The Clintons tried for Richardson.They even shared a photo-op on Superbowl Sunday, when the Governor traveled to the Clintons' home in Chappaqua for a courting/coaxing session with Bubba, urging for a Hillary endorsement. When Richardson endorsed Obama, it was (surprise) Mark Penn who was the first to belittle Richardson as insignificant, the very man whom the Clintons had courted so desperately. If Mark Penn was just being Mark Penn, it was the reaction of Clinton advisor James Carville that let out how the Clinton Camp really felt about the ordeal.

"An act of betrayal," said James Carville, an adviser to Mrs. Clinton and a friend of Mr. Clinton. "Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic," Mr. Carville said, referring to Holy Week.

Happy Easter!  Let's not dismiss this, because this behavior is evident of a larger problem: no matter how cordial the Clinton campaign is one week or how "honored" Hillary is another, there is a kind of campaigning the Clintons' innately revert to time and time again. And in my intuition, nothing is more indicative of  that than Carville. We hear a lot about the failed Bush policies from Clinton and a lot about Day One, but nothing more characterized the failure of domestic government under this administration than Bush's unyielding devotion to loyalty. Between Michael "Brownie" Brown and Karl "The Architect" Rove, the Administration made it clear on their Day One that they would declare war on internal W.H. leaks way back in 2001.

So was it really an "act of betrayal?" We don't know if the Clintons really feel this way. But they're fueling their own dynastic charicatures by threatening superdelegates to fall in line.

When you've had something on your mantle for a long time (i.e., the entire Democratic Party), its understandably hard to give it up. There's still a sense of entitlement in the Clinton campaign, and much like Josh Marshall aptly stated, these feelings will probably go away and, should Clinton lose this thing, the "acceptance" stage will eventually kick in.