Obama's Biggest Mistake

I think it is becoming clear, whatever the outcome of this election may be, that Obama really f**ked up the moment he decided not to have Hillary Clinton as his running mate. This may prove to be his biggest mistake and if he loses, I think people will look back when asking why and point to that moment, saying, "He needed to pick Hillary and he didn't."

Polls are suggesting that McCain, in his pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate (ludicrous as this may be), is gaining large support among white women voters. At first it seems inconceivable that Clinton women would rally behind Palin since she is basically Hillary's social antithesis. However, the American Stupidity factor must always be calculated. What if they only supported Clinton because she was a woman? And what if they are just that stupid to miss the finer points, like the fact Palin is a social conservative Nazi? What if they're just so blind with rage that they're going to stick-it to Obama?

If Obama had picked Clinton, McCain may not have picked Palin, and if he did there would have been no way a Palin could compete with a Hillary. Likely, McCain would have picked someone like Lieberman, who would have angered Republicans, or two-tongue Romney, and in any event would have picked someone boring that did little to nothing for his campaign. In this way, Obama's decision not only put him where he is now, but put McCain where he is now. Talk about multi-angle self-destruction.

My first instinct is that the Obama campaign must not give Palin a free-pass. They must attack her and all her craziness, like how she tried to fire a librarian for not censoring books, or how she was a member of the secessionist party (hello, how un-American can you get?), or her extreme social views. On second thought, if she is so popular among women, and some women are going to assume that any attack on her is sexism (ludicrous as that is), than Obama might just dig a deeper hole if he attacks Palin.

Palin could in this way be a political vacuum, a black-hole, a snare. Ignore her and she's dangerous, attack her and it backfires, either way you're going to follow her into the hell the McCain-Palin administration will inaugurate.

Obama needs to invoke some genius, summon a miracle, or pray for a McCain-Palin disaster. With any luck, this is only a short-lived boost. We can't let them get away with this, we can't let McCain win, we so desperately need a big change.