Per Real Clear Politics, Bob Novak reports that Michelle Obama has said “NO” to offering the VP slot to Hillary Clinton:

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama.

The Democratic front-runner’s wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party’s nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility.

There is a certain delicious irony to this situation, of course.  The Clintons were the first “two for the price of one” co-presidency, and Hillary’s entire campaign has been based on her self-styled “experience”, so Michelle Obama’s influence over her husband’s political decisions is not without a kind of exquisite precedent.

Still, as I have noted several times in the past few weeks, I believe that ultimately Michelle Obama is going to become a more troubling albatross for her husband during the general election campaign than anyone has thus far considered.  Vetoing her husband’s VP selection is merely Round One.  Jeremiah Wright and Otis Moss may yet find themselves in the back seat, while Michelle, a true believer, takes the wheel.