"The Tonya Harding Option":

Maureen Dowd explains why it's doubtful that Hillary Clinton is unlikely to accept being Obama's vice president:

the Clintons think of themselves as The Democratic Party. When Bill and Dick Morris triangulated during the first term, it was what was best for Bill, not the party. In 1996, when Bill turned the White House into Motel 1600 for fund-raisers, it was more about his re-election than the re-elections of his fellow Democrats in Congress; in 2000, the White House focused its energies more on Hillary’s Senate win than Al Gore’s presidential run.

And even Clinton supporters know that Bill does not want to be replaced as the first black president, especially by a black president with enough magic to possibly eclipse him in the history books.

Somebody please explain to me why Sen. Clinton would claim to have been under sniper fire in Bosnia when there were so many witnesses around to refute her? This wasn't a gaffe, it was sheer foolishness.

Here's a terrible thought, but one which Obama and his wife had to consider seriously, as Colin Powell and his wife did: We haven't had a president die in office since 1963, that's 45 years. And this country has had a violent history regarding African Americans.

While the speculation about JFK's death focuses on whether Oswald acted alone or was part of either an anti-communist or pro-communist conspiracy, the feeling at the time was that the president had been too friendly towards the ambitions of African Americans. Many southerners referred to the president as a ******-lover. (I refuse to use the word!) During the first years after his murder, some southerners reported that people had "danced in the street" in their towns on hearing the news of his death.

NOTE: No, Reagan didn't die in office, it only seemed that way because of his Alzheimer's, and Nixon didn't die in office, he simply wished he had. The myth of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson running the White House during the last year of Pres. Wilson's presidency is based on a play, not on historical fact. It just makes a good story.