Mr. 9-11 was on This Week this morning criticizing the Obama-Biden ticket as a choice based on weakness. Obama didn't pick Hillary because he's weak is the logic. Seems brave not to choose Hillary, so forgive me for not following that logic. Spin at its spiniest
WaPo: "Senator Obama has made a choice more out of weakness than strength," Giuliani said today on ABC's "This Week."This is from the man who dogged on Hillary throughout the primary:
Giuliani, who ran for the Republican nomination, said the presumptive Democratic nominee should have chosen Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), Obama's chief rival in the nomination process.
"She had 50 percent of the Democratic vote. Obama has 50 percent of the Democratic vote," the former mayor said. "You almost have to go to extraordinary lengths to avoid her as the vice presidential pick of the party."
Giuliani was the only Republican to appear on the five interview shows.
RCP: It doesn't take a political genius to realize that Barack Obama needed to nominate a woman for vice president. Obama's key problem is that there is no gender gap. In the most recent Zogby poll, he runs only 2 points better among women than among men. A Democrat should be running 10 to 15 points better among women.
This is all just bluster. I'll point to the lifetime survey and the fact that most of Hillary's supporters support Obama. The remaining diehards are likely to be republicans in the first place and the media is playing them and they are playing the media. I can't wait until the conversation moves past Hillary.
