Obama + Clinton = McCain

Hillary Clinton, now that Barack Obama seems to have clinched the Democratic party's nomination, has the power hungriness to leak that she would be interested in running with Obama.

Why? For the sake of unifying the party, right? "For the party" rhetoric would be the big, heaping hill of beans that Hillary and Bill would have us believe. The Clinton's lust for power is unprecedented and Obama unwisely running with the Clintons would certainly set John McCain for a victory in November.

CNN projects that Obama's steady stream of superdelegate endorsements, combined with the delegates he received from Tuesday's primaries, put him past the 2,118 threshold and would lead to a definitive nomination by the Democrats.

"Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another -- a journey that will bring a new and better day to America," Obama said. "Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States."

If he is chosen, would it be wise to take Hillary up on her offer to help him? Would she not actually be a huge liability? Liberals don't even like Hillary Clinton. The recent vitriol from those at Vanity Fair magazine is just a glimpse and how unwise, silly, and potentially dangerous it would be to have a Clinton as a running mate. It is sad, but people actually hate the Clintons.

Todd Purdum over at Vanity Fair had this to say about Bill Clinton recently:

Old friends and longtime aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton's post-White House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive) business associations to the media blowups that have bruised his wife's campaign, to the private-jetting around with a skirt-chasing, scandal-tinged posse. Some point to Clinton's medical traumas; others blame sheer selfishness, and the absence of anyone who can say "no." Exploring Clintonworld, the author asks if the former president will be consumed by his own worst self.

Why would Obama even take Hillary up on her offer after the mud she's thrown at him over the past few months when it became clear that the Clinton's lust for power may go unrealized. Given the Clinton's history, how could he even trust her?

Winning against an Obama/Clinton ticket would like Kobe Bryant playing basketball with a middle-school basketball team. The nation is not ready to have, as some have argued, two candidates whose views are so close to those of socialistic European nations. Obama would be wise to choose a more moderate candidate, which will not be hard to find, as a buffer for the explosion of government programming he has proposed.

McCain cannot lose against an Obama/Clinton ticket. It would be the political gift that keeps on giving. The Democratic party is in such pathetic disarray that joining the "wonder twins" (Obama and Clinton) would do very little for a party who sets rules and then changes them at the end.

Now that Obama is making history, what type of running mate should he choose? What should McCain do to prepare to run against Obama, when the Democrats officially knight him?