Barack Obama is hiring Patti Solis Doyle as his Vice Presidential nominee’s Chief of Staff.  When's the last time you've heard a presidential nominee selecting their VP's chief of staff? 

I’m guessing this means that Hillary Rodham Clinton will be Obama’s VP nominee.  Why you ask. Because Patti has worked with nobody but Hillary Clinton, since 1992 – that’ why.

Mrs. Doyle is a political operative and long-time aide to Hillary.  Starting her association with the former First Lady as her assistant during her husband Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, she eventually became campaign manager for Hillary's 2000 Senate campaign, her 2006 re-election campaign and her 2008 president campaign from its inception until she was replaced by Maggie Williams in February 2008.

Doyle entered politics working on Richard M. Daley’s (Obama supporter) campaign for Mayor of Chicago. Later she went with David Wilhelm (Bill Clinton’s campaign manager - also an Obama supporter now) from Chicago to Little Rock, where she became Hillary’s assistant. She is credited with coining the term “Hillaryland”, the close circle of Clinton advisers, dating back to 1992.  She is executive director of HillPac too.  Doyle was the first Hispanic woman to manage a presidential campaign.

HillPac (Hillary’s Leadership PAC) is the biggest operation on the Democratic side, employing 26 people (although several of these workers are shared with her official Senate office). Clinton keeps consulting costs to a minimum. In the first three months of 2006, HILLPAC employed just two consultants -- the Hudson Media Group, which received approximately $36,000, and Heather Hurlburt, who took in $15,000. Hudson Media Group is the political arm of the Glover Park Group, a firm where Clinton confidant Howard Wolfson is a partner. Hurlburt, who is based in Michigan, is a former speechwriter in the Clinton administration.

Why do I mention Hillary’s PAC?  Barack Obama, whom I support, has promised not to use PAC money for his campaign.  This fact about HillPac and Doyle being the director of it bothers me a great deal.

Her husband, Jim Doyle, a Harvard Law grad, worked for William Daley, Mayor Daley's brother, while he was commerce secretary during President Bill Clinton's second term. He's now at Penn, Schoen & Berland; the firm's Mark Penn is Clinton's pollster.

Hillary Clinton has been saying on the campaign trail she is the most famous person you don't know. What does Doyle see that the public does not? Her answer: A Clinton who "meddled" to get the Doyles married, did a reading at their wedding, called Santiago Solis when he was dying and showed up in the hospital when Doyle's children were born. "She gave me tips on breastfeeding." The two also share a passion for TV's "Grey's Anatomy."

The relationship between Doyle and Clinton has evolved through the years. Said Doyle, who has devoted most of her adult life to Hillary Rodham Clinton, "We have a true friendship."

All these facts disturb me a great deal.  They all lead to the assumption that Senator Obama will indeed select Hillary has his Vice Presidential nominee.  This will hurt him during the general election, I’m sure of it.

As we all know, Obama has ran his whole campaign on looking to the future, not reliving the past.  Hillary and Bill Clinton represent the ‘past’ and nothing but the ‘past’, just as the Bush family does.

I know I’m suppose to trust that my candidate will make the right decisions; but on this one, I’m afraid he’s had no choice -- the ‘establishment’ has stepped in and demanded he pick Hillary or he will suffer for it in November.

I was in hopes that Barack Obama would be able to do the right thing by saying ‘no’ to the Party establishment and the Clinton family.  At this point - it doesn't appear that he was successful in doing so.