"Obama/Clinton 2008.......Trust Me....It Aint Gonna Happen...."

….and though I have absolutely no professional political credentials, here’s why it wont happen.

Obama doesn’t want it to happen.

And he’s got the golden rule on his side.

He who has the gold…
…makes the rules.

And admittedly, the whole idea that eighteen million people voted for Hillary in the primaries, eighteen million people who will be pissed if Hillary doesn’t get the VP nod makes for good copy and gives the cable news channels raw material to ramble on ad nauseum, those who subscribe to the idea aren’t seeing one pretty obvious flaw in their logic.

It’s like the old Marilyn Monroe joke.

God is love.
Love is beautiful.
Marilyn Monroe is beautiful.
Marilyn Monroe is God.

Actually, no, not so much.

The flaw in the logic is the assumption that if Hillary isn’t given the VP slot her supporters will turn, en masse, and vote for John McCain.

Actually, no, not so much.

I don’t think anybody has any real way of guaranteeing that all eighteen million will vote for Obama, but I’d be willing to bet my ever shrinking dollar that a big fat ole bunch of em will.

Supporters of Hillary who vote for McCain because they’re pissed that Obama got the nomination are, at the end of the day, cutting off their Hillary to spite their Barack.

And, if you buy what the pundits are saying, pretty much assuring that George W. Bush will be elected to a third term.

Except that for the next four years, the role of George W. Bush will be played by his understudy, John McCain.

I think it safe to say that none of us have seen anything that makes us believe that Clinton supporters are stupid.

And wouldn’t it really be stupid if supporters of Han Solo got pissed that Luke Skywalker didn’t get the nomination and showed their unhappiness by voting for Darth Vader?

Honest to God, I really don’t know a lot of the insider political lingo, but here’s how I would sum up that scenario.

Duh.

So, if you like winning guessing games, my advice is to scratch Hillary off your list.

Because, at the very least, those Hillary zealots who believe in their hearts and souls that the young, inexperienced Obama doesn’t stand a chance against the senior, more experienced McCain without Hillary in the number two chair are making a mistake that has been made more than once in this campaign already.

Underestimating Barack Obama.

And if anyone should understand that concept, it should be Hillary’s folks.

Cause it turns out that the most prominent person to first underestimate Barack Obama…

…was Hillary Clinton.