What A Uniter

Rick Moran reports on another incident with Barack Obama at the American Thinker [***Warning: this post contains language that could be offensive to some, especially if you follow the links***].  He calls it Obama's latest gaffe, but I would interpret it as something else:

Last week, Obama's first major decision as a candidate for president - choosing people for a steering committee to help him pick a vice president - turned into an unmitigated disaster when it was revealed that his primary hire for the committee accepted sweetheart loans from a major sub-prime lender.

His subsequent explanation was lame, halting, and incredibly incoherent.

Well the candidate has stepped in it again. This time, by hiring Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle to serve on his general election staff. The move has Clintonites madder than wet hornets with one political insider quoted in the New York Observer as saying it was the biggest "F**k you" he's ever seen in politics.

Let's follow Solis Doyle's trajectory over the past few months.  She was a major campaign director for Hillary Clinton.  Clinton started losing, so she fired Solis Doyle.  Now, Barack Obama hires Solis Doyle to be one of his top advisers.  I can understand Solis Doyle wanting to work for Obama - not only is he the winner, but it probably feels pretty good to spite Clinton.  But, what about Obama?  What reason could he possibly have for hiring a campaign manager that just lost a major campaign?

Moran sums it up this way:

Would Obama deliberately rattle the Hillary camp? Is he that stupid? Apparently, the answer to that question is yes. At a time when it is vital for the Democrats to begin the process of coming together after a hard fought primary battle, Obama evidently feels it more important to score petty political points against Hillary than work for party unity.

Hillary wasn't going to be Vice President anyway. This move seals that in stone. Meanwhile, Hillary partisans are left to stew in their own juices as Obama moves to shape the party and who works for it in his own fashion.

Or perhaps he has given up trying to heal the wounds and has simply written off a percentage of Hillaryites.

I would agree - Obama hired Solis Doyle as a deliberate slap in the face to his vanquished adversary, purely to add insult to injury.  Moran points to this as more evidence that Obama isn't ready for primetime, but I would also suggest this is more evidence of how his mantra of unity is completely, utterly hollow.  If he was a uniter, he would have already brought Clinton's supporters into his own flock, soothing their wounded pride and asking them to become active participants in his campaign.  Instead, he has flipped them the bird in what appears to be a calculated pruning of his support base.

What a uniter.

There's my two cents.