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I see on the news all the time people lambasting Bill Clinton for making comments they perceive as racist or some other nonsense and I keep thinking they are missing the point. To take some ambiguous impromptu rhetoric and to make such a big deal about it only shows how lifeless the coverage of this selection has become in some parts of the world. The problem is not that he is talking too much. It is that he is not talking enough!

I am well aware this is a controversial opinion. Nonetheless I am shocked I have not yet heard it articulated on television or anywhere else for that matter. Hillary needs to tout Bill more, maybe even go all the way and declare him her vice president! If you use consistent logic then I think that it makes perfect sense.

There are no term limits for vice president and even if there were he has never held the office. Her back is up against the wall and if she loses this election I doubt she will ever get the chance again. She has to approach things from an outside the box point of view.

If she touted him without hinting he would get the vice presidency then there would be two ways that could backfire. One, people might worry he would not have enough influence over her. Two, people would be turned off by the notion of voting for a "puppet" president to begin with.

But as vice president they would be a team. Of course we would joke about him having more control, or them having marital power struggles, but isn't that better for her than not winning at all? Shoot, a lot of Americans already believe that Cheney runs things in Washington. I am sure some republicans do as well and yet voted Bush anyway.

Why? They liked Cheney.

Choosing Cheney was probably the wisest thing Bush could have done for his own political future. While I disparage George's mental abilities I do not see any of that lack in Cheney. He is obviously intelligent and his presence undoubtedly reassured many republican voters. It was a masterstroke.

So could it be if Hillary would embrace this possibility with her husband. I do not guarantee it would work, but I guarantee it would have a better chance of working than her current course of action, which will surely see her defeated and reduced back to Senator for life.

She did not quite arrive on this large stage based on her own merits. She is married to the man who had our economy running like clockwork for eight years, whose management of that vital aspect of the job seems legendary in the wake of what Bush has done with the same

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