So what is her job?

Oh, nothin' much: Just being awesome all day long, that's all.

This again from Carl Cameron on Fox.

Clarification: I had to shorten things for the headline. But the gist is: Yeah, she'll knock the "Bush/McCain" economy, but she won't "lay the wood" to them (not her job), and she'll support Obama, but she's not going to be making the case for Obama (or party unity), because that's also not her job.

So she's announcing "Yeah, I'll do the minimum required of me, but gee, if you wanted me to be an attack dog, you should have made me Veep, and if you wanted my full support of the Democratic nominee, you should have made me the Democratic nominee."

This could be a bit of lowering expectations, so that the Obama cultists don't freak on her if she fails to offer Obama the laurel wreath three times.

On the other hand, she could just be really pissed off.

And really awesome.

Old View of Hillary: Bitchy, Grasping, and Self-Obsessed

New View of Hillary: Delightfully Bitchy, Grasping, and Self-Obsessed

There is no "I" in team.

But her name is Hillary!, not "team," buddy.

(Note I have given her back her exclamation point out of Strange New Respect.)

20 Ways Obama is Snubbing Hillary: Obama could stand to get over himself a bit, too.

Hillary Rambo-Clinton

Slublog on that, of course..

So many pantsuits, so little time...

Go with the teal, Hillary. Teal says "I'm stabbing you in the back, yes, but I'm conflicted about it."

Thanks to TLC.

Update: Drew tells me that the Obama camp has leaked to MSNBC (quelle surprise, which is "what a surprise" in some foreign language ("Gay," I think, from what I can gather from its internet usage)), and they say the speech will be the Greatest Thing Imaginable for Obama.

Way to lower expectations, guys.

So I guess I have to reduce my enthusiasm.

It's possible the aide leaked that threat to Carl Cameron as a shot across the bow over the roll call. And, of course: Money. Hillary wants that money. It's her money; her campaign needs to repay personal loans she granted to it.

"Historic Snub"? The LAT reported on a speech to her supporters today -- a "preview," it's imagined, of Hillary's speech tonight -- and it failed to mention Obama or urge support of him specifically.

She only urged general support for "our nominees."

Okay, now I'm all excited again.

Then again, the speech was made before some women's group, so maybe they woudn't have been a receptive audience for Hillary's appeal to support the young inexperienced guy over the older experienced woman.

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Again on FoxNews. Either tomorrow or, I guess, timed to counter-program Obama's speech.

Which seems like a bad idea, as others have pointed out. McCain is not going to be able to dent the Obamamania that sweeps the MSM no matter who he names. He's putting up a weaker show against a stronger one; the weaker one will get demolished. Why lose out on any part of the news cycle he could have?

I suppose if McCain's pick were so amazingly awesome he could give Obama a contest for the newscycle. But who on earth could shock and awe us?

Other than Alex "Betty Bazooms" Jones, I don't know who'd give me a thrill up my leg.

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Possible Plan to Scrap Roll Call Entirely in Favor of Written Ballot (Which Woud Be Untelevised, and Perhaps Not Even at the Convention)

Alternate plan: Roll call begins tomorrow, but ends at 1:15. Then the call for unanimous acclimation of Obama.

Another plan: Each state reads its delegates' votes... but only Obama's numbers are mentioned. Hillary's delegate counts are omitted entirely. Thus, instead of saying "The Great State of Iowa casts (whatever) 44 votes for Hillary Clinton, and sixty-six votes for the next president of the United States, Barack Obama," they just say "Iowa casts sixty six votes for the next president of the United States, Barack Obama."

That's not how it traditionally works. At least I've always heard the vote-split way of announcing the delegate count.

On FoxNews now. Hill's Angels are getting pissed off.

I don't blame them, really. No one watches the roll call. More will watch this one, but what, exactly, is the problem? Everyone knows Hillary won nearly 50% of the delegates. What's the problem in having an announcement as to what everyone already knows?

Good Lord All Mighty, Obama is a vain, thin-skinned guy.

Bear in mind, this genius Obama is further annoying Hillary's delegates in the interests of "uniting the party."

It's 3 a.m. All Over Again: McCain's, and Hilary's, new ad:

Man, if that ad was racist when Hillary ran it, I can't wait to find out how extra-special racist it is now that it's McCain's.

Thanks to KP.

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But not Michelle Malkin -- Alex Jones pushes away an Indian-looking feller who interposes himself between Malkin and Jones, and Jones pushes him, hard. Which is, technically, an assault.

Starts at 2:39.

That Indian guy is kinda ballsy. People asked "With all those men, none defended her?" Well, he did.

As Joe Biden might say, I wouldn't mind if that Indian feller married my 7-Eleven.

While I have long have had fantasies about an encounter between Michelle Malkin and big-breasted dominant type, I have to say I'm... kinda disappointed.

Man, look at Alex Jones' tits. They're mesmerizing. Look at that t-shirt straining to contain his heaving man-knockers and whorishly-erect mipples. What a set of mugs. I'd like to stick my head between those engorged he-hooters and make dinosaur noises.

I have totally swiped this from Gateway Pundit, so please click him for background and to look at his other stories.

(It's possible, by the way, both the Indian guy and his less-aggressive buddy in the black shirt are security.)

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Yes, his name has been mentioned.

It's fun to dream.

Is this even possible? He's an active duty soldier in a time of war. I assume he can retire; but I also assume the army can draft him (or re-activate him, or whatever the correct term is) if he's needed... which, of course, he is.

In theory, he could run CENTCOM from the office of the Vice President. He would be the generals' superior civilian commander, after all. (If not automatically, then by presidential executive order.)

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It's so much 200-proof awesome I just got cirrhosis of the awesome.

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.”

Ha, ha, ha. You bought him, liberals. You own him.

He's all yours. How are you enjoying your purchase?

Are you satisfied with the product? Are you satisfied with the customer service?

Would you order from this outfit again?

If so, you still have a chance to order a similar model -- but there are only three days left to place your order.

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He's changed his slogan from Change We Can Believe In to The Change We Need.

So all of you racist right-wing detractors can kindly eat your tongues. There's the steak with the sizzle. There's your serious policy proposals.

Haters.

Andrew Sullivan just emailed me to call this change of slogan "the singlemost important policy declaration since the Marshall Plan."

Thanks to Liberrocky.

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Wow. It gets better and better.

Last night, Illinois’ State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias addressed the DNC, talking about his “friend and mentor”, Barack Obama, and calling for “a new type of leadership.” Giannoulias said that Obama has great integrity, yet the association between the two men raises questions along the lines of (and related to) convicted felon Tony Rezko.

...

Giannoulias, who was called Obama’s “protégé” in a Chicago-based publication, has also served as the National Chairman of Greeks for Obama Committee.

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According to a Chicago Tribune article from 2006, Giannoulias “has faced questions about [his] bank’s multi-million dollar loans to Michael Gioranago, a convicted bookmaker and prostitution ring promoter.” Barack Obama was quoted in the article as saying that he “is concerned by revelations that the bank owned by Illinois Democratic treasurer nominee Alexi Giannoulias' family gave loans to a Chicago crime figure and said the candidate owes him and the public a full accounting.”

And while Giannoulias claimed that the loans to Gioranago were made “before he became a full-time bank employee”, “newly discovered public records show Broadway Bank made $11.8 million in additional mortgage loans to Giorango just last year. Giannoulias said he oversaw the servicing of those loans.”

Giannoulias also appears to have lied about the bank's financing of a casino boat marina.

...

Obama endorsed Giannoulias for State Treasurer when the latter was just 29 years old, but the NY Post reported that “Giannoulias is so tainted by reputed mob links that several top Illinois Dems, including the state's speaker of the House and party chairman, refused to endorse him even after he won the Democratic nomination with Obama's help.” Obama remained a big supporter and is credited with having been an important factor in Giannoulias’s victory.

Giannoulias also has a history of donating to Republicans -- but if a Republican has endorsed this shady character, we're still waiting to hear of it. And as the article points out, money in Chicago politics is often based on not ideology but corrupt favors -- so what exactly did casue Giannoulias to stop donating to Republicans and become such a huge donor to and fundraiser for Obama? And why did Obama (apparently alone) endorse this sketchy operator for State Treasurer?

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I was wondering why the national organizations weren't reporting on this.

They were smart to be more skeptical than the local news channels that hyped the story. Turns out it most likely is a meth-fueled fantasy.

A half dozen federal security officials have told The Mouth that the supposed plot to assassinate Barack Obama during his Thursday acceptance speech in Denver by four armed dope suspects was considered a bunch of hooey.

Tharin Robert Gartrell, 28, and several other drug suspects linked to white supremacist groups were busted Sunday after Aurora, Colo., cops saw him driving a rented pickup erratically.

"What's in plain view? Guns and a bulletproof vest," a federal agent assigned to the Democrats' Denver nominating convention told The Mouth. "One rifle had a scope sighted in at 750 yards. But he said they werent his guns."

Cops went looking for Gartrell's pals at two hotels. At the second hotel, their knock on a door prompted a suspect to leap out his sixth-story window and break his ankle in the fall, sources said. During interrogation, one of the suspects dimed out a buddy for allegedly threatening to kill Obama, officials said.

"They all had meth with them. There is no evidence of a plot other than one guy's word, and meth heads aren't that reliable (with the truth)," the federal agent said.

Confederate Yankee suggests the left is hyping this non-story for reasons both obvious and inobvious.

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Let the American Papist (yup -- great name) narrate the controversy.

Here's how Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants cautiously begins:

REP. PELOSI: I would say that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time.

Cardinals and bishops are correcting her, but as of yet, no response. She must be busy in her library of Catholic theology, researching the question further.

Probably wearing a mitre. And maybe two more mitres on each of the saline-filled medicine balls she calls her cans.

More on Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants: In the same interview she defined natural gas as not a fossil fuel (it's an alternative energy, it seems), she explains away her conflict-of-interest investment in "green" energy companies thus:

She also said that an investment she and her husband had made in a company that produces natural gas for use in automobiles, revealed last week by The Wall Street Journal, was not a conflict of interest because "I'm investing in something I believe in."

Ah. So she "believes" in the investment. Ergo, no conflict of interest. Even though she's pushing T. Boone Pickens' plan to convert natural gas (not a fossil fuel, incidentally) into automobile fuels.

And Still More on Nana PlasticKnockers McSatanWhore: Oh, the wit. The drollery.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wanted to know if those people chanting "drill here, drill now' really meant it.

"Right here? You want to drill right here?" Pelosi asked as John McCain supporters began their chant. "Can we drill your brain?"

She left without taking questions. Then she went to her plastic surgeon to have the stem cells from an aborted fetus injected directly into her clitoris. There is no medical purpose to this procedure, her doctor allowed; Granny Rictus just "likes the buzz."

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