Hillary-Obama team would be potential

The US Presidential election scenario is offering unprecedented potentiality. In its 230-year history, a Black American representative and a woman are vying with each other for the Democratic Party candidacy for contesting the 2008 Presidential elections. I, for one, feel ill at ease about the two challenging each other. Both are unique individuals. But in the next so many years, one cannot think of an all-embracing woman to seek the candidature. Now is the time for Hillary Clinton to be elevated on centre-stage. The world’s most powerful nation should have a woman at the helm of affairs at least for once. Why not Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama make up and clinch a deal to be together in ruling the country? Say, for instance, Obama accept Vice-Presidentship and allow Hillary to run for the race.

Now Obama has secured slight edge over Hillary in the primaries upto the Mississippi primaries. But this need not be so after the Pennsylvania primaries. Now Obama has 1,596 delegates against Hillary Clinton’s 1,484 delegates. Each one requires the support of 2,025 delegates to win the nomination at the party’s national convention to be held in Denver in August. But no one can muster this much of support.

In that scenario, the importance of about 800 elected officials and party leaders who attend the national convention as unelected super-delegates goes up.

In the end, it would be beneficial if the two make up and contest together.--OJ