Jimmy Carter thinks an Obama/Clinton ticket is a bad idea.

He may be right. Then again, I've thought the very same thing for quite a while, and I've said so to many friends. As a consequence, about a week before the Pennsylvania primary, one of my best friends (who voted for Hillary) got me to thinking about the Kennedy-Johnson ticket that won (just barely) in 1960.

Things are different this time around. Republican politicians (in general) are probably less popular than Richard Nixon was in 1960 (due to reflected satisfaction with President Eisenhower). So, it is posible that a Democratic unity ticket would do better than winning just barely.

So, what if that happened? Assuming that she were elected VP, Hillary would become President of the US Senate. That could actually be a rather influential position. She would also be first in line to become POTUS should the President leave office or become unable to perform their duties for some reason.

But what if President Carter's concerns turned out to be prescient, and the voters rejected the Democratic unity ticket in 2008? We would get President McCain, and both Obama and Hillary would return to the Senate. That's the outcome many of us already fear with Obama as the Democratic Party nominee.

In summary, unless Jimmy Carter is correct, and a Democratic unity ticket would actually do worse than some other ticket led by Senator Obama, the possible outcomes of Hillary being on the ticket are either better than her simply returning to the Senate, or equal to that choice.

We are disillusioned and disappointed for many very good reasons. I see the storm clouds rising. All I am suggesting is that we probe for any silver lining we may find behind those clouds.