Vice President Clinton!

Congratulations to Hillary Clinton on being the likely Democratic nominee for Vice President in the 2008 Presidential Election. I refuse to answer now and on these pages if I am one of the voting Super Delegates.

If the Democrats want to ensure that the Republicans do not pull a rabbit out of their hat and win a race most pundits thought they had in the bag from the beginning, that the race was their to lose given the unpopularity of the Bush Admin policies they should proceed soon down Obama/Clinton Lane.

In this election, The Super Delegates have proven dysfunctional because they are afraid to do anything other than ratify the popular vote and delegate counts, an authority they were specifically given. Regardless, they do have an opportunity to provide collective leadership and convince both camps this is the best way to insure a victory in the unlikely event Bush policies start to register success. What a laugh, huh?

It is unlikely but what if some combination of these and other events occurred?

1) Iraq violence stops and the political process succeeds in dividing oil revenues and convinces Iran to publicly and truly back off and stop their support of continuing violence where ever they can promote it inside Iraq with training, money and guns. Not likely in 2008.

2) the economy bounces back in a way voters feel less distress (housing, oil). Not likely in 2008.

3) Israel and Palestine agree to the terms of a settlement that creates a separate Palestinian state, first openly proposed by a US President when Bush called for it and if such agreement is supported or not violently opposed by Hamas and others who so far have benefited from continued violence. Not likely in 2008.

McCain could win under certain conditions.

Barack (and his advisors including Kerry) needs to be convinced to do so. Barack is very capable of doing it although he will have concerns about providing such a stage to Bill Clinton. He could appoint him as Public Relations Ambassador at Large then he would have a goal if not a formal portfolio.

Hillary, I think is also capable of doing it, her problem being the same as Barack, what would happen if husband Bill was given access to any White House stage, with or without portfolio, would he continue to upstage her and is she willing to permit that?

Or is Bill, under any circumstances, willing to be a part of the second team, which would put an unwanted spotlight on his new international investment cronies, demands for transparency and disclosures and the inevitable spiderweb of related conflicts, real and imagined, that will come to a cable news network near you as well as a couple of blog sites.

Fellow Super Delegates, Step Up To The Plate! Put the icing on the cake with Democratic Dream Team Obama/Clinton!