Was the Democratic Race Pointless?

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[ When Senator Obama and Senator Clinton began their journey to the White House, they both presented their approaches to several of America's problems and future. Their differences divided the democratic vote leaving a narrow margin between the two. When seeing how divided the ticket was, the idea of one of them becoming vice president was presented. Neither of the two wanted the job, they wanted to be president.

However, since Obama has won the democratic nomination, the idea of Clinton becoming vice president has voiced itself even stronger. Why? The two front runners and several independents hacked away at each other for months, now they are supposed to work together? Last I checked, that was not how elections worked.

I don't mean to make it sound like Clinton would be a bad choice, however, if Clinton becomes Obama's choice for his running vice president it would make a mockery of the democratic run. It would change the race from "who do we want in the White House" to "which name should be put first?" I'd like to think that those votes meant more than that.

Even this past weekend media sources flocked to where Obama and Clinton met and she pledged her support for his campaign. Pledging support for an opponent who has beaten you is a very honorable and professional thing to do, particularly in politics, and her passing of the torch to Obama is a notable event. But the media continues to follow her despite she is no longer in the race. The media this past year has been horrible, riddled with problems that are, in truth, amateur. The amount of biased coverage, unsupported conclusions and misreported victories was painful.

While I don't know who Obama should look at for vice presidency, Clinton shouldn't be considered, even if several of her ideas are beneficial. There are other candidates which have equally good ideas. How long will it be until elections that are held merely determine who is first and who is second instead of who is in the White House and who is not? Would Gore have done well on Bush's cabinet? Maybe, but probably not.

The concept is already spreading around. Even losers from television reality shows, which politics is more and more like, such as "American Idol" and "The Bachelorette" continue to get coverage and pushed onward. Before long, the word "loser" will be replaced with "non-winner," because they didn't win, but it is obvious they didn't lose.