Why can't Barack Obama close the deal?

That's the question Hillary Clinton posed about Obama. Sticking him for losing Pennsylvania. It's a jab.

Well, you know what? The same damn question could be put to Clinton. She's not closing anything either, and she doesn't realize that the reason Obama isn't closing the deal (and just the language, the way she posed the question, speaks volumes about her and the reason why people like me can't stand her, the way she represents that white, corporate, back-biting world that sharks like her swim so well in)...the reason he's not closing the deal is because she's siphoning votes from him.

Maybe she thinks she's getting the votes because people really want her in the White House. Sure there are real Clinton supporters out there. But there are plenty of blue-color whites, plenty of rednecks who aren't voting for Clinton as much as they're voting against Obama's skin color.

She (and Clinton supporters would say Obama) is fragmenting the Democrats. But since she posed the question the way she did, she's the one who looks like the egotist, the one who isn't thinking about the country or the voters but her own self and how much she wants to sleep on Pennsylvania Avenue again. She looks like the one who's in it just to bust things up, a la Nader eight years ago.

And there isn't a lot of time between the end of August when the Democrats hold their convention, and the beginning of November. That's not a lot of time to patch things up. To present a united front to the country.

The Democrats remind me of a family of hillbillies fighting among themselves while the rest of the world is stealing from them. It seems the Democrats are too stupid to see that the real fight is against the Republicans and McCain, and they should be focusing all their efforts on that fight. But right now they're just like a bag of cats, clawing at each other and making a bunch of noise.