MM says: “Yowch. Chicago thug mafia, meet Arkansas thug mafia. Long live Democrat party unity! The soap opera continues”:
Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday.
The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee.
He said: “Suppose you’re a voter, and you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?”
Then, perhaps mindful of how his off-the-cuff remarks might be taken, Clinton added after a pause: “This has nothing to do with what’s going on now.”
Basically, this was a wordy version of what I heard Karl Rove say to Shep Smith. To paraphrase, Rove said that the Clinton supporters are Obama’s problem that he created and that he needs to deal with. She can’t force them to support someone that hasn’t done a good job of marketing himself.
Another part of the problem is this very passage from the Politico piece:
But the psychology of the week is complicated. It requires them to muzzle what friends say are their deep and continuing doubts about Obama’s electability, qualifications and political character.
It also requires them to embrace a generational transition in which the Clintons ” whose political personas once stood for youth and the excitement of change ” are cast as sunset figures, two conventional politicians in their sixties being shoved aside by a charismatic young celebrity.
Celebrity? Barack Obama is running for political office, seeking the job as President Of The United States Of America. He isn’t up for a role in a movie.   Last time I checked, electability, qualifications and political character were all important factors when supporting a nominee.  Didn’t Bill Clinton get nominated and win, not once, but twice? How many times did Teddy win the nomination?
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