Can the Democrats unify?

The Democrats want to achieve five things this week here in Denver:

1). Unify the party

2). Persuade voters that Obama is ready to be president

3). Tie McCain to Bush

4). Hone an economic message

5). Show swing voters that Obama is ‘one of us’

There is, therefore, intense irritation that this morning the story dominating the news is about tensions between the Clinton and Obama camps. The spark for this is that Bill Clinton, who seems much less reconciled to defeat than Hillary is, is unhappy about being asked to speak on Wednesday night about national security. Instead, he apparently wants to speak about the economy contrasting the prosperity of the Clinton years to the current economic troubles.

The McCain campaign, which is tactically shaper than it has ever been, is busy feeding Clinton cat nip to the media. First, they came out with an ad asking why Hillary isn’t Obama’s VP and now they have released another add with a Clinton delegate encouraging other ‘Clinton