There wouldn't be any narrative if Clinton's advisers, supporters, staffers would stop feeding the MSM info.

Caroline Kennedy smacked down Wolf when he tired to go in that direction.

When the same Clinton aides, keep putting out messages that the individuals who support Obama's candidacy think undermine HRC, they obviously are misreading the tactic.

The Clinton advisors and aides are not saying these things without the full support of Billary. Their goal is to win the WH for them. All the folks who were riding the Billary coattails and who see an Obama loss as another shot at the presidency for them. Billary wants this.

Billary knows their job is to mouth support but not give support. To endorse Obama but not embrace Obama.

Hillary endorsed Obama in her speech last night. In contrast, Schweitzer embraced Obama. There is a huge difference!! It is not so much what HRC said as what she didn't say that tells the true story and the very real objective of Billary and their vastleftwingconspiracy.

Bill criticized Obama jsut yesterday with the whole experience club, he said that if candidate X has positions you don't agree with but you think he can deliver vs. candidate y, who you agree with his positions but don't think can deliver...who do you vote for?

That was the core piece missing from Hillary's endorsement. She did not embrace Obama's judgment and character to lead. She did not talk about how being in Washington a long time does not equate to judgment even if it is experience. She did not talk about how Congress despite all their collective Washington experience got it wrong on the war. Hillary did not debunk the myth of being in politics a long time is not the same as having the judgment to lead and being able to make right decisions at critical junctures.

Hillary needs to talk about how 127 Democrats, a majority of Democrats in the Congress voted against the war!! That Hillary herself opposed the most experienced leaders in Washington in her own party when she voted for the war..Carl Levin the chair of the Armced Svcs committe as well as Bill Graham the chair of the Intelligence cmte. Hillary did not listen to them, she instead voted FOR the war..they voted AGAINST it!!

You see, for Hillary to back Obama she has to acknowledge that she got the vote wrong..and she steadfastly has refused to acknowledge that, during her entire campaign she refused to say she was wrong on the war, which is one of the major reasons she lost. Recall, this is the judgment that Bill himself called a 'fairytale' These were the seeds of doubt sown by Billary to reject Obama's judgment, just as the GOP is doing. No tactical differnce at all other than the source. Bill misjudged Democrats, though, and couldn't see how folks did not want another politican who is so wrongheaded they can't change course or admit to the people they were wrong.

This party will win the election when her and Bill BOTH acknowledge that Obama DOES have the judgement to lead from day one. He,alone has demonstrated that during this political year. No one else has.

So, I acknowledge that Hillary gave a rip roaring endorsement but she needs to embrace Obama for the leadership, judgment and vision that he brings to the Democratic party and to the Presidency.

THAT is when this party will win in a landslide!

But, alas..we all know that is not HillorBill's goal. They do not want Obama to win, they only want to insure they are not blamed for his loss. Thus their aides are once again telling the true story to the media, that they want told to undermine Obama's candidacy.

Millions of Americans are confused by words vs. deeds. I am not. Billary's actions speak way louder than their words and so do the actions of their henchmen, McAuliffe, Begala and Caraville who all betrayed Kerry as well.

The Clintons put a nice covering on their true goals but I for one need them to step up to the plate and say:

Obama is ready to lead on day one.

If Bill does that the Democratic party will win the White House.

Exactly. Of course Hillary will run in 2012 if Obama loses. Why shouldn't she? And of course negativity in this campaign could cause her ill-will in a hypothetical 2012 run. But that is in no way inconsistent with Hillary being a vigorous supporter of Obama in this election cycle, and genuinely wanting him to win. Hillary's choice to go positive in the democratic camps is vastly overdetermined. No reason to knock her enthusiasm for Obama.

Exactly. I know everyone is up in arms this morning because Dowd was her witchy self still, even after Hillary's excellent speech (and I do agree she did a great job), but Dowd does have an important point. Never have I seen a convention about the loser either. It's unreal.

Now it is a given that this what will Hillary and Bill do story? has been fed by the media bigtime. But the convention is paying obeisance to the Clintons in a way that is, quite frankly, making a lot of people, including myself, simply scratch their heads.

But it is definitely the direction the convention has been going, and the crowd is in line. Ted Kennedy, dying of brain cancer, makes the effort to get there and the crowd's reaction is tepid next to the hysteria when Sen. Clinton walks on the stage in saffron orange sharkskin. Jimmy Carter walks around like persona non gratis and then the press puts a microphone in front of his face and asks him what? What he thinks of the Clinton supporters. Will the party unite?
And the natives don't even listen to the keynote address, which admittedly, didn't really merit much attention. But still.

Now it goes without saying that conventions are dog and pony shows that would drive any sane person to the brink. My idea of hell would be being stuck on that floor listening to all the truly horrible speakers and speeches. The Kennedy tribute was touching, but, again, neither the film nor the man himself seemed to affect the crowd in the way I might have expexted. And where was the wild applause for his niece, telling us how Obama has inspired her?

Aside from Michelle Obama -- who was also superb (but not too much more than respectfully received), Brian Schweitzer -- who was, god bless him, somehow capable of waking up the comatose crowd -- and, yes, Clinton with her near electrifying Harriet Tubman keep going finish to her speech, this convention is putting the nation to sleep.

On the other hand, if making Obama seem dull by comparison was the point, then this convention is doing a great job. Like Dowd, I do not think the show so far has served Obama well at all. Put his face up on a big screen and it becomes about his daughters, which is great on one hand, his girls are absolutely adorable and America loves kids. But on the other hand, when you're being branded as a lightweight and an ineffectual empty suit, it doesn't exactly help your cause to have a seven year old walk all over your lines.

And then the next night, his excellent wife and her excellent speech is eclipsed by the loser of the primary. Good thing Clinton said vote for Obama. Really good thing because you might think he didn't exist otherwise.

So I have to ask, was this loading of the program with Clinton tribute really wise? Equally puzzling to me is the question of was it really necessary. These people who cannot give in on Hillary call to my mind Terry Schiavo fanatics, and this country now seems to me even more filled with nutcases than I'd thought. God help us if these are the people our politics absolutely have to please.

Excuse me, a politician's staff leaks because they are allowed (or encouraged) to do so. Notice the lack of leaks from Obama's.

Yes. And that is correct. That is the purpose of the tactic and the strategic goal is now 2012.

It might be because the MSM - and even sites like this one - jump every time the GOP says "Boo!" You go to war in the media climate you have, not the media climate you want.

Nice way to keep the "rift" alive in the blogosphere.

"Hate? Jesus, lady, get a life. These people are unhinged and our party would be better off without them."

Amen.

There shouldn't be this enormous pressure on Biden to hit it, not just out of the park, but into intergalactic space.

Don't misunderstand me, I think Biden's more than capable of doing a great job, and all he has to do is take McCain down the way he alone can do (though Schweitzer did a pretty good job too, but nobody got to see him other than those of us who watch the webstreams).

But Biden stumbles in any way, he could be in deep trouble. The comparisons to Hillary could be really grim.

On the other hand, it may turn out well for him (and for all of us) that there's been faultfinding with Hillary. Hey, we're all happy she was rousing, but we do need some hooks into the issue where the talking heads can say, now here Biden did it right. He (fill in the blank) in a way Sen. Clinton did not.

Let's remember who really needs to come out ahead here if we don't all want to move to Canada when McCain is inaugurated.

make that corporate ambition...

Oh stop it. She was damned if she did and damned if she didn't. She said what she said during the campaign. She shouldn't have said it, but that toothpaste is out of the tube and can't be put back. If she'd tried to walk it back, all we would have heard about today is what an insincere lying blanketyblank she was.

Listen up Chris O, if you have some facts to rebut any assertions made in my posts, do so. Otherwise these generalized personally attacks that are nothing but lies are completely ignorant on your part.
First off, I am not a hillaryhater. I am a staunch Democrat who voted for Humphrey, McGovern Carter and Dukakis as well as Mondale and Clinton, Gore and Kerry.

I even campaign for Hillary instead of Bill for the White House in 92...did you?

Everything I have stated about Hillary on this board is the truth backed by supportive facts. Perhaps, you are blinded by some mythical achievements on HRC's part but I am not. She does not have any individual political accomplishments during her elected time in office. If you know of any..state them.

I clearly agreed and repeatedly have said she gave a rip roaring endorsement of Obama. She however did nothing to rebut, reject or denounce the most scathing vile and viscious attack she spewed at Obama during the primaries where she endorsed the opposing party candidate over the Democratic nominee..by saying she had the experience and McCain had the experience but all Obama had was a speech he gave in 2002.

Not only was that a horrific indictment of the party nominee but what made it most heinous when she said it was she KNEW she could not win the party nomination and had lost! She never led in delegates at anytime during her campaign the facts demonstrate that she mathmatically lost the nomination in February after Obama won 12 consecutive primaries.

If you were not so sorely lacking in historical Democratic political knowledge of losing candidates you would know why, her endorsing Obama but not embracing him is is a HUGE deal.

But to sum it up succinctly. Her endorsement is insufficient AFTER her attacks on the party nominee. The Democratic party loyalists know this because it has happened previously. While no nominee may have given such a great endorsement, no nominee has EVER been so egregious as to endorse the OPPOSING PARTY nominee!! That was grounds for the party to kick her ass out the party.

She knows that, Bill knows that.

They both need to embrace Obama effusively, enthusiastically, repeatedly and UNEQUIVOCABLY. Every single leak from their 'adides/advisors/supporters' needs to be about how Obama has the judgment to lead and the vision and leadership American needs to take back this country from the GOP.

There should not be any undermining messages from their henchmen, there should be no coy remarks from Bill about 'you could argue no one is ever ready for the president' OR 'who you gonna vote for candidate X or Y" type malarky. Let alone Bill saying "for a republican McCain has the best economic plan he has seen" Bill Clinton and Hillary OWE the Democratic party BIG. Bill has power, he knows it and he needs to wield if for the good of the party not his selfish ambitions.

Bill disgraced this party and all of us loyal democrats had to live with that public humiliation NOT JUST Hillary!! We had to justify his lewd and lascivious defilement of the Oval office!

So, until you can make some statements of substance about what the Clintons have done for this party other than lose the congressional majority to Delay and Gingrich while diddling with his penis in the oval office, destroying the political possibility for healthcare for all Americans for decades, and dragging us threw 8 phucking years of Republicans destroying this country, because Bush won to 'restore honor' to the Presidency..you best not call this hate. It ain't hate. It is historical facts. Perhaps, you need to crawl up the crevice in Hillarys hallowen jackolantern pantsuit and PRAY she does not expell you with a blast of flatulence leading you to you have to post about how wonderful she smells.

When those of us with long memories know it was foul smelling stench.