Well, As you may or not be aware, the Democratic National Convention is right around the corner. Senator Obama needs to pick his running mate before the convention, which naturally has the U.S. media in a feeding frenzy about who he will select. My personal favorite choice would be for him to pick Gov. Bill Richardson. "Change" has always been the biggest theme of Obama's insurgent candidacy, and a black man and an Hispanic man on the same ticket certainly visually qualifies as "change".

This pick makes sense on many different levels. Bill Richardson has a resume longer than my...well, it's quite long. This balances out the perception that Obama has a thin resume. He's from a swing state, which helps with the electoral college math. He'll also bring in huge numbers of Hispanic voters. Alas, all indications suggest that Bill Richardson is not in the running. Obama has had a rough last month. Senator McCain, the Republican nominee, has not been exactly sparing in his attacks. Aside from comparing Obama to female celebrities Paris Hilton and Britney Spears - thus implying that Obama is not only an airheaded celebrity, but also an effeminate girly man. McCain's also repeatedly run ads and made comments to the media suggesting that Obama wants to lose the Iraq war so he can win the election. McCain's said that Obama has put his own good ahead of that of the country. Despite this, McCain has consistently insisted that he isn't questioning Obama's patriotism. One wonders what McCain would have to say before he admitted that he's questioning Obama's patriotism. Would he have to openly accuse Obama of playing golf with Bin Laden before it would qualify, in McCain's bizarre logic, as questioning Obama's patriotism? Obama supporters like me have actually grown a bit frustrated. We've been waiting for Obama to hit back. McCain has just a plethora of weak spots to attack. You can run an ad quoting McCain as saying Social Security is an "absolute disgrace" in Florida for example. I'm sure "God's Waiting Room", as Family Guy refers to Florida due to its huge population of senior citizens, wouldn't appreciate the implication that McCain doesn't fully support Social Security. Or, you could attack McCain's top economic adviser calling America a "nation of whiners" and saying that the recession is a "mental one". Or, you could just run a tape of McCain's many, many memory lapses and slips over the last couple of months and suggest that McCain might be going senile. Sadly, Obama has been a better man than I am. He's done none of these things, and McCain has completely caught up to him in recent polls. Any of the more tame Obama attacks have been met with a fusillade of "how dare you say mean things about McCain? Don't you know he's a POW?" McCain pretty much has one response to anything these days. Noun. Verb. POW. So, this introduces the need for a game changing event. You don't know how painful this is for me to say. Actually, some of you who may have been reading my blog for a while might know how painful it is, but I have to wonder if a Hillary Clinton VP selection is suddenly back on the table. IF this is being considered, and it is a big if, then this is how I think it should go down. Obama and Hillary should run a joint ad that goes like this: Open Scene: Hillary Clinton hard at work for America late in the evening hours. It's nearing 3:00, and her phone rings. Hillary: This is Hillary. Obama: How did I know you'd be up? This is Barack. Hillary: Barack! What a pleasant surprise. I didn't think you would be calling at 3:00 AM. (A play on the nasty 3:00 AM red telephone ad that Hillary ran.) Obama: Well, I'm ready to lead in an emergency, and the thought of McCain getting into the White House and continuing the last eight years of the failed Bush policies certainly qualifies. Hillary: You can say that again. It is hard to believe that the media still gets away with painting him as a Maverick when he voted with Bush 95% of the time last year and 100% of the time this year. Obama: That's when he shows up at all. He hasn't cast a vote in the Senate since April. Hillary: So we're agreed, we need to get you into the White House. How can I help? Obama: Come be my VP. America needs us both. Hillary: I thought you'd never asked. I'd be honored. It's funny. It gets some pertinent points out about McCain's allegience to Bush's policy positions and it helps put the nastiness of the Democratic primary behind them. It also is a great story that the media would eat up, particularly if it first ran, literally, at 3:00 AM in swing states. Thoughts?