Clinton Campaign Considered Bill Gates, Tim Cook For Vice President (theverge.com)

WikiLeaks has been releasing thousands of emails over the past couple of weeks belonging to Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta. One of the more interesting tidbits revealed from the email dump was the list of potential running mates considered by Clinton's campaign. The Verge reports: Clinton's vice presidential candidates, while not altogether surprising, include some vaguely interesting choices like Bill and Melinda Gates, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and General Motors CEO Mary Barra. In the mail, Podesta says he has organized the list into "rough food groups," one of which includes all the people mentioned above. Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz are also in this "food group," along with Michael Bloomberg. With just under 40 names on the list, it's not immediately obvious how close any of these people came to actually being asked to take on the role (Tim Kaine is on the list).

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Re:Quite a step down...

[jcr]

For Tim Cook, the presidency would be a huge demotion. Today, he runs a company that has tens of millions of satisfied customers.

-jcr

THIS is the "more interesting tidbit?"

[ScentCone]

No, musings about possible VP running mates who might have been, in place of the oddly smarmy Kaine ... that's not in the "more interesting" category. The endless parade of internal back-and-forths that reinforce our understanding of the insider-based, corrupt, incestuous affair that is the Hillary Industrial Crime Campaign Power Acquisition Complex ... THAT is the "more interesting" aspect of what's being exposed over the last few weeks. Obviously her breathless supporters across most of the wider media outlets are pretending they haven't seen or heard of any of that, not even once, in the decades that she's been carrying on as she has. But some pointless conjecture about Gates or Cook (neither of whom would have touched the gig with a ten foot pole) is exactly the sort of distraction her camp is hoping people will bite into, so they're not spending time boning up on just how corrupt her operation is.