He picked a person for SecState who ran a campaign against him that was straight out of Karl Rove’s playbook, and who was brickdumb enough to take a dump on her natural constituency, the progressive wing of the party, because by doing it she thought it would help her get out from under the deadly “librul” word.

Who also climbed on George Bush’s bloody and astronomically expensive war-wagon in 2002 and didn’t un-equivocally get off until a few months before the election in 2008, when she saw her supposedly locks-on-the-board campaign effort, dying in front of her eyes.

I’m not sure why he picked her, but I’m sure of this: Precisely as with Joe Lieberman, The American-Israeli-Political-Action-Committee owns her butt, and she is going to cause him way more problems than she will solve.

I’ll add; there is speculation that handing her State was part of the deal for getting her out of the race. I tend to doubt that. By the time she finally withdrew, the Democratic leadership, across the board, were dogpiling on her to get out, instead of coming into Denver and ruining us. I think that if she had stayed in against that, she would have been a political pariah. As it was, she was just a loser, and a-$30-million-dollars-in-debt loser. There is a chance that a friend of mine nailed it when he said he thought that Obama was a somewhat naive, good-hearted man…who felt sorry for her; and that’s why he did rehab on her.

That sounds more likely to me. He certainly didn’t stoop to anything like the levels of cesspool politics against her, that she used on him.

The idea that she’s “savvy” is laughable. Repeatedly saying that John McCain would make a better C-in-C than Obama, and speculating about the possibility of political assassination as a reason to stay in the race, was way-stupid.

Which is why, happily enough, she’s at least, not in the Oval Office.

of course, I was Oh-for-Four in the latest hubcap sweepstakes, so there’s that.

Russ is wonderful. I’m sure he knows all this stuff.