it's difficult to wade through the thick cloud of bullshit emanating from the clinton camp these days. now that the pundit class has decided that the race for the democratic nomination is all but over, the topic of conversation has moved on to the hillary hostage situation.
apparently, senator clinton believes that she has the ability to kidnap the entire democratic party and its chances to secure the white house in november and hold them for whatever ransom she believes worthy of her.
on what basis, you may ask.
gentle reader: if there's anything that this nominating process has taught us, it's that bases and metrics and arithmetic have no place in this nomination process. inside the clinton camp, being second place means never having to say, "i lost."
but whither the rationale for such a demand? where does she find the "testicular fortitude" (which, if i may say, was the most overtly sexist phrase uttered during this campaign) to attempt to exact such a steep price?
'tis not for us to ask her why,
'tis only our job to watch her (campaign) die...
it seems to me that the people that are defending this "hillary-as-vee-pee" nonsense are publicly declaring themselves as political neophytes with little or no insight into this race. hillary has wiled away the last several months on the campaign trail by impugning senator obama's qualifications and preparedness to lead this country as president. while attempting to convince the country that senator obama has nothing to offer except impossible dreams and misguided hope, senator clinton also decided that she needed to endorse senator mccain and offer her opinion that he, too, has met and surpassed the "commander-in-chief test." her husband is amazingly out of control and / or off his rocker; either way, bill clinton is not the guy you want running around the country in support of your candidacy.
in addition to these obvious disqualifiers is the fact that an overwhelming majority of his supporters would view his acquiescence to clinton's demand for a spot on the ticket as a renunciation of everything that he has claimed to represent over the past year. senator clinton is many things, but a candidate of change is not one of them.
i'm not even going to get into a discussion about what black voters might think about having senator clinton as his vice-president. (perhaps to begin to mend fences she can share with the public a story about how she used to visit her uncle's cottage outside of gary, indiana, and how lil' man and too-tall showed her how to pop her first cap...)
this is a really bad idea. luckily, i don't think that senator obama will even seriously entertain the notion of offering clinton the vice-presidency. that would be a mistake.
perhaps a fatal one.
