McAuliffe on Clinton-Obama Ticket

Chatter about a possible Clinton-Obama presidential ticket has slowed as attacks betweent he two campaigns have become more frequent.

But during a taping of NY1’s Inside City Hall, Clinton campaign manager Terry McAuliffe complimented Barack Obama and said, when host Dominic Carter asked if it would be a good idea to put Obama on a Clinton ticket, “Sure it would be, absolutely. How could you deny consideration of someone who has excited so many people?”

Partial transcript from NY1 (the show airs tonight):

McAuliffe: “But clearly Barack Obama has shown that he can excite people. She needs to make sure the next, whoever the vice president is, could take over if anything happened to her. But it’s early for us to be talking about vice president. But let me tell you this, I sat in that Kodak Theater the other day, I was there in Los Angeles. I flew out with Hillary, I went to the event, I sat in that audience, and Dominic, to sit there and look at that stage -- the two finalists, African American and a woman of the Democratic Party -- I think that was exciting. I think that’s exciting for the Party, for our country, and I think it’s exciting for the world.”

Carter: “So it might be a good idea to put him on the ticket?”

McAuliffe: “Sure it would be, absolutely. How could you deny consideration of someone who has excited so many people?”