who mows the lawn ?
Posted on 08/26/2008 2:30:07 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
The narrative is (or isn't) coming together, the family was glowing on stage, the schedule is holding tight, Teddy and Michelle hit them out of the park . . . and still there are the Clintons.
For all those 18 million cracks in the highest glass ceiling, a frosty divide still needs chipping away at, even as Obama is set to lose the "presumptive" from his title.
It comes to this for the rivalry for the ages: Neither Sen. Barack Obama nor Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has any possible sane, rational reason for wanting tensions to continue.
They need each other, and they know it. If Clinton supporters don't come to Obama's side in greater (near-unanimous) numbers, he loses the presidency. If Clinton is seen as doing anything less than everything for the Obama-Biden ticket, she loses stature in the Democratic Party.
And yet. . . . the relationship is complicated as ever. As Sen. Clinton prepares for her speech on Night Two of the Democratic National Convention (with Chelsea Clinton narrating an introductory tribute video, on a night where the theme is "Renewing America's Promise"), those "Hillary" signs and pins dotting Denver carry a message -- and Clinton and Obama carry (mixed) messages of their own.
Did we need this reminder, this week of all weeks? "Remember: 18 million people voted for me -- 18 million people, give or take, voted for Barack," Clinton, D-N.Y., told reporters Monday, per ABC's Eloise Harper. (Give or take?)
Then there's the Clintons' most recognizable surrogate/adviser, going on television Monday night to basically declare one-fourth of Obama's convention a messaging disaster.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
"The getting-to-know-you phase featured several branches of Obama's family tree on the podium, including his brother-in-law, his half sister and several longtime friends and associates from his adopted home state," the Chicago Tribune's Jim Tankersley writes.
No sign of any of Obama's brothers, including the one living on $1 per month in a shack in Kenya.
The media apparently has permission to discuss the "rift." That in itself is telling.
When the dust settles, the news media will be licking its wounds while wondering why they failed yet again to annoint a new King.
who mows the lawn ?
They'll be crying all the way to the bank.
What lawn?
“the one living on $1 per month...”
Brother under the bus alert.
Will the story line go through November, I wonder? Then, if Obama loses, they will blame his defeat on the split in the party? We’ll see.
At this point, I bet the Clintons hope Obama loses so Hillary can run again in 2012. And I have a feeling she didn’t want to be Obama’s running mate, because, as she privately told people, he can’t win the general election. She would rather stay out of this year’s election and take her chances in 2012. No need to sully her sterling reputation by being the running mate on a losing ticket this year.
Open questions:
1. I thought the convention was to confirm the nominee. Why is it BO’s choice on how to count the vote? Who decides on these mechinations of which states to count and when to stop counting etc?
2. Can a state refuse to list BO as a candidate tonight and thereby deny him votes? He has to have a certain number to be confirmed right?
unity?
you can’t get 3 socialist professors to agree on anything.
ANY questions?....BAWAHHAHAHAHA!!
I don't think this is concerning to them. McCain makes a fairly convincing Democrat so four years with him probably isn't going to repulse them too much. Not if it means their girl gets another shot in '12.
If Clinton is seen as doing anything less than everything for the Obama-Biden ticket, she loses stature in the Democratic Party.
If Obama wins she loses stature in the Party, unless she can put up an effective roadblock in the Senate towards any legislation he favors. I have no doubt that will be her goal should he win.
Perhaps Barack and his supporters should not have frozen her out. At this point she really has nothing to lose by continuing on this path.
I trust someone will answer or has answered these...I certainly don’t know the answers; apologies.
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