Kerfuffle

Quite a little dust up yesterday over the meaning of Patti Solis Doyle joining the Obama campaign as chief of staff for his running mate. What, you say, Obama hasn’t annointed a Vice Presidential candidate yet. That would be true, so what does this appointment mean. Some say, Jerome Armstrong among them, that this bodes well for the selection of Senator Clinton to the ticket, while some, such as this supporter think differently.

"It's a slap in the face," Susie Tompkins Buell, a prominent Clinton backer, said in an interview. "Why would they put somebody that was so clearly ineffective in such a position? It's a message. We get it." She said it was a "calculated decision" by the Obama team to "send a message that she [Clinton] is not being considered for the ticket."

Why would the Obama campaign make such a move? Following Solis Doyle’s retirement from Clinton’s campaign (the time with family thing, heh) and her estrangement from Clinton make it hard for me to believe this signals a Clinton VP offer.
Kevin Drum sums it up for me,

If this is true, it's beyond bizarre. Obama has every incentive in the world to make nice with Hillary, and nothing in his past behavior suggests that he's given to gratuitous insults like this. Either the conventional wisdom is wrong, or else there's a much deeper game going on than anyone thinks.

I love drama.