Good on her.

This is just Hillary riding Obamas leg for the V-P slot. Nothing more, nothing less.

Either way, well said on her part.

Gonna be fun having her on the US Supreme Court, that's for sure!

BS, Cato. The Dems are healing the rift in their party.

That's because Bush is a Uniter, #5.

She should run for president. Such eloquence! Such loyalty!

Bush's comments were generic. He didn't explicity refer to either Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton or the democrat party. Over extrapolation on this by the demoract candidates will backfire.

ooooh, total dis!

that's the Hillary i voted for!

No Hillary, you are not included in this discussion because you will not be the nominee. George Bush doesn't care what you think. Obama won't make you VP after what you've done to try to destroy his campaign. There will be more stories about Obama and McCain or Bush in the future that you won't be included in. Get used to it.

In honesty though, Bush is low-hanging fruit.

By tomorrow, everyone will have had a crack at him.

You're all jerks.

If Hillary is made VP think of what an attack dog she could be. The awful double-standard is that if Obama lashes back too forcefully he always risks being tarnished as "angry scary black man". He has to act like a Mandela circa 1998 practically. Hillary can bloody up McCain nonstop and because she would be such a high-profile "celebrity" VP McCain would have to respond directly to her and maybe he would lose his cool and we could see that infamous McCain temper unleashed. No GOP VP would be a match for Hillary, McCain would be campaigning against two candidates. They could spat and Obama would look all the more presidential and above-it-all.

But Poe--we're saying vaguely complimentary things about Your Lady!

That said....I actually think Bush's comments were directed at Jimmy Carter and referring to his high-profile visit to Syria, meetings with Hamas. A lot of Israeli politicians were a little annoyed with Carter's meddling and I think Bush was actually just sucking up to them regarding that, not trying to campaign abroad against Obama.

Good for her, she's started to make it easy for the democrats to come together again.

Take note, ECB. Posting HRC news like this would be good for you.

@17, THAT IS FUCKING SEXIST YOU PIG!!!!!!!

I bet Obama was eating poached eggs on toast with a small glass of fresh squeezed orange juice when this news reached him. He swallowed, put down the toast, and blinked in surprise. "Well," he said, his eyebrows waggling as though they did not know where to sit. "Well."

He's a Sweetzi.

Good for Hillary! About time she stopped attacking the Democratic Nominee!

As someone who has had not much good to say about Senator Clinton lately, I really have to hand it to her for this. I think what she said was not only exactly right, but forcefully said. Excellent - more of this please.

Raindrop @8 - Um, I think that letting breath-taking insults like this slip by unnoticed helped derail Kerry's run in '04. Not that he ran a great campaign, by any means, but still.

Jason @13 & 15 - I like your analysis in both responses. Angles I hadn't considered on either the joint-ticket issue or who Bush was actually insulting. Nice.

Will she stop at nothing?!

The funny thing about Bush's remarks is that his own secretary of defense said the same damn thing. What a buffoon. Keep talking, George.

I don't know that anyone's tried stopping her with it.

Senator Clinton will be the VP

Dream ticket is not just a phrase, but the road to victory for Obama. He is too smart to pass it up.

This game is about winning - and nothing else. The winner takes it all. West Virginia sealed the deal. She delivered proof that she is essential to the victory.

The rest of the short list for VP are posers. Edwards will be the Attorney general, that deal is cooked.

Clinton has shrewdly kept in the race to have a few aces at the end. She is already in history for her run, now she will take the VP and go for the White House in eight years.

Political twinks and Obama partisans take note.

Bill will be sent on goodwill tours all over the globe, international schmoozer.

By the way, Mc Cain's age is his biggest negative. And the glow of the Clinton years, real or fancied, is a giant positive for Obama and the dems. How to really capture the glow to the max, Hillary on the ticket. Constant reminder that a few years back life with a Dem in the White House WAS much better for working Americans.

@ 15 and 26 have some bright ideas...

But while Dubya might have been targeting JC, Obama might be able to ride this back to the promised land. Bush's comments made all of the Democrats take note and demonize him and that's what may get him into the White House: "IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT AND MCCAIN WILL BE HIS CLONE."
If BO can stay on message, he might be able to win over some of those angry whites the pundits love talking about.
...and he may need HRC to be there with him.

Does anyone remember the 2004 Observer story about GWB's grandfather being a big Nazi supporter?

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.