Right Change: Report Says Hillary Rejected Offer to Replace Biden

What do you get when you mix a loose cannon VP candidate with a big fat rejection from the only Democrat people take seriously to take his place? A sinking ship of a campaign.  Let’s face it, when you have no record to run on, you have to get creative. That’s at least the route Joe Biden is taking. He’s been caught delivering a slew of gaffes lately. From making fun of a the sign language lady at a campaign event, to telling African-Americans that Republican policies are “gonna put them back in chains,”  these comments have even caused Obama to label them a “distraction.” Perhaps these latest events prove the report that Obama’s campaign asked Hillary Clinton to replace Biden as Vice President. Could this be too good to be true?

From the Washington Examiner:

“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.”

We don’t know what’s funnier, the fact the Hillary doesn’t want to be Obama’s sloppy seconds or the fact that she didn’t want to be in the position to defend his failed left-leaning policies in the future. If this report is true, we can’t blame Hillary from steering clear of Obama’s failboat.

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