A Perfect Storm

Sorry John McCain, your brutal honesty excites me, but a Clinton-Obama ticket is unbeatable. When I told my mother this, she said, "But I would never vote for them!" at which point I wished I could better control my verbal impulses, as my third-grade teacher, Mrs. Go, put it.

Of course the party faithfuls on both sides will vote for their candidates—there's no Ross Perot or Ralph Nader this time. But elections are decided by the people who don't care or are unsure about the issues the candidates have been pushing. A huge number of people will vote for a Clinton-Obama pair just because a woman president and a black vice-president is novel. (It's silly to reduce two whole, complicated people into "a woman" and "a black", isn't it?) Voting for them would be making history simply because of the factors Clinton and Obama can least control.

But it would be kinda fun. Even if it means that we'll have presidents from the same two families for at least 24 to 28 years. That's historical in itself.