Obama on the pressure to select Hillary, or anyone else, as VP: "Everybody needs to settle down"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

VIDEO at the URL below:

(CNN) — Barack Obama said Thursday he's in no rush to pick a vice presidential candidate, telling CNN “everybody needs to settle down" and let the vetting process run its course. Speaking with CNN's Candy Crowley Thursday, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said it's not in his best interest — or in the interest of his former rival Hillary Clinton — to make a hasty decision about who will serve as his running mate.

"Everybody needs to settle down, we just completed this arduous process," Obama told CNN's Candy Crowley. "It's only been two days, and I think its not just in my interest and Senator Clinton's interest, but in the Democratic Party's interest and the country's interest, to make sure I make this decision well."

Calling his choice of running mate “the most important decision that I will make before I am president,” the senator from Illinois said he would “be deliberate and systematic about it because this will be my final counselor when I am making decisions in the White House, and I want to make sure I get it right."

Many of Clinton’s supporters have publicly called on Obama to put Clinton on the ticket to help unify the party since he captured the nomination Tuesday night, but Obama said he would not respond to pressure from others on who he should choose.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/05/obama-everybody-needs-to-settle-down-about-vp-choice/

[RiverStone]

1. Good for him!

Obama is already sounding pretty damn presidential to this voter.

It's his choice and he/she will be his counsel. I believe he will do what's best for our party and country.

[politicasista]

3. Exactly

He will need all the Dem counseling he can get to help defeat McCain. He and we can not take anything for granted. :)

[TahitiNut]

2. "Women are like wet bars of soap. Hold on to em too hard and they pop outta your hands."

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

9. He did NOT say that.

Did he? lol

:spank:

[TahitiNut]

12. That's a John Lee Hooker quote. (See the OP's sig.)

:rofl:

John Lee Hooker was an awesome blues guitarist ... played in Detroit venues (Hastings neighborhood) when I was a kid.

[EFerrari]

14. All I get is a line from "Momma won't allow no music playin' round here."

At least it isn't Salty Dog. :)

[Imagevision]

4. Got it guyz? -> "Everybody needs to settle down" (everyone needs to chill)

[BeatleBoot]

5. Being From Illinois

He's going to need a southern running mate.

Some might argue that she is from Arkansas, but why would she want the VP slot?

It makes no sense.

[Imagevision]

6. -> Obama says; "Everybody needs to settle down" take two weeks...

[Arkana]

7. "America: Chill the fuck out."

[blonndee]

8. No Drama Obama.

Good for him.

[EFerrari]

10. I'm loving the way he does that.

No drama, right on. :)

[Labors of Hercules]

11. He's damn right.

It doesn't matter what random people think. It matters who is the absolute BEST FIT to help carry out HIS agenda over the next 8 years.

[Imagevision]

13. That's the ticket; "chill the fuck out America"

[LiberalFighter]

15. Let him have 4 weeks to pick his running mate.

That will give him 8 weeks to smooze the delegates on board before the convention.