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Regis Philbin
Jan 20th, 2009, 04:19 PM
Ohhhh wow! This isn't going to go over well with The Clintons. The Obama said Hillary was his "only choice" for Secretary of State. You don't want to get on the bad side of The Clintons. :]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090119/D95QGU780.html

Biden tries to shush wife after state-VP slip

Jan 19, 6:34 PM (ET)

By NEDRA PICKLER

WASHINGTON (AP) - Joe Biden's wife said Monday that he had his pick of being Barack Obama's running mate or the secretary of state nomination that eventually went to Hillary Rodham Clinton, a slip that the vice president-elect immediately tried to shush.

Jill Biden's comment came during an appearance with her husband on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," taped at Washington's Kennedy Center on the eve of the inauguration.

"Joe had the choice to be secretary of state or vice president," she said. Her husband turned to his wife with his finger to his lips and a "Shhhh!" that sent the audience into laughter. "OK, he did," Jill Biden said in her defense.

The vice president-elect blushed, grimaced and gave his wife a hug while the audience continued to erupt in laughter. "That's right," he finally said to his wife. "Go ahead."

Mrs. Biden said she told him vice president would be better for the family.

"If you're secretary of state, you'll be away, we'll never see you, you know," she said. "I'll see you at a state dinner once in a while."

WannaBreatheYou
Jan 20th, 2009, 04:23 PM
So? I heard the commentators talking about it this morning.

pinky
Jan 20th, 2009, 04:42 PM
Ohhhh wow! This isn't going to go over well with The Clintons. The Obama said Hillary was his "only choice" for Secretary of State. You don't want to get on the bad side of The Clintons. :] Well, since he wasn't in a position to select a Secretary of State until after Biden was the Vice President-elect, that's technically true, isn't it?