An Obama-Clinton ticket.

Barack Obama is supposed to pick his running mate later this week. And I'm hoping it's Hillary Clinton. I think Obama needs Hillary in order to guarantee that he wins. Because he'll get two Clintons in the deal. Hillary and Bill. And they know how to fight. Dirty, if necessary. Obama is too clean. Too fair. Too willing to compromise and meet his opponent half-way. But when you are fighting dirty Republicans, that doesn't work. You need the masters of dirty politics on your side. The Clintons have the savvy to put dirty, rotten Republicans in their place. The GOP could take advantage of Obama. But not with the Clintons at his side. So, for the sake of assuring his election, I'm for Obama picking Hillary as his vice president. I wasn't all that enamored with Hillary over the way she castigated Obama during the primary election campaign. That gave Obama good reason to snub Clinton now. But politics is a practical game. The idea is to win. At almost any cost. And an Obama-Clinton ticket would do the trick. --Jim Broede