Okay, now that Obama has won handily in North Carolina and Clinton is sucking wind to prevail in Indiana, does that mean we can finally start talking about vice-presidential candidates? Barack is going to need some way to handle those mounting criticisms that he is a liberal - ooh, shudder to think - and he's going to need some management gravitas. Because what has he done, other than manage some inner city youth program? He's solid on foreign policy, he'll say, because he has grown up multiracial and traveled the world. I feel 1 million times better with barack making war and peace decisions than GW. Shit, that fucks up my pick for his vice presidential nomination, because, by all means, he should select New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Here are the arguments:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/02/28/2008-02-28_barack_obamas_dream_ticket_mike_bloomber.html


But now I'm going to give the counterarguments. Namely, his choice of a veep also should somehow shore up the loss of white working class voters that has prevailed over the past several months. How is a billionaire Jewish guy from New York going to do that?

As much as I'd like to see Bloomberg on the ticket, I'm afraid Obama is going to have to find someone else. Something about mending political fences and keeping his enemies close to his vest prevails in the argument to select hillary clinton as his running mate. As much as I grew tired of her act and her husband's around February of this year, I think she's rebounded and garnered a lot of support. Barack could show a lot of hutzpah and rally both working class whites and retired women, to his cause.

It would be interesting to see that ticket. How would the Republicans top it?