Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Democratic Party "unity" watch (contd)

Sources inside the Hillary camp tell NRO's Byron York that they're STILL not getting enough love:

"I asked whether Team Clinton appreciated Michelle Obama's mention in last night's speech. "Yes, the line was appreciated," I was told. "It was only one sentence, it could have been a bit more than one sentence, but it was appreciated." "However," the source continued, "we had a two-term president who left with a 65 percent approval rating, who Barack Obama forgot to mention when he described Ronald Reagan as a transformational figure, and who was not mentioned at all by Michelle Obama." I'm told that did not sit well in the hotel where a lot of Clinton loyalists are staying. "There was a palpable anger that no one in the Obama camp saw the need to mention that Hillary Clinton cracked the glass ceiling and that Bill Clinton opened the doors to prosperity and peace, and that we owe him a great debt."

I think the Clinton people feel that, in the past month or so, when they've pushed for concessions, the Obama camp has made them; so they're going to keep pushing, as long as they can. Real "unity" there.