Who should Democrats have nominated for President in 2008?

[brucejoel99]

Hillary. She still would've beaten McCain in a landslide; she was much more prepared for the presidency than Obama was because, unlike him, she wouldn't have been so naive as to how the opposition would conduct itself given that she'd already lived through it a decade earlier & thus would govern accordingly, like Biden not giving a damn about getting a single Republican vote for the ARP since he remembers that tailoring Obamacare to them did nothing (except Hillary would've actually had a supermajority of her own ITTL's '09); & while killing ObL wouldn't "guarantee" her re-election, it'd certainly grant her the same fundamental advantages in the 2012 race that Obama had during the real life version thereof. After that, a 2-term Senator Obama can run in 2016 & utilize the greater experience that he'd enter office with on Day 1 ITTL (compared to the experience that he actually had on his IRL-Day 1) to be a more effective President than he was IRL.

Alternatively, if Obama had to be the nominee in '08, then Biden - & not Hillary - should've been nominated 8 years later.