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HILLARY'S ADVENTURES IN THE MILE HI-DEE-HO CITY
Posted, August 26, 2008,  12:01 p.m

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Hi-dee-ho here we go a Democratic Party convention all fluff and no substance, a rolling stone of ideas gathering no moss but bloated with self-aggrandizement. After all, on Thursday, the party of ideas and no action is about to be the first to break the race barrier and nominate an African-American as their party’s nominee. Everyone’s backs are bruised from the en masse tapping of self-praise. Did you ever meet a liberal who didn’t get his/her jets off by breaking down social barriers? The Democratic Party, the Feel-Good Party of no ideas less action but hi-dee-ho on social issues. OK, not all bad.

But despite the once bruising now charming Michelle Obama speech and the perfectly saccharine follow-up familial conversation with a wrinkled-shirted Barack Obama and his well-coiffed and understated wife Michelle (O so Jackie O in style and maybe even substance) and the two picture-perfect children right out of a Hollywood casting studio en play - a conversation the most scripted non-scripted piece of theater ever, there remains that problem that one little hi-dee-ho dilemma  plaguing the Democratic Party.

The dilemma comes in the form of Hillary Clinton, and her husband the former President of the United States Bill Clinton even if Barack Obama would have you think otherwise.

Hi-dee-ha-ha.

It must have been driving Barack Obama mad, literally, to watch the convention coverage last night. No questions about Obama, scant air-time other than the proverbial nod to the courageous and possibly life-threatening appearance of his mentor, the ailing Ted Kennedy there to take the focus off the Clinton drama and put it back on the presumptive nominee and himself, in his poignant and unthinkable Kennedy last hurrah.

But still the talk was all Hillary and all Bill all the time. Not an interview started without the proverbial Clinton question. “Why do you think it is it’s taking so long for Hillary Clinton supporters to come around to Senator Obama,” Ann Curry asked. And then on and on and on, all the interviewers, all relentless, goading the interviewees to answer the Clinton question the interviewers facing the forced smiles of the aggravated party elite revealing 10,000 dollar white clenched Chicklet teeth maybe finally realizing that the little problem that they were sure would go away, hadn’t. And hi-dee-ho, if not soon addressed and nipped in the bud could very likely cost Barack Obama the election.

As this melodrama played out in the Mile-Hi-Dee-Ho city, the directors of the play, the Clintons, were having a hi-dee-ho field day with the nubile Obama team who had once looked so brilliant and now were being played on Convention opening night like a well-tuned cello in the hands of Yo-Yo-Ma-hi-dee-ho.

Beginning last week with the naming of Obama’s vice-presidential pick, when team Clinton let it be known that Hillary had never been vetted despite Obama’s repeated alluding to the fact that she was being vetted because, “Hillary would be on anyone’s shortlist,” to Clinton surrogates such as Ed Rendell going on-air and everywhere deriding the media and particularly MSNBC for it’s pro-Obama biased coverage of the primaries just in time to further inflame HRC’s already inflamed supporters, to word leaking out most probably from the Camp Clinton yesterday that BO was trying to muzzle the former President and what he could talk about in his Wednesday night speech, which forced BO to stand on a hot airport tarmac in order to diffuse Bill Clinton’s accusations, the Clintons have been on a PR tear.

“I said, "Mr. President you can say whatever you like,” Obama recounted his conversation with Clinton to the press. “Bill Clinton is a unique figure in our politics... It wouldn’t make sense to me to try and edit his remarks.”

Well, it might not make sense to try and edit the former President’s remarks, but hi-dee-ho, Obama did. And now he was being forced to kiss you know whose you know what in praise when the praise should have been being lavished on him and his you know what.

And as if that weren’t enough there then began the clamoring over the roll call vote. The Obama Camp was getting nervous about it. Would Hillary wind up with too many votes? The backroom talks ensued, which resulted in today’s announcement that the Clinton and Obama camps agreed to limit Wednesday's potentially divisive nominating process for president, allowing some states to cast votes for both Obama and Clinton before ending the roll call in an acclamation for the Illinois senator.

But last night it got even better, from Nancy Pelosi to Michelle Obama, everyone kissing you know who else’s you know what in praise, and then back to those interviews and take it to the present, and today, again, the news is all Hillary all the time from the MSM to the Looney tunes cable channels to the blogosphere both left and right.

It’s Hi-Dee-Ho Hillary Day and tonight is Hillary Clinton’s big speech.

Everyone wants to know, will she go all out for Obama or only do what is necessary, which is a ridiculous question because of course she will do whatever it takes to get Obama elected. She wants to keep her options open for a future presidential run and the only way to do that is to play according to Party rules.

She can do that, no problem, because after all, Hillary has Bill and her many surrogates and supporters to undermine Barack Obama’s chances for becoming president.

But better still, she’s got Barack Obama, who may have out-maneuvered the Clintons in their bid for the party’s presidential nomination, but who, in his first battle with the opposition, lost, and lost hi-dee-ho-O-so Obama Big!