that if Obama wants to win he'd best pick Hillary for VP. I'm afraid you're reading entirely too much into this little sentence. I think my feelings about Hillary are pretty well known here and I do not at all like the tactics Obama used to get the nomination. But be clear about one thing. I will vote for Obama. I'm still not enthusiastic about him but he has my vote. My problem is that this is the ninth presidential election I will vote in. I was very enthusiastic about every single Democratic nominee in the last 8. I was a Clinton delegate to the DNC in 92 and a Kerry delegate in 04. I stopped having the blind faith that the Democrat would win with Dukakis. I felt the same way about McGovern as you do about Obama. After Gore, for me it quit being about the candidate and became who has the best chance of winning. I agree completely with Karl Rove, Dick Morris, et al that Obama is the weakest candidate of all the Democrats in the primary. I think that adding Hillary to the ticket will completely solidify and re-energize those 18 million voters which includes a great many white working class voters that voted for Hillary. Hillary locks down the white working class vote and states that should be Democrat including WV, PA, OH. I think those same white working class along with the Black vote could make SC, NC and even GA too close to call with Hillary.. I think that Hillary will lock down the Hispanic vote in NM, NV and CO putting these states in play as well.

You may say, "Well, that's not so because the polls say...". Screw that. You may say, "Well Hillary will motivate the RW to go vote against Obama and her". Screw that. You don't think the RW has already decide they have to keep "that n****r" from winning any way they can (and I fear for his safety if he's up by 10 points in mid-October)? Hell, I live in S. Texas so I hear stuff like that not only from the whites, but from the hispanics who supported Hillary and (IMHO) are more racist than any white I've ever run across, and that racism is against both whites and blacks. And if anyone coughs and sputters at that statement, come live in Texas south of Interstate 10 for a year or so and you'll see what I mean, if you can handle it.

We all know this election is different. I've never seen anything at all like this. My 90 year old aunt says these times are "just like it was with Hoover", and she was a little kid then but she heard the talk. To you and me it makes no sense not to vote for Obama for a plethora of reasons. But base human instincts, including fear (and including fear of someone of a different color) can cloudy people's judgement. There was a reason 18 million people voted for Hillary. I think that if Obama ties into that energy, along with his own energy, those judgements become clear again and that ticket will be unstoppable.

You shouldn't read so much into a little sentence.