It’s Official: Democrats Are Schmoos

Every minute that goes by provides more evidence that, yes, the Democrats are  jerks Schmoos, with a capital “J.”  They keep shooting themselves in the foot stuck in their mouths, not an easy thing to do, to be sure.   AP News is reporting:

In an emotional meeting leading up to the Democratic roll call of the states, Hillary Rodham Clinton released her convention delegates Wednesday to vote for certain presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Many in the crowded ballroom yelled back, “No!”

“I am not telling you what to do,” Clinton responded. “You’ve come here from so many different places having made this journey and feeling in your heart what is right for you to do.”

This was expected, and so far, it doesn’t seem so bad, right?  Well, except for that whole “nominate Obama” thing, but enough said about that.  While some delegates were said to be “visibly upset” by the plan to engage in a symbolic roll call-in-name-only, some were more upset than others:

Massachusetts delegate Nancy Saboori was visibly upset at the end of Clinton’s speech.

“She doesn’t have the right to release us,” Saboori argued. “We’re not little kids to be told what to do in a half-hour.”

The story continues:

Not all Clinton supporters were on board. Sonja Jaquez Lewis, a Clinton delegate from Colorado, said she and others may walk out if Clinton is denied a roll call.

“If we don’t have an official roll call vote, state-by-state, it is going to reopen a wound,” Lewis said.

Ya think?  Unsurprisingly, Claire McCaskill is vying for the title of Chief Among Schmoos:

Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, an Obama supporter, said Clinton’s challenge in getting her delegates to come on board with Obama “may be the biggest test of her leadership.”

“If she’s not a strong enough leader to get her followers to do what’s right for America, then that would surprise me,” McCaskill told the AP. “I think they are going to follow her lead, and her lead was very crystal clear last night.”

Wyoming Senator Mike Massie tells of the shenanigans going on:

Wyoming state Sen. Mike Massie, D-Laramie, said his delegation gave 12 votes to Obama and six to Clinton after state party officials rejected a request from Clinton delegates to delay the vote until after a meeting later in the day with Clinton. Massie said the delegation is still puzzled by orders to vote before Clinton could meet with her delegates and release them.

“That question is on the minds of a lot of people,” Massie said.

They rushed the vote?  Say it ain’t so!  In other news showing the delusion of the clueless, from another AP article:

Bill Clinton will say in a roughly eight-minute speech that only a Democrat in the White House can “restore America’s standing to what it was eight years ago,” said the aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to pre-empt the former president’s speech.

And this:

In a sign of unity, Obama adviser Berman and Clinton adviser Smith told delegates on Wednesday that they had been working out of the same office all week to ensure a smooth convention.

“The story is that we are working as a team,” Berman said.

Some story.  “Clinton adviser Smith.”  We know whose side he’s really on.  Bill Clinton gets an eight minute speech, Hillary Clinton’s delegates are forced to vote before talking to her, and Claire McCaskill thinks this is all about Hillary.  It is, but not the way Claire thinks, if she is indeed capable of such activity.  And while Claire might be Chief Schmoo, she can’t hold a candle to Nancy P.:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, presiding officer of the Democratic National Convention, predicted the roll-call voting after the names of both Obama and Clinton were put in nomination would go “very smoothly.”

Anything like Congress, Nan?  Schmoos, the whole lot of ‘em.