Letters to the Editor
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Tubthumping!
In her continued quest for the presidency, she promised, "I might stumble, I might get knocked down, but as long as you stand with me, I'll get right back up again" -- an image that no doubt evokes some kind of phantasmagoric Weeble (they wobble but the don't fall down) for Obama supporters already recoiling at Clinton's ineluctable march toward Denver.
Actually, it suggests Chumbawamba...and by extension all one-hit wonders. Obama supporters can take comfort that a year after the song hit #2 the group had already dropped off the radar and now toddles around in very well deserved obscurity.
Don't have any problem with Clinton's supporters stealing "Yes We Can," though, since Obama shamelessly lifted it from Chavez and the UFW in the first place. One good "borrowing" deserves another.
As for me, my dream scenario at this point is that the fight goes to the convention floor in Denver and ends in total stalemate. That way maybe the party will be forced to reboot and choose from one of the party's adults (Biden, Dodd, Richardson). Won't happen, of course, but I can fantasize.
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Rebecca, Hillary won the Racially Divided Vote
That's it basically. Good luck going forward Hillary. If by any miracle Hillary makes it to the GE, she hasn't a prayer. She has turned off more progressive Dem voters and we represent the reliable base.
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The odd couple
I think Hillary would be a great President and Barack a great Vice President, or the other way around. Why is this not a option. The Democratic party doesn't have to be split. Both Hillary and Barack should have to work together on this. If they both want change and to bring the country together then they should work together. The truth is, that most Americans can't imagine a African American and a White Women serving together as pres and vice pres in the white house. Remember the movie look who's coming to dinner, look who's coming to the white house.
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More BS at Salon
who still trails Obama in pledged delegates, mathematic possibility and endorsements by major musical acts
Notice how the crucial information is spun by that last dig, as if all this stuff is ephemeral, and doesn't really mean anything substatial for Obama.
She won by less than 10 points. She hasn't won the same number of votes, so she isn't in much of a position to win the nomination. It's a long shot for her, at best.
Notice, too, that any victory on Obama's part is always greeted by somber articles about the difficulty of the future. When Hillary wins, we get these bright, candy-colored snap shots and euphoric cries of her great achievement.
Salon is embarrassingly full of it.
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Rebecca...She's Still Winning
And, you may want to consider that Hillary just may be the better overall and winning candidate for the Democrats..."bionic" pejorative be damned.
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Gee
Nice, unbiased piece from Ms. Traister.
One would never guess who she supports. (insert massive eyeroll)
I particularly liked the reinforcement from the first section that paints Hillary supporters as lower-class, drunken, white rubes.
Maybe she can get a job on MSNBC or Real Time as a 'journalist'.
What a joke.
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Traister, Fox and Karl Rove...
...are on the same page. Fox was outright gleeful about the Clinton victory. Does else hear a hint of "don't throw me in the brier patch" from Rove and Fox friends?
So it looks like Traister is right that this will go to the end, but there are only two outcomes: 1) super delegates overturn the will of the voters and pick Clinton, generating great controversy and angering millions of new voters; or 2) Clinton loses as expected, but only after six or seven more weeks of softening up the Democratic candidate for the Republicans (and making reconciliation between Clinton voters and the Obama candidacy more difficult).
This is great for the party -- just not ours.
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The campaign goes on...
...for McCain 2008 & Hillary 2012.
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Growing Tiresome
Her campaign for the White House is really growing tiresome. She is turning more people off than she is on. She has always had a severe image problem anyway. And keeping this going is only making it worse. It's time to bow gracefully out of the picture before she has ruined herself completely.
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ungracious in spirit
Did anyone notice that Hillary did not ever actually make a gracious nod to her opponent in last night's speech? Unlike Obama, who congratulated and praised Hillary in the first graf of his speech, Hill did not show much of anything in the way of respect to her opponent or his supporters in hers. (If she did do this, it must have come later in the speech after the networks and our local affiliates in Philly cut away [amazingly, the local Fox affiliate here had some of the best coverage] - I'm willing to stand corrected on this.)
We worked our butts off in Philly to get out the vote for a candidate who's more classy, more level-headed, more truly intelligent, and who represents the best in us (someone who would use his superpowers for good, as my little boy would say). I guarantee that she will not have progressive activists taking to the streets for her if she somehow manages to club the baby seal to death and steal this nomination. Yes, I am a bitter Pennsylvanian - thanks a lot Pittsburgh....
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2 things
If HRC wants to keep running because she thinks she can win, thats fine, but there are two things I don't understand.
1. She points out the Obama can't 'close the deal' as if this somehow points out his unsuitability for office, which would be a brilliant argument IF she wasn't the person, he is beating in every category. Whats up with that? I mean, if we accept her reasoning, if he is unsuitable for not beating her decisively enough, isn't she even more unsuitable for TRAILING such an unsuitable candidate?
2. HRC supporters point out that a very important dynamic in the campaign is that HRC is beating Obama in the large swing states, reasoning that Obama can't win the general election if he can't win those states. My question is why does Obama losing those states to HRC, equate to Obama not being able to win those states if he were running against McCain?