The reason an Obama/Clinton ticket will never (ever) happen is named Bill Clinton

by I know there is talk here and there about an Obama/Clinton ticket being the perfect combination.  The problem is that while she brings strong demographic assets to the campaign, but also brings a major political liability to it, in the form of her husband.  

Bill Clinton has made this combination impossible.  It's not because of incidents like him ranting about Obama for 50 minutes or accusing Obama of playing the race card.

Any of those things, in fact, would prove irrelevant if not for one factor:

Absolutely no one can put any control whatsoever on him.  

If Bill weren't part of the picture, Barack and Hillary could reconcile their differences and put on the proper face and play nice with one another, creating a unified party.  But no sane politician would put anyone on a ticket who's so directly connected with Bill Clinton.  He's just too much of a loose cannon in this race to be expected to behave appropriately, responsibly or (dare I say it) politically.

I think Obama knows this by now, which is one of the reasons he's being so cagey about this.  Presidential candidates need to have a vice presidential ticket which is willing to submit to some control.  It's admittedly a bad role for the VP candidate; it hurt Edwards in 2004 to be in that position and left Lieberman so bitter that what was left after the process was nothing more than a decaying husk of humanity, forced to roam the Senate, attaching himself to other politicians and bleeding them dry for his own survival, like...

Hmm.

No, I think Lieberman was always like that.  But I digress...

So this is what it boils down to: if Obama wants to win in November, he needs to pick someone who covers some of Clinton's demographics, but doesn't present the world with someone who's so emotionally invested in the race that he can't keep a lid on his darker instincts.

We need Clinton to go back to being a foundation leader who tries to inspire people to do better, not a public humiliation for his party and his legacy.