There has been a lot of noise in the media recently about the possibility of Sen. Barack Obama asking Sen. Hillary Clinton to campaign with him as vice president. The “dream ticket” has been mentioned before, but never with any real thought that it could happen; there has been too much vitriol between the candidates. Recently, however, commentators are almost making it sound likely.
If this were to happen, I would be extremely disappointed, perhaps so much so as to join McCain’s camp. Senator Clinton is the embodiment of everything wrong with the system, and everything that I thought Obama was campaigning against. The Obama campaign has been based on the belief that it is possible to be elected and to run the country without political patronage or back-room deals, that government can be for and of the people rather than the corporations, unions, and lobbyists, and that voters can be made to care more about issues than smoke and mirrors. To welcome Clinton into his administration would be a betrayal, an admission that either these things are not possible, or worse yet that they are not desirable. If there is any justice in this world, this possibility exists only in the minds of pundits looking for a story.
(Personally, I am still clinging to hope for the nearly impossible Obama-Paul ticket.)
Morning Call columnist extraordinaire Bill White agrees that Clinton’s campaigning is simply dishonest.
Comment by chadhogg — May 28, 2008 @ 1:26 am