Posted on 08/25/2008 10:51:13 PM PDT by Schnucki
Tonight on stage in Denver Hillary Clinton, one of the most accomplished practitioners of the fine art of political deception, will pull off the biggest stunt of her career so far.
In her speech to the Democratic convention Mrs Clinton will have warm words for Barack Obama. She will pledge herself to work for his election in November. She will urge her campaign supporters and the millions who voted for her in the primary to bury their differences and throw their support behind the nominee. She will, no doubt, describe herself as humbled.
Don’t believe a word of it. There may be strenuous efforts to keep the tensions between the Clinton and Obama camps below the surface here in Denver, but they are as raw and powerful as they have ever been.
There has been loud grumbling among the Clinton team about the way that Mr Obama went about picking his vice-presidential nominee last weekend. They think that it was disrespectful of him not to have considered Mrs Clinton more seriously for the job. They are furious that he failed to consult Bill Clinton, the man who ran twice successfully for the presidency, for advice on the pick.
But most of all, many of them still have not come to terms with the arithmetical reality that they lost.
To be fair, it is not simply naked personal ambition that lies behind the rancour. The Clinton people have armfuls of polling evidence now that Mr Obama is failing to appeal to many of the voters that Mrs Clinton won in the primary campaign.
A CNN poll conducted at the weekend indicated that 27 per cent of Mrs Clinton’s supporters in the primary would vote not for Mr Obama in November but for John McCain, the Republican candidate. That figure is up
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Obama still has a few hours left to find $13 million to repay Hillary’s personal loan to her campaign.
Forget the millions she wants to use the Lincoln bedroom ...
w/o Bill
Since when did we believe a word of what any politician has to say, especially politicians with clearly disordered minds? How do you know they are lying? Hint: Their lips are moving.
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