A Wake-Up Call
May 25, 2008
Dream ticket momentum may sweep aside long term considerations. The notion of a reunited party is a comforting fiction but resentments will linger and may fester by virtue of proximity and the division of labor and limelight.
The Clinton cohort won’t be satisfied with second place or second string. The overwrought Obaminables will resent their candidates first significant decision being co-opted by the Party.
Perhaps this nation’s first biracial, feminist co-presidency with a welfare state agenda will resonate with a plurality of the electorate. In which case the change Obama promises has already occurred.
