‘They really, really hate Obama,’ one Democratic operative unaffiliated with any campaign, tells me. ‘They can’t stand him. They talk about him as if he’s worse than Bush.’ What do they hate about him? After all, there aren’t a lot of deep policy differences between the two, and he hasn’t gone for the jugular during the campaign. ‘It’s his presumptuousness,’ this operative says. ‘That he thinks he can deny her the nomination. Who is he to try to do that?’ You mean, he’s, uh, uppity? ‘Yes.’ A senior House Democratic aide notes, ‘The Clinton people are going nuts in how much they hate him. But the problem is their narrative has gone beyond the plausible.’

This is sweeter than honey. Mrs. Inevitable stands to be made evitable by this ‘young, nothing, how dare he?’.

I’m sad about it because I want her to win the primaries. The spectacle of her attacking a Black, not realizing the potential of alienating the Blacks is beyond ironic. But, hey, this is the smartest woman in the world, married to the best political strategist in the world.

Then there’s this – the more she does it, the more she’s compared to Mr. Nixon. That fits to perfection and drives the Clintonistas nuts.

And another thought – She might consider asking Mr. Obama to be her VP, to get back/retain the Black voters, although she’d prefer Mr. Richardson for the Latinos, but she knows too well that he’d never ask her to be his VP.

Molasses – yet, it doesn’t make me happy, just temporarily giddy. It couldn’t happen to a more cold, calculating and presumptious person. And her camp calls Mr. Obama “presumptious”. Oh, the irony.

p.s. notice how irrelevant Edwards is in all of it.

p.p.s. notice how much the media love it.

Entelechy on December 4, 2007 at 11:40 PM