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Friday, June 20, 2008

Hillary for Veep?

Maybe not ...

Obama's Message to Hillary - WSJ.com:
June 17, 2008 11:25 p.m.

"Barack Obama has sent a clear but unmistakable response to the pressure he's been getting to put Hillary Clinton on his ticket as the vice presidential nominee. Yesterday, his campaign named Patti Solis Doyle, the former Clinton campaign manager who was fired in February and has not spoken to Mrs. Clinton since, as the chief of staff who will help guide whomever he picks as his running mate.

A major Clinton fundraiser told the New York Observer he considered the move 'the biggest f--- you I have ever seen in politics.' According to the unnamed Clinton donor, 'Clinton loyalists view [Ms. Doyle] with deep suspicion and believe that she is shopping around a book deal and acted as a background source for an extremely harsh Vanity Fair piece about Bill Clinton.'

'Either one of two things happen,' predicted the fundraiser. 'Hillary is selected as vice president and they fire Patti, or Hillary is not going to be the vice president.'

Team Obama insists no message is being sent in the hiring of Ms. Doyle, who was one of several campaign staffers whose appointment was announced on Monday. But Clinton insiders say the former First Couple is livid over the appointment and it will not make repairing relations between the two camps any easier."

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