One of many, many readers writes:
No! First of all, there’s a real chance that the VP would become president. So if you think she wouldn’t be a good president, you can’t support her for VP for political purposes. Second of all, she’s been totally and thoroughly dishonest during the campaign.
Third of all, she’s trying to blackmail Obama.
They were doing a scorched earth campaign to win, then got quieter when it became clear she had lost. Then over the past couple of days, she turned it back on again — talking about counting all the votes, and that sort of thing — to let Obama know that was her lever. She’s saying, I’ll take my people and go home if you don’t put me on the ticket. Caving into that sort of thing betrays weakness, and a president can’t afford to be weak.
Obama has to impose discipline on the party. It has to come from him. The Clintons have refused to get on board, and if they continue to behave in this way, they’ve got to get smacked down. Not just because hillary as vp is bad for the country, and not just because she’s an awful person. But because it has to be clear who’s running things.
People are saying that obama has to put Hillary on the ticket in order to solve an artificial political problem that’s all of hillary’s making. And she’s pumping that problem up to increase her leverage. Obama simply can’t cave in to that.
If I wanted to vote for someone who would betray his core beliefs for political expediency, I’d vote for McCain. We don’t need that sort of thing from Obama.
The Dish 