Whose "dream ticket" is this, anyway? Why are the Clintons talking it up so much?

[O]ne resident asked if Hillary would pick Obama as her Vice President.  It is a question that Clinton is very familiar with, having been asked it nearly once a day back in the days of Iowa and New Hampshire.  Usually, President Clinton shies away from answering, explaining that his family is VERY superstitious when it comes to politics and they never go thinking they've won before they really have.

Today, however, the President seemed especially tickled by the answer, and chose to share with his personal thoughts on picking Obama as a VP.

"She said yesterday and she said the day after her big wins in Texas and Ohio and Rhode Island that she was very open to that and I think she answered explicitly yes yesterday," Clinton began, referring to Hillary's own answers on the topic in recent days. 

"I know that she has always been open to it, because she believes that if you can unite the energy and the new people that he’s brought in and the people in these vast swaths of small town and rural America that she’s carried overwhelmingly, if you had those two things together she thinks it’d be hard to beat.  I mean you look at the, you look at the, you look at the map of Texas and the map in Ohio. And the map in Missouri or -- well Arkansas’s not a good case because they know her and she won every place there. But you look at most of these places, he would win the urban areas and the upscale voters, and she wins the traditional rural areas that we lost when President Reagan was president. If you put those two things together, you’d have an almost unstoppable force," Clinton went on to say. 

Hillary will use that to entice voters who want them both on one ticket. Then what? It won't happen, that's what. It's a vote-getter, period.

Plus, Obama would never ask her to be his running mate, nor would she accept.

This is simply and obviously a way to get voters away from Obama, suggesting that they'd get a "twofer", a tantalizing come-on that will mutate quickly into a bait and switch.

Don't get fooled into believing this one. 

George Bush, 2002: "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."  

UPDATE:  Obama's proving my point.