Obama's Running Mate

I had a student ask me today who it is I intend to vote for. I told him that I hadn't made up my mind yet, but I would never commit until the candidates had declared a running mate. I told him that the decision-making ability of the candidate through that process is often telling and a candidate who makes a poor choice or a politically stupid choice is often unworthy of a vote for an office where the decisions are much more important than a potential successor!

Which leads me to Obama's choice for VP. Who will he choose? A lot of people in the party elite seems to think that Obama/Clinton is their "dream" ticket, but those are the ones with selective memories! You know, the ones who don't remember the Clinton legacy of "disappearing" opposition; certainly the ones who think that Vince Foster really did commit suicide in Fort Marcy Park. Believe me, the LAST thing Obama wants to do is put Clinton one heartbeat from the Presidency! The last guy to fall for that trick died in 1963! No, I think what the ticket needs is a good, old-fashioned white guy to assuage the fears of many whites that Obama is some sort of black power extremist who will try to exclude white America from the dialogue of public discourse. We'll see, won't we?