HuffPost : Robert Reich : "My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State -- a position he's apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President"

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Joe Biden was born in 1942 ( he is now 69 ) - Hillary Clinton was born in 1947 ( she is now 64 ) .....  Hillary would become president of the USA at age 68. Joe would become secretary of state at age 73.

Huffington Post
My Political Prediction for 2012: It's Obama-Clinton
December 28, 2011


By Robert Reich

Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, 'Aftershock' - Robert Reich ( born 1946) is an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

My Political Prediction for 2012: It's Obama-Clinton


Some excerpts :

So the Democratic ticket for 2012 is Obama-Clinton.

Why do I say this? Because Obama needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of a Democratic base that's been disillusioned with his cave-ins to regressive Republicans. Hillary Clinton on the ticket can do that.

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Clinton would help deflect attention from the bad economy and put it on foreign policy, where she and Obama have shined.

The deal would also make Clinton the obvious Democratic presidential candidate in 2016 -- offering the Democrats a shot at twelve (or more) years in the White House, something the Republicans had with Ronald Reagan and the first George Bush but which the Democrats haven't had since FDR. Twelve years gives the party in power a chance to reshape the Supreme Court as well as put an indelible stamp on America.

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