Pennsylvania in the crosshairs
Pray for us in Pennsylvania. It is nearly seven weeks until our April 22 primary, the latest "must-win" for Obama and Clinton, and we are about to be carpet-bombed with political advertising and candidate appearances. I suspect both candidates will be pitching in at the annual spring clean-up in my Shipoke neighborhood, which could even top the year we spotted a dead body snagged on a rock out in the Susquehanna River. It would be a perfect opportunity for either candidate to nail down the white liberal vote. And who will Char Magaro invite to her Bella Mundo bistro afterward? She probably wishes they both could win.
Hillary has been floating just such an option in recent days, at least not dismissing the possibility that she and Obama run as a team in November. She doesn't say who would be the presidential nominee and who the vice presidential, but I think it's safe to say she sees herself leading the ticket.
Could this work? Yes, but only if Obama is willing to fall on his sword and commit himself to eight years of political irrelevance. The next vice president isn't going to be a Dick Cheney, a Machiavellian figure controlling the President from the shadows. The real vice president in a Hillary Administration would be Bill, and everyone knows it. He may be sidelined for now, after his disastrous "help" for Hillary in the South Carolina primary, but anyone who thinks he would just go off and play golf for eight years isn't being realistic.
Which I plan to tell both Hillary and Obama while we rake leaves together during the Shipoke clean-up.