The jungle drums are alive, this week end, with speculation that the Democrats are about to pull a major switcheroo on their presidential ticket. Rumor has it that right after the VP debate, scheduled for October 2nd, Joe Biden is going to step down from the VP spot due to "health reasons" (his, not the tickets). And you will never guess who is poised to take his place. Give up? Hillary Clinton will rise once more from the political crypt.
This stuff of nightmares could easily be written off as the hallucinations of bored email junkies were it not for the fact that the sources on this are reasonably reliable and, within the context of the stumbling democratic ticket, it has a certain logic to it.
Obama clearly blew it when he named Joe Biden as his VP. For a candidate who is presenting himself as the agent of change, he trots out a tired old Capitol Hill re-tread who personifies business as usual. This gaff was made crystal clear when McCain picked Sarah Palin who has stolen the show for the Republicans. And while
we subscribe to the belief that the election is ultimately about the presidential candidates, adding Hillary to the Democratic ticket would give it a major infusion of excitement, at least among the fellow travellers on the left.
Ultimately, we would like to think that cooler heads will prevail and the issues (How 'bout Bill?) that kept Hillary off the ticket in the first place will arise once again. At the same time, if this whole thing gets sprung just a few weeks before the election, who knows?
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