Obama Clinches Nomination, But Hillary Wants to Be on His Ticket as VP...

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

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Tough question, especially if she can bring him the very important Hispanic vote...

Kylopod said...: Jeez, did you see the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate? Eerie that Meryl Streep's character looked a lot like Hillary Clinton.; June 03, 2008 6:05 PM
Am Kshe Oref - A Stiff-Necked People said...: I did see it a while ago. Never really noticed, but of course at that point she wasn't really on anyone's mind...; June 03, 2008 7:09 PM
Kylopod said...: Of course it was on people's minds. Hillary was the front-runner for 2008 for quite some time. The movie was not subtle in its political references. It took shots at Halliburton, it featured a cable news channel a lot like Fox (with Al Franken as an anchor!), and Meryl Streep was made to resemble Hillary Clinton.

Interestingly, Franken has repeatedly demonstrated a knack for making predictions. He predicted in 1995 that Jack Kemp would be Dole's running mate (taking the cue from a statement by Newt Gingrich that Kemp was the only Republican who had "showered with blacks"), and in 1999 he wrote a book depicting a fantasy scenario in which he, and not Al Gore, becomes the nominee in 2000 and picks Lieberman as his running mate (to balance the ticket, because he's Reform and Lieberman's Orthodox). In 2005, Franken predicted that Barack Obama would be the next president. Obama didn't even agree to run until late 2006.; June 03, 2008 10:06 PM