They say hindsight is always 20-20, so let’s take a trip into the future and look in the rear view mirror at what’s happening right now in America. It is 2083, and a writer named Nick Taylor is examining the causes of the Crash of 2008 and the decade-long economic depression that followed. Observing that by the time Hillary Obama took office as President of the United States, a quarter of the nation’s workforce had “no jobs, and no hopes,” Taylor writes in what will become an all-time bestseller in apocalyptic non-fiction: (More)

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Now that we’re sure that either Hillary or Barack will go into the Democratic convention in August with a slim lead and a big need for solidarity, one would hope the leader would consider asking the loser to become his or her vice presidential running mate (Hillary already having hinted approval of such an arrangement). The rationale is part analytical and part intuitive. The analytical argument is that combining their demographic strengths would yield a uniquely powerful ticket, Obama bringing younger and African-American voters, Hillary older folks, Hispanics and women. And why take a chance on a VP candidate who hasn’t been tested or vetted? But the intuitive trumps the analytical, because there’s something special going on here. It’s the turnout thing. (More)

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