republican nomination from Teddy Roosevelt, splitting the vote and giving the election to the Democrat Wilson), and George W. Bush.
I wanted to include JFK, except people forget the Illinois Republicans to the south of Chicago had just as big a graveyard turnout as Chicago. Daley's swagger just produced more attention. It's easier for reporters to cover crooked balloting in a large city than to fan out over such a large state in suburb and rural areas. JFK/Nixon was basically a wash, except in 1960 the media propaganda network was on Kennedy's side (mostly).That sounds completely crazy to me.
You missed someone whose name rhymes with "Bohn Schennedy."![]()
Depends on how she gets the nomination. If it's rather breezy, I doubt that she does--she probably opts for Strickland or Richardson. If not, then Obama is more plausible, in my book.