"You Can Actually Feel This Party Splitting"

Of course, that would require the Democrats to have been unified in the first place.  Something Barack Hussein Obama has, for Barack only knows what reason, gone out of his way to prevent.

To answer my rhetorical question from last week on the eve of Medusa's convention address, judging by the past few days, I would definitely have to say "train wreck".

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23rd: La Clinton Nostra is pissed that the Chosen One didn't even so much as sniff his veep search in the Empress' direction:

A top Clinton advisor also told CNN they were “outraged,” over how the process was conducted.

“You can’t put [Obama VP vetters] Eric Holder and Carolyn Kennedy on an hour plane ride to Chappaqua just to check the box? They should have done it just for the optics,” this person said. “Barack never even said to her, ‘Here’s how I envision the job’– not one discussion with her about [the position].”

“They thought her supporters were mad before? They are really mad now,” this person also said. We knew it was never going to happen but you would have thought they might at least make a show of it.”

Former Clinton strategist Paul Begala echoed similar frustrations on CNN Friday night.

“I think there are a lot of Hillary voters who are going to say, ‘Hey, wait a minute, man. You said you were going to put her on the short list. You know, you didn’t even vet her. You didn’t call her. You didn’t seek her advice,’” Begala said. “By the way, he didn’t seek President Clinton’s advice either. He’s actually the guy who I think picked the best vice president in American history. You would think maybe you would sort of check in with him.” [emphasis added]

Fat Albert the best veep in American history???  Must...resist...urge...to...laugh...hysterically...

[AHEM] Sorry, but didn't that punchline catch YOU a little off-guard, too?

I'm reminded of that old Jim Croche lyric: "You don't tug on Superman's cape."  Bad enough that Barry pisses on the missus, including welching on his pledge to help her retire her campaign debt, but to flip the bird at Mr. Bill as well?  Not that I don't sympathize with the underlying sentiment, but wouldn't after Inauguration Day be a better time to kiss off Boris and Natasha, after BO has the institution of the presidency to protect him from their revenge?  It's not like Bonnie & Clyde are gracious losers, after all; making even more embittered enemies of them - and the eighteen million Donks who voted for her in the primaries - two months before Election Day is a fit of ego-driven pique that will bite Barry in the ass sooner rather than later.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24th: Oh, no!  The scorned woman is going to throw in the towel?  Say it ain't so!:

Clinton has invited her pledged delegates to a reception at the Colorado Convention Center, not far from the main Democratic National Convention arena…

A Democratic official told the Associated Press Sunday, a day before the convention begins, that she is expected to release her delegates at the Wednesday event. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss details publicly…

Some Clinton delegates still plan to vote for her at the convention, even if she releases them.

“This is much bigger than Hillary,” said Pam Durham, a Clinton delegate from Fort Worth, Texas. “I have a responsibility. I do not own my vote. I have to represent the voters who sent me.”

It ain't so.  If she does release them, it'll be with a wink and a nudge.  She knows she (probably) can't rip the nomination away from Obama, so it isn't necessary for her to put herself in the public position of being the pathetic diehard as well as the heavy for overtly disrupting the coronation that should have been hers.  Besides, it's not like her delegates' dogged loyalty isn't well-nigh fanatical; an estimated three-sevenths of them are saying they'll cast their nominating votes for her anyway.  That serves her purposes of denying Lucifer any convincing projection of party unity while hiding behind the facade of the "good soldier" and not burning her 2012 "I told you so!" bridges behind her.

MONDAY, AUGUST 25th: The disintegration metastasizes.

Sick Willie learned that he doesn't get to pick his speech topic for Wednesday.  Then he got a look at the topic - and the case - that he is being assigned to sell:

One flashpoint is the assigned speech topic for former president Bill Clinton, who is scheduled to speak Wednesday night, when the convention theme is “Securing America’s Future.” The night’s speakers will argue that Obama would be a more effective commander in chief than his Republican rival, Senator John McCain (AZ).

The former president is disappointed, associates said, because he is eager to speak about the economy and more broadly about Democratic ideas — emphasizing the contrast between the Bush years and his own record in the 1990s.

This is an especially sore point for Bill Clinton, people close to him say, because among many grievances he has about the campaign Obama waged against his wife is a belief that the candidate poor-mouthed the political and policy successes of his two terms.

In other words, Mr. Bill wants to make his address all about him, even though it's not his convention and - temporarily, anyway - not his party anymore.  Par for the Clinton course.

From Team Messiah's perspective, I can understand why they gave the preposterous notion of Cap'n Hopeandchange - the man born with his hands up, the guy who so out-Frenches John "Global Test" Kerry he makes the Boston Balker look like Kahless the Unforgettable - being a more effective C-in-C than the combat veteran, Vietnam POW, and senator who has spent the past quarter-century on Capitol Hill immersed in national security matters to the greatest bullshitter of all time.  Nobody else could sell that rank absurdity to the country and not get laughed off the stage, even by THAT audience.  Frankly, I think the task is insurmountable even for the Boy president's legendary prevaricating prowess, which goes a long way in explaining why he would resent being handed such a thankless role even if he didn't already have it in for his wife's conqueror.

And that's before indiscrete loogies of contempt like this:

Team Obama hasn’t exactly helped the situation, either. Allen reports that some of his team have compared the Clintons to Japanese soldiers on bypassed Pacific islands after Hirohito surrendered, not accepting that the war is over. They complain, apparently to anyone who’ll listen, that the Clintons have forced Obama to do all the work in repairing the breach in the Democratic party. [emphases added]

An endeavor at which they've showed SUCH diligence with tokens of respect like this.  Look, again, it's not like I can't see how Obamanoids would feel after having been through the Clinton gauntlet.  Heaven knows back in the '90s we lusted vicariously after the tantalizing possibility of bringing down La Clinton Nostra and stomping it into the ground once and for all, then paving over the remains and spreading salt over it for gratuitous measure.  Obamanation actually attained that dream, and I can't knock them for wanting the payoff of seeing their intra-party foes acknowledge their defeat and go the bleep away once and for fricking all.

But if they actually expected that, they're even bigger naifs than their Idol has revealed himself to be already.  They've also so lost themselves in PR chest-thumping that they've lost sight of their own victory: so long as Obama can retain his super-dupers, he's the nominee - period.  Possession is nine-tenths of the law, as they say, and Bill & Hillary certainly know that because they've lived it.  Rather than acting like the winner and keeping his eyes on the bigger picture by being willing to indulge the former First Coupling in a little ego-stroking that would help ease them to the sidelines and at least minimize their opposition to him if not get them actively on his side, the Chicago Cherubim instead persists in being an even more petulantly obnoxious winner than the Clintons are sore losers.

The time to bury this hatchet was two and a half months ago.  I don't know that this rift could have been closed at this late date in any case.  But surely making some gesture this week is smarter than actively blowing the yawning chasm even wider:

[Hillarynista delegate Delmarie] Cobb said the confrontation started when she and [Obamanoid delegate Emil] Jones, who is also African-American, were talking about an earlier conversation they had at the Bud Billiken Parade in Chicago. “One day, you’ll be on the right side,” Cobb said Jones told her. She told him she was on the right side. She said Jones pointed at his Obama hat and said, “No, this is the right side,” she said.

“Then he came up behind me. He said ‘Thirty-five thousand people went to Springfield [to support Obama on Saturday],’” she said. “I said, ‘Then 35,000 people drank the Kool-Aid.,’ He said, ‘Barack is a clean-cut guy. He never liked gutter politics, that’s why the Clintons did so-and-so. …’ I said, ‘I don’t want to get into this. So I went over to the elevator, and he said, ‘Uncle Tom!’ Then he grabbed me and hugged me and started laughing. I said, ‘What did you say?’ I turned to Freddrenna Lyle, and I said, ‘What did he say?’ She wouldn’t say anything, That’s when I said some bad things to him.”

Unity!  It's the affectionate sentiment that gets two Democrats in a near-fistfight over whether it's better to be Barry's [N-word] or Hillary's [N-word].  I gotta say, though, that for a guy who "never liked gutter politics," Barack sure has taken seemlessly and enthusiastically to it.  There's an obvious but inadvisable metaphor that applies here, so I'll just say that he learned quite thoroughly from the Clintons' bad example. 

Say, and wasn't Jones' unwanted hug of Cobb awfully close to sexual harassment?  I'm just asking....

Faster and faster the discord spirals.  Some Hillarynistas started up a petition to force a floor fight against not Obama, but Joe Biden for the veep slot.  Something that Slow Joe would doubtless have seen as a relief if his own gargantuan conceit allowed such things.  The Empress squashed it, of course, because she now has far more to gain from letting, and subtley helping, Rogaine Messiah go down like the Hindenburg than be kidnapped into an already-sabotaged political shotgun marriage.  It would be too vivid a reminder of her real marriage, and would be as difficult to get out of.  Besides, Barry had his chance to shame her into it and didn't take it.

This helps explain why top Hillary advisors are leaving the convention early to...um...beat the traffic!  Yeah, that's right, beat the traffic!:

A number of Senator Hillary Clinton’s top advisers will not be staying in Denver long enough to hear Barack Obama accept the nomination for president, according to sources familiar with their schedules.

Clinton will deliver her speech Tuesday night. She will hold a private meeting with her top financial supporters Wednesday at noon, and will thank her delegates at an event that afternoon. Former president Bill Clinton will speak that night. Several of Hillary Clinton’s supporters are then planning to leave town. Among them, Terry McAuliffe, Clinton’s campaign chairman, and longtime supporters Steve Rattner and Maureen White. Another of Clinton’s top New York fundraisers, Alan Patricof, did not make the trip to Denver.

Unity!  It's that warm feeling of brotherhood that says, "I'd rather douse myself in A-1 steak sauce and run naked through a starving tiger pit than give that miserable [racial slur] the satisfaction of indulging his monarchical usurpation." 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 26th: And you know how much the ex-First Ejaculator values his steak sauce:

Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Senator 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.”

"Perhaps" mindful of how his "off-the-cuff" remarks "might" be taken?  Good grief, wasn't the trademark Sick Willie theatrical pause enough of a tip-off that he meant every word he was saying before it and nothing he said after it?  It couldn't be more obvious if he'd winked, nudged, AND chuckled.  And the very day of his wife's "sincere" address "releasing" her delegates to "close ranks" behind the party's "nominee".

It's purely a "coincidence," of course.  Which is no doubt why said "nominee" was so feeling his oats yesterday that he decided to pre-emptively fix - okay, "truncate" - tomorrow night's roll call vote "just in case":

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack [Hussein] Obama are working on a deal to give her some votes in the roll call for the Democratic presidential nomination, but quickly end the divided balloting in unanimous consent for Obama.

Democratic officials involved in the negotiations said Monday the idea is that at the start of the state-by-state vote for the presidential nomination Wednesday night, delegates would cast their votes for Clinton or Obama.

But the voting would be cut off after a couple of states, the officials said, perhaps ending with New York, when Clinton herself would call for unanimous backing for Obama from the convention floor. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity while the deal was being finalized.

This is Hillary in full barracuda mode.  She can smell Obama's palpable fear.  It's all overwhelmingly him at an ever more dizzying pace.  His "Messiah" gimmick in tatters, his past "questionable associations" catching up to him, the Chicago Donk machine tactics he suckled with his mother's milk backfiring on him like a metronome, completely botching his veep selection, and now his coronation teetering on the jagged edge of, yes, "chaos."  Perhaps even a belated realization of how much he could have helped himself if he'd made the gesture of respect to the once and future owners of the Democrat Party that would have cost him little and gained him a presidency.  Now he panics and has to go to her Nib on bended knee to, in essence, beg her not to humiliate him in front of the party, the country, and the entire planet.

And just think: Bill is still up tomorrow night to reassure the American people and all our enemies what a badass warrior Barry The Unforgettable is.

Can Darth Queeg keep his "maverickiness" in the closet for another two months and eight days?  That may be the biggest obstacle he's got left between himself and paydirt.

UPDATE: Not a mention of the Donk god at all in the Empress' benediction?  Say it's so!

UPDATE II: It ain't so, alas.  Guess she wanted to go the extra mile to not leave any fingerprints on The One's political corpse.