but but but... he is young and idealistic and she is old and jaded, and they can have political discussions and she can cheat on Bill and they can both be really fucking manipulative and conniving (okay, people go on and on about how "genuine" Obama seems but, uh, seriously? imo he's the most calculating of the candidates. it's obvious. you can see it in his eyes, man, HIS EYES!). And since this obviously exists in an alternate universe wherein Obama is not married to Michelle, at the end of the story, after he has become Disillusioned By Love (not that anything with Hills would be LOVE, but he's naive! he doesn't know that!), he can meet Michelle and they can ride off into the sunset! And Hillary can go be mean to Bill or whatever and he'll humor her because now she's like his suga' momma. And then Hillary can run after, idk, John Edwards or something. I don't know, I just like this idea of Hillary as a kind of ineffective cougar (the men she gets aren't young enough for her to be an EFFECTIVE cougar) who ensnares Obama and then they fight a lot. On the campaign trail. I HAVE NO IDEA, MAN, BUT I THINK ABOUT THIS WHENEVER I READ CAMPAIGN NEWS/WATCH DEBATES/ETC. And since I'm a polisci major... that's a lot.

Uh, completely irrelevant, but Obama's main campaign strategist guy is named David Axelrod. AXELROD. THIS NAME WAS MEANT FOR A PORN STAR. And he's pretty brilliant and what he does, too, and one of his BFFs (okay, I don't know that they're BFFs, really, but I DO know that they're at least decently good friends), Geoff Garin, replaced Mark Penn on Hillary's campaign, and oh god I could go on and on forever about the awesomeness of Axelrod and the selloutness of Garin, but I will spare you my political geekery.

And you know, I'm actually surprised that there's not more political RPF. I mean, I occasionally see some Bush/Putin or Bush/Cheney but... why have I never seen ROVE/Cheney? Or Gravel/Kucinich? Or Rice/Pelosi? Is it because they're mostly not terribly attractive? Is it because people (wrongly!) think political stuff is boring? I mean, if you're going to write RPF, why don't you go all the way and write REALLY cracked out shit like that? J2 has nothing on this sort of thing.