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Hillary Clinton may be the most obvious choice to throw into the ring against the new darling of American politics, Sarah Palin, but the failed Democratic presidential candidate is refusing the job.

“We’re not going to be anybody’s attack dog against Sarah Palin,” a Clinton insider said yesterday.

It’s an extraordinary act of hubris from a woman whose success in exposing Barack Obama’s weakness in working-class Democratic states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana may have been the reason that John McCain chose a gun-toting, God-loving mother of five as his running mate.

Although she is 60 and unlikely to have another shot at the White House, Clinton is apparently concerned that she would appear ungenerous to the Republicans’ first female vice-presidential candidate if she were to go after her.

It is a rationale that will fuel the belief - lingering among Democrats since Al Gore’s failed 2000 presidential run - that the Clintons always put themselves before their party.

It was certainly a feeling reinforced during the death-by-a-thousand-cuts primaries when both Clinton and her husband, Bill, launched numerous vicious attacks on Obama even when it was clear that she could not win her party’s nomination.

Hillary and Bill Clinton will do NOTHING for you , Barack - except help you lose.

Geraghty has the money quote:

As it is, he’s asking her, “hey, sorry about that bitter primary thing, calling your husband racist, and the lack of campaign debt relief. Could you do me a favor and alienate a certain portion of your voters, obliterate your newfound respect from some corners of the right, and incinerate your chance to head a Democratic ticket in 2012 by making a kamikaze run at America’s newest sweetheart, in order to save my tuchus? Thanks.”

Plus, the Clinton Cabal has not EVEN started working on destroying Obama’s campaign. Hillary will take on Sarah Palin directly in 2012 when she runs for the vacated Presidency of a retiring John McCain.

In the meantime, Hillary will keep her powder dry and concentrate on sinking the Obamessiah.

And, Obama characterized Bill as a racist during the primary election season. Plus, Obama REALLY did not help retire the Clinton’s campaign debt.

Hillary and Bill Clinton will do NOTHING for you , Barack - except help you lose.

Hillary Clinton will be on hand for Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, but according to a source close to former President Bill Clinton, he will not: the source tells CNN that Clinton will not join his wife at Invesco Field Thursday night.

Both Bill and Hillary need Barack Obama to lose to John McCain or they are both frozen out of the Presidency.

The Clinton Cabal will continue to undermine Obama’s candidacy.

Did anyone catch Michelle Obama’s countenance last night while Hillary was speaking. As Flap friend and fellow blogger Kate said via Twitter: “Die Bitch Die….” was what Michelle was REALLY thinking.

A party united? Hardly……

Stay tuned……

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.”

Yeah, right!

They do not refer to the former President as Slick Willie for nuthin’.

Hillary addresses the convention tonight and the former President tomorrow.

Interesting theater as the Clinton Cabal quietly undermines the Obama candidacy while he continues to sink in the polls.

Right?

Interesting factoid: …large numbers of Clinton backers — 30 percent in a recent ABC/Washington Post poll — are still not backing Obama over McCain.

And……

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found 52% of respondents who voted for Sen. Clinton in the primaries plan to vote for Sen. Obama and 21% plan to vote for Sen. McCain.

“She inspired young women and people all over America and I think she deserves credit for running a very good campaign,” Sen. McCain told a Clinton supporter during a recent town-hall meeting in York, Pa.

Sunday morning, the McCain campaign began airing an ad questioning why Sen. Obama didn’t choose Sen. Clinton as his running mate.

The Clinton Cabal is now slowly at work undermining the Barack Obama convention. Both Clintons will deliver unifying speeches but McCain can help himself and the Clintons by undercutting Obama by “leaking” the name of a woman Vice Presidenital nominee, like Governor Sarah Palin or Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison prior to the Thursday night’s Obama coronation.

Stay tuned…….

But, do American voters expect NO LESS from their pols?

Sadly so, unless they demand Congress change the ridiculous methods the pols find to avoid transparency of corruption.

Which ……. they won’t.

But, where will the party leaders be keeping Bill Clinton? What sort of “CAGE” will contain him?

And, what about Hillary? Will she be delivering a keynote speech during prime television time? Or is paying off her $20 million campaign debt enough for Obama to give her?

Flap wants to see that chicken wire restrain the Code Pink folks. Wait, you say that they are Obama delegates and wil be on the convention floor.

Oh…..

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