If your job is to counsel the President then you have already failed. If you are setting yourself up to be replaced by Hillary then this is a genius move. But I still don’t think Hillary would take that position. If Obama loses she is the only front runner in four years. Since she will most likely not take it, Biden, who has long been forgotten since the first vowel of Palin’s name was uttered, is a non-entity.
There is a three-way race right now; essentially 2 against 1. Obama is looking weaker and weaker. Someone needs to step up and get the train going for him or he will be done, just like Dukakis, Kerry, and Gore. Gore is only around because he had a contentious loss and his movie.