Insider politics. Obama, Clinton, and Walter Reed

Does anybody else find it interesting that Barack Obama and Claire McCaskill have been given sponsorship on the legislation to reform Walter Reed?

You have to figure that this certain to pass, popular legislation is being coordinated by the Senate leadership and would be a major achievement for any Democrat running for President.

So, why was it given to Obama and not Hillary Clinton?

Probably because she's been on the Armed Services Committee since Jan. 2003, before the Iraq war started and could not escape some responsibility for the conditions there.

Still, her camp cannot be happy that, out of the 48 other Democratic Senators, protecting wounded vets has been given to Obama.

I always imagine that Hillary Clinton suffers from Bruxism.

(Claire McCaskill is also on the Armed Services Committee, but she has only been in office for a month. After her relatively slim win in centrist Missouri, I'm sure the leadership thinks this would help shore her up.)

(This is a cold political look at a very serious issue. Support the reforms no matter whose name is on them.)