Odd
Or maybe just the sound of a man drowning in a tank of his own bullshit. (I choose my term of derogation carefully.)
Update this morning – Maybe this has something to do with it:
For the first time in months, the traded price for the proposition that Hillary Clinton will be the next Democratic Party nominee rose in the Intrade prediction markets; nearly doubling from a rock bottom of 2.5% to nearly 5%. What’s going on? In the video “a woman asks Mrs. Clinton what happens if her name is placed in nomination at the convention and she actually wins. ‘That’s not going to happen,’ Mrs. Clinton replies. ‘What we want to have happen is for Senator Obama to be nominated by a unified convention of Democrats’”
It was pointed out here, back when Obama “won” the Democratic nomination, that he had in fact won nothing at all because he had insufficient committed delegates from the caucuses and primaries to put him over the top. The “commitment” of so-called superdelegates is never finally certain until they cast their votes on the floor of the convention.
Of course, no one believes that Obama can simply lose the nomination under some ordinary ebb and flow of superdelegate affections. They would need to be jolted to have sufficient cover to jilt Obama. They need that cover because they don’t want to be hunted as political bosses by the protestors-cum-rioters outside the convention hall. So the jolt would have to be something that even those morons will understand.
But one thing is for certain. Many fewer Democratic power brokers want to see Obama as the candidate. But when you have people like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as your Congressional leaders it says something about the coherency of your party and its ability to adapt its way out of the corner it has painted itself into.