This is the stuff dreamy-dreams are made of. Obama is way too saavy to do something like this. In a single stroke he would call into question his judgement, loyalty and sincerity.

The only way it could happen, would be if some "routine" medical exam revealed Biden was at risk for some life-threatening event, and had to 'reluctantly' bow out.

With the Democrats's deep ties to the collapse of Fannie Mae, Obama is toast.

Hillary is smart enough to have nothing to do with Obama.

Shouldn't it be, "Oh-tay"?

Hillary! would join the Obama ticket if and only if it was very late in the game and Obama was a lock to lose. Then she gets all the pressers about "the Democrats make the right choice way too late in the game."

She's playing for '12 at this point, and loving her some Palin.

I don't see why not.

Does anyone remember Robert Toricelli?

The weirdest scenario I've heard sketched out so far is Obama dropping Biden in favor of some other chick who's a governor, e.g. Napalitano, Sebelius, which makes absolutely no sense.

1. That would just highlight-AGAIN-how Obama made a colossal blunder-although it was more likely that his domineering wife forced his hand, against his better judgment-by not choosing HRC in the first place. Choosing some other, lesser light merely illustrates the blunder he's already made, and infuriates those Hillary supporters all over again.

2. Why would you pick someone like Sebelius, who's not only from a state that Obama won't win, but who's much more pro-abortion than even Hillary? You already have a rabidly pro-abortion candidate at the top of the ticket, if you're going to replace Biden-who's at least notionally against infanticide-with Sebelius, then you might as well go whole-hog and choose Geoffrey Feiger to be your runningmate

"She's playing for '12 at this point, and loving her some Palin."

Who isn't loving some Palin? Especially in '12!

Not putting Hillary on the ticket was not the colossal mistake. Not even _vetting_ Hillary was the boneheaded move. I mean, to me, the appeal to her voters goes like this:

"I would love to have Senator Clinton on the team. However, as she is well aware, the Republican attack machine is adept at dragging skeletons out of the closet and having them dance on stage during an election. So, let me publicly state what my conditions are..."

Said conditions would include:

1.) Full release of the Healthcare memos. As in, no redacting, no blacking out, no "Oh, look, these were missing...";

2.) Full disclosure of donors to her husband's library and;

3.) Full disclosure of her husband's sources of income for the last seven years.

All three of these are poison pills, yet Obama could sugarcoat them by saying, "As the progenitor of a new brand of politics, I'm raising the bar on what is necessary for vetting." After Hillary's head spins off, a significant portion of his problem is solved.

Not even vetting her made him seem spiteful and weak. Making her beer chug a family-sized helping of hemlock--that would've set a tone early, methinks.