Surprisingly, Hillary’s supporters aren’t exactly thrilled about the Obamessiah’s choice, but they’re even more pissed off about how he went about making it:

A top Clinton advisor also told CNN they were “outraged,” over how the process was conducted.

“You can’t put [Obama VP vetters] Eric Holder and Carolyn Kennedy on an hour plane ride to Chappaqua just to check the box? They should have done it just for the optics,” this person said. “Barack never even said to her, ‘Here’s how I envision the job’– not one discussion with her about [the position].”

“They thought her supporters were mad before? They are really mad now,” this person also said. We knew it was never going to happen but you would have thought they might at least make a show of it.”

Former Clinton strategist Paul Begala echoed similar frustrations on CNN Friday night.

“I think there are a lot of Hillary voters who are going to say, ‘Hey, wait a minute, man. You said you were going to put her on the short list. You know, you didn’t even vet her. You didn’t call her. You didn’t seek her advice,’” Begala said.

Yeah. The Obamessiah says a lot of things. He also talked about her debt and how to retire it for a bit. Instead he retired the subject. Not that His Imperial Majesty thinks that the Obambi is in any way obligated to fix his opponent’s self-inflicted financial problems, because he isn’t, I’m just illustrating, yet again, how the Obamination is all hat and no cattle.

How’s the look from under the bus, Hillary supporters? At least it’s not lonely down there.

Really. For once I find myself in the exceedingly strange situation of actually understanding Hildebeest supporters. No, I’m not kidding you, and it’s freaking me out. If there is one group of people I don’t want to find myself empathizing with… ‘Nuff said.

I’m not talking about The Anointed One not choosing the Hildebeest here. Who a candidate chooses is up to him and nobody else. The only thing I’ll say about it is that I’m relieved that he didn’t, because it would most assuredly have helped him in November. No, I’m talking about the way he went about it. I mean, is there any way he could have possibly poked his finger deeper and more brazenly into her and her supporters’ eyes?

First she’s on the “short list” and then she’s not even vetted for the position, much less approached about it. Not as much as an “I’m looking for a VP candidate and I was wondering if you might fit the bill or, if not, if you could give me some advice on who else might?” Heck, he didn’t even bother to bring up the subject with his campaign, near as we can tell. Should he have to? No, but let’s face it here, the PUMAs make up a humongous bloc of votes and they’re seriously, seriously pissed off. It doesn’t matter whether they have a “right” to or not, what matters is that it isn’t bright poking sticks into an anthill like that when your success in the general election will hinge on them not crawling all over you and biting you like crazy.

But then again, we all know that the Obamessiah isn’t the sharpest tool in the box.

So there you have it, Hildebeest supporters: I understand why you’re angry. I’d be pissed off too.

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