CNN is reporting today that there are ongoing talks between the Clinton camp (read: Bill) and the Obama camp (read: Michelle) about getting Hillary on the ticket. There is, no doubt, a lot of Clintonian extortion happening: promises of riots at the Convention, telling women not to support Obama if he doesn’t bend to their demands, horses’ heads in their beds.
The talks are described by someone involved as “difficult.” Horses’ heads do have a tendency to make negotiations “difficult.”
Obama, apparently, is thinking about it. Which leads me to believe he’s either A) easily intimidated; B) stupid; or C) very, very careful.
He cannot be seen to be blowing her off. Even if he has no intention of putting her on the ticket, he’s got to be seen as considerate to her and her army of delegates. But the last thing he wants is Bill Clinton shadowing him for 4 years and Hillary planning the palace coup on Day One.
So, these “talks” may involve a facesaving way for her to get out: that he offers it to her, she declines, the party is unified, and end of story.
But. What if they make that deal, but when he offers it to her, she takes it? That would be a double cross of Clintonian caliber: dirty, underhanded, and genius.
If I were Obama, I’d get it in writing.
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