I've went from "never vote for Hillary" to considering an Obama/Clinton ticket might be good.. [View All]

[Bread and Circus]

Something deep down tells me that Hillary Clinton is better than the people she has surrounded herself with, her husband included. From her bad campaign use of money to her erratic behavior of late, it's apparent it comes from too many bad elements pulling her in too many bad directions. Her stupid votes, like her IWR vote, her cluster bomb vote, and her Kyl-Lieberman vote, are more likely than not from whispers in her ear. Whispers that she needs to rid herself of. Somewhere inside all that confusion is still a brilliant person with a passion for families and children.

I am in a forgiving mood because last night she admitted, as much as she politically could, her IWR vote was a mistake. I want to start over with her.

The vehicle to set her free and perhaps set her on a Presidential course of her own would be to run as Obama's VP. It's very apparent that his campaign, a campaign of the people and a million donors strong, is the campaign of the future. It's also apparent, finally, that he's probably going to win the nomination. I think he sealed that fate with two convincing debate appearances that when it comes to the war of words, she has nothing on him.

By running as Obama's VP she can rewrite her political future and break ties with the old top down patriarchy of the party and side herself with the people. She can rid herself of Penn and Wolfson. She can rid herself of the corruption of politics that comes when it is controlled by the monied interests in Washington. She can rid herself of the notion that the politics of triangulation and "micro trends (read: pandering to that which divides us)" hold the only ways to win an election.

I also think that this would be an awesome way to build party unity. And let's be honest, she gives hope and inspiration to women. I have two small daughters, and I have to admit I think it would be pretty damn cool for them to grow up the next 8 years with Clinton prominently in the Administration.

Some will say, maybe right or wrongly so, that a unity ticket might be bad electorally and that to put an African American and a Woman on the same ticket would only raise the number of people voting against the ticket. That may be right. But I think to succumb to that thinking is to succumb to the politics of fear and to succumb to the politics of division. I reject that.

I think the only thing that should limit the possibility of an Obama/Clinton ticket would be their ability to be able to work with each other and come to an agreement of how their relationship might best work.

But why not a Clinton/Obama ticket? After all, she's older and he's got a longer window of opportunity ahead of him.

Answer: Easy. If it's a Clinton/Obama ticket, we would never get rid of the Penn's and the Wolfson's of the world. We would never get rid of the top down system controlled by selective monied special interests. The campaign of the people and for the people will have lost and the politics of micro-trends and entrenched established political interests will have won. Clinton's relationship with nefarious actors would be re-inforced instead of rejected.

Or so my theory goes.