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the troubles with obama-clinton (4.00 / 2)

it has implications for who controls the democratic party and to what extent (maybe it's better to have competing centrist power bases that are slightly different from one another in policy - i dunno).

obama-clinton will generate the perception of a "diversity ticket."
do i think there's anything wrong with that? no.
do i think it should hurt the chance of the ticket to win? no.
do i think it will? yes. (mainly because the campaign has shown no evidence that they'll push back hard enough, as far as I can tell).

i also don't know how wise it would be to have co-presidents or the perception thereof, and finally what it would mean for health care reform after the earlier attempt by clinton as powerful non-president.  

it's a much higher risk strategy, i think, for both the election and for obama's ability to retain control of his administration (without even engaging the question of whether or not his total domination would be a good or bad thing) than picking a middle aged white guy who can and will fight with mccain.

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by: dr anonymous @ Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 11:47:31 AM CDT

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