DENVER (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton had a simple message Tuesday for her still loyal supporters: This election isn't about her....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Barack Obama is still going to be the Democratic candidate for president, right?...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Barack Obama on Tuesday applauded and cheered former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as she declared her support for his candidacy, and urged her own backers to rally behind Obama in his contest with Republican John McCain....

DENVER (AP) -- For one evening, their political world was perfect. Or so it seemed....

DENVER (AP) -- Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, keynoting the Democratic National Convention, said Tuesday that American voters "have one shot to get it right" by electing Barack Obama president to end Republican leadership that is stuck in the past....

She's making nice now, but Hillary Rodham Clinton had a lot of sharp things to say about Barack Obama during their tussle for the Democratic nomination....

DENVER (AP) -- Democrats used the second night of their four-day convention to punch back more aggressively at John McCain, even as some party insiders warned that hitting too forcefully might jeopardize Barack Obama's upbeat, all-inclusive image....

Bill Clinton Not Happy With Convention Speech Topic.

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.

Will Someone Grab this egomaniac by the short and curlies and tell him that the convention isn’t about him or his wife? 

I bet he will mention the name of the Nominee one time during his speech.  The cynic in me says he goes out just like he came in: Boring everyone to tears at a Convention. 

He’s that much of a vindictive bastard that I see him making a long and boring speech because he thinks he’ll get away with it.   The real bet is, if anyone will call him on it if he tries.

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Cafe Talk | Talking Points Memo | PAUL BEGALA AND JAMES CARVILLE ARE ACTIVELY UNDERCUTTING OBAMA AT THE DNC CONVENTION.

Apparently the plan is for Bill and Hillary to be gracious and above the fray, while their surrogates are stirring up trouble. 

If they have the slightest ounce of decency at all, they willl publicly denounce this, and call for the crap to stop. Today. 

They won’t.  It’s not about party unity, or about the election, the Democrats, or even America.  Bill and Hillary Clinton are only about Bill and Hillary Clinton.  It’s time the Democrats recognize that, and leave them on the side of I-25.   Clinton WILL cost you the election if you let them, solely so she can run in 4 years. 

Democrats, ask yourself what is in your best interests.  Obama today, or McCain today and Clinton tomorrow?

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…and tell Bill Clinton the news?

I just heard Obama talk about the person he has chosen to be his vice president.  Funny how a couple of bland descriptions can immediately bring Hillary’s stock back on the rise, but I believe Obama’s stock only declines with a HRC VP Pick. 

There are legions of voters who are bitter over HRC not getting the nomination.  Many of these are women HRC’s age, who remember the failed age of the ERA.  These women saw HRC as an attempt to make up for perceived egregious wrongs by not ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment.  Women’s Lib was set to make a grand comeback, until the black guy came along.  

The uproar and open revolt from the HRC wing of the Democratic Party has been loud, and has grown even louder as we get closer to the convention.  Talk of open revolt on the floor of the convention.  HRC has taken notice, and has parlayed this into leverage for her demands.  Speaking at the Convention.  Having her name put in for the first ballot.  Having Bill speak at the convention.  Obama, being somewhat gracious, has deferred each time.  He should be commended for being as gracious as he has been.  However, he should also be wary that appeasing the Clinton’s is done at your peril.  I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could comfortably spit a refrigerator.

There is also the GOP to consider.  Make no mistake that they are watching Obama “roll over” for Clinton at almost every turn.  ”If he rolls over for Hillary,” they will suggest, “how can you expect that he’ll show any grit when it comes to the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, the Iranians, bin Laden?”  

A vote for Obama is a vote for appeasement, they’ll say.  

If he does choose Clinton as his Vice President, I fear they may finally have something right.

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