You young Pilgrims (under 50) are gonna' get a real show this week....

at the Dimocrat Convention. During your young voting lives, you have watched four day, carefully orchestrated, political party 'infomercials'. Controversy not allowed, thank you very much... But I don't reckon that's in cards this week. From Politico.com:

Tensions boil between Obama-Clinton camps
By: John F. Harris and Mike Allen
August 25, 2008

DENVER — As Democrats arrived here Sunday for a convention intended to promote party unity, mistrust and resentments continued to boil among top associates of presumptive nominee Barack Obama and his defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

One flashpoint is the assigned speech topic for former president Bill Clinton, who is scheduled to speak Wednesday night, when the convention theme is “Securing America’s Future.” The night’s speakers will argue that Obama would be a more effective commander in chief than his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.).

The former president is disappointed, associates said, because he is eager to speak about the economy and more broadly about Democratic ideas — emphasizing the contrast between the Bush years and his own record in the 1990s.

This is an especially sore point for Bill Clinton, people close to him say, because among many grievances he has about the campaign Obama waged against his wife is a belief that the candidate poor-mouthed the political and policy successes of his two terms.

Some senior Democrats close to Obama, meanwhile, made clear in not-for-attribution comments that they were equally irked at the Clinton operation. Nearly three months after Hillary Clinton conceded defeat in the nomination contest, these Obama partisans complained, her team continues to act like she and Bill Clinton hold leverage.

After a period earlier this month when the two sides were working collegially over strategy, scheduling, and other convention logistics, things turned scratchy again in recent days.

Some senior Obama supporters are irritated at how they perceive the Clintons fanned — or at a minimum failed to douse — stories that she was not even vetted as a possible vice presidential nominee. This is because she told Obama she preferred not to go through the rigorous process of document production unless she was really a serious contender, an Obama associate noted.

One senior Obama supporter said the Clinton associates negotiating on her behalf act like “Japanese soldiers in the South Pacific still fighting after the war is over.”

A prominent Obama backer said some of Clinton’s lieutentants negotiating with the Obama team are “bitter enders” who presume that, rather than the Clintons reconciling themselves to Obama’s victory, it is up to Obama to accommodate them.

In fact, some senior veterans of Clinton’s presidential campaign do believe this.

“He has not fully reconciled,” said one political operative close to the Clintons, “and he has not demonstrated that he accepts the Clintons and the Clinton wing of the party.”

While the Clintons have a relatively easy job in Denver — to deliver gracious speeches and accept what are likely to be loud cheers from their supporters — it is “Obama who has the heavy lifting” this week, this aide said.

This is because large numbers of Clinton backers — 30 percent in a recent ABC/Washington Post poll — are still not backing Obama over McCain. [......]

Wheee Doggies! Unless somebody takes all these sulkin' folks to the woodshed and then makes 'em kiss and make up -- this could be a great week.

I been puzzling over Obamanation's use of Bubba Clinton though. What his folks have done is task the weakest Commander in Chief in my lifetime with convincing us that an even more unqualified and liberal boy politician then himself is "more qualified than John McCain" to be Commander in Chief! No mean task! Bubba was elected on the economy, not the Defense Department, an organization he artfully 'dodged' during his eligible years.

The only organizational experience that Obamanation brings to the table is 'street organizing' for the Chicago machine.

It appears that between "Recreate '68" outside the convention hall and the Roman Senate-esque plotting and backstabbing inside -- it might be fun! And it ain't even the Ides of August!