From an email reply to a Republican Forum colleague and potential co-host:

Regarding Hillary! and Obama, that one’s easy to analyze: he’s her stalking horse.  He’s going out there as the callow youth over his head saying what the nutroots want to hear while she triangulates off of him to appeal to the general election center.  That solidifies her already-solid hold on the Dem nomination, and in return she’ll pick him as her running mate as a sop to those same nutroots in order to set up the ultimate “historic” “diversity ticket” to disarm the GOP from taking them on on pretty much anything for fear of being denounced as “racist” and “sexist.”

My original prediction for 2008 was George Allen and Condi Rice on the Republican side, which was waaaaaay off.  But for the Dems my pick was….Hillary-Obama.

I guess my magic 8-ball doesn’t work with my own party….