Sad to say that the one plan that might do that would be to offer her the VP spot, and then make that the useless position it was in the past.  Stick her in a corner somewhere and let her travel to foreign countries to have tea with diplomats and go to funerals.  Give all the cabinet positions to people who will not take up any of her causes.  Make it clear that she does not speak for him with the Congress so no one pays any attention to her there.

See, it's perfect.

If not, Obama and Hillary need to put their heads together and come up with a suitable Veep choice.  

Alternately I suppose Hillary could negotiate for selecting certain cabinet posts or Supreme Court nominations.

The VP issue is pretty interesting. I for one thing it would be a massive mistake for Clinton to take such a position. I think after this campaign (where she really figured out politics and grew amazingly well as a public figure) she will be a much better senator and can move over to the state as governor if she wanted. To say nothing of 2012 against McCain. But then she is a democrat first in my opinion, so if she and others thought it would be best, she probably would.

Declare victory on May 20, three months before the Convention. Throw big-name and superdelegate endorsements out there to blunt all of her victories. Fuel talks of a Unity ticket that Obama and Party Leaders like Pelosi and Dean have dismissed as never happening. Seed the airwaves with thoughts of Hillary as Veep to try to convince her supporters that she can't win.

No wonder why the supers are so cowardly in doing what's best for the party and choosing Clinton: we're all buying this myth that it'd be "wrong" to pick the winner, facts be damned.  The media will hate whichever Democrats is thrown their way so there's no real excuse for all this nonsense (Also, Clinton supporters are increasingly growing immune to the media).  I'm tired of lowering the standards for the presumptive nominee who has all the advantages in the world and still can't win where it counts.  Even now he has to have all these "leaders" prop him up.

From my observations, Barack Obama was boosted into this 2008 campaign to stop Hilary in order for either J. Edwards or W. Richardson to wiggle in the back door.  Oddly, the Sen. Obama effort became successful, almost despite itself.

Dean, Kennedy, Kerry, et al. were on a vendetta to displace Sen. Clinton & probably could not even imagine that an unknown, un-vetted, IL senator (who beat a carpet-bagger, substitute GOP candidate) would strike a nerve with some very skillful, dedicated, hard-working campaigners.  [And . . . they did not game the system; they "systemed" the system which had been designed to produce a path through the caucuses to let an underfunded unknown candidate at least be in the running because of proportional delegate assignments.  Yes, of course, he later became well-funded, duh.]

At present, if my view & my speculations are at least partly accurate, the initial goal of the Obama campaign (to eliminate the Clinton faction from the Democratic Party) is nearly complete.  This is why Richardson turned coat.  This is why Edwards just endorsed the candidate least like the actual JRE positions.  This is why Brazile & many of the DNC poobahs are fronting for the Obama candidacy.  [The media whores stoke the Obama boilers because their corporate masters crave the incomprehensible ad spending--just a beaucoup bucks they could not have imagined.]

Much of the anti-Clinton behavior, demonizing & vilification is mistakenly identified as sexism.  In my opinion, it's more nearly a purge of the Big Dog, his supportive wife & that "element" of the overall party.

Nobody votes for a President because of the VP.   That is tired logic that doesn't apply anymore.  Maybe a single state likes to see one of their own be the VP but nationaly it doesn't matter.  Heck, most people don't even know who the VP is.

Hillary should step aside if Obama pulls this out.   She knows she's the better candidate.  Why would she take a 50/50 or worse chance of being the running mate of the democrat that lost a gimme election (IE the next Liberman).

If Obama wins he will have a constant head ached fomr VP Clinotn and vormer President Clinton.  It gets him elected but once in office they will be a permanent drag on his administration.   What would Bill do?  The only thing he could do would be to make stupid comments that Obama would have to answer for.  Who needs it.  

This sounds like the "HRC as inevitable nominee" meme has now mutated into "HRC as inevitable vice presidential nominee"! And what is being cited as evidence of this: her "lead" in the "polls" of potential VP picks! Ha! As Yogi Berra said, "It's deja vu all over again!"

I and many , many others think Obama would be "nuts" (your word) to stain his general election chances with a symbol of the very kind of "old politics" that HRC embodies, and for many other reasons (baggage, a loose cannon off-message spouse, and a gift to cash-starved GOP coffers by giving them, anew, a Clinton to demonize and fundraise off of).

In any case, I find the lobbying for it to be entertaining because the louder you and others claim that Obama has to pick Clinton (or any other individual), the tighter the door locks against that outcome.

To wit: If after a lobbying campaign on her behalf Obama were to choose Senator Clinton, it would create the widespread public impression among Independents and other swing voters that Obama capitulated, that he is weak, that he is not his own person, that he is calling his own shots, that he buckled under pressure... very far from the commander-in-chief profile that a winning presidential candidate needs to embody in order to win.

I understand that bargaining is a stage of grief. But at a certain point, it's gonna be time to move on.

best,

I think it's a mistake not to offer the VP slot to her, both because she's earned it and because the two of them would form the most formidable ticket.  But I think it's a mistake he going to make.  

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/no_veep_slot_for_hillary.html

(From The Corner) - (yes, I know - the house of Satan, but it's always good to know what the enemy is thinking)

"This little ditty was sent in by commenter Nana. It looks like the Obamaphiles have pushed the envelope:

I just dont think Obama can win enough of the swing-vote, but is banking on the common meme that a lamp post could lead the Dems to victory because the Repubs are so unpopular, and they have so much money this year.  Along with the Republicans imploding, by running a poor campaign perhaps, broke and broken, and McCain unable to mobilise his own base etc.

Even if that is true, it only makes the Dem Party's behaviour during this primary season even more unethical in my mind.