Convention Junction, What's Your Function?

Rick Moran over at Right Wing Nuthouse has an excellent post up describing what will happen at the DNC convention in a few weeks, and correctly concludes that it's not what Hillary does that actually matters...it's how Obama deals with her that does.

With the press eager to jump on every sign of disunity, with a former candidate whose supporters think she deserves her moment in the sun, with a former president probably secretly wishing that he loses in November, and with his poll numbers stagnating or dropping, Barack Obama faces the greatest challenge to his leadership of the party and his chances for victory in November in Denver three weeks from now.

How he handles these problems will no doubt affect the decision of the American people when they go to the polls in November.

Read the whole thing. "If Obama can't handle Hillary, how can he handle the economy, Iraq, Iran, etc." is a quite legitimate argument. He's going to have to tame the Potomac Swamp to get anything substantive done. His first crack at that swamp is the brackish mess of Democratic backroom politics. If he can't deal with Hillary, the GOP will eat him alive, and we can't afford four years of Gridlock Stupidity right now.