LOL.
After listening to a long speech last night in which everyone expected Hillary Clinton to call it quits, she didn't. Wow. Clinton really has a lot of balls. If I was ever in a prison knife fight, I know which candidate I would pick to guard my back.
It is now clear that Obama will be the Democratic Presidential candidate in 2008. But who will he pick for a running mate?
The Democratic party is divided and both sides are very emotional about their candidate. There are some folks that think either candidate would do a good job but there are a lot of people like myself who really like one candidate and really dislike the other. Can Obama bring the two sides together?
In the general election, I think Obama needs a gun-toting white southerner like Jim Webb if he ever hopes to take the South. Soft-spoken, sweater-wearing, Ivy League intellectuals may do well with PacificNorthwesternman (as we picked Nader and then Kucinich) but that wont cut it in a general election.
My sense is that Clinton and Obama dont like each other personally but that is their problem. If they ran together, it would immediately defuse a lot of tension and unite both sides of the party. We would get Change and Experience. We would get the first black man and the first woman and we wouldn't have to choose one of them.
I think an Obama/Clinton ticket would be a quick win in the Democrat party but its unclear that it would do well in the Fall. I am expecting a close general election against McCain and that will be even closer if Obama picks a bad running mate.
