The Kentucky presidential primary is this Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Of course, everyone knows about the race between Sens. Obama and Clinton for the Democratic nomination. If you listen to the national media and the majority of the Democratic party leaders, the nomination is going to Sen. Obama - even after Sen Clinton picked up a major victory in West Virginia. But the pundits say it's too little too late for Clinton.

Even this morning, on the Today Show, Andrea Mitchell reported that some of Clinton's top aides were conceding that the race was pretty much over. Yet, in spite of this, the Clintons (both Hillary and Bill) are putting on this full court press to win lil' ol Kentucky, which the national news is giving about the same importance as West Virginia. It seems a very bizarre and expensive exercise in futility, especially from someone that the media is reporting is $20 million dollars in debt for her campaign.

The only thing that makes sense to me is that she wants the VP nod, and is doing whatever it takes to force Obama to choose her. And, notwithstanding many of my best political pundit associates, who think it would be political suicide for Obama to put Clinton on the ticket, I think that it is growing ever more likely she will get it. I think she wants it because she has seen Cheney elevate the power of the office and she (and Bill?) thinks she can run the country from the VP office.

But one has to weigh the cost to the overall party from this strategy, and wonder if the Clintons maybe haven't lost a bit of their loyalty to the Democrats? Besides all the (not so) nuanced insinuations about race that seem to have come out of nowhere with Sen. Clinton, the reality of the situation is that if Clinton did get out of the race it would force these so-called "hard working white" voters to face up to whether or not their racist tendancies outweigh their self interest, in that Democratic policies are so much more consistent with the needs of these so-called hard working white people than Republican policies will ever be. It would help, I believe to conquer (or expose) racial bias, something that is needed a lot more than any individual person's political ambitions.

I am not saying that I am in favor of Sen. Clinton being on the ticket. But I am saying that I am getting a feeling, a hunch, that things are moving in that direction.