Hillary Clinton Says She's Looking Beyond Politicians in VP Search

[NCTraveler]

Hillary Clinton says she’s looking beyond just politicians as she begins her search for a potential running mate.

“I think we should look widely and broadly,” the Democratic presidential candidate exclaimed on “Meet the Press” Sunday when asked about her Vice Presidential search. "It’s not just people in elective office. It is successful businesspeople. I am very interested in that.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-shes-politicians-vp-search/story?id=39287912

[AgerolanAmerican]

1. oh this is new

given her history one has to wonder whether this is just another way of saying she's putting the VP slot up for sale to the highest bidder

[DebDoo]

4. Exactly

[Baobab]

50. Has anybody expressed interest in it?

If I were a politician, I wouldn't want it.

[Alex4Martinez]

98. Maybe she plans to make history by selecting another Clinton. Chelsea is probably free.

Can't have Bill so how about Chelsea?

Seriously!

Wouldn't that be FANTASTIC???

[riversedge]

128. You should know what the laws say about apppointing close relatices to positions in one's

administration before you post again on the topic. .

[Autumn]

6. ^^^^THIS^^^^^

Those speeches would be very interesting right about now. Just to see where that successful business person she's considering might come from.

[Duckhunter935]

27. Would not be surprised

[GreatGazoo]

41. ugh...since 'corporations are people'

Hillary / Goldman 2016

[elehhhhna]

96. Corporations ARE people, my friend. Lol. Vice President Boeing Inc.

[thesquanderer]

111. I think it could be a way to try to appeal to the "anti-establishment" voters...

...who are a big part of the electorate this year, in both parties.

[SidDithers]

2. DU rec...nt

Sid

[BootinUp]

8. Du double rec...explained below

At a time when the country hates both parties, how does this answer possibly sound bad to Independents? At least wait until you see her pick to attack otherwise you sound foolish.

[cali]

20. She's letting the vulgar talking yam dictate the conversation

It's a big mistake

[workinclasszero]

32. I didn't know you were into wrestling Sid

[SidDithers]

33. ...

Sid

[workinclasszero]

34. :D

[Number23]

104. Your sig pic is absolutely delicious. You always know just the right amount of salt to rub in the

wounds.

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. Lots of lobbyists to whom she owes a favor.

Think Barney Frank or Dick Gephart

[Shemp Howard]

9. Since a corporation is legally a person...

...couldn't Hillary just appoint the Goldman Sachs Corporation as vice-president?

[lumberjack_jeff]

12. The corporation would then have to admit that it's american, and thus subject to taxes and laws. n/t

[derpderpderp]

125. Show us your birth certificate, Goldman Sachs!

[Armstead]

82. Gephard would be perfect -- A posterboy for Democratic Complicity

Went from supposedly regulating ajnd controlling Big Bidness and Wall St. to shilling for them as a lobbuist for the likes of Goldman Sachs and against things like a public option.

A more appropriate choice would not be possible to send a message to all progressive and liberals -- FU.

[lumberjack_jeff]

84. Yup. n/t

[dchill]

5. Blankfein!

[Autumn]

7. Kissenger!!! He's no longer a politician

[dchill]

10. Blankfein could buy a dozen Kissingers...

And that's some serious cred!

[Autumn]

15. Right. I just thought of him since he is her mentor and the close relationship they share

they would make a close team and work well together. Like Bush and Cheney.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/hillary-clinton-kissinger-vacation-dominican-republic-de-la-renta

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/12/emails_expose_close_ties_between_hillary_clinton_and_accused_war_criminal_henry_kissinger/

[dchill]

17. Gotta give you that one.

[Autumn]

23. He would make a great Secretary of State for her. They are very close in foreign policy.

[AgerolanAmerican]

11. Same goes for Jon Corzine

and he has experience in the all-important field of staying out of jail when by all rights he should be locked up for life

[dchill]

18. +1 *snort*

[Autumn]

24. .

[antigop]

14. or Jamie Dimon. nt

[QC]

53. He's already got the cufflinks for the job! n/t

[Depaysement]

31. Think bigger

The hedge funds are where the real financial power is. A few just brought down the Argentinian Government, and made a killing, without the intervention of Wall Street or the State Department.

[antigop]

38. Chelsea's husband??? nt

[Depaysement]

39. No he's a joke

These people are serious. Really serious.

The Clintons are servants, senior managers. Nothing more.

[antigop]

42. Whew! I misunderstood what you were saying. Sorry! nt

[cali]

13. Jaysus. She's actually letting trump dictate the conversation. Pitiful

[yeoman6987]

135. This general, all rules and playbook out the window

It will be like no other general in history. There are no rules. Hillary knows this and acting accordingly. Hillary won't run a traditional general. She can't it won't work.

[cali]

136. She's playing on Trump's turf. Dumb as Hell.

[leveymg]

16. Hillary-Trump. Now that should broaden their appeal.

[dchill]

19. It would double their negatives to +/- 120%.

[AgerolanAmerican]

21. And two negatives will make a positive!

it's MATH

[Depaysement]

37. LOL!

Math jokes!

Farmer takes his pig to the Vet. The Vet asks "what's the problem with your pig?"

Well," says the farmer, "This one just doesn't fit in with all the other pigs. When they sleep, he's awake. When they eat he plays. When they play, he eats. I just don't get it."

After giving the pig a checkup, the Vet says, "Don't worry, your pig is fine. He's just a coswine."

[bjo59]

101. I just tried to research this so I could get the joke... I now have a headache!

.. and am none the wiser. Darn it.

[Depaysement]

106. Trigonometry

Ratios of sides to a triangle. One is adjacent/hypotenuse and the other is opposite/hypotenuse. Hypotenuse is slanted line in the triangle.

Sine and cosine are kinda opposites, like the pigs.

IIRC, in the movie Lincoln, when he was talking about Euclidean geometry, this is part of the stuff he was talking about.

[leveymg]

25. The product of two negatives is a positive. Can that be right?

[dchill]

95. It's not a product, it's a sum.

Totally negative.

[leveymg]

103. But, they're two squares.

Or would that be a function? At some point, I'm going to have to go back and retake 8th Grade Math.

[cali]

22. Is she running for President or Panderer-in-Chief?

[Depaysement]

44. Panderer-in-Chief nt

[lumberjack_jeff]

86. She's actually better when she's in pandering mode. n/t

[Duckhunter935]

26. Yes, and I really believe that, lol

"I am looking into it"

[Jack Bone]

28. what...maybe make it the "Women that slept with my husband" ticket?

nt

[Holly_Hobby]

115. Brutal LOL n/t

[SamKnause]

29. Here is a list that I think she would find favorable;

10 highest paid bank CEO's:

Jamie Dimon

John Stumpf

Richard Fairbank

Richard Davis

Joseph Hooley

Brian Moynihan

Michael Corbat

O.B. Grayson Hall Jr.

Kelly King

William Cooper

also

Lloyd Blankfein

Any high ranking Military Brass that view war as a business opportunity

[aikoaiko]

30. Moving toward Trump some more.

[seabeyond]

35. Interesting. Nt

[Fumesucker]

36. Well, Hillary called Kim Kardashian "inspirational" and she will certainly draw in millennials

[Txbluedog]

40. Yeah but what will happen to Kanye's presidential aspirations

If Kim becomes VP

[hellofromreddit]

107. Or the TayTweets bot.

[antigop]

43. not surprising, given she did not rule out Wall Street Treasury Secretary

http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/08/investing/hillary-clinton-wall-street/

In contrast, Bernie Sanders vows that if he's elected president, no one from Goldman Sachs (GS) will work in his administration.

"You have to have a Treasury Secretary who understands the economy, the American economy and the global economy," Clinton said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Clinton is under fire for her ties to Wall Street. Clinton has become a millionaire from giving numerous speeches to big banks and investment firms -- pocketing about $200,000 apiece.

When Clinton was pressed on whether she would appoint someone from Wall Street to be her Treasury Secretary, she refused to say no.

[Blue_In_AK]

45. Mark Cuban?

http://thebiglead.com/2016/05/20/mark-cuban-hillary-clinton-running-mate-vice-president/

[Quixote1818]

77. If you want ratings, putting Cuban against Trump would be great for the networks

So if they have anything to say about it, I would not bet against this happening.

[7wo7rees]

99. It would be "huuge"! One reality star against another immensely

more successful and respected. Most everything Cuban has a hand in really does turn into gold.

So here we are, our selection process has devolved to "reality" TV.

We'll take Cuban for $500, Alec......

[insta8er]

46. Goldman Sachs!!

[hobbit709]

47. She's going to pick a lobbyist or a bankster?

[Nye Bevan]

52. It obviously won't be anyone connected with banks or Wall Street (nt)

[w4rma]

72. How is that "obvious" to anyone? (nt)

[Nye Bevan]

79. Because Bernie fans see her as too close to Wall Street,

and she wants as many of these people as possible to vote for her in November. Refraining from picking a Wall-Streeter as VP is a simple and costless bone to throw to them.

[w4rma]

85. If she's picking a "successful businessman", then that can *only* mean someone close to Wall Street.

Unless it's someone who has been critical of Wall Street's problems. Would her billionaire donors still back her if she picked a "class traitor", like that?

I've found that the best predictor of Hillary's actions are what her donors want.

[timmymoff]

102. shame, she missed the opportunity.

She wants that she will have to move way left. Middle of the road isn't cutting it.

[Nye Bevan]

105. No, the vast majority of Bernie supporters will vote for Hillary over Trump.

If anything she will pivot rightward to get moderate Republican votes.

[timmymoff]

110. wow won't that be a brilliant move to keep bernie voters

Getting back to her republican roots I guess

[Waiting For Everyman]

48. She is an idiot.

That's the same as saying, this person I chose as VP who has to be ready to be President at a moment's notice, has the same lack of skills that I'm slamming Trump for.

Brilliant.

[w4rma]

73. That was my very first thought: She's undermining her own "experience" argument. (nt)

[Nye Bevan]

83. Except that Trump is not a "successful businessman",

with his failed casinos, university, vodka, airline shuttle, and bankruptcies.

I think it's fair to say that Hillary's choice will have zero failed businesses and zero bankruptcies on his record.

[R B Garr]

121. Actually, she said that Trump's statements disqualify him, mostly because they are not just

insulting, but dangerous. She then listed some of his statements. She also said a Texas businessman told her he did international business and could not vote for Trump because his dangerous statements were already causing him problems in his business and he couldn't have that. The man told Hillary he would be voting for her, although he had voted Republican most of his life.

Did you hear her this morning? I deleted it already, but I didn't hear her say what you are posting about lack of skills. I have yet to see an accurate criticism of Hillary that takes what she said in context.

[Henhouse]

49. HRC was strong in that MTP interview....

I liked when Todd asked her about critisism of Bill's economic policy..Paraphrased..."Which part do they criticize? The peace or the prosperity?"

[BootinUp]

61. +1

[pangaia]

126. She practiced that in front of a mirror...

What a distortion of the truth..
Nothing new, there.

[Nye Bevan]

51. Maybe not a bad idea to have someone on the ticket who's actually got off their ass and created jobs

as opposed to someone who's spent 30 years in Washington talking about creating jobs but actually spending almost all of their time raising money and campaigning to be re-elected.

And I don't mean someone like Trump who inherited $200 million from Daddy and coasted off that his whole life. I mean someone genuinely self-made who built up a business from scratch.

Lots of people here talk about the need to appeal to "independents". Tell me that the right person in this mold wouldn't do exactly that.

[Fumesucker]

67. It's pretty comical how fast we went from the MBA President and Deciderer in Chief to

George W Who?

[RufusTFirefly]

54. Great! There's no better example of democracy than business!

Not!

Have we all gone insane?



Rather than bringing business to democracy, we should be bringing democracy to business!

[Nye Bevan]

59. So if she were to choose David Allen (aka Skinner), who has built up a successful business,

establishing one of the leading pro-Democratic discussion sites on the internet, you would be opposed to her choice because DU, being a LLC, is not a "democracy"?

[RufusTFirefly]

64. Yes, I definitely would. No offense to Skinner.

Skinner does not serve at our behest.
Nor do most "business leaders."

It appalls me how many people fail to appreciate the fundamental difference between democracy and most businesses.

President Obama may be our leader, but he is not our boss. We are his boss.

[antigop]

55. ooh, ooh, I know! I know!

Mark Cuban.

[kcjohn1]

56. Successful Businessman? Can you sound more Republican than that?

How about community leaders? Or people who have had dedicated their lives to others?

Can't believe we have to remind dem candidate that the government is not like a business, and those skills don't translate.

[Nye Bevan]

60. Oh come on. Enough with this nonsense.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a "successful businessman" if you pay your taxes, treat your employees fairly, and behave with social responsibility. Yes, the Dimons and the Blankfeins grab the headlines but there are many fine "succesful businessmen" out there who are admirable people. Many DUers are even employed by such people.

[Fumesucker]

70. Kim Kardashian is popular, almost as famous as Hillary and has several successful product lines

Hillary has already called Ms Kardashian "inspirational", she could do worse with a VP pick outside the political realm. Active in the arts, successful minority businessperson married to another successful well known and popular minority businessperson, extremely well known, popular with the press and the camera is her friend.

What's not to love?

[Nye Bevan]

74. Interesting concept, but it won't be two women on the ticket.

Hillary's running mate will definitely be a man. Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino from "Jersey Shore", for example.

[Fumesucker]

81. I'm not all that fond of quota systems...

Who picks the quota of quota pickers?

There's probably an obscure Latin phrase for that.

I think it was Jon Stewart who mentioned voting for Mr T the other day, I pity the fool who wouldn't vote for Mr T for VP.

[Juicy_Bellows]

89. You really can't. Would a Republican have a different response?

As mentioned up-thread she is looking at people sorta like Trump - brilliant.

Successful business people is synonymous with sociopath in my world. A lot of people seem to cheer this kind of behavior, it's past time we diagnose and treat it appropriately.

Just to be clear, I do not mean the guy that makes a decent living running his local restaurant or shop, I am talking about CEOs and hedge fund types.

[Turin_C3PO]

57. I don't like this.

I don't have a problem with someone outside Washington or politics being chosen, but a "successful businessman" sounds like she's letting Trump set the frame early on.

[nruthie]

58. Damn....It might get even worse?

Bill is free, isn't he?

[Nye Bevan]

62. While a minority of constitutional experts disagree,

the vast majority have the opinion that Bill would not be permitted to serve as VP.

[pmorlan1]

63. A Shout Out To Her Nervous Financial Backers?

She's already in the tank for corporate America and now she wants to have two people on the ticket in the tank. Well at least you can say she's finally being honest. It's pretty clear where her loyalties lie. I guess she wants to reassure her backers that if something happens to her that corporate America will still be well represented.

[Katashi_itto]

65. One if the Koch bros or Jamie Dimon.

[msanthrope]

66. Smart move. nt

[Peregrine Took]

68. Gates, could it be Bill Gates? Hmmmm....kind of a cleaned up version of Bill. n/t

[6chars]

69. Camille Paglia?

[SheilaT]

71. I know. She'll pick Donald Trump.

Stick with me here. The Republicans hold their convention a week before the Democrats. If they actually do repudiate the Donald and nominate someone else, he'd be free, he already owns his own airplane, has lots of money, and if he's the VP nominee, he wouldn't be out there calling her truly vile names.

And the ticket would combine the supposed liberalism of Hillary with the out-and-out racist homophobic misogyny of Trump, thus appealing to a truly broad swath of voters.

Really. What's not to like?

[-none]

90. And you forgot to mention that they are already long time friends.

[SheilaT]

91. Oh yes!

How could I have left that out?

[w4rma]

75. She's considering some ego-inflated, billionaire oligarch. (nt)

[andym]

76. I think I know who she has in mind: Ross Perot

Perot almost beat her husband and he is a throwback to the 90's. Sure he is a bit old at 85, but I bet he would be great on the campaign trail against Trump. Didn't like NAFTA as well. Okay, this is a joke, but seriously who can she be thinking of?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

78. Probably on Wall Street.

[azurnoir]

80. Jeff Bezos? Jim Walton? Alice Walton? the possibilities are endless

[Nye Bevan]

87. Bezos is incredibly smart and successful, but I don't think there's any way he wants the job.

His life is building up Amazon, and as a shareholder in that company since the early 2000s I hope he continues with it.

[azurnoir]

92. yes he has been building Amazon alright

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon’s sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers


Amazon equals Walmart in the use of monitoring technologies to track the minute-by-minute movements and performance of employees and in settings that go beyond the assembly line to include their movement between loading and unloading docks, between packing and unpacking stations, and to and from the miles of shelving at what Amazon calls its “fulfillment centers”—gigantic warehouses where goods ordered by Amazon’s online customers are sent by manufacturers and wholesalers, there to be shelved, packaged, and sent out again to the Amazon customer.

Amazon’s shop-floor processes are an extreme variant of Taylorism that Frederick Winslow Taylor himself, a near century after his death, would have no trouble recognizing. With this twenty-first-century Taylorism, management experts, scientific managers, take the basic workplace tasks at Amazon, such as the movement, shelving, and packaging of goods, and break down these tasks into their subtasks, usually measured in seconds; then rely on time and motion studies to find the fastest way to perform each subtask; and then reassemble the subtasks and make this “one best way” the process that employees must follow.

As at Walmart, Amazon achieves this with a regime of workplace pressure, in which targets for the unpacking, movement, and repackaging of goods are relentlessly increased to levels where employees have to struggle to meet their targets and where older and less dextrous employees will begin to fail. As at Walmart, there is a pervasive “three strikes and you’re out” culture, and when these marginal employees acquire too many demerits (“points”), they are fired.

Amazon’s system of employee monitoring is the most oppressive I have ever come across and combines state-of-the-art surveillance technology with the system of “functional foreman,” introduced by Taylor in the workshops of the Pennsylvania machine-tool industry in the 1890s. In a fine piece of investigative reporting for the London Financial Times, economics correspondent Sarah O’Connor describes how, at Amazon’s center at Rugeley, England, Amazon tags its employees with personal sat-nav (satellite navigation) computers that tell them the route they must travel to shelve consignments of goods, but also set target times for their warehouse journeys and then measure whether targets are met.

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_sick_brutality_and_secret_history_of_ruthlessly_intimidating_workers/

[Bluenorthwest]

94. I try to avoid them after the Washington Post became a stream of lies.

It's unacceptable, so he does not get my custom. He's Hearst with streaming services.

[chascarrillo]

114. Bezos is a fucking Libertarian who runs sweatshops and horrid offices.

Jesus Christ, is this where the Democratic Party has fallen? To cheer on predatory capitalists who run businesses where employees regularly cry at their desks?

[Peacetrain]

88. I am with Harry Reid on this one!

We need to keep our senators in the senate..because of the Supreme Court selections..

[k8conant]

93. Hillary should pick Donald and Donald should pick Hillary!!!

Wouldn't that be fun?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

97. Jay -Z

Billionaire. Artist. Businessman.

[Fawke Em]

100. Successful businesspeople?

What fresh hell is this?

I can only imagine what her definition of success is. Those who have screwed over the little people to make their money? Those who make their living on Wall Street (which is the same thing)?



If she wants to look outside the political world, maybe she should look at people who have dedicated their lives to helping others.

[Warren DeMontague]

108. It will be a wide ranging and fully openminded search process, before we select Julian Castro

I mean, who is she kidding.

[Warren DeMontague]

109. If she puts Snoop Dogg on the ticket, I will contribute to her campaign.

[apnu]

112. Blunts for everyone!

[Warren DeMontague]

113. I'm sure the Brock crowd would wet their conventional DC wisdom pants

but it probably would help

[appalachiablue]

116. George Clooney

[Nonhlanhla]

131. I can live with that

[imaginary girl]

134. that was my first thought too!

He's actually very articulate.

[stevenleser]

117. Interesting that this happened on the same day this came out by Mark Cuban

http://mashable.com/2016/05/22/mark-cuban-trump-hillary/#TeoJ.i5AO5qp

[First Speaker]

118. How about Stan Lee...?

...if we're going to have a successful businessman, let's have the guy who invented the Hulk, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four. Let our national hair down a little--relax, don't worry, be happy. Yeah, there's a little age issue--but is it *that* much worse than, say, Bernie? Clinton/Lee--Excelsior!

[DemocraticWing]

119. Why is it always business people as "outsiders?"

How about civil rights leaders, labor leaders, or academics? Those are the grassroots heroes that do far more for our country than billionaires skimming profits from consumers shackled to a capitalist system.

[jillan]

120. That's just wonderful. A 70 year old woman with a history of medical probs may choose

someone that knows nothing about how the US govt runs.



Well, if she is looking for a business man, she can always pick her good buddy Don.

[oasis]

122. How did Hillary get to seventy so fast?

[jillan]

137. If she wins the Presidency she will be 69, by the end of her first year she will be 70.

She is 68 right now. Her bday is in Oct.

#math

[Recursion]

123. Jeff Bezos, maybe? He's western and Hispanic (sort of)

Hmm..

[Logical]

124. I imagine some hedge fund manager. Nt

[pangaia]

127. YEA HILLARY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO HILLARY!!!!!!

Just throw it right out there.

How about Jamie Dimon????


She knows exactly who she wants.
This is how they do it......


The woman is absolutely insufferable...





COME ON BERNIE, Don't give up now !! GO GET HER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here comes another ten bucks !!

[B Calm]

129. Probably a corporate Walmart lawyer. .

[Sancho]

130. Olivia Pope??

Judging from the CTs on GDP, Hillary and DWS are in charge of Command!!

[gollygee]

132. What, like Bill Gates or someone?

No idea what to think of this. I guess I'll have to hear who it is.

[Katashi_itto]

133. Goldman Sachs as VP? Corporations are people after all.