As noted in earlier posts, some market research that I have done shows that a plurality of Americans expect things to change in about three months. No other country comes close to our level of impatience for things to happen. It has been three months since Super Tuesday and not much has changed. I’m bored. I’m finding other things to do when Chris Matthews comes on.  Internet interest has dropped off about 70 percent on all the candidates. June is a long way off. The Mets can’t beat the Phillies again, again. Spring is slow. And I didn’t get my line wet on opening day.

I find I’m spending my ajoinings of time by thinking of the kind of president Obama would make and the kind of cabinet he will have and who will be his VP and when the Bush nonsense will be over. My musings start with Bill Richardson’s endorsement of Barack. It was big. A little late, but big. The Obama race and religion speech gave him the opening he was looking for. I think he would make a great Secretary of State. Imagine the first bi-lingual Secretary in that position, and with the rumblings in South America, this would be a smart move.

My ideal ticket is Obama/Rubin. With the economy as the #1 issue, Obama could pick up the symbol and brains of the Bill Clinton success on the economy. Robert Rubin would also calm business concerns about Obama and the inevitable “liberal tax n’ spend” charge. He would also help in Florida with the Jewish vote.

If the Hillary wing of the Democratic Party is totally pissed off, then a woman needs to be on the ticket and on this count the safe choice is the popular, two-term, Red-State Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius. Her father was governor of Ohio, so that might help there as well. The surprise choice would be Laura Tyson, the successor to Rubin as the head of the Council of Economic Advisors to Bill Clinton, the first woman dean of the London School of Economics, and now an economics professor at Berkeley.

I also continue to think that Obama would do well with a general as VP to bring some grit to his discussion about terrorism. I’m not sure who, but Merrill McPeak, one of his campaign co-chairs, a former Republican who turned on Bush and his invasion policies in Iraq, would not be a bad choice.

A final candidate on my list is Red-State Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia. He is Catholic, bi-lingual, and a former missionary to Honduras, Harvard law with an undergraduate degree in economics. Although Obama would carry Virginia on the strength of Mark Warner’s run for the Senate. Maybe Ed Rendell, governor of Pennsylvania, a good Dick Cheny type, except he served in the Army and he is Jewish, and he would also help in Florida. McCain is beating Obama in PA by a few points, but early polls don’t count in my book and we have yet to see what Obama will do on his own against Hillary. Closing the gap, as he has done, is one thing, putting another crack in the Liberty Bell is something else.