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.
Good point, sez she, my sister. So who will be the V.P.? I know, sez she, Biden. What do you think of Biden?
Wonderful, sez I. Over the years I have been frustrated and annoyed beyond pain by Biden. I forgive him his windiness, but so many times he has gone for "compromises" that are surrenders -- the Democratic Party disease.
But you knows what? He's a good, decent guy, very smart (except, of course, when he is being an idiot, but I guess that goes for all of us) and he is a team player.
So we've solved it, sez my sister, but how do we get the word to Obama?
Easy, sez I! I've got it figured out. I'll just go report this conversation on DailyKos, someone will pick it up and get it to Obama and Axelrod and Biden, and before you know it the Wisdom of our Way will be the Conventional Wisdom.
We have saved The Republic! (I am bowing now, thanks for your applause, it was nothing really, all in a day's work.)
Now we are going to go to Hollywood and get discovered.