Letters to the Editor
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August
"...I see her standing strong until August. Any student of history knows strange things happen at party conventions and there are months and months left in this process. Things are too close to justify Senator Clinton meekly rolling over now no matter how many talking heads demand it"
The problem is, Bohica, that modern-day parties that nominate their candidates at their conventions rarely, if ever, win.
The Party pooh-bahs and super-delegates know this and will be putting intense pressure on Clinton to get out of the race. Couple that with the meagre campaign resources available to Clinton even before N.C.'s double digit loss and Indiana's squeaker and that pressure will only increase.
If I were Obama and I saw that her actions going into W. Virginia and Kentucky, and beyond, belied the gtacefully elegiac undertone of her speech, last night, I'd Ronald Reagan her in those two primaries and spend her into oblivion.
Drive that stake through her heart, once and for all.
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@Hutman
"I agree with this. I think she second-guessed her better instincts. The same mistake Al Gore made."
Right!
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Eric
Yeah I read Azimov's Foundation series too, and I'm just greatly relieved that in all psycho-historic probability, the good 'ol galactic empire won't be getting into another stupid, senseless war in the middle east with Iran, unless of course John "the Mule" MCcain makes his braying way into the presidency. I sure hope not, and I'm really happy for Obama.
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If it's about character
If it's about character then the way Hillary ran her campaign, getting more desperate and negative as she got cornered, says a lot.
I don't think we can blame her "handlers" or Mark Penn for this, as you all know, she approved every one of those attack ads.
The Clintons aren't stupid, they knew that they were winning people who were and are scared of Obama because he's black. What bothers me is that her campaign attempted to increase leverage on this wedge issue. This is not what the wife of the "first black President" ought to be doing.
As others have said above, had she run a straight up campaign she would have done better but the groundswell behind Obama, even considering the folks who are not going to vote for him no matter what, is impressive. All you have to do is go to one of his big rallies and you can feel it.
I loved his speech last night and his use of the phrase "imperfect messenger" was humble yet strong at the same time.
Taking a snapshot of what happened last night (and I stayed up way too late watching it) I predict that barring craziness from the Clintons, Obama is going to give her a graceful way out and unite the party and that will be incredibly Presidential.
I also predict a deal that will seat Michigan and Florida once he has the vote locked up. That will be part of letting her down easy as she can say she fought for it and won.
Yes, there is still embedded racism or let's just say fear of the unknown this country, but I think Obama, standing on the shoulders of a lot of people is like a tsunami of an idea who's time has come and he'll win in November.
Jim Webb is my choice for VP, or at the very least, Secretary of Defense.
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Increasingly Impossible to distinguish CNN or Salon from Fox anymore
oblivion?
I'm thinking we can all see from last night who will be in "oblivion" if they run against McCain. Well, those of us with a grain of honesty anyway.
Obama won the black districts and nothing else. We've won the black districts in North Carolina, Iowa, South Carolina, Georgia and every other state that went to the Republicans for the last two elections.
We can only pray the superdels have the backbone to ignore the GOP press and the rabid obama supporters who can't see past their finger as to what it will mean electorally.
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If it's about character Obama has a real problem.
What character? Six months of race-baiting. Insisting on dividing the Dems even though it's been obvious he can't beat McCain since super Tuesday. (No, Viriginia winning in Idaho and South Carolina won't do it, nor even North Carolina). Oh, and like the Republicans aren't going to blast the entire airwaves with his dirty laundry the second Hillary would say she's out. (God I hope she doesn't).
Is there anyone he hasn't promised the VP to? Is there any superdel his rabid supporters haven't tried to intimidate? Is there any dirty tactic he didn't do and then have his looney, rabid supporters project onto Mrs. Clinton?
The answer to all the above is no. As if his friends don't say anything about his character. Notice you don't see Oprah hanging around him anymore. She saw what he was and moved on.
Sorry, bots, but if character is the issue, you are in big big trouble. Happily for you, we seem to have a history in this country of late of it not mattering much. Unhappily for you, the Republicans can outslime Obama easily and put him in "oblivion".
But the NERVE of you.
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If the press and the rabid Obamateur's press Clinton out it's time
"Democrats for McCain" will be unstoppable.
The districts last night prove it.
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@Shawn
You are soooo wise. Yes, you can perceive Obama's inelectability so clearly, how is it that we others cannot also see it.
Because Clinton has no electablility issues. It would be a cakewalk if she were the nominee.
And that's the way we should pick our nominee. Shawn's perceptions of electability. We should ignore any other issues at all.
Don't vote for who you want, or who you believe in, or whose policies you agree with, vote for the candidate that Shawn, with his extreme wisdom and deep vision, thinks is the most electable.
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Sorry - Hutman - you're nuts.
Obama didn't win a single county in Indiana without a predominant black base or a university. Not one. North Carolina needless to say is all Democratic black. (yes, I know he won a few of the 230 or so white Dems in North Carolina). in otherwords it fits in with the demographics he's been showing for the last several races
That is terribly ominious for him as a Gen candidate. Terribly terribly so.
Keep pushing it if you want to be proud of him and Michelle's picture after McCain cleans their clock.
Cause that's what you're looking at. NO question.
Then again perhaps that's what you want to look at. Given your long-time rabid divisiveness on this message board I have to think it is.