This Is Why I'm Suspicious

It's these little things that make me wonder what the Clintons are up to:

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."

Also, here's a report that talks about negotiations for holding the roll call vote (the vote that officially selects the nominee) at a breakfast in the hotel tomorrow rather than on the floor of the convention on TV in front of the public.  Why would they want to hold the vote out of the public eye, do you think?  Hmmm...

James Carville, a long-time Clinton friend and adviser, is blasting the first night of the convention (and, by implication, the Obama campaign's handling of it), calling it a 'wasted' night:

"The way they planned it tonight was supposed to be sort of the personal — Michelle Obama will talk about Barack Obama personally, Ted Kennedy was a very personal, emotional speech," Carville said. "But I guarantee on the first night of the Republican Convention, you're going to hear talk about Barack Obama, commander-in-chief, tax cuts, et cetera, et cetera.

"If this party has a message it's done a hell of a job hiding it tonight, I promise you that," he said.

I have to say that if Hillary is planning to resign herself to Obama being the nominee (as she claims), she is doing a pretty poor job of it!  Her supporters certainly aren't going away quietly, and her husband also appears to be dodgy.  Of course, it could simply be a case of the Clintons being very sore losers, or perhaps it could be some very early maneuvering for a 2012 challenge (she undermines Obama passive-aggressively so McCain wins but she looks innocent, then runs again on the I-told-you-so platform).  Either way, it makes the curious wonder...

We should get a pretty big indicator tonight with her speech.  Will she speak strongly of uniting under Obama, or will she simply give lip service?  Will she make the case of him being their best chance at the White House, or will she resort to simple slamming of Bush?  We'll find out in a few hours.

I think the greater point that needs to be stated here is that, for being billed as a great Uniter, Barack the Obamessiah is failing miserably.  If he can't even unite his own party in this politically favorable time, is it realistic to think he can unite the entire country, and then the world?

There's my two cents.