Hillary For Veep
Couldn’t believe it myself when I wrote the headline above. Here’s the thinking:
Together, baggage and all, an Obama/Clinton ticket seems unstoppable. There will be meddling from Billary. There may also be the risk of conscious and unconscious sabotage, in the hope that Barack loses and Hillary gets one more shot in 2012. And there’s still the ugly possibility that whatever provoked her to refer to RFK’s tragic demise is still lurking in her ultra-complex cranium.
Still, paradigm changing events take time and are not comfortable. I’ve heard a number of very bright people use the “marathon” analogy to describe the Dems ‘08 nominating process. Respectfully, they’re wrong. Compared to the time it took to transform a scruffy bunch of oppressed English colonies into America, this was barely a quarter mile race. Having the first black American president, and everything it would mean both to the citizens of this country and to the world community, and what it would indicate about this country to the world community, is paradigm changing, as well as paradigm restoring, given the surreal nose-drive we’ve taken since Dubya ran the greatest power in the world into the ground. And that’s economic power, and power to do good works, as well as military supremacy.
Speaking of Dubya, peripherally at least, here’s another thing I can hardly believe I’m writing: Karl Rove just delivered an astute analysis that explained why some superdelegates are coming out for Obama this afternoon while others are waiting until the primary season is completed tonight: so that the delegates elected by the people, and not the supers, are the ones to officially put Obama over the top. Have to acknowledge the ruthless brillance of Rove the political mercenary, and give a tip of the hat to Dean and the other Dem bigwigs who no doubt orchestrated the final movement.
Obama/Clinton. Won’t be easy. Nothing worth doing is.
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The Falcon cannot fathom why there is the slightest hesitency by the DNC to embrace the OB/Hill ticket. Please! Head count, anyone? OB and Hills each got approximatly the exact number of votes. Oh… wait, that’s right, the actual votes don’t count, it’s all about delegates! My mistake.