Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton?

By Si Dunn

After watching the Feb. 21, 2008, debate between Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama Jr., I have concluded that experience definitely should trump freshness in the sprint for the White House.

In my mind, the best and brightest ticket the Democrats could field would be Clinton for president and Obama for vice president. Senator Obama still needs a little more time to season and get a wider grasp of our increasingly complicated and interconnected planet. The vice presidency would be the perfect post for gaining that experience and understanding.

If the ticket turns out to be Obama-Clinton, however, it still will pave over anything the Republicans try to offer. McCain-Huckabee? McCain-Romney? McCain-McConnell? McCain-Hutchison? No combination will matter. Even many Republicans now are mad at the Republican Party for allowing so many wanton destructions of their goals and principles by the neoconservatives who have used the hapless George W. Bush as their ventriloquist's dummy. On Election Day, many disenchanted Republicans will cast protest votes for the Democratic challengers. Or they will just stay home and wearily turn their calenders to 2012.

Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton? Either combination is a formidable ticket that would sweep aside hundreds of years of prejudices and artificial limits and move us much closer to a government of the real people, by the real people, for the real people.

You want change? A Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton Administration would represent the most sweeping change this nation has seen in its complex political history. And it would bring two of our nation's best political minds to the forefront of leadership at a time when good leadership now is beyond desperately needed.

Of course, if you hate change and would rather stick with $100 oil and a hundred years in Iraq, then McCain's your man. McCain and whoever else would represent an equal share of more of the same.

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