If I'm to believe CNN, et al., Barack Obama could use all the help he can get at this week's convention. Of course, they're not getting it from CNN. Or MSNBC. Or anybody else.
They're focusing on all those disenchanted Clinton supporters who are angry that she wasn't chosen for VP, and how John McCain is wooing them. You may ask, how crass can they be? The GOP, that is.
From what I'm reading about the paid plants trying to bring back 1968, there is no end to Republican crassness. There is no bottom to that well.
Some of the Clinton supporters are mad because she supposedly "wasn't even vetted" for VP. The way I understand it, to use a school analogy, if you don't turn in your paper, you don't get graded. The story I heard from CNN's interview with Obama vetter Eric Holder, is that the Clintons didn't want to release their papers, including the donor list for the presidential library, to the Obama campaign.
Hillary Clinton wasn't "vetted" because she couldn't be vetted.
Now, some Clinton supporters are appearing in ads for John McCain. (For all I know, they may be plants, but who's checking?) Yeah, John McCain. You know, they guy who said he'd be a "pro-life president" at that shindig at Rick Warren's church. John McCain--the guy who also said he was "proud" of George Bush's Supreme Court picks, John Roberts and Samuel Alito.
So, all because some Clinton supporters feel that their candidate was disrespected when no dispect was intended, they're willing to vote to go against everything Hillary Clinton has worked for for the last thirty years. Say what you want about the Clintons; at the very least, they're worked tirelessly for women's rights, including reproductive rights. And now, some want us to throw it all away.
A few years ago, a friend of mine and I were talking about Roe, and she believed that for all their Religious Right bluster, not even the Republicans would act to overturn Roe. They'd be crazy to do it, she said.
Well, it's in the Republican platform--Roe overturned, and no exceptions for the mother's life or health. I hope those Clinton supporters like the next four years. When John McCain appoints the next justice who will overturn Roe--and it WILL happen--THEY WON'T STOP THERE.
When Roe is overturned, they will then go after Griswold vs. Connecticut, and every other law allowing women to use birth control. They're already working on the birth control equals abortion meme in Bush's cabinet, with regard to regulations for family planning clinics. If you think John McCain will change this policy, think again.
I don't believe for one minute that Barack Obama meant to be disrespectful in any way to the Clintons. I'm not sure what he could have done differently if the Clintons didn't want to release their records.
I'm not sure what Obama could have done differently, or how he could have been more "respectful." But I do know that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden agree a lot more on what matters for this country than they ever will with John McCain.