I just got off the phone with my sister. She said, I have this sinking feeling that Obama is going to choose Sen. Clinton as V.P. Oh, no, sez I. O yes, sez she. Lookit, sez she. There is going to be tremendous pressure on him to choose her. The bottom line calculation is, he wants to win the presidency and ultimately, considering her destructive powers, he will decide, on balance, it is worth the heartbreak and danger and complications of a Clinton on the ticket to make sure he wins.
Convince me I am wrong, she sez, my sister.
I can't sez I, despondent.
But wait, sez I. What is that motto of Axelrod's? No Assholes! By which he means, a winning campaign will have NO backbiting, NO infighting, NO permission for anyone on the team to be petty and self-seeking and territorial and forgetting the greater good. That HAS to mean, NO CLINTONS on the team.
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