Power Couple?
March 25, 2008 on 6:25 am | In Local, Main, Race for Prez |
Remember this guy? He’s Akhil Reed Amar, the constitutional law professor at Yale who has visited Salisbury and spoken not once — but twice. He electrified crowds at the Salisbury Forum with his combination of high energy, eloquence and scholarship.
Since I am so good at predictions now, you should know that after seeing him speak in our fair town, I predicted Amar will be a SCOTUS appointee in a Hillary administration.
Now he’s written a piece in Slate proposing a solution to the Hillary-Obama rancor that will have some Democrats drooling: power sharing. Let them run as a team — a tag-team, if you will — with one serving as prez and the other as VP, then pulling a switcheroo after three years.
The constitution would permit the process to be repeated three times, thus allowing for 16 years of the dream team and putting an immediate end to the current rancor (if the agreement is approved by both parties soon).
It’s an intriguing idea — albeit an improbable one. But if Hillary and Obama took his advice, I’d say Amar has a lock on replacing the 87-year-old Justice Stevens.
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The world is full of surprises, and this election has had its share. But with all due respect to Prof Amar, such a shared ticket is unthinkable. The White House is made up of thousands of staff, who belong to a single chief executive. There is much more to consider than two individual candidates who share a similar outlook.
His idea reminds me of that brilliant New Yorker cover of them both reaching for the red phone at 3 AM.
Comment by Peter Halle — March 25, 2008 #