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...more narcissism than is healthy for any one individual to handle. It comes via MSNBC, which offers confirmation that Hillary Clinton is open to being Barack Obama's vice president. But is she really that interested in the job? Or is this merely her self-absorbed way of conceding?

I guess the first point is that whether or not HRC is actually interested in being VP, this is definitely her way of conceding. Note that implicit in the notion that she wants to be VP is the idea that she accepts that Barack Obama has won, and that she will support him. Now, I defy you to come up with a more self-absorbed and self-important way of conceding a campaign, but I suspect that Barack will nonetheless consider Clinton on his short-list, at least publicly. Doing so is a way of embracing her concession without antagonizing Hillary's supporters.

But I can't imagine that he'll actually select her. We could all spend an eternity listing the reasons for that, but I'll be brief, because I've decided that I will be in a good mood today -- because today is a day to celebrate Barack Obama and his victory. But I can't restrain myself completely from offering these two simple reasons why Barack won't, and shouldn't, pick her.

First, you can't control Bill Clinton, and you can't pick a VP whose spouse you can't control. Yesterday, for example, Bill ripped Barack, accusing him of having engineered Father Pfleger's rant against Hillary and of "driving her supporters further and further away." Second, no one thinks he wants to pick Hillary Clinton, and if he does so under pressure he will look weak. One of the memes that the Clinton campaign has pushed against Barack is that he's not tough enough to be president. Caving to their pressure would support that meme -- so they've pretty much forced Barack's hand.

Anyway, that's enough about that. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.