So we’ve had two straight posts about how Senator Hillary Clinton has seriously overstepped the bounds of common decency in her last desperate attempts to try and pry the Democratic nomination from Senator Obama’s hands. First she compared herself to the plight of people in Zimbabwe and then she invoked the possibility of assassination as a reason for her to stay in the race; both absurd statements for anyone to make, let alone someone seeking to be the President.

Now, being in Africa I have to listen to podcasts of shows I like to keep up with what’s going on in America. The episode of Hardball from May 22 is all about how Chris Matthews and his guest analysts are sure that Senator Clinton wants to be asked to be Vice President and would accept that position, while the May 23 episode of Countdown is all about how her terrible statement, which happened on May 23, has ruined her political career let alone any possibility of her being asked to be the Vice Presidential candidate.

Here’s what I find an interesting question to ask: how would your support for Senator Obama be affected if he put Senator Clinton on the ticket?

This is interesting to me because the argument to put her on the ticket is that she will lead her supporters to Senator Obama and bring unity to the ticket. Even after her invocation of the possibility of assassination and her ham-handed apology that followed I think politicos would argue that it doesn’t necessarily mean that she wouldn’t be politically advantageous on the ticket. They would assert that Senator Clinton could bring in the industrial and Appalachian states that Senator Obama has trouble with.

Assuming that point is true, if Senator Obama chose her as his running mate, it would be clear that he didn’t do so out of a particular fondness for her since she’s played every dirty trick in the book and admitted that she’s staying in the race in case Senator Obama, in the worst case scenario, is assassinated or, in the less tragic scenario, has a huge insurmountable scandal pop up around him. In effect, she’s rooting for tragedy of some sort to befall him, which I have to assume doesn’t endear her to Senator Obama. Thus, if he put all that aside and picked her, he would absolutely, unquestionably be doing so for political reasons. And that, in my mind, would make it impossible for me to vote for him because it is that sort of soulless political calculation that he is supposed an exception too.

My position may seem odd since just last week an Obama/Clinton ticket was supposed to be the unity ticket that would bring the Democratic Party together, but I am forced to view such a ticket, if it were to happen, as an undeniable sign that even Senator Obama cannot escapes the gravitational pull toward the black hole of political self-service. Thus, what was once considered a unity ticket would, to me, push me away from the possibility of voting for the Democratic Nominee.

So I put the question to you, how would you react to an Obama/Clinton ticket at this point?