Here's what's taken place soo far.
Democratic convention: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton feud
Feuding advisers to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are trading bitter accusations and barbed insults as the Democratic convention opens, threatening to divide the party despite all public protestations of unity.
By Toby Harnden in Denver
Last Updated: 7:54PM BST 25 Aug 2008
One senior Obama supporter told Politico that Clinton associates holding negotiations on her behalf had been acting like "Japanese soldiers in the South Pacific, still fighting after the war is over".
A Democratic operative close to the Clintons shot back: "He [Mr Obama] has not fully reconciled and he has not demonstrated that he accepts the Clintons and the Clinton wing of the party."
Clinton allies are particularly indignant that the former First Lady was not even on Mr Obama's shortlist to be his vice-presidential running mate.
In some ways, Mrs Clinton appears still to be fighting an election campaign, sending out several emails a day detailing her programme, thanking supporters and responding to McCain advertisements courting her supporters.
With the opinion polls showing Mr Obama tied with his Republican opponent John McCain, Democrats are nervous that disunity could signal defeat in November. A CNN poll found that some 30 per cent of Clinton supporters refuse to back Mr Obama.
Central to the tension between the two camps is the speech on Wednesday night by former President Bill Clinton. Mr Clinton has been asked to talk about national security but his aides protest that he should have been allowed to contrast the current economy with that during his administration in the 1990s.
Clinton supporters fear this means Mr Clinton might be blamed for sounding tepid about Mr Obama. "That puts him in a terrible bind, because you can't give a ringing endorsement when you're talking about foreign policy," a longtime Clinton adviser told Politico. "Obviously, the hard thing to talk about with Obama is commander in chief, of all his many talents."
Democratic operatives attempted to crush the developing narrative about a Obama-Clinton rift. "The fact is that our teams are working closely to ensure a successful convention, and will continue to do so," said David Axelrod, Mr Obama's chief strategist, and Maggie Williams, who was Mrs Clinton's campaign manager. "Anyone saying anything else doesn't know what they're talking about - period."
Anita Dunn, a senior Obama aide, said that Mrs Clinton and her campaign had been "wonderful partners in working on this convention with us".
Jamal Simmons, a Democratic strategist close to the Obama campaign, told "The Daily Telegraph": "This is a purely media-generated issue. By all signs from the Cs and current and former staff everybody is working together to get Barack Obama elected president.
"Rumours circles among Democrats all the time. We're professional hand-wringers. There always something people get worked up about. One of the things conventions are about is bringing people together. There was a long-fought primary and there were a lot of people who were very emotionally invested but the entire party is now together."
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Clinton supporters are an aggressive bunch, much more are the female voters because the possibilities of having a woman as president are less and less, and though this may not be the main reason.. it covers more ground than any other, because those who know less about Clinton are given more of an opportunity to throw their votes in behind that. Of course with this comes the necessity that their voices be heard, and it doesn't help that Clinton is such a sore loser judging from this report today:
"Behind the scenes tonight Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton are still seeking to hammer out a compromise plan over the former First Lady's demand to have an open roll-call vote on the convention floor, a move that would highlight the fact that she won nearly as many delegates in their primary battle.
Mr Obama wants the floor vote cut off after just a few states, followed by a unanimous consent vote in his favor." {http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w
orld/us_and_americas/us_elections/articl
e4607991.ece}
Even though both Clinton and Obama may be trying to push for a more unified convention, that bitterness is still held by some of Clintons' delegates who are displaying their sore losing with Clinton for President banners, and if that isn't enough, they are also
threatening to vote for McCain... and this is mostly because:
1. he didn't consider Clinton for vice president and
2. he didn't even CONSULT her on his choice.
Who's to blame for this? Clinton or her Delegates? I've heard from a very devoted Clinton fan some of the same rhetoric that was reported on here.
Is this really how it is or it it just imagined?
I'll tell you something you already know, Big media likes to take things like this and make them a bigger deal than what it already is, and sometimes they make this stuff up for other reasons either because of their responsibility to sling mud the other way or for their ratings.
But even if I were to go as far as to say that this Isn't true, I know FOR A FACT that one person feels like this and that requires a solution.
Help Obama loose so that McCain can get the vote.
Or just make Obama 'Go away' so that Hillary can get the nomination again... or, better yet, Get Obama AND McCain to go away THAN you can have it your way 100%!
Wouldn't that just make a whole bunch of you happy?
Get your head out of your ass and support the democrats!
That's funny... I'm on her campaign mailing list, and the only mailings I've gotten in the last month were 2 about the HHS ruling trying to block birth control, and a mailing about Stephanie Tubbs Jones dying. I think this might be a good example of the media making crap up.
I know that she (Clinton) made a speech about McCain using her in an ad to target her supporters which she pithily ended with "I'm Hillary Clinton, and I do NOT support that message."
What's more, she unofficially released her delegates a couple of months ago. Wednesday she makes a speech where she not only officially releases her delegates to Obama, she declares herself voting for Obama (she's a superdelegate). The open roll call snafu mystifies me, honestly. It's totally ceremonial, and was floated by the Obama campaign as part of a package deal wherein Michigan and Florida get full seats at the convention. Her name being on the nomination open call is symbolic, just like the last couple of primaries were; no woman has ever competed in all primaries, win or lose. Now one has. Next time, maybe it won't be so hard.
As far as everyone who still feels butthurt about how the party has done certain things, they're within their rights to feel however they want, and use their vote accordingly, so quit being a big whiny baby because everyone doesn't agree with you. ;)