by Jeff Davis

I keep telling everyone not to count Mommy Dearest (Hillary Clinton) out until AFTER election day comes, but nobody listens. Well, it looks like she may be back from the political dead.

The British Daily Mail reports: “The internet is buzzing today with the rumour that Barack Obama’s gaffe-prone running mate Joe Biden will drop out of the race for health reasons – to be replaced by Hillary Clinton. John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate has created so much interest in the Republicans that Mr Obama will have to make a radical move to regain momentum, the argument goes. Mrs Clinton could be just the key. Mr Biden, who had surgery in 1998 to repair two brain aneurysms, would drop out after the vice presidential debates due to be held on October 2, according to the claims – leaving the way open for the former First Lady.”

Of course, there’s other stuff in the news, like the collapse of the Western world’s whole financial structure, and this does kind of tend to draw one’s mind to other topics than Hillary. Nonetheless, she is quite capable of making political capital on any disaster, from Hurricane Katrina to the eviction of millions of Americans from their homes.

The Daily Mail notes “Most are dismissing the rumour as the usual internet chatter. But it has been given added weight by those who have not addressed it – namely Fight the Smears. Fight the Smears is a website the Obama campaign set up to quash just such damaging internet rumours – but it has not yet touched this one, though that may be out of fear of fuelling the rumour. The Obama campaign has not commented on it, other than to say that Biden’s medical records will be released soon.”

But Biden’s medical records haven’t been released. Bill Clinton’s medical records have never been released at all, for the obvious reason that if they were, the world would see that the inside of his nasal passages are as slick as an ice rink due to all the cocaine he’s snorted (not to mention the rumored STDs Slick Willy picked up from Black hookers, but that’s a story for another time.)

The Daily Mail continues “Biden has caused several problems for the Obama campaign. This week he was forced to issue a clarification after he called one of his own campaign ads ‘terrible’ in an interview with CBS News. He was also rebuked Obama after he spoke out against the government bailout of American International Group last week before Obama was ready to take a position. On Tuesday, he said that President Franklin Roosevelt had gone on television in 1929 to discuss the Wall Street crash – but Herbert Hoover was president in 1929 and the TV hadn’t been invented yet. At one point, he even said Hillary Clinton might have been a better pick for Obama’s No. 2.”

With friends like that, Obama doesn’t need enemies.