The Internets are abuzz with rumors and counter rumors that Hillary wants the Vice Presidency, that Bill wants Hillary to be offered the Vice Presidency, that Hillary actually asked Obama to be Vice President and Obama refused, and etc., etc., etc.
Will there be a dream/nightmare ticket? Will it be Obama-Clinton?
I don't know. But I do know one thing.
You can't ransom the Vice Presidency.
You can't hold Obama hostage and demand over the barrel of a gun that he give you a spot on the ticket. I mean, it is audacious. Here are Bill & Hillary Clinton, and all of their surrogates, who on the one hand are delegitimatizing the nomination of Barack Obama by claiming that he and the media are sexist and that millions of Florida and Michigan voters were disenfranchised, and the while continuing to argue that he is the weaker candidate; and on the other hand demanding that he pick her as his most trusted advisor and teammate.
If I was in Barack Obama's shoes right now, I would be telling the Clintons to go fuck themselves.
Here they are making my life miserable, endangering my general election prospects with their continued pointless impossible narcissitic campaign, all the while making demands of me, and requiring for the preservation of their legacy and ambition that I part with my first, best and most important decision as the standard bearer of the Democratic Party.
Really, there is no response to this kind of situation than to tell the Clintons to fuck off. And thus, I have no doubt the Field story is true.
And I say this not because, like others, I am opposed to a possible Obama-Clinton ticket. I can see the need for it, and I can see it working.
But for it to work, Hillary Clinton must first and immediately cease her campaign, praise and endorse Obama enthusiastically and emphatically, and retract all previous statements made about his unreadiness during the campaign as just being arguments made during the campaign. Indeed, she must give an "Edwards-Richardson-style" endorsement of him. She must become an Obamamaniac first, before Barack Obama can even consider offering her the Vice Presidency.
And after that, the ticket can work.
It will not work if it is forced on Obama at gun point.