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“I’m staying in this race until there’s a nominee and, obviously, I am going to work as hard as I can to become that nominee,” the New York senator said at a Shepherdstown, W.Va., news conference Wednesday.
Even beyond the point of being able to win it, even to the point of hurting the party.
Did you see John McCain’s gleeful smirk last night on The Daily Show when asked how he felt about the continued in-fighting among Democrats?
“I believe that I’m the stronger candidate against Sen. McCain. And I believe I would be the best president among the three of us running.”
I believe I can still wear a shirt with a 16” collar. And I can, as long as I don’t care about breathing.
Noticeably absent from these remarks are anything about having enough votes.
In the aftermath of a momentum-sapping week that appeared to turn the tide in her 18-month battle against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, Clinton acknowledged that she will need some hefty assists to keep her hopes for the White House alive: more campaign cash; more support from critical, uncommitted superdelegates; more wins in the primaries ahead; and a favorable resolution on seating contested delegates from Florida and Michigan.
Which she will pursue whilst atop her magical unicorn.
By “more wins in the primaries” they mean something like 75%.
As soon as someone can explain to me how Florida and Michigan, which knowingly defied the rules of their own party for reasons which are still unclear to me, can be seated when a) 48 other states followed the rules and b) Obama wasn’t even on the ballot in Michigan, I’ll be glad to listen.
Hey, Michigan and Florida, you broke the rules, you pay the price. Get over yourselves. Going to vote Republican if you don’t get your way? Going to sit out the election entirely? In what way are you not acting like a spoiled 4 year-old?
p.s. Florida: Please stop fracking up our elections. Thanks.
Averell “Ace” Smith, who ran Clinton’s campaign in North Carolina - where she was defeated by double digits Tuesday - said Wednesday that for Clinton, quitting is not an option. “People expect her to battle on. She’s tough, she’s resilient, and I think these next contests coming up are good ones for her, particularly Kentucky and West Virginia,” he said.
Imagine that, WV and KY going to the white candidate. Someone please alert the media.
In the superdelegate tally, Obama reaped more riches as four superdelegates, including Inola Henry of California, declared their support, while only one did so for Clinton.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if the Democrats haven’t figured out that it’s a bad idea to appoint someone for president against the will of the electorate, then they deserve to lose.
Clinton - whose cash-strapped campaign took to the Internet to scour for donations after Tuesday night’s results - acknowledged that she had lent her campaign $6.4 million in the past month to stay competitive. She turned aside suggestions that it spelled weakness, saying, “It’s a sign of how much I believe in what I’m trying to do.”
I wonder if any of the people who are being fooled by her “I’m just like all y’all” act will realize that she just threw away $6.4 million of her own money.
Think about what that means.
Howard Wolfson, Clinton’s chief strategist, said her game plan for victory includes efforts that began Wednesday at Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington. She held private talks to “make the pitch to the uncommitted superdelegates that she’d be the better nominee” against Sen. John McCain in the fall, he said.
You know, this would save us a lot of time and energy and money! Instead of having people vote for who they think would be the best candidate, how about we just skip the primaries altogether for every future election and just go right to the convention where the super-delegates will appoint someone?
The Clinton team acknowledges that its candidate’s chances for survival depend on seating the Michigan and Florida delegations. She has now suggested that it should take 2,209 delegates to win the nomination, a number that would count those two states.
Yes, that would be completely fair, especially given that Obama wasn’t even on the ballot in Michigan, and didn’t campaign in Florida.
And I’m sure she’d be pushing for this equally as hard if they had split that vote, right? Or if Obama had won them. Right? We all believe that, right?
I love how she’s using the rules that suit her (aka superdelegates) but wants to ignore the ones she doesn’t like (see Florida and Michigan). This is a great sign for someone who is seeking to be our president. Because if the last 7+ years have shown us anything, it’s that nothing bad can happen when you have a president who ignores rules whenever he wants.
“I think that Sen. Clinton’s constant discussion about the process and seating Michigan and Florida has been instrumental in her weakness with the superdelegates,” said Simon Rosenberg, who heads the Washington, D.C.-based think tank NDN. “The superdelegates are, for the most part, from the other 48 states - and they don’t want to see bad behavior rewarded, because they were disciplined enough to follow the rules.”
Which, as any parent ought to know, is how you teach children about consequences. Sure, you have free will to do what you know you are not supposed to do, but please don’t come crying about how unfair it is that you burned your hand after putting it on the burner we told you was hot.
“It should go the full 12 rounds,” said Bob Mulholland, a California Democratic Party campaign adviser and one of 261 remaining uncommitted superdelegates. “This is a big plus for Democrats, having this race. … Democratic voters love these two, and they can’t figure out how to have them both.”
Translation: “I am as high as a kite.”
(That one’s for you )
The vast majority of Democratic voters that I spend time around on Twitter can’t stand Hillary. At least one has promised to campaign for McCain if Hillary steals the nomination.
I heard/read somewhere the other day that Clinton would love Obama as VP, and Obama would do just about anything not to have Hillary as his VP. That may be apocryphal, but it makes a lot of sense to me.
“It would be a failure of the Democratic Party to urge a woman or an African American to drop out,” he said.
Urging each candidate to act how we would urge any candidate to act, regardless of their race or gender, is the exact definition of equality.
If you are speed reading or scanning through this article, please stop and re-read the last two sentences.
Art Torres, chairman of the California Democratic Party - and a superdelegate who, according to party rules, must remain uncommitted until there is a nominee - agreed. “I’m sorry, George who?” he joked, after being asked for reaction to McGovern’s calls for Clinton’s withdrawal. “A lot of people told him not to run in 1972, and he didn’t listen. He’s the last guy who should be giving advice.”
Um, Art, tell me, how did that work out for McGovern?
Delegate tally Obama 1,846.5 Clinton 1,696 Needed to nominate: 2,025 (Numbers include unpledged delegates who have endorsed a candidate.) Source: Associated Press
How did Obama get ½ of a delegate?
I would be willing to bet that most of the people who want this to continue think that it’s actually better for the Democrats because all of the attention is on them and McCain is getting ignored. Meanwhile, McCain is getting all of this free time to shore up support.
Last two points:
1) Hillary wants a “gas tax holiday” which, as you may have heard, every economist in the country thinks is a bad idea. She said something like “I’m not listening to the experts on this.” Which is great, because if the past 7+ years have taught us anything, it’s that nothing bad can happen if we have a president who is not afraid to ignore the advice of experts. What’s next? A “No Need for Condoms” holiday, where she promises that unprotected sex will not result in STDs or pregnancy?
2) Rush Limbaugh wants you to vote for Hillary. What more do you need?