You are taking away one of the big sensationalist story lines for the media: Tension between Obama and Hillary.

The thing is the "cat fight" is just some looking for another excuse to claim that since they are women they will always fight (by implication over fashion and other "silly" stuff) and thus (in their tiny minds) it "proves" they are not fit for any office. Sarah is too stupid to realize she is helping nobody by her actions and Hillary just brushes it off because she is a pro. So for the tiny minded folks that confuses them greatly. And so we get people complaining about HRC not doing anough while ignoring whatever she does do.

i saw some of her speech in florida the other day and thought "what the heck is she doing there?  go to ohio!"  then i saw the polls.  good call Hillary, and good call big O!  now, SEND BILL AND BIDEN TO OHIO, PA, AND IN.  then rotate!

Hand wringing is exactly what it is.  Both Barack and Hillary are too smart to think that a Hillary vs. Palin fist fight gets us anywhere. They've got a plan, and they're sticking to it.

That's all I have to say.  The NOTION that Hillary owes the Obama campaign any more is absurd.  Let them fight their own battles.  If Hillary WANTS to help- so be it.  Otherwise, I'd say she and Bill have done and said more than enough.  

Maybe she should get an "Obama rainbow" tattoo on her ankle? Or maybe her forehead?

Ugh.  I really can't stand this dynamic.  It just brings all the primary bitterness right back to me- just when I'm TRYING to warm up to Obama.  Yikes.

Hillary is yesterday's news.  Nobody cares about her anymore.  She can't do much to help Obama.  It's Obama v. Palin/Mccain.

Maybe a fellow front pager would read your diary...

He was tired of her during the primary after the Kennedy thing and wanted her to drop out , now he wants her back on the trail attacking and apparently she is not doing enough for the front pager....

"Anybody who believes that the Republicans, whoever they are, can fix the mess they created probably believes that the iceberg could have saved the Titanic." -Hillary Clinton

McCain would like nothing better than a catfight and paint Hillary as one of Obama's wolves.

Obama would do well to use the "lipstick on a pig" line every day until the election.  Rural voters know exactly what it means.  Palin is the "lipstick", McSame is the "pig".  That is the undertone that worries Karl Rove.

I do NOT agree with that at all. Hillary is a historymaking political figure. It is NATURAL for people to want her to address Sarah Palin, who is also making history.

The fact taht Hillary won't say boo about her, except indirectly and tangentially, gives the impression that Hillary is not 100% behind Obama.

Whether this is her intention or her actual attitude is not determined. But, that's what people perceive, and that's why the media and the Republicans continue to exploit this.

Yes, sure, of course she is. In terms of the work she's putting or the effort, she definitely is. The issue isn't whether its "enough" but whether she's being as effective as she could be.

I don't know whether she should go after Palin, but I think it's bullshit to call it a potential "catfight."

If Palin were just running as a candidate, who is a woman, then yes, Hillary should not get involved just because she's a woman.

But Palin's campaign is ALL about being a woman. She's a hockey mom, she exploits her family, she talks about breaking the ceiling, she hides from the media, she cries sexism every 3 minutes.

Hillary Clinton is the perfect person to call her out on that. Palin is doing as much as she can to destroy the Clinton legacy. She's trying to ride "sexism" into the White House. Clinton could be the one to say, no, sorry. Your making this shit up. Youre the one's being sexist.

Good on Hillary.  I loved her speech.  And the on the ground campaigning she's doing is well suited to the Obama campaign.  Let McCain get his splashy headlines - the Democrats are doing the hard work that will lead to victory.

I think she's doing fine and likely doing what she said - whatever they ask me to do.  Obama's folks are smart and so are the Clintons - too much Hillary will turn this election into the Hillary v. Sarah show.  Heck, it's already the Sarah show.  It needs to be the Obama v. McCain show, because that's what it, in fact, is.

So I have no complaints about Hillary, what she's doing, or how she's being used.  I do, however, hope that Bill and Barack have a wonderful lunch tomorrow and that Barack asks Bill to campaign for him in key states.  It may be crass to ask too much of your primary opponent, the person you beat in a nailbiter.  There's nothing wrong with asking the most popular Democratic president since Kennedy to get out on the stump in support of the Dem candidate.  Don't want to repeat the mistake Gore made.  There's also nothing wrong with asking the first two-term (elected) Dem president since FDR for advice.  Bill loves campaigning and loves sharing his knowledge and experiences.  If Obama asks, I'm sure Bill will deliver.  But Obama has to ask.

What? You mean Hillary isn't bitter and remorseful about her loss and not being the Veep?
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

What is the M$M going to talk about for another 20 minutes?

Hillary isn't a dumb woman. She knows that she can get a lot more done as a Senator with Obama in the WH than with McCain. 2012 is a long time from now and to think that she would sabatoge Obama now to have a run then, is ridiculous.
Also, Democrats don't usually nominate folks who have lost previously in primaries. That's the Republican's method.

Obama gets in and Hillary's takes her rightful place as Senate Majority Lead. Bill gets a SCOTUS spot.

And we get to pay them back for 14 years......

i've been saying the same thing for quite a while now.

I think she is.  all the polls show that, overall, women are LESS likely to vote for McCain because of Pallin.  Where he has gained is with conservative white men who hate Hillary and weren't going to vote for Obama anyway.

Barack may be wrong on this.  Hillary and Bill could almost certainly do more than he is expecting of them.  However, in the end, I doubt that it will matter; and I suspect Barack is already aware of the increasing likelihood that his candidacy will suffer the fate of John Kerry's.  In a way, I hope that he is - because until he gets desperate enough to come out fighting for a knockout, I think the fans (the voters) will almost certainly agree with the judges (the Republican owned media), and award the victory to McCain/Palin.

Good diary.

First of all, he didn't pick her as his VP and people expect her to carry the burden? Has he done enough to help her retire her debt? Maybe if he did, she would, in return, have more time to campaign.

If Obama loses, the onus is on him. I suspect the turning point will be when he picked Joe Biden.

Also, have those critics already forgotten what a great speech each Clinton gave at the convention on Obama's behalf?

I wonder how long it will be before this site can have a rational discussion about the Clintons or Clintonlike behavior.  Just goes to show how much damage was done with primary tactics and continuing the race past the time it was reasonable has done to our chances in November.

Hillary is doing better than expected for Obama.  She cannot be expected to campaign better for him then she did for herself.  And most of her successful primary tactics wouldn't work for her in the general election, and are impossible to use on behalf of another.  But the media and Hillary partisans continue to work against both her and Obama.