Obama should just slap Hillary across the face with a mackerel and be done with it

We get it already, he's not going to pick her for the VP slot. From the Trail "Clinton Insiders Take Umbrage at Solis Doyle Move"

"It's a slap in the face," Susie Tompkins Buell, a prominent Clinton backer, said in an interview. "Why would they put somebody that was so clearly ineffective in such a position? It's a message. We get it." She said it was a "calculated decision" by the Obama team to "send a message that she [Clinton] is not being considered for the ticket."

Other Clinton insiders also seethed. "Who can blame Obama for rewarding Patti? He would never be the nominee without her," one person who has worked for both Clintons and remains close to them said. The sentiment reflected what another person in the immediate Clinton orbit described as "shock" that Obama would send such a strong signal that he is not considering Clinton as his running mate so soon.

I knew it was over for Hillary when Obama surrogates were floating the pre-condition that Bill Clinton would have to reveal the donors to his Presidential library. That's not going to happen.