Fascinating prediction: Obama-Clinton

Robert Reich, the chancellor’s professor of public policy at the University of California-Berkeley, has come up with a fascinating prediction: That Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden will swap jobs next year. That means the 2012 Democratic presidential ticket will be Barach Obama - Hilary Clinton and if Obama is re-elected, a far more likely scenario with Clinton as his running mate, Biden will become Secretary of State, a job, according to Reich, "he’s apparently coveted for years."

The move also makes sense, Reich observes, because it puts Democrats in a favorable position for 2016 with Clinton ready to take the top spot on the ticket.

Reich does admit he is working solely on a hunch (similar to the hunch I had City Manager Mary Suhm would resign after her budget was passed two years ago) and that he has absolutely no inside information this change is going to take place.

Still, it’s a fascinating idea and one that has a lot of appeal to yours truly.

"...if the European debt crisis grows worse and if China’s economy continues to slow, there’s a better than even chance we’ll be back in a recession," Reich writes. "Clinton would help deflect attention from the bad economy and put it on foreign policy, where she and Obama have shined."