August 26, 2008
Posted: August 26th, 2008 09:40 AM ET
DENVER, Colorado (Time.com) - Every convention has its rogue narrative: Would Lyndon Johnson reach out to Bobby Kennedy in 1964? Would Reagan offer Ford a co-presidency in 1980? Could George Herbert Walker Bush tame Pat Buchanan's rebel band in 1992? The more freeze-dried the official proceedings, the hungrier reporters get for raw meat, real conflict, which has Democratic veterans like former Party Chairman Don Fowler looking a little drawn. He was a diehard South Carolina Hillary champion — "but you win, you lose, you move on." A loyal cadre of Hillary Clinton bitter-enders, Fowler says, "introduces so much uncertainty into an event like this, when it’s all supposed to be Apple pie and American flags." Click here for more on Time. com Filed under: Democratic National Convention Hillary Clinton |
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