Sometimes Maureen Dowd's columns are more snark than substance. Today isn't one of them. She discusses the possibility of Hillary as vice president and raises a number of interesting points.
1) Is America ready for that much change - i.e., a black man and a woman on the same ticket?
2) Bill. He's going to eclipse Obama every time he shows his face. Do we really need the press ignoring the president and running over to the vice president's spouse? Not to mention, how many Bill outbursts are we willing to put up with? And finally, rhymes with Hannukah. Just how many "Hannukahs" are we welcoming back into the White House?
3) Hillary makes Obama less Obama. I'm going to quote Dowd on this one:
Hillary has a strange, unnerving effect on Obama, and whenever he is around her, he’s unable to do his best....
In the last few days, as Hillary has deflated and Obama and the Democrats have dashed for daylight, he has been more like his old self, flashing his all-is-right-with-the-world smile on the cover of Time, joshing and charming Democrats and Republicans as he wooed superdelegates on the House floor, taking on James Carville for insulting his manhood....
Obama will never be at his best around Hillary; she drains him of his magical powers....
She's right. Hillary is like that lover your friends always hate because they bring out the worst in you.
4) There's a fourth reason to dump Hillary, one that Dowd doesn't mention. How can you be for "change" and then put the name "Clinton" on your ticket. We've had a Bush or a Clinton on the ticket since 1981. Thirty years is enough.
5) And finally, one more point Dodd doesn't raise. Do Obama really want to take another four years of this woman? Do we?
