Awful pick.

I like her but perhaps Obama will need a white southern male from a small town who is pro-guns such as Kaine, Webb, Strickland, etc.

I think putting a woman on the ticket just because he wants to appease Hillary supporters would be insulting and condescending. He needs to put someone on board who represents her values, not her traits.

I would love to see Sebelius on the ticket, but I think there's a lot of options for various reasons. VP is going to be seen as an opportunity to shore up support from weaker areas, and that might depend on which areas they think are going to be the biggest factor in the election. I could see a "safer" bet with Clark for military experience, but again, it all depends.

Where's the 4 star general, female, white, foreign policy guru Republican VP choice? (This was snark, btw)

I'm an Obama supporter, yet I'm always disheartened by comments such as this:

HRC on the ticket would drag it down because HRC would unite the Republican

See, the times have changed. This shit should no longer scare us. The way things stand right now, if there is anything that we do as Democrats that would "unite the Republican", I say bring it the f**k on!

He would insult and misunderstand women to think  all women politicans are the same to us.  As you do with this diary.

That would be tantamount to Clinton getting the nomination and putting a token AA on the ticket, just to appease Obama supporters.  How would that feel to you?

I am f***g sick of this attitude that has reared up in the past few days that portrays Hillary Clinton as an outcast and implies that she is somehow criminal for her to stay in this race.  3500 delegates have been "acquired" and they are 100 and something apart.  She has won, and continues to win, major states important in the G.E.  She is a more senior Senator than Obama and has accomplished more as a Senator.

And on top of that, to state that she would not be an appropriate Vice President?

Can you say B.A.C.K.L.A.S.H?  Keep it up, Teddy and the rest of you.  You're going to see a HUGE exodus from this Party.  You have no clue.

I included this in a diary I did the other night over on DKos if anyone's interested. I expected Richardson to come out on top, but turns out it was Sebelius:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/9/2 4348/66129/221/512365

You claim to want to "assuage" Hillary's supporters.

As a Hillary supporter, your diary sums up exactly how to NOT reunite with Hillary's supporters.

You like Sebelius, fine.

Can you make that case by building up HER positives instead of tearing Hillary Clinton down?

"She's smarter than Hillary"

"A real champion of women rights, who was able to achieve fame on her own right"

Statements like that are simply not helpful.

In my opinion, the whole notion of a female VP for Obama might backfire bigtime. You cannot erase months of sexism and misogyny against Hillary Clinton and her supporters (which went ignored, condoned and perpetuated by fellow Democrats) with a magic bullet.

She's a DINO who wanted to uphold the states ban on gay marriage. As a gay man I have no use for her or other DINO's like her. She has no ideological compass and does what's politicly expedient. She'd be perfect for Obama.

and ask you to consider writing a "clean" diary without references to HRC.

That said, this ticket is too inexperienced.  Try again.

Terrible pick, if not insulting.  Sebelius is not more qualified than Clinton for the VP job.  Clinton supporters would take this as a slap in the face.

should do the right thing, the only thing that would in fact properly appease Hillary's voters -- who, of course, represent fully half of the party -- and offer her the VP slot.

Everything else will look to Hillary's voters as a clear sign that Obama is not properly deferent to them, that he won't even be respectful enough of  their opinions and aspirations that he will do what is always hard: forgive your opponents.

Does Obama and his camp really believe that one can achieve unity of any kind without being able to extend an olive branch to the other side? If Obama can't do that, how can he presume to preach to others about getting past their differences?

And there is no excuse that would suffice for choosing someone other than Hillary. While Obama and his camp can claim all they want that Hillary is too divisive, the plain fact is that that is not how her own voters must see it. If Obama can't allow the opposing side even enough legitimacy that their views on Hillary must be respected, even if he doesn't agree with them, then, again, how is the man in any position to preach to others about unity and transcendence?

will help him, or somehow make him more acceptable to women in the party?  That is truly insulting and I hope it backfires big time for Obama.

Unbelievable!

He will choose Webb or Strickland. A AA and a women on the same ticket is just too 'historic' for many.

discuss this shit there. obama will not be even on Hillary's ticket.

UGH another reason to go on vacation in November.

Sebelius looked truly awful delivering the Democratic response to the State of the Union this year.  She has a lot going for her in other respects, but I don't think she would be a particularly effective campaigner or attack dog.

Many HRC supporters will also remember that she used that airtime to shamelessly shill for Obama.  She took an important opportunity to push back against the administration as a united front, and filled it with a bunch of Obama campaign talking points and catch phrases.  She then endorsed him two days later.

I'll come out an admit to having voted for Obama last week before I write anything else here.

First, until one of the two remaining candidates says its over, I don't think we should be talking about VPs for our side. I've been guilty of it in the recent past, but am increasingly of the opinion we all will need a couple weeks in June to rest, relax, and not think about any of this. We can all do our research and formulate our private opinions, but things are a bit heated right now (see lots of comments above) to be really debating through this. How the campaign really ends will go a long way to deciding what is the right thing for the winner to do.

I do think that saying Sebelius is smarter than Hillary is a bit unfair. I don't know enough about Sebelius to comment on her smarts, but even if you think the Clintons are nothing else they are very smart people.

that is absolutely ridiculous. Hillary was a child from an middle class family, who made it herself to Wellesley and Yale. Kathleen Sebelius is a daughter of a Governor and a brother of a Representative, and still went to mediocre schools. She is not smarter than Hillary. Hillary is well spoken, Sebelius sounds like a boring grandmother. Her response to the SOTU was god awful.

She is not better than Strickland, because Strickland can actually help deliver Ohio, which is a swing state. Kansas is no swing state. It has voted Democrat once in the last 70 of a century. it was also even one of LBJ's weakest states. Obama, a liberal black man from a big city will never win that state, even if red state hell freezes over along with Crawford, Texas. God himself could never Kansas a blue state. It is far too culturally conservative to go to the GOP by less than a 10 point margin, especially against Barack Obama. Not to mention, much of America is going to be slightly uneasy with Obama, the last thing we need to is to try to shove too much change down people's throats. They will only tolerate one, a woman OR a black, not "and." He needs a white male.      

fastest way to send me to mccain....