Faced with impending defeat of the Clinton 16-year plan, Prez Bill is out there beating the drum as loudly as he can for St. John of Arizona. By doing this, he is positioning himself as the only one who can put Humpty Dumpty back together again. I think they want, at a minimum, to get Hillary on the ticket, even in the #2 slot. If Obama doesn’t go along with the program, they'll make sure the party splits and McCain wins. Then, after the fact, the Clintons can say that they offered a perfectly good plan for reconciliation at the convention and Barack wouldn’t sign on to it, so it’s his fault. Of course, Hillary will be waiting in the wings for 2012.
"Snake Eyes" Carville’s "30 pieces of Silver" smear is part of the same diabolical scheme. They are trying to back Obama into a corner; so that he will not be able to choose Richardson as his VP without having it look like that deal was made in exchange for the endorsement. But I promise you, the Clintons are totally delusional if they believe they can sabotage the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and hope to come back in 2012. If Barack loses in November, the party won't ever give Hillary the time of day again. She can certainly forget about being the Majority Leader and she might well lose her Senate seat, too. Democrats will call her the Bill Buckner of Democratic politics (although, to be fair, the Boston fans did manage to forgive Buckner.) Meanwhile, the John McCain Presidency will be Bill Clinton's legacy. Nobody will even remember 1998.