politics update: it's going to be an exciting week

so obama's got his superdelegates he's wanted up till now, and within 3 days will almost assuredly have the majority of the undeclared finally come to his side. so obama will have the nomination this week, definitely for sure. what that entails is going to be another big step in the primary season, and i have a feeling it will all be determined by the hillrod.

coming in #2 she's got a bit of potential power behind her. her choices are:
1.) plainly embrace obama and hope him the best through nov, doing a little campaigning just to show some good will
2.) go after the vp spot. this would entail her completely changing her personality towards barack by completely supporting his every word and becoming barack's main attack dog against mccain.
3.) still campaign to the superdelegates to try and get them to switch and effectively destroying her career as much as possible.

my vote is for number 2 and i'm hoping it happens. the only way i can see this going well reconciling the dems is by giving her the vp spot. there is too much division that has happened between the supporters and bringing her on may be the only assured shot at taking the white house.

if she is given the vp spot her supporters would surely step inline behind her and vote for the lesser of two evils (in their minds) hopefully. if the dems come out near the numbers they have in the primaries to support their candidate(either obama or clinton) they will sweep mccain.

but what about the clintons' baggage? well they can't really sway the clinton stronghold of voters by bringing up anything that isn't new. and anyways she's going to be vp, so it won't have nearly as much of an impact.

and about having the clinton's in the white house? barack is strong enough not to be swayed by them in a negative way. he will be the ultimate rule maker and will be able to douse the fires that hillrod and billy will most assuredly create.

so my opinion: if hillrod is on the ticket with barack it will pull 99.998% of the people who voted for either barack/hillrod/edwards (minus the repubs that voted to try and fuck up the results). and to my barack supporters remember: he will be the boss, not her, so there's nothing to worry about having her as a vp, even though deep down none of us want her in there.