Indeed, the Clinton-Obama race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination is so close and the excitement so high that Americans, particularly party members, and even foreign watchers are now asking, "Why not both?"

The idea of such a dream team surfaced when the two candidates, now running neck-and-neck, were seen together smiling, embracing and whispering something in each other's ear some weeks ago in Los Angeles, California.

Since then, another question has surfaced. And this is who between the "experienced" Hillary and the "inexperienced" Barack would be the nominee for president and who would be the running mate?

According to a new Time international newsmagazine survey, 62 percent of Democrats want Clinton to put Obama on the ticket, and 51 percent want Obama to return the favor if he is the nominee.

It does really look all that easy to bring together a "technician" like Hillary and a "visionary" like Barack, although their stand on economic, foreign policy, immigration issues does not differ too much. Still, some political observers are skeptical that the two could work together, especially after the heated exchanges between them during the campaign.

Of course, the vertiginously election in November is many, many months away and many, many unseen and unexpected things may yet happen. For instance, now that McCain is going to be the Republican nominee, after Romney withdrew from their fight and endorsed McCain, would McCain pick Romney as his running mate? If this happens, would the Democrats finally draw up their dream ticket of either Clinton-Obama or vice versa?

Everything, of course, depends a lot on whether the mutual animus and anger between Clinton and Obama engendered during the campaign would eventually vanish when the delegates to the Democratic Party convention make their final choice on who to field against the Republican Party's candidate. And when that comes, would Hillary or Barack pick the other as the vice presidential partner?

American political historians say such a deal is possible, if not likely. In the past, they recalled, winners in either Democratic or Republican parties reached out to the losers in their conventions. They cited Democrats John F. Kennedy who tapped Lyndon Johnson in their time even though one didn't exactly like the other. And in the Republicans' case there was the time when Ronald Reagan picked George H.W. Bush even though they were not quite close to each other. And there were other similar cases since then.

And so, we can't dismiss the possibility, perhaps even probability, of the Democrats fielding their unique team, something that has caught the imagination of Americans and other peoples around the world.

Will America, for the very first time in its long history, elect its first Madame President or its first African-American vice- president or vice versa?

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Will Filipinos all over the land yelling objurgations at Gloria Arroyo be sufficient to persuade her to step down from power as the first illegitimate woman president of the Philippines?

She is to be faulted for the terrible damage to Philippine democracy. She has trampled the Constitution, the rule of law and violated other laws with impunity, let in the serpents and liars in every nook and corner of her illegitimate presidency, and struck fear on everyone by unleashing her pit bulls to attack all those who dared expose the corruption, scams and thieveries and cases of plunder by political cronies and kith and kin in the last seven years of her misrule.