"I know that she has always been open to it," he said at a rally in Mississippi, responding to a voter who asked whether his wife would consider Obama as vice president. "I think she answered explicitly yes yesterday," Bill Clinton said, according to ABC News. The former president added that he knew she felt the two of them together would be "hard to beat."
He said Obama would carry urban and upscale voters while Hillary polls well with traditional blue-collar Democrats. "If you put those two things together, you'd have an almost unstoppable force," he said.
While the Clinton's would certainly welcome Obama on their ticket, it is very unclear if Obama feels the same way. A growing chasm is developing between the two candidates as each goes at the other candidate harder, and yes, dirtier. Much speculation as to any hopes of Clinton scoring with the super-delegates is in her ability to render Obama unelectable. And, she is doing a good job of it. Last week she noted that she, and John McCain have amassed lifetimes of experience while Obama had not (SHE ACTUALLY SAID SHE AND MC CAIN HAD LIFETIMES OF EXPERIENCE, AND OBAMA HAD A SPEECH IN 2002). This seemingly pointed to the fact that if she did not get the top spot for the DNC, you might as well vote for McCain. And it gets worse....
Clinton went on the offensive over Power's (Samantha, former Obama advisor, of "monster" fame) comment that Obama might not make good on his campaign promise to withdraw troops from Iraq by 2009 - a remark the Obama camp immediately disowned.
"If you can't trust Senator Obama's words, what's left?" Clinton asked in a campaign memo. "It looks like Senator Obama is telling voters one thing while his campaign says those words should not be mistaken for serious action." Obama's camp accused Clinton of trying to win by "tearing Barack Obama down."
But even amid the growing rancor, it seems a majority of voters agree with Bill Clinton about who should be the Democratic running mates. 
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