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I don't know about you all, but I a definatly looking forward to heading down to the shore this weekend, relaxing and getting some sun.
As will happen, will happen.
The rules will be set, various slaps on the wrist will be doled out, and then, nothing changes.
Senator Clinton still behind on the delegate and popular vote will continue her campaign smiling through the last three contests, and Barak will continue to campaign against John McCain, since the general election started last week.
I don't know, and frankly don't care if Senator Clinton will make a fuss and force a vote at the convention floor. It doesn't matter because she doesn't have the numbers.
If she had the numbers she'd be winning, which she isn't so why do we even aknowledge those on the other side of the looking glass where numbers only say what you want them to say and nothing else.
If there is a sudden surge of support for the Senator from New York, well then won't we all have egg on our faces...but that's not likely to happen.
She's marginalized herself to keep herself alive, driven away the base of the party in favor of a few disloyal constituants, and made herself wholely unelectable.
But if it makes her feel good to keep on running, then god bless her and Dennis Kuccinich ( who may still be in the race as well).
God bless all the Quixotic politicians who imagine giants set against them where only windmills stand. They certainly make for entertaining politics, and thank goodness they matter less than nothing in the grand scheme of things.
you know...with all the talk of Obama forcing some poor woman off the ballot, one wonders why no one mentions Hillary Clinton's strong arming of Nita Lowey to get her herditary seat in congress.
Why does Hillary Clinton hate women so much?
You know...for all the talk about electability, which is Senator Clinton's argument in total, I have yet to hear exactly why Senator Clinton is infact more electable.
In our modern body political process, elections tend to be decided by the smallest of margins, and what makes an election is on the ground organization of get out the vote machines.
This is why many states still employe caucuses, they test a candidates ability to come into a state, create a strong organization and direct that organization to get voters in the booths.
For many states this skill is the most important because it grants the highest possibility of down ticket strength.
So at this time, Senator Clinton holds her electability based on a notion that some people aren't going to vote for Senator Obama. Meanwhile, Senator Obama, through his caucus victories has shown his skill at ensuring that his supporters get to the polls and vote for him.
Senator Clinton's argument is based on assumptions and facts not in evidence, Senator Obama's argument of electability is based on his real acheivments.
This is why I have no fear of the supers declaring today, Wednesday or in August. They likely will declare in short order after Tuesday (I mean what reason do they have not to?) and perhaps Senator Clinton will call for a voice vote on the Convention Floor. Who cares? Senator Obama, and Senator McCain will be holding the election long before the election regardless. And no, Senator Clinton won't be invited to the Debates.
And so it goes, and on it goes, and why are we even getting upset?
The bottom line is, people that vow to not vote for Senator Obama as the nominee probably weren't going to vote for him any way. Based on the poll numbers we see, it's pretty clear that this group simply isn't a significant enough group to prevent Senator Obama's election as President.
No one denies it, the quesiton is what effect did it have on Senator Clinton's campaign.
As an example, Senator Clinton's shout out to hard working whites, definatly highlighted how race influenced Senator Obama's move to the white house.
Is there a similar case that can be held up for Senator Clinton's claim, where Senator Obama (or a surrogate) uesed language to call out to sexist voters, and then that call out resulted in movement at the ballot box?
The bottom line is, Senator Clinton is a very bad politician with a very poor grasp of organization.
She is croneyist who placed unqualified persons in key positions in her campaign and lost accordingly.
Whatever sexism was directed at her during this campaign is insignificant compared to her own mismanagment on the gound.
Hillary Clinton is nothing more than a rich man's wife playing at politics. She's muscled her way into the senate ahead of more qualified women, and she thought she could muscle her way into the whitehouse. Unfortunatly it doesn't work that way, and if you can't keep together your ground operation you aren't going to win the nomination or the presidency.
That's all.