No B.O.

"[Hillary] doesn't have the right to release us. We're not little kids to be told what to do in a half-hour."

-- Disappointed and angry Massachusetts delegate Nancy Saboori after Hillary deserted, I mean released her delegates to shouts of "No!" from the convention floor.


Dems choose Obama in thunderous acclamation
Aug 27, 7:18 PM (ET)
By DAVID ESPO

DENVER (AP) - Barack Obama, claiming a prize never held by a black American, swept to the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday as thousands of national convention delegates stood and cheered his improbable triumph.

Former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton asked the convention delegates to make it unanimous "in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory." And they did, with a roar.

Competing chants of "Obama" and "Yes we can" floated up from the convention floor as Obama's victory was sealed.

Obama was across town as the delegates he won in the primaries of winter and spring cast their votes. Aides left open the possibility that he would briefly visit the Pepsi Center to thank his supporters, a routine event at recent national conventions. His formal acceptance speech Thursday night was expected to draw a crowd of 75,000 at a nearby football stadium where an elaborate backdrop was under construction.

Clinton's call for Obama to be approved by acclamation - midway through the traditional roll call of the states - was the culmination of a painstaking agreement worked out between the two camps to present a unified front.

Theatrics, that's all. Hillary is allowed to save face and pretend to be the power broker. What a childish display. Obama and Hillary aren't fooling anyone, not even their own blind followers.

Doom

Clinton delegates back Obama, but poll show concern
By John M. Broder and Dalia Sussman
Published: August 25, 2008

Delegates to the Democratic National Convention arrive in Denver having largely put aside the deep divisions of the primary fight between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, although some hold lingering concerns about Obama's level of experience, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll.

More than half of the delegates that Clinton won in the primaries now say they are enthusiastic supporters of Obama, and they also believe he will win the presidential election in November, the poll found. Three in 10 say they support Obama but have reservations about him or they support him only because he is the party's nominee. Five percent say they do not support him yet.

The poll, which was taken before Obama selected Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware as his running mate, also suggests that Clinton's 1,640 pledged delegates are evenly split over whom they plan to vote for on the floor of the convention during the roll call vote on Wednesday evening.

There will be blood. The PUMAs are on the prowl, though. Obama didn't ingratiate himself any by dissing Hillary yet again when he picked Joe "The Mouth" Biden to be his running mate.

Hell than no fury, Barry.

Hillary's Supporters to Obama: "Party Unity My A**!"

CNN's "Political Ticker" chronicled a growing movement of disgruntled Hillary supporters who are actively working against Obama:





Here's an MSNBC piece on Democrats who won't vote the party line:






Just Say No Deal:






Hillary's gals: "We are being thrown under the bus!"





NObama Girl: "We've Got to Crush Obama!" Hillarious!

Christmas in August: Obama Picks Biden for Running Mate

Not the Guy?

Biden speaks _ and speaks _ his own mind
Aug 23 12:51 AM US/Eastern
By CALVIN WOODWARD
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama told everyone he wanted a running mate who will challenge his thinking, and now he's got one. Joe Biden's tendency to speak his own mind—and speak and speak—is entwined in his DNA.

The loquacious Delaware senator brings more than verbiage to Obama's side. Biden is a foreign policy heavyweight with a decade longer in the Senate than the seasoned Republican presidential candidate, John McCain. That's almost three more decades of experience than his new boss.

In Washington, Biden, 65, is known as a collegial figure even when he's competitive—one who can spin flowery praise one moment and biting fulmination the next.

His second presidential campaign faltered early on, just one of the Democrats shunted to the sidelines as the bracing contest between Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sucked the air out of the rest of the field.

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden is one of the most influential foreign policy voices in Congress. An internationalist and strong supporter of the United Nations, he is a leading critic of what he sees as the vague, unilateralist approach of President Bush.

Biden voted in 2002 to authorize the Iraq invasion, which Obama opposed from the start. Since then, he's become a firm critic of the conflict and pushed through a resolution last year declaring that Bush's troop increase—now considered a military success—was "not in the national interest."

Calling the Obamafraud "clean" and "articulate" must have done the trick.

Just on Tuesday this week, Biden told reporters "I'm not the guy" when reporters asked him if he would be Obama's running mate.

It will be interesting to see how the rabid liberal base of the Democratic Party reacts to an Obama running mate who has voted to authorize President George W. Bush to go to war with Iraq when it was politically convenient to do so and who now questions the unquestionable success of the troop surge in Iraq.

Biden is Hillary with hair plugs.

Biden is pompous and arrogant. It is a physics miracle that his ego and Obama's coexist in the same Universe.

And I can't wait to watch Biden's sure-to-come verbal diarrhea.

[Update] A smart Democratic nominee-in-waiting would have picked Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, a "moderate" by liberal standards, as his running mate. But then again, the Obamessiah may have figured he would alienate Saint Hillary's supporters if he chose a female running mate other than the megalomaniacal former First Lady.

Sebelius

Hillary's Brownshirts

Clinton creates 'whip team' to quell anti-Obama protests

In an unusual move, Hillary Clinton's staff is creating a 40-member "whip team" at the Denver Democratic convention to ensure that her supporters don't engage in embarrassing anti-Obama demonstrations during the floor vote on her nomination, according to people familiar with the planning.

The team, which is being organized by longtime Clinton staffer Craig Smith, is working in conjunction with Obama's floor organizers to help foster the image of a unified front during a roll-call process Clinton herself has described as an emotional
"catharsis" for her disappointed supporters.

"If people get down there on the floor and want to start blowing kazoos and making a scene we want to make sure we've got people who stand in front of them with Obama signs," said a person involved in the planning. (More)

Hillary and her minions have reached a new low. Now they are into suppressing the freedom of expression of their own supporters. I wonder if Hillary will follow through with her plan to throw her own worshippers under the bus now that it seems the Obamafraud has never even considered having her as his running mate.

Meanwhile, the Obamafraud vp choice bait-and-switch continues as a sycophantic "main stream" media drools in anticipation. The Obamafraud's vp pick has been "imminent" for a while.

I hope it's Joe Biden. It would be like Christmas and my birthday all wrapped up in one delightful package.

“A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.”

-- NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd, suggesting an alternative to the statement that "media sexism" derailed Hillary's candidacy and "dampens the dreams of our daughters," that Hill's supporters managed to insert into the national Democratic Party platform.