Vice President Nominee Clinton
George Stephanopoulos forecasts a reasonable probability of Senator Barack Obama, as the Democratic Presidential nominee, nominating Senator Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee. Senator Obama’s nominating Senator Clinton to be Vice President, if it is to occur, will be a challenging political maneuver. First, Obama’s nominating an opponent whom he assailed to be divisive and whom he argued would lock up, if she were President, any scintilla of bipartisan legislative effort in Washington, D.C. would destroy the central pillar of his campaign: “Change”.
Recognizing the centrality of Clinton to uniting a nearly irreparably divided Democratic party prior to the November 2008 general election, Clinton, undoubtedly, will be a requisite influence in the Obama campaign. It is not obvious, however, that tagging Clinton Obama’s nominee for Vice President is the only strategy for Clinton to re-unite Democrats: For example, Obama may offer the Vice Presidential nomination to Clinton supporter Senator Evan Bayh.
Second, former President Bill Clinton’s influence in the Democratic party and as the husband of Vice Presidential nominee Clinton is not unimportant. Notwithstanding Rush Limbaugh’s “flip-flopping” on perceiving Clinton and, now, Obama to be the weaker Democratic nominee, the Clintons on the 2008 Democratic ticket likely is Democrats and Republicans’ “dream ticket”.
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