Wes Clark has a new book out

Obama will never be Clintons running mate. America has come a long way but not so far that a ticket will be elected with out a white man. I wish it has but it hasn't and she knows it.

Clark would be a good running mate though. That would silence critics about her administration not being able to handle the war.

Hillary would make a horrible President, Wes Clark would make a horrible VP (actually, I'm not sure any VP does anything to make them "bad) and the dems do make a horrible majority. Oh well, God told us times will get very dark towards the end of days.

Of course, I am not at all thrilled with any of the GOP candidates either. Boy, I wish there was someone, ANYONE, I could actually get excited about. Maybe in 2012.

Wow, Rod, you have Andrew Sullivan's blog listed as "Blogs Worth Reading" but not The Corner on NRO. You really have changed.

The whole Barack/Hillary feud is a creation to generate interest when the deal gets done. It gives the MSM a story to write that they want to write, a narrative they want to sell like soap, something new and fresh in the tired Hillary! campaign. And it's all nonsense.

Wes Clark, he of the Bosnian quagmire and the warm, comfy desk he rode in the Pentagon to the imagined glory of Dayton, has no shot at anything. Clark and Petraeus are, howeve,r two sides of the military leadship coin we unfortunately now have-powerpoint guys with degrees surrounded by enabling eggeheads babbling about paradigms Neither probably could take a hill at your local playground, but they know how to pick their political rabbis for career advancement purposes.Don't tell us the truth, son, tell us what we want to hear. US Grant and George Patton would never have advanced in today's military, and that's not a positive development. And it's why what ever shot we had in this war is long gone.

A Southerner perhaps in origin, but not with respect to political beliefs.

"Jim Webb.

Southern white male. Somehow conservative and radical at the same time. A perfect triangulation move, which is Clintonism.

People perceive Hillary as a leftist radical. Webb might make them more comfortable."

Yeah, I could easily see Jim Webb over Wes Clark, who is little more than a placeholding cipher, were somehow the first opportunity for a black Presidential ticket candidate to inexplicably implode or evaporate.

wes clark is angling for Sec of Defense.

I'm always amused when Hillary Clinton is dismissed (or even categorized as) a 'Southern’ anything, let alone ‘left radical'. In fact, Senator Clinton was not only born and raised in Illinois; later schooled in the northeast and is a second term senator from News York. Yes, she lived for decades in Arkansas where her husband was elected Governor twice.

Apparently the rule I was not aware of is:
You ever move to and live in a peripheral Southern state, no matter what you personal background or pedigree, you are Southern? (Try telling that to the old money in the true Old South where 'the war' still means Civil.)

This must be the jingoistic geo-political equivalent of the 'one drop' unspoken American 'rule' regarding race: You have one drop of 'black blood' and you're black. That's why we insist upon calling Tiger Woods (mother is Thai) 'black', so too Halle Berry (mother is white), Obama (white mother). Need I continue? So a Chicago doctor's daughter who graduates from Wellesley and then Yale Law School (head of then young Republicans) and is currently the two term jr. senator from New York is 'southern'. Interesting.

An obvious follow up but not altogether a parallel accurate one. Love him or hate him, our present day president DID grow up in Texas ....in fact with friends of mine in Midland, Texas....and is by any measure (gulp) a Texan. This is not my desire...but since Rod anointed me the Texas Geiger Counter Index as to who and what IS 'Texas', I must say unequivocally that GWB is in fact to his core (gulp) Texan. No less in his way that Lyndon Johnson. (Filed under:'painful truths')

Conversely, Hillary Clinton's first exposure to below the Mason Dixon line was decades after being born. There lies the difference. The only comparison otherwise of these two is that GWB comes from patrician background both in terms of his ancestry on both sides and the fact that his Dad was POTUS...yet he affects the demeanor of a yokel 'good old boy'. It's even less real that when La Hillary attempts the same game.

PS: Texas is not a Southern' state, but rather, one on 4 states composing the American Southwest. (Okla, Texas, New Mex., Arizona). The fact that Texas was peripherally Confederate in the Civil War is anecdotal rather than Geographical.) East Texas is where the South begins per its demeanor. But Tyler Texas is almost 400 miles from El Paso...or for that matter Amarillo. There's a whole lotta Texas in between. Including Midland where George W. not only spent a ton of his childhood, but where he met the local librarian and later married his wife Laura.

OOps. Can I save face by claiming that La Senator's new health plan proposal contains a proviso to bestow upon Mr. Rodham the honorary title of 'doctor' post mortem?

Who cares?

I don't mean to be snarky, I'm merely making the point that the #2 spot on the ticket is of absolutely no importance.

I mean, if there was EVER a time when the VP candidate should have made a huge difference, it was 1988. Lloyd Bentsen was a highly respected, fairly conservative Southern Democrat, while Dan Quayle was a lightweight who commanded no respect and didn't hold any special appeal for any voting bloc. By any standard, Bentsen was an infinitely stronger VP candidate.

So, did Bentsen deliver Texas to the Democrats? Did he deliver a single Southern state? Did he even make Dukakis competitive in a single Southern state? Uh, no.

And that's not surprising. I mean, look at your own voting history. Have YOU ever switched your vote based on the VP candidate?

Hillary Clinton certainly can win. Her chances are very good. But there isn't a single potential Veep who'll significantly help or hurt her chances. Wesley Clark would be a perfectly solid choice, but he can't win Hillary a single state that she wouldn't win on her own. Neither could Obama. Neither can anybody else.

So, she might as well ignore "practical" considerations and just pick someone she thinks would make a good President in the event of her death.

"Neither could Obama."

Somehow I think the opportunity to run a second term, sitting Vice-Presidential black candidate as President might carry more weight in some circles than you realize.

The pants suits only do so much.