Just a note: Democratic strategist and Clintonista James Carville is out there criticizing the first night of the Democrat Convention:

“You haven’t heard about Iraq or John McCain or George W. Bush — I haven’t heard any of this. We are a country that is in a borderline recession, we are an 80 percent wrong-track country. Health care, energy — I haven’t heard anything about gas prices,” Carville also says. “Maybe we are going to look better Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. But right now, we’re playing hide the message.”

Carville also said the party needs to do a better job of communicating its message to the American people.

“If this party has a message it’s done a hell of a job hiding it tonight, I promise you that,” he said.

What James Carville is doing is setting the table for Hillary Clinton. Hillary can come out tonight and deliver a barn-storming, stem-winding, roof-raising, Bush-bashing speech that tickles all the erogenous zones of those zany Democrat conventioneers. They will be saying to themselves, “Carville was right! The first night of the Obama convention was a total waste of time! This [the first night of the Clinton convention] is the kind of stuff we really want!” Such a performance will, for many of those conventioneers, induce buyer’s remorse to the tenth power (especially with all of these relentlessly declining poll numbers for Obama). And that will suit Hillary just fine.

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Addendum: OK, it wasn’t exactly as anticipated above. Hillary would have done better to take RWB’s advice, but she was — typically — trying to cover too many bases. There are reasons she lost the nomination.

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