Is it so bad for Hillary to accept Senate Majority Leader?

That she has to kill the democratic party's chances for the Presidency this year? You would think she would be happy with that and just admit defeat in a graceful way instead of the sore loser way like she's doing now. McCain better than Obama? ::puke::

I hope she does the right thing and tries to save the Clinton name from the gutter trash her and bill have turned it into so far this election year.

I don't trust her, and I don't want her in a position to dictate what legislation will be considered.

crawl back under your rock

She has even been mentioned for SCOTUS. Either one would be nothing to sneeze at.

On the other hand, I have to say I disagree that she's had such a negative effect on the Obama campaign. So far the negative things she's said and done have mostly just reflected badly upon herself. Some of the things that have come up have not even likely come from her campaign.

I'd be happy to see her stay in till June 3 to give Obama lots of free press, a real campaign in the remaining states that will raise interest in his campaign for the GE... lots of good reasons to see her stay in and IMO they outweigh the few bad things that could come of it.

Just so long as it doesn't go to the Convention with a battle for the nom there.

I wish both sides would refrain from such terms.

chosen, apparently, thinking it's a PRIZE that Saint Obama will hand out, like candy at Halloween.

Harry Reid got the job because his PEERS voted him in--same way Nancy Pelosi got her gig in the OTHER chamber.

I can't believe how politically UNAWARE some of the most ardent "supporters" are here. They don't know history, they don't know the roles, the process, NADA. It's ..... tiresome.

After all this crap, do you trust her in that role?

is the obama campaign with the help of the whoremedia that played the race card real good against the clintons. They will always remain a positive influence whereas i cannot say that about the way obama and his campaign has had to try and win this nomination.

There is enough chit on obama that it should have already disqualified him from seeking the nomination.

Would that make YOU happy? If we gave you that swell job, sweeping up after folk and arranging the chairs for them to sit in, would you gracefully admit defeat and stop starting idiotic threads?

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She's not there.

Christ!!!

LBJ wasn't "senior" when he got the job.

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I just get...frustrated...when the basics are muddied. I do think they're important.

We're actually of the same mind in many regards. I agree with your sig line, certainly.

If seniority were the issue, poor old Robert Byrd would be trying to deal with that gig. And Strom Thurmond would have had it before him!

Robert Byrd as majority leader? lol - can you imagine?

The senior guys would strut around and tell the caucus who to vote for, and they all fell in line. And then, that person would be the puppet of the most senior guys. LBJ shook up that paradigm. He got the job, and he seized the power that went with it. He shook up the whole "waiting in line" process for getting on the plum committees, too.

Robert Byrd, as President Pro Tempore of the Senate, is actually third in line to the Presidency, right after Big Dick and Madame Speeeekah. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_pro_tempore_of_the_United_States_Senate

He'd do a better job than GWB, I'd wager--at least he respects the Constitution...!

over these long hard dangerous years
and he has the seniority to get the votes.

She had her leadership chance in the Senate
on her Vote for the Iraqi War.

You have to put your name forward for the job, you know. It's not an "assigned" duty. You have to want it, and run for it--it's an internal election.

Seniority isn't a prerequisite either--hasn't been since the fifties.

Or maybe you don't know.

ability to align the neo-liberals.

The last choices of the Democrats hasn't been too hot, has it?

I thought Tom Dashle sucked
the last one I admired was Lyndon Johnson,

I didn't care,too much, for Mansfield, Byrd or Dashle( who didn't have seniority or tenure)
But Mansfield at least pushed for impeachment
of Nixon.

Hillary is not a Progressive although she has a genuine
claim to be a liberal in many people's mind ignoring
her Neo-liberal viewpoint.

The Populist Progressives are the new answer to the party
and not the revisionists of the past failures to help lead us
to the future.

But that's my opinion, which I know doesn't convalesce with yours.