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Hillary Clinton Considered Tim Cook and Bill Gates as Vice President

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Did she? Or were these just some names on the "first cut" list that one of her advisors sent to her?

If you actually read the email, it's the latter.

Quite a lot of the reporting on the Podesta emails conflates what Hillary Clinton thinks and does, and what her staff thinks and does. The press does that because it makes the reporting more interesting. (But less accurate.)

"John Podesta Sent Hillary Clinton a List of Names" is not as compelling a headline.

A few months ago Bill Gates said he didn't want to be president. To be honest I think he should keep on working on the Gates Foundation and keep on eliminating diseases. http://time.com/money/4251493/bill-gates-reddit-ama/

I think Steve Ballmer would be great choice. He would have simply concentrated on Voters! Voters! Voters!

Lots of sweat and VOTERS VOTERS VOTERS

It might have been one way to sway some Trump supporters to her side.

I don't want my country to crash

Too late.

Profits doubled under Ballmer...

You may be joking, but honestly most Politicians are sales people with better vocabulary. So, I am sure Steve Ballmer would be a better running mate than Bill Gates.

Against trump though?

All those "I'm so great at business" arguments kind of pale next to "I am the richest man in the country after I built my business from the ground up"

I think Steve Ballmer actually would have been a very good presidential candidate.

coincidentally, the NYT had a bit last Sunday which mentions Lee Atwater suggesting Trump for George H W B’s VP in ’88. Bush, to his credit, scoffed. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/opinion/nostalgia-for-the-...

Anyway: obviously this would have been better titled “John Podesta Considered…” or “Hillary’s Campaign Considered…”

Odd. But of course it was the year that Ross Perot ran.

Ross Perot ran against GHWB in '92.

Right. My mistake.

Interesting, I wonder what world Clinton would have picked either of the two, including the other non-traditional candidates.

I imagine that it'd happen if Trump had cleaned his act up when going face to face with Clinton, and his "business acumen" had been drawing a lot of voters to him.

Also lol @ how Bernie is his own category

> Also lol @ how Bernie is his own category

And at the bottom of the list.

I don't think they'd be interested.

Tim cook has more power now than being VP

This whole election is very well produced dark comedy.

If it was meant to be a comedy, it was horribly produced.

"Considering" someone for a position is a cost-free way to flatter them. Coincidentally, both are extremely wealthy and support Democratic candidates.

The real story is that he considers women, military officers, Hispanics, and blacks to be "food groups". Good god, but the press would have a FIELD DAY if a Republican labeled such groups with that term. Remember "binders full of women"?

Of course, they're thinking in terms of strategy--in the old days, you'd balance the ticket geographically or politically (and so very different people like JFK and LBJ would run together) but now you do the same but with respect to identity politics. Fun times!

It's only a story if you have nothing to do with politics at all. Pandering to constituencies is all part of the game, and looking at them like any other marketing exercise comes with it.

Republicans do the exact same thing. The core "food groups" are evangelical christians, corporate types, gun people, defense industry people, small business people. All of these groups drive voter turnout. There are also "borderline" groups that flirt with both parties as their interests collide. This includes some labor unions (especially where their interests overlap others, like defense), regionally important ethnic/religious affiliated groups (catholics, orthodox jewish communities, cubans, etc) and others. This scales down to the local elections. If you want to be the mayor in a small town, you target the firefighter union + key ministers + senior centers.

Make no mistake, this dynamic has always been there.

> Remember "binders full of women"?

I don't think you have quite realized where we are at now.

Considering this is stolen email by the Russians, who would love to have Donald Trump as President, I would take this with a grain of salt.

I think the Russians are just fine either way.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-...

Looking forward to this being spun into some deep conspiracy.

HILLARY IN BED WITH TECH LEADERSHIP QUID PRO QUO STARBUCKSGHAZI.

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