On the surface there's Barack Obama's self-serving rhetoric about "party unity," and one millimeter deeper there's the reality of his divisive campaign:
A former bundler to Hillary Clinton just called in to tell me that Barack Obama's selection of Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to the campaign's eventual vice presidential nominee is the "biggest fuck you I have ever seen in politics."The donor, speaking on background, said that everyone in Clinton circles knows the two have hard feelings towards one another and haven't spoken since Clinton removed Solis Doyle as campaign manager, and that Clinton loyalists view her with deep suspicion and believe that she is shopping around a book deal and acted as a background source for an extremely harsh Vanity Fair piece about Bill Clinton.
On the surface there's Obama's communications director Robert Gibbs expressing surprise at the negative reaction of Hillary Clinton's friends to hiring Solis Doyle, and one millimeter deeper there's the usual reality:
Hillary Clinton's camp was seething yesterday over what it sees as a snub by Barack Obama in appointing a former staffer with whom she has fallen out to a key post in his campaign team."This is a stick in the eye to her," one of her inner circle said, adding that it effectively ruled Clinton out as his vice-presidential running mate.
There's really only one dot to connect in this story: Solis Doyle provides background for Vanity Fair to slime Bill Clinton, and a few weeks later she gets a plum job for her beautiful future with Barack Obama.
Obama's "principles" won't let him pay $10 to a kid in Philadephia for passing out flyers for his campaign, but for major political players Obama can always find 30 pieces of silver to pay off a Democratic Judas like Patti Solis Doyle, or an endorsement to pay off a Blue Dog super-delegate like John Barrow, and it's just frosting on the cake if he can simultaneously screw over a black progressive candidate like Regina Thomas.
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