FROM THE "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" FILE

Bill still fuming over Hillary's loss in the primaries....

The former president's rage is still so great that even loyal allies are shocked by his patronising attitude to Mr Obama, and believe that he risks damaging his own reputation by his intransigence. A senior Democrat who worked for Mr Clinton has revealed that he recently told friends Mr Obama could "kiss my ass" in return for his support.

It has long been known that Mr Clinton is angry at the way his own reputation was tarnished during the primary battle when several of his comments were interpreted as racist. But his lingering fury has shocked his friends. Bill Clinton knows the party will unite behind Obama, but he is telling people he doesn't believe Obama can win round voting groups, especially working-class whites, in the swing states.

How does this play out considering it has become increasingly clear that he cannot win without his spouse, Hillary? He is failing to make the "four more Bush years" persona stick to McCain in any appreciable way, and the tight polling shows it. He will have an extremely tough time drawing out the youth vote, or working class white vote he will so desperately need to get the necessary electoral votes.

Obama, once considered to be of a messianic status, is not drawing crowds like he used to. His campaign, once seemingly inevitable, has reached near normalcy, as McCain's charges of "flip-flopping" has stuck, and hurt him badly. Today, the media is all over his apparent back stepping on his Iraqi withdrawal time table, a bedrock position, as important as being pro-choice.

Stupid stupid move.
For him to allow the voters to consider him less than honest and forthright with his original platforms will be an absolute deathblow.

The American public has had his "change" mantra driven down their collective gullets, and he must show that he can indeed be the person we need to "turn the page" on the American political past. As he continues his John Kerry like saunter from his liberal beliefs to the middle ground, people are seeing politics as usual. If this is allowed to continue, people will start to question the unknown, which he largely is..........if the voters begin to become apprehensive towards him, they will either stay home, or go with the "devil they know", John McCain.