Hillary Clinton, the Vice Presidency and Cactus Jack Garner.

Amongst a number of distinguished appointments that he held, Texan Democrat " Cactus Jack " Garner did a stint as Franklin D. Roosevelt's Vice President. When Lyndon B. Johnson was trying to make up his mind whether or not to accept John F. Kennedy's offer of the V.P. ticket, he went to ask Garner for his advice. Garner was blunt telling him " It aint worth a bucket full of warm piss ".

Excluding the tragic possibility of the President's death in office, an event that in LBJ's case allowed him in fact to step up to the Presidency, the advice is still good. If Obama can be pressurised against his will, he is not keen, to offer Clinton the V.P., she should decline. Unless of course, which I doubt, she is feeling like a spot of self sacrifice. With her, Obama might just make it. She then becomes a ghost also ran sub John Prescott figure who could not expect Obama to stand aside from his entitlement to a whack at a second term in 2012. If he looses they are both history. Her best bet is to give Obama her generous/minimum of support as an unattached Democrat and see the Viet Vet in. Maybe then, in 2012, we would see something spectacular; Condoleeza v Hillary.