According to Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic, Adam Parkhomenko, a ex-Clinton staffer in his early 20's who resigned from her campaign three weeks ago, started the website voteboth.com, which promotes the idea of a "unity ticket" or "dream ticket", with of course, Hillary Clinton at the top and Barack Obama as VP.
Now, this is not his first stint at pro-Hillary agitating through website creation. He apparently created the website votehillary.org in 2003 and started a Draft Hillary for President 2004. So, this young man has pretty much devoted a large portion of his politically active career pushing for Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy.
So, why is it important that a young, die-hard Clinton supporter created website to petition for a unity ticket when his candidate's candidacy seems to be running down the drain? In and of itself, it's not. The Web is host to many irrelevant websites, and I'm sure that this will be among them.
However, it may enter into the media narrative in the coming days. Just this morning, I was watching Morning Joe on MSNBC for what I believe is the first time (I'm not a big fan of cable news) and one of their guests was Lawrence O'Donnell, a writer from The West Wing and they excerpted from a fantasy brokering of the Democratic nomination in Denver between Clinton and Obama, with the segment read being Clinton arguing that Obama should be her VP.
So, I would like to warn of this story line appearing in the coming days and encourage people to condemn it in no uncertain terms. I personally don't want to see both their names on the Democratic ticket. Hillary Clinton's name does not belong at the top and adding her to an Obama ticket would sink it like a rock.
Say no to a unity ticket.