Monday, March 10, 2008

Shazam!!! Obama turns into Captain Marvel and slams back...

.... when he got tired of Ms Bubba's hints that maybe she'd take him on as Veep on the ticket! Today ---- From Politico.com:

Obama: 'If I am not ready, how is it that you think I should be such a great vice president?'
My colleague Carrie Budoff Brown e-mails from Columbus, Miss., with Obama's response to the Clintons' flotation of the notion that he could be her veep: scorn.

COLUMBUS, Miss -- Sen. Barack Obama delivered an animated rebuke today of suggestions from the Clintons in recent days that he could run as her vice president.

“Now first of all with all due respect, with all due respect," he said here during a town hall meeting. "I won twice as many states as Sen. Clinton. I won more of the popular vote than Sen. Clinton. I have more delegates than Sen. Clinton. So I don’t’ know how someone in second place can offer the vice presidency to someone in first place. If I was in second place I could understand but I am in first place right now.

He referenced comments from Bill Clinton in 1992 that his “most important criteria” for vice president was that person must be ready to be commander in chief.“They have been spending the last two or three weeks” arguing that he is not ready to be commander in chief, Obama said.“I don’t understand. If I am not ready, how is it that you think I should be such a great vice president?” Obama asked the crowd, which gave him a standing ovation during his defense.

“I don’t understand.”“You can’t say he is not ready on day one, then you want him to be your vice president,” Obama continued. “I just want everybody to absolutely clear: I am not running for vice president. I am running to be president of the United States of America.”

Obama was responding to comments from Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson on a conference call earlier today, in which he suggested that Obama could pass the "threshold" and become commander in chief material this summer.

Who knows? Maybe he ain't Captain Marvel after all -- maybe he has just gotten plumb tired of turning the other cheek and decided to flash one of his other two........! Frankly, I think he's been more than patient trying to keep this food fight on a higher plane. But then, he ain't old enough to know the Clinton demolition machine as long as we have!

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