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    Robert Reich: Obama-Hillary 2012

    In the 2012 presidential election, the Republican candidate will likely face the long-rumored, Obama-Hillary super ticket, predicts longtime political guru and Bill Clinton administration veteran Robert Reich.

    Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places,” Reich wrote in Business Insider on Wednesday. “Biden becomes secretary of state — a position he’s apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, vice president. ”

    Insisting that his prediction is not based on any “inside information,” Reich wrote that such a move would be “because [President Barack] Obama needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of a Democratic base that’s been disillusioned with his cave-ins to regressive Republicans. Hillary Clinton on the ticket can do that.”

    And with the economy in such bad shape, he continued, “Clinton would help deflect attention from the bad economy and put it on foreign policy, where she and Obama have shined.”

    With Clinton then perfectly lined up to be the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, he added, Democrats have a shot at the presidency for twelve years, giving progressives the ability to drastically reshape the Supreme Court. Democrats have not held the White House for more than eight years since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his successor, President Harry Truman.

    “Obama-Clinton in 2012,” Reich concluded. “It’s a natural.”

    Reich served in the Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton presidential administrations. He was Clinton’s secretary of labor from 1993 through 1997, served on Obama’s presidential economic transition advisory board, is a contributing editor at numerous publications and has taught economics and policy at Harvard, Berkeley and Brandeis.

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    • Country Commentator  •  Union City, Tennessee  •  4 mths ago
      Republicans find women like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachman to run, Democrats prefer women who excel such as Hillary Clinton. She has contributed a bunch to the rehab of Foreign Relations after the Bush/Cheney diplomatic failures.
    • Allen  •  4 mths ago
      Bring it on, the people are wiser now.
    • Barry  •  Ottawa, Canada  •  4 mths ago
      Can someone please explain to me ( a non-american) why ex-presients/mayors/senators etcetera in america continue to be identified as holders of the ofice they no longer occupy (i.e. Mayor Guiliani, President Clinton)? In other countries they are usually identiied a ex whatevers.
      • NoONe 4 mths ago
        I hate to say it Barry, but because to most Americans these ppl are nothing more than a face and a title. Take the title away and Americans get confused. I agree that it makes absolutely no sense, but what here really does?
      • Forward thinking 4 mths ago
        It is a courtesy, sort of ameritis thing. We don't call widows the widow xxx, or retired Dr.or professors Mr. either. Just believe in letting people keep the highest title they ever held out of respect.
    • The Joke's On You  •  4 mths ago
      WHO SAID?—“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
      A. Karl Marx B. Vladimir Lenin C. Nikita Khrushchev D. None of the above (Answer below)

      D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
      • 1eyeopen 4 mths ago
        She was referring to gun control, abolishing your second amendment and then raiding your home to take your guns.
    • Gnosis  •  Fort Worth, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      “Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.” - Adolf Hitler
      • Mickey 4 mths ago
        We might be in hell shortly if Obama wins; and as Reich says it. The Supreme court will make any law uncontitutional if the dems get 5 or more justices seated........ they'll be in for another 30 years.
      • dmom05 4 mths ago
        Adolf Hitler, the master manipulator, had people figured out. Too bad he was an evil maniac.
      • DrMallard 4 mths ago
        Hitler was a completely evil maniac, alright, but he managed to figure out not only political campaigns but the State of Florida!
    • Terry  •  4 mths ago
      Whatever happened to the Republican Party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower?
      • ItsAllSoGoofy 4 mths ago
        They were ousted as RINOs.
      • Gladys Kravitz 4 mths ago
        It's controled by religious nuts and TEA boogers now. Those were the good old days. I'd even settle for some Barry Goldwater's today.
      • Joe 4 mths ago
        It was sold to the highest bidder.
    • D.  •  4 mths ago
      She has said a hundred times she doesn't want the VP nomination. Jeez, this is like the people who kept hounding Christie after he said he didn't want to run over and over.
      • mikej 4 mths ago
        d that was in your dream wake up
      • Preybrother 4 mths ago
        If Hillary and Bill thinks that Obama can win, she will run as VP because it will set her up for 2016. So, she will see how the wind blows because Obama might be an albatross around her neck and she has enough troubles of her own.
    • Dieu-Le-Veut  •  4 mths ago
      1) She has said repeatedly that she's done, gone, outta there as soon as this term is over. Doesn't even plan on staying on as Sec of State. 2) The only thing more ridiculous than Joe Biden as VP is Joe Biden as SoS.
    • James  •  Hong Kong, Hong Kong  •  4 mths ago
      After reading the numerous brain-dead, fact-free comments below, none of which shows any attempt at fact-based, critical thinking, does anyone doubt that America needs to reform its educational infrastructure?
    • Sharon  •  Romeoville, Illinois  •  4 mths ago
      Obama/Clinton would be Aces! I like Joe Biden but he has sort of boring nice guy personality! I think, if it's legal to do that , a swap in positions would defiinitely be a win-win situation!! A lot of women out there, who were big Hilary fans in 2008, would be overjoyed! And Mr. Riech, the economy is getting better, if you haven't noticed, and democrats are still very much behind the President. We are way more united than the Repugs! They understand why the President had to give in to Repugs, they were more or less blackmailing him. Like when they wouldn't ok unemployment extensions twice unless some agenda they wanted (extending Bush tax cuts for the rich and more recently a pipeline). All things for the rich and big business and not for the 99%, I might add! If anymone is disillusioned with their leadership, it would be the Republicans!!! Obama/Clinton 2012 and beyond! ;o)
    • Country Commentator  •  Union City, Tennessee  •  4 mths ago
      Obama's approval ratings show he IS way ahead of Congressional Republicans.
    • Not so  •  Charlotte, North Carolina  •  4 mths ago
      " Deflect Attention From Bad Economy" Daily Caller Really think the unemployed and working people are so stupid that they think their attention can be deflected from the cost of feeding their faimlies and keeping a roof over their heads?? I don't think so...
    • williamf  •  4 mths ago
      NWO RUNT
    • Marilyn  •  Baltimore, Maryland  •  4 mths ago
      This is a true story......I was living in New York when this happened. An unemployed lawyer, with no political experience what so ever,( I mean none) who did not even live in the State of New York until the election, became a US senator for the state of New York. That person was Hillary Clinton. VP.....anything is possible
    • PatrickM  •  4 mths ago
      Obama/Clinton by 12% in 2012.
    • Sandy  •  Cleveland, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      I can't see Hillary going for this.
    • Reegan  •  Waite Park, Minnesota  •  4 mths ago
      HAHAHAHA Changing out the VP isn't really attacking the problem is it?
    • mestar  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      Hillary/Obama or Obama Hillary? Hilarious.. with Bill as "First Lady"
    • rustybucket55  •  Warren, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      Hillary has already said she is retiring after 2011.
    • newday  •  Columbus, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      No one has been able to explain to me why young men...... and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay. While Politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after serving one term. It just does not make any sense.

      On Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?

      35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government

      Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.

      This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.

      This is an idea that we should address.

      For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.

      If each person that receives this will post it on their wall, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message.. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.

      Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States .."

      Now, what are you going to do about it? Read and delete, or work for reform? Share on the wall of EVERY congressman, representative, governor, the white house!!!!! Pass it around!!! Make calls, send fax's and email's...............
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