Hillary Clinton for Vice President in 2012? Biden ‘Trade Talk’ Murmur Could Swell

Intriguing article.  I had had this thought also and it’s interesting to see it floating around DC.

Here is an excerpt and a link to the full article at the bottom:

Washington’s chattering class, never timid about giving advice to the president of the United States, is floating the idea of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton becoming Barack Obama’s running mate in two years.

Time magazine, in an item Wednesday on its website, said Obama perhaps should consider the proposition — “dump Biden” would be part of it — as he begins planning for his reelection bid in 2012. “Amid two wars, a stubborn unemployment rate, an oil spill . . . might the White House need a little star power to jump-start what could be a tougher reelection than expected?” writes contributor Dan Fastenberg. “As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton has been striking the same tone as Team No Drama Obama, as opposed to the human gaffe machine.” Hmm, would that be Vice President Joe Biden and his big bleeping deal health care law?

The latest round of I-don’t-have-anything-better-to-do-today speculation began earlier this month when former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder wrote in a Politico op-ed piece that Obama should replace Biden with Clinton, in part because she would help win back “middle-class independent voters,” who have drifted away from the president. Working-class voters, says Wilder, have always been “more enamored of Clinton.” The former governor, who is African American, didn’t say it, but “working class” in this context could be code for white voters, a group Hillary ran stronger among than did Obama when they opposed each other — sometimes bitterly — in the 2008 primary campaign. Wilder goes on to make a case against Biden, saying his verbal blunders are not only fodder for late-night comedians but have undermined “what little confidence the public may have in him.”

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