The Audacity of Audacity: Hillary Offers Obama The Number Two Slot on Her Ticket
 
In order to insure everybody that she is very much in the race until the end, Hillary has hinted three times during the past few weeks that Obama would be welcome as her number two in what husband Bill trumpets as an "unstoppable" ticket. How generous of her…
Some Democrats might characterize this pairing as the "dream ticket." But as columnist Michael Goodwin notes appropriately, its a dream ticket in the sense of dream on…
It's a fantasy because, in the Clintons' pitch, naturally, she is on top of the ticket and Obama is her No. 2. That's rich of her, considering that Obama leads in both the delegate race and the popular vote. Forget those pesky voters - Hillary has declared herself the winner! Shades of the subprime mortgage mess there. She's like a con artist trying to sell a house she doesn't own. Based on the votes so far, she should have suggested herself as the vice presidential running mate. Ah, but because these are the Clintons talking, we must parse their words to find out what they're up to. No problem. This scam is fairly clever, but too obvious. The offer of a joint ticket looks like an olive branch, but it's really a knife aimed at cutting Obama down to size. In the words of one Clintonista, "It's a way of belittling him" by suggesting he's not ready to be President and would lose the general election as nominee to John McCain. It's the same attack she has been using all along, though now it's presented as a compliment. And a generous one, too, because the offer implies she will take him under her wing for eight years. How sweet.
Obama would never agree to the Vice-Presidential slot, if for no other reason than after the election she would insure that he is banished, under lock and key, lest he upstage her at every turn.
 
Beacon Street Journal
Monday, March 10, 2008
By John Kinsellagh