Reply #64: I think it would be a nice ticket. [View All]

[sofa king]

While I have thoroughly enjoyed the primaries and feel that the benefits to the party as a whole are enormous and as yet unrecognized by most, there is no question that feathers have been ruffled and need to be smoothed.

I don't think Obama is naive enough to let the Clintons run roughshod over him, although if the two line up then the cabinet-level positions will probably include a lot of faces we oldtimers are familiar with.

Suddenly, I've just had a glimpse at a silver lining from seven years of criminal fascism: the position of Vice President can be a very important and useful role. That, of course, was necessary because an idiot man-child is currently at the helm and the running of the country cannot be fully entrusted to him.

But, imagining a day when the political stars align and the Democrats have a good solid two to four years of unobstructed reconstruction (yes, reconstruction, just as if this nation had been raided by hordes of pillaging Vandals), an experienced President of the Senate could be a godsend to the Democratic cause. Both candidates are qualified for that position--it's just that one might well be pissed to find herself back in the Senate.

In 1980, the Reagan camp supposedly made a genuine offer to Gerald Ford. Ford said he'd take the offer, if the position were treated as part of a co-Presidency. (Needless to say, that idea was dropped and our troubles effectively began from that point.)

A similar arrangement would need to be in place for this ticket to succeed after election day. If Mrs. Clinton could hammer out a new role for the office, one in which the White House's legislative agenda is clearly plotted and planned by the Vice President (and President of the Senate), some really good things could be done.

And while we're packing the ticket with White House experience, I think two of the top five cabinet positions should be offered to the other people who were elected President: Al Gore and John Kerry.

We could wind up with a five-President Presidency. If it worked, I'll bet it would work really damned well.