Puh-leeze.

I guess I've resigned myself to whichever of the supremely uninspiring people on Obama's VP shortlist gets selected. Even if it's Clinton or Bayh, which would create a nose-holding situation as bad or worse than Al Gore's horrible pick of Holy Joe Lieberman. I'm still hoping a surprise pick from outside the list gets announced tomorrow, but I'm used to being disappointed. While reading speculation about the choice, I came across this article stating that Hillary Clinton is still $24 million dollars in debt and, to nobody's surprise, is having trouble raising the money to retire it. This, though, made my jaw drop.

The report comes as some high-profile Clinton backers have expressed disappointment Obama has not made more of an effort to help his onetime rival retire her campaign debt.

"He has provided her with a pittance compared to what the Clintons have given Obama," prominent Clinton backer Lynn Forrester told the Times of London. "Her debt could have been cleared within 10 days. It's ungracious."

Ungracious you say, Ms. Forrester de Rothschild? Let's see, the Clinton campaign ran up most of that debt after the electoral math was clear that she couldn't win, while running a highly negative campaign saying McCain was more qualified than Obama to be commander-in-chief. It certainly *would* be very gracious to remove $24 million dollars from his general election war chest and transfer it to cover the costs of her futile scorched earth campaign that probably helped McCain pull close to a tie in the polls. Yes, that would be gracious indeed.

But Obama has hardly cleared the ungracious bar. He has, after all, refrained from sucker-punching her on national television, which would have been my first instinct (and one more of the myriad reasons I'll likely never hold public office). Moreover, if I had to guess, I'd say she's still got no worse than a 50-50 shot at being the name announced tomorrow.

I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again: Democrats only stop forming circular firing squads long enough to eat their young. Sigh.