"Jimmy Carter urged Barack Obama not to pick Hillary Clinton as his running mate in an interview with a British publication, saying such a pairing “would be the worst mistake that could be made.”
The former Democratic president, who announced his support for Obama as the Illinois senator clinched his party’s nomination Tuesday night, told the Guardian’s Weekend magazine that Obama and Clinton together “would just accumulate the negative aspects of both candidates.”
In a bluntly worded assessment, Carter defended his stance by citing Clinton’s negative ratings and the many questions and biases Obama faces.
“If you take that 50 percent who just don’t want to vote for Clinton and add it to whatever element there might be who don’t think Obama is white enough or old enough or experienced enough or because he’s got a middle name that sounds Arab, you could have the worst of both worlds,” he said.
The former president said he also would have opposed a Clinton-Obama ticket with Clinton at the top."
Now this gives me pause.
Jimmy Carter is invariably wrong about virtually ANYTHING of importance, so taking this as gospel one must conclude that an Obo-Skankles ticket would be barn-burners. Then again, there hasn't been a bonafide democrat victory SINCE Jimmy Carter, as Bubba BJ never got 50% of the vote and Gore then Kerry couldn't even beat Bush the Younger, so it would appear that pretty much everything democrats believe to be true is incorrect.
Without Ross Perot, the Clintons are remembered as those dysfunctional Arkansas morons, BUT, since there was such a creature as Perot, Bubba took on an air of invincibility. Something he soon relinquished the nanosecond after Hillary said, "Hey, Hon, maybe it'd be a good idea if you helped me campaign..."
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