Ace has a thought on that.
"Good Point... Barack Obama's judgment was that Joe Biden was the best possible vice presidential candidate. Joe Biden says he's wrong. This was Obama's first major decision as a would-be president. He got it wrong."
At the very least, Obama should have made sure Biden stayed more on message.
However... Hillary doesn't seem too inclined to help just right now. She's not even being on the stump that much to "defend" her party's nomine.
That’s the catch-22 for the Obama campaign. As much as he’d like to get a rescue from his present catastrophic nosedive, Obama knows that he can’t ask it of Hillary Clinton. To publicly acknowledge her as his last, desperate hope would be to admit that he shouldn’t have won the primaries in the first place, and that the superdelegates made a huge mistake in selecting him over Hillary. Also, it would look like the ultimate hypocrisy to demand that Hillary become his attack dog after ignoring her for the position of running mate.
And if Obama asked her to be VP....
"Even more serious question: If Obama’s imploding, why would Hillary agree to come aboard? Better to let McCain finish him off and then skip to the nomination in 2012."
If Hillary goes on to be Obama's VP. There are two options.
1) Obama wins and she has to deal with four years of being second fiddle to Obama, and unless he resigns he'll run again in 2012. This delays her ambitions another 8 years, and has her attached to the Obama administration, for good or ill.
2) Obama looses and not only does Hillary have his failure stuck on her, but it shows that she wasn't powerful enough to "save" his campaign, in what should have been an easy year.
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