So. Lanny Davis is circulating a petition asking Obama to select Hillary Clinton for Vice President, presumably with her approval.

I don't get it.

Why would she want to be V.P.? She is one of the most powerful senators we have, and there are many ways she could serve a new administration from that post, or many others. She is experienced, and has many supporters — she is, in fact, his senior in every way. This is a woman who, I think, might have been an excellent president. But vice president?

A Clinton-Obama ticket would make sense to me, but an Obama-Clinton ticket does not.

Let me be clear — I am not unhappy that Obama won. I watched myself move back and forth between them throughout this long process, and I never landed. They each bring particular strengths to this campaign, and I am as overcome that we have a black candidate as I would be with a woman candidate. I didn't expect to see either in my lifetime.

I just don't think Clinton is cut out to be a second, and I don't think she should accept it. I have been, on a tiny executive scale, both a first and a second. I liked second.

I don't think she will

Can anyone explain this to me?

On a personal note, my attention has been on my real life this past few weeks, nursing my ill cat and enjoying house guests. Spike is doing better. I think he is going to recover and live another eight years.

I shall return to writing soon.