John_Schwada's Blog

Does Barack Obama really want someone as his running mate who has fantasized about his assasination? Would you trust Hillary Clinton with your back after that?

All kidding aside, Hillary's remark, recalling the assasination of RFK, should not be held against her. But what she's doing now should be.

When she signaled Tuesday that was offering herself up as Obama's v-p, she crossed into a new realm of witchery......that finally puts her on the same footing as the conniving, power-hungry (and yes, murderous) Lady MacBeth.

What's Obama to do, now that she's thrown her hat, even tentatively, into the ring as his running mate?

Obama's got to hope, pray, that she somehow withdraws her offer. If she doesn't, then the nominee has got a very sticky situation on his hands. If he doesn't pick her, if he passes her over, she's a woman doubly scorned (once by voters, once by Obama). Can you imagine the blow-back on that one?

And if Obama does pick her? Dream ticket or nightmare ticket?

Some believe Obama, as the candidate of hope, of change, cannot let the tires on his bandwagon be flattened by bringing on board Hillary Clinton, with all her weighty history, and her husband with all his (arguably enough to bust the suspension on the best bandwagon). Asked about such a matchup, Gov. Bill Richardson told me Tuesday that he had some strong doubts about it's workability given the sometimes rancorous relations between the two camps during the primaries...

Those trying to nix a Clinton vice-presidential bid were probably gleeful about - if not responsible for - the lengthy report in ultra-liberal Vanity Fair by former Bill Clinton White House press secretary DeeDee Myers' husband, Todd Purdum, about Bill Clinton's health and rumors of more sex-capades by the Great Unzippered One. This journalistic piece surely was an attempt to sink any thoughts of an Obama-Hillary ticket.

Having Clinton on board would also mark Obama as a sign of weakness...Clinton would look like she's virtually barged onto the ticket, and that he wasn't man enough to say no. Is this the kind of guy we want negotiating with the tough guys around the world, if he can't say no to Hillary?

So, this is a no-win situation unless....unless Hillary retracts her interest in being #2 on the ticket.

It would seem Obama's self-described knack for being able to negotiate with hostile, obnoxious characters/nations will really be tested at this moment....can he get Hillary to stand down, disarm, pull back?

If he can't do that, how can we expect him to fare any better with Iran's Ahmadinejad, Russia's Putin or Hugo Chavez?