VP for Hillary? Hell no!

This one is getting beat pretty ragged, which generally means it was a non-starter, just something the media fines pretty-shiny and so, like an idiot kitty, wants to play with it until something more bouncable comes along. I can only pray that it is not true.

Not because I think Hillary is Ms Antichrist, but for the same reasons I didn't want her as president: She was horribly wrong about Iraq, she refuses to take personal responsibility for her own damn vote, she's willing to push race just enough to win votes from racist Dems, and she never made her way out of the 1990s. She's wrong for the presidency, and just as wrong for the vice-presidency.

I'm with those who see her in a role like Senate leader — although I think Chris Dodd is probably a better choice — or Supreme Court justice. That role, in particular, I think would be wonderful for her. It would allow her to take all that is good about herself as a politician — and there is a lot that is good — and channel it into thoughtful, humane judgments on the law. For one thing, a woman's right to choose would become sacrosanct. Labor's rights would finally be recognized at the proper level and upheld. The First Amendment would mean something.

And the Supreme Court would not be sitting in wait to undermine President Obama's programs the way FDR was countered by his Supreme Court. By making Hillary Clinton his first selection to the Court, Obama would both solidify the support of women, workers and many other groups; he would demonstrate a long-term commitment to vital issues that many still doubt (ill-placed doubt since he has over 20 years of public service demonstrating that commitment). Over his two terms, Obama will have a chance to totally shatter the hopes of the neocons who thought they'd be contructing a Court to last decades. Obama is the one who can shape the Court, and the future, and he can do it by naming Hillary to the first seat that opens.

And how lovely if that were Scalia's! Ah, a boy can dream.