A Vote for the Obama-Clinton 'Unity Ticket' ...

Joining the final 2 solves more problems than it causes
By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff
Posted Jun 16, 2008 12:18 PM CDT
A Vote for the Obama-Clinton 'Unity Ticket' ...
Hillary Clinton Concedes Primary Election Campaign To Barack Obama   (Getty Images (by Event))

The logic for Hillary Clinton as Barack Obama's running mate is simple, writes Ed Kilgore for Salon: "Obama doesn't have any obvious alternative option that will please everyone, much less provide the political payoff of an Obama-Clinton ticket.” Kilgore notes that rank-and-file Democrats support the pairing and refutes a laundry list of anti-Clinton arguments.

But above all else, he argues, the party's divisions are "largely feudal": “Merging their candidacies for the general election is the obvious way to address the problem, and thus the unity ticket ought to be treated as having a rebuttable presumption of sensibility.” (More Barack Obama stories.)

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