Hillary Says No to VP Slot; Obama Stuck with Loser Biden

Hillary Clinton is too smart to hitch her wagon to a spavined nag like Obama.

When I first saw this meeting at the White House between Obama, Biden, and HC, I told my Political Science Major daughter that I'll bet Hillary was asked to run with Oblamer and declined. Niki just walked in and remembered this well.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was pressed by her husband and a top Obama aide to consider replacing Vice President Joe Biden just a couple of weeks ago, claims the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Amateur."

But Clinton, exhausted from four years of international travel and diplomacy, shrugged off the suggestion to lay the groundwork for her own 2016 bid with her husband at her side, according to author Ed Klein.

"As recently as a couple of weeks ago, the White House was putting out feelers to see if Hillary Clinton was interested in replacing Joe Biden on the ticket," Klein told Secrets. "Bill Clinton, I'm told, was urging his wife to accept the number two spot if it was formally offered. Bill sees the vice presidency as the perfect launching pad for Hillary to run for president in 2016."

He made similar comments Thursday night to CNBC's Larry Kudlow. The White House has dismissed speculation of a Clinton for Biden swap despite a string of recent gaffes by the vice president.

Klein, whose book is No. 2 on the NYT bestseller list, quoted unnamed sources who revealed that top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett put the vice presidency on the table during a lunch with the secretary of state. "The lunch was ostensibly about policy issues, but the subject of the vice presidency came up," he said. "Hillary told Valerie Jarrett that she was not interested in running as Obama's vice president."

Klein said she cited two reasons: If elected, she didn't want to be tied to Obama's left-leaning politics in her own 2016 bid. Second, if Obama loses, she would be tarred as a loser.

Klein puts the original feeler out 2 weeks ago. I surmise that the meeting on Wednesday was a follow-up to beg Hillary to accept with Biden there to support Obama by offering to step down.

We haven't seen the last of Hillary, but as a fair warning, her published senior thesis at Wellesley was about a certain obscure [at that time in the early seventies!] Chicago agitator named Saul Alinsky.