if Obama REALLY wants Clinton to concede gracefully, he should promise to appoint her to the Supreme Court when he becomes President.

Oooh.

Hey.

FUCK yeah!

if you consider the transistor made possible the integrated circuit and the modern computer

And how could you not?

I agree that the upcoming presidential race is going to be ugly. But I think it would have been ugly either way--underbellies were going to be revealed. Is the US more sexist than it is racist? I just don't think this one is going to be settled on the issues. It's going to be ad hominem, start to finish, I fear.

I don't know if the US is ready for either a woman or a black person at the helm. Which means it might end up with a Republican again.

I'd like to be proven wrong.

And *if* Obama offered her the VP slot, part of me wants her to turn it down, because, DAMN IT, why should she have to be second-best?

I agree with this when you say it AND I agreed with it when Obama said it.

And yet, I would SO much prefer to hear somebody step up to the 'By all that is holy, somebody MUST team up to defeat the evil cabal that has destroyed this country's economic stability, that refuses to provide basic care on an equitable basis and who seems Hell bent on making the US the worst global citizens in the history of civilization' plate.

It isn't really about the individual qualities or personality anymore. We are broken and desperate times call for teeny bit of selflessness.

t /crying out in the wilderness

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if Obama REALLY wants Clinton to concede gracefully, he should promise to appoint her to the Supreme Court when he becomes President. Because THAT's power. (And there's no reason she couldn't step down and run for President again if she wanted to.)

Whoa! Who do we know in the campaign...because this is genius.

I think it would have been ugly either way--underbellies were going to be revealed. Is the US more sexist than it is racist?

I think the main difference is that Clinton's already been through the Republican smear machine, so there's not much new to say about her. Yeah, the GOP and the media would have continued to spout the same recycled hateful crap, but it wouldn't be anything we hadn't heard before.

I think the attacks against Obama will be worse because they'll be fresh.

tommy, supposedly a Clinton fundraising event was added back to the schedule for this evening...

It isn't really about the individual qualities or personality anymore. We are broken and desperate times call for teeny bit of selflessness.

I know. Most of me thinks that an Obama/Clinton ticket would be great (although I'd really rather see Obama/Edwards), but that small part of me, the part that was raised on "I Am Woman" and Betty Friedan, thinks that Clinton as VP would be settling, and damn it, I am so sick and fucking tired of seeing brilliant woman *settle,* when they should be running the goddamn joint.

I don't know if the US is ready for either a woman or a black person at the helm.

Yeah. I started out pretty optimistic about this, but I'm starting to think this may be a close one. And I thought the Wright thing brought a whole lot of stuff out of the anxiety closet into the light.

Is the US more sexist than it is racist?

Oppressed though women may be, I can't recall a woman being lynched for the act of being a woman.

(Yes, one can say that rape is an equivalent [though I don't believe that it is, in actual forensic terms], and is more insidious, but as a public act -- a political act -- lynchings have it all over rape.)

I would much rather see Clinton as a justice or back in the Senate where I think she'll be a real power player than sidelined as Veep. (This is one of the things that pushed me towards Obama, actually - I think she'd be a kick-ass Majority Leader.) And I think we're long past the point where those two could work effectively together as Pres/VP.

I'm with Brenda on this one -- I've said from the start of the campaign that she's simply a better senator than a potential executive; not because she's somehow not worthy of the top job, but because it fits her policy-hammering-out strengths so much better. I think she'd be a fantastic Majority Leader, and could affect things for way many years in that role.

Plus, my dream ticket is and shall remain Obama/Richardson. Nom.