Your comment displays of course, the very character traits and miscalculations that may cost Obama the election---arrogance that leads to dismissal of those "apostates" inside his own party whom he may well need to get over the top.

Elections aren't won by self-confidence. Leaving or pushing away blocks (no matter what size) of your own likely voters is a vanity that Obama shouldn't have fallen into.

I am, indeed, not a supporter of Clinton, but it is hard to say what he thinks Biden will bring to the election that she would not have. And she proved the better vote getter..

The calculation might have been that she'd mobilize the right wingers to come out and vote when they might otherwise sit on their hands and let Obama win. I can't argue with that negative case against Hillary, but I sure don't see the positive case for the an alternative who is in the top 1% of all senators ever for longevity of tenure. If change is your message, why throw your arm around of the steadiest fixtures of the thing you wish to change?

Your dismissal, Greatbear, of the Clintonites you so apparently hate here is exactly the kind of internecine crowing that must be most destructive to Obama's chances in November. You and he are too quick to tell other people that they don't matter and won't count. Why should they support your fortunes?

Because Bush has been such a disaster, the zealous and inexperienced cannot imagine any correct-thinking person voting Republican or just staying home on election day. Some of us older folks have seen it happen more than once--and to candidates who, it seemed, always promised "change" but in the end were not believable.