Rolling Stone begins vetting potential VP picks for Hillary

[Godhumor]

Their shortlist includes:

Tom Perez - Labor Secretary

Sherrod Brown - Ohio Senator

Julian Castro - Secretary of HUD

Cory Booker - NJ Senator

Bernie Sanders

Elizabeth Warren

The full piece has pluses and minuses for each.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/who-would-hillary-clintons-vice-president-be-20160303?page=3

[JaneyVee]

1. My picks

Clinton/Booker
Clinton/Warren
Clinton/Brown

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I like Julian Castro

But he seems like too nice a guy to effectively go after Trump...

I like Sherrod Brown because of his blue collar cred and I think he can effectively throw down with Trump.

[Mike Nelson]

3. Some great choices!

...better than the Republicans.

[RobertEarl]

36. She may pick a republican

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But let us pray she doesn't get that far.

Actually she may ask Trump? Seems the Clintons wanted him to run?

[jcgoldie]

39. Very stupid

You are a peach.

[RobertEarl]

41. And you are a?

Her BFF is Kissinger.

[zappaman]

43. Sure, Bob.

Sure.

[nichomachus]

4. Mrs. Clinton would never name

anyone as VP who is smarter, more popular, or more principled than she is. So, the real list is pretty short,

The spotlight needs to be on her at all times -- and the VP would have to be on board with her agenda of starting new wars, increasing old ones, giving the keys to the treasury to Wall Street, and killing Social Security.

[SoCalMusicLover]

6. Exactly!!

Little chance she is going to pick a progressive, which absolutely eliminates a few names on that supposed list.

[book_worm]

9. Nonsense

[UglyGreed]

10. Lloyd Blankfein

perhaps?????

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

21. Jamie Dimon?

The possibilities are endless.

[UglyGreed]

28. Tony James?

Hillary Clinton Denounces Corporate Crime While Accepting Cash From Blackstone, Firm Sanctioned By SEC

Hillary Clinton is traveling the country, promising to get tough on corporate wrongdoers and “shadow banks.” But as she promises to crack down on investment firms that offer banking services outside the purview of traditional financial regulations, her presidential campaign is vacuuming in cash from executives at a Wall Street firm known as one of the country’s biggest shadow banks — one recently fined by federal regulators for allegedly ripping off its clients.

Last week, the president of Blackstone Group, Tony James, hosted a fundraiser for Clinton. The cash flowed to the Clinton campaign just two months after the private-equity giant settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission over charges that it used so-called monitoring fees to enrich the firm at the expense of investors. Clinton accepted the money from executives at the sanctioned firm even as she has criticized the Obama administration for not punishing the perpetrators of financial crime more strenuously.

Among the investors in the Blackstone funds harmed by the scheme were major public pension systems in California, Florida and New Jersey, which hold the retirement savings of teachers, police officers, firefighters and other government workers. In all, municipal and state pension systems have committed at least $9.7 billion worth of investments in the three Blackstone funds the SEC says were hit, according to the research firm Preqin. (A top Blackstone executive said in 2010 that public employees enjoyed retirement benefits that are “too generous.”) Clinton has been endorsed by a number of major unions that represent public employees who rely on public pension systems for their retirement.

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-denounces-corporate-crime-while-accepting-cash-blackstone-firm

[Codeine]

17. It's honestly like I'm reading Freerepublic at this point.

I honestly thought Clinton Derangement Syndrome was an exclusively right-wing phenomenon. I was wrong, apparently.

I'll save my hate for the Republicans, thanks.

[grossproffit]

20. Yep.

[Agschmid]

40. Yup.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. Since...

Mrs. Clinton would never name anyone as VP who is smarter.... than she is.[/div


Since she has an I Q of 140 that list would be quite small..

[RobertEarl]

35. She's not going to have the chance

I hope. But like you say it wouldn't be anybody too smart.

[SoCalMusicLover]

5. There Is ZERO Chance She Picks Bernie Or Elizabeth

I'm sure she feels no relationship with Bernie, and would not want to have him as her shadow.

Same goes with Elizabeth. An all woman ticket is not going to happen, and again....Hillary is not going to risk being upstaged by someone many consider qualified to be President today, and could have possibly even given Hillary a run for her money had she entered the race this time around.

The runner up always gets mentioned as being a candidate, but it rarely happens that way. I'm sure after waiting all her life to gain the office she feels she deserves, she already has an idea who she plans to pick, IF she gets the nomination.

[riversedge]

31. She needs someone outside of new England IMHO.

[NurseJackie]

7. Booker or Castro

Both are young, dynamic, charismatic ... and both are very handsome. (Being photogenic always helps ... male or female. It's unfair, I know... sorry, but it's true.)

[Ken Burch]

14. Both are bland, "safe" and totally obedient to the 1% in their views.

Exactly what HRC wants...diversity in name only.

[Cobalt Violet]

18. yup.

Cant' get over how right-wing the dems are now. Won't be happy with either of those.

[book_worm]

8. My view...

I don't want to take anybody from the Senate. The Senate is too important to take a chance on a special election giving a Republican an opportunity to take a seat (nobody thought that we would lose Ted Kennedy's seat, for instance) so in my view this rules out Sherrod Brown, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie (who I don't believe would take it anyway).

Of the others I like both Julian Castro and Tom Perez and both would be huge assets to the ticket. However, I think that Castro would be the stronger choice. I think Tom Perez would make an excellent Attorney General or Supreme Court nominee.

So at this point I'd vote for Castro.

[Lucinda]

11. I have no favorite yet. And though there are excellent choices in the Senate, I am

in the group that thinks we need to keep the Senate strong, and look outside congress for a great VP candidate.

[iandhr]

12. As a Hillary supporter I like Castro.

If she wins move Tom Perez over to Commerce or give him a job inside the Whitehouse and make Bernie the Labor Secretary.

[adigal]

13. If she had any brains, she'd pick Bernie nt

[Ken Burch]

15. She would never go with Sherrod Brown.

It would put pro-worker Dem to close to power.

[ram2008]

16. Please just not Castro

It does look like Bernie is a longshot and it might be Clinton as the nominee, but I would hope not Castro.

And I say that as a Latino. He is an empty suit puppet of the 1% with zero big accomplishments, picking him would be blatant pandering to hispanics and a little bit insulting.

[BlueStater]

19. He's our Marco Rubio.

Smarter but totally without substance and only being pushed because he's a minority and can speechify.

[NurseJackie]

22. Would Martin O'Malley work?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

24. Clinton / Wall Street 2016!

Everybody wins!!!!!

[vdogg]

26. I like the Warren idea

Maybe there's a reason she held off on her endorsement.

[Nonhlanhla]

38. No, heads will explode with a 2 woman ticket

She'll pick a younger male running mate, preferably Hispanic, so my guess is Julian Castro or Tom Perez.

Male because we're still living in a time where the thought of one woman drives people nuts, so she'd "need" a male running mate to "balance" things out.
Younger because she's getting on in years.
Hispanic because, well, that's politics: try to win over as many Hispanic voters as possible.

[Jester Messiah]

27. How 'bout her buddy Kissinger? n/t

[Blue_Adept]

29. I'm rooting for Biden

Can you imagine the fun the Onion would have with another four years of VP Biden?

[chillfactor]

30. my choice would be Julian Castro...

he is young, energetic, and would help with the Hispanic voters lining up behind a Clinton/Castro ticket. He seems to be honest, not corrupted by political shenanigans. and I enjoy hearing him speak.

[Kaleva]

32. I like Keith Richards but...

he's not even an American.

[Armstead]

33. Bill Clinton

[2pooped2pop]

34. She would go with Castro if she gets the chance

[asuhornets]

37. I like Brown...n/t

[flamingdem]

42. Perez or Castro imo

[peggysue2]

44. My personal choice?

Sherrod Brown.

But all these choices are good. And there are others as well. Castro has been mentioned from the start.

This one we'll have to wait on; it's Hillary's choice.