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Saturday, Jul 4, 2009
Go to houstonpress.com and search Scott Spivak Obama for an excellent article on Obama by Scott Spivak.
Hillary has abandoned the Democratic party. Tonight was the night she was supposed to concede. She lost on the numbers. It's over. But she still insists on holding out. Can the crap about her RIGHTS. With every RIGHT comes a DUTY. She has a RIGHT to campaign, but she has a DUTY to support the winner. The party spoke, Obama won the delegates. She had a duty tonight to be a bigger person. She failed. She needs to be primaried out of her senate seat for disloyalty.
Compare Hillary's ego trip to Romney's exit. Romney knew he wouldn't win. The math was locked up against him. Romney thought to himself ... do I want to go down fighting? Or do I want to go down in service to party to defeat those liberal traitors for freedom? He wisely chose going down in service to party. Romney has a future in his party now. Romney will be long remembered as a party man who will take one for the team when necessary, an invaluable trait. Hillary has chose to go down fighting her own party's nomination of Obama.
I think Hillary is going all European on us and trying to form some kind of coalition government with her voters.
I have found an error in the article: the Democratic nominee is selected in August, thus it is incorrect to state that Obama won the nomination. In the past, other candidates have won enough pledged delegates to be certain of being the nominee, but this election year neither Clinton nor Obama have enough pledged delegates to win the nomination, thus they must wait another two months for the superdelegates to vote for them.
Superdelegates can switch their preference whenever they want. Note that Clinton has gotten increasingly stronger during the past months while Obama has suffered major setbacks. Gary Hart had to drop out due to a problem that I assume most people find less bad than many of the problems that have been revealed about Obama. Thus, it is possible that Clinton will be the nominee.
Again... Salon... plenty of quotes from Clinton's speech in your article... nothing from Obama's, the winner. For God's sake... GROW UP! Obama/Clinton simply is not the best ticket for the general election. It may be good for Democratic unity, but not for a fight with McCain. I vote Obama/Webb.
right, Fancy. Obama didn't win. The Cubs are the world series shoe in. That iceberg was a minor mishap. God, how stupid can you people be? Close but no cigar should be a notion familiar to all clintonians. She ran a stupid race, lost an election that was gift wrapped for her, and now will not admit defeat. watch tomorrow as all the democratic leadership, that gives a damn about the party and the overall race in November, will line up with Obama. billary blew a great chance to show class. But, when things get tight, that's what clintons do: blow.
He hasn't clinched anything yet.
The nominee will be selected in August at the convention in Denver. No sooner.
Maybe by then our media will stop being campaign hacks for Obama and start being real journalists again.
Sen Clinton doesn't want to be Vice President. She can do much more in the Senate. She should meet with Obama and they should come out with a carefully crafted statement makes it clear that she declined it before he could ask her.
Sen Obama wins if this election is about change. Sen Clinton does not represent change, both because she voted for the war and because of her husband. She is also the one person most energizes the evangelical right wing of the Republican Party.
Sen Obama should pick someone like Sen Jim Webb, a strong opponent of the war who can help Sen Obama by virtue of his military service.
A simply masterful depiction of the moment. Thank you for this little gem.
"The pundits and the naysayers proclaimed week after week that this race was over."
Yeah, and the pundits were right. What they said was that Obama had established such a lead that there was essentially no way Clinton could win. And they were right. In spite of signficant wins in places like Ohio and Pennsylvania, Clinton couldn't catch Obama in the delegate count.
What she has done is spend a couple of months whipping up a sense of grievance among her supporters, dividing the party and diminishing its chances of victory in November. Jeffrey Toobin got it right on CNN. She is a deranged narcissist.
Make no mistake, there has been a snarky tenor of criticism about Clinton's determination to stay the course through all the primaries. Every other presidential dreamer in her position had taken the fight to the convention (Ronald Reagan in 1976, Ted Kennedy in 1980, Gary Hart in 1984), but she has been demonized for hanging on until the first Tuesday in June.
The party that took the nominating fight to its convention lost the Presidential election in every case. Great precedent there. And if not for the pressure from elsewhere in the party, Clinton certainly would have taken it all the way to the convention (we still don't know that she won't).
Um, wat about Jimmy Carter?
Hillary isn't conceding...speculation was rampant that maybe she was holding out, because some scandal would engulf Obama...this may be it...all involving the church he belonged to, and which will haunt him for the duration...a new video has surfaced of Michelle Obama railing against "whitey" at the church...and the gay choir director at Trinity, along with two other gay members, were all mysteriously gunned down last November...where is the media on this, outside Chicago??? It appears Obama may have had a connection...with at least the gay choir director...it's a scandal that the press won't be able to ignore much longer...:
http://obambi.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/investigate/
Clearly, I suspect this is what the Clinton camp has been waiting to surface, but the mainstream media have been protecting Obama...time for that to end...NOW.
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And so are his Fox News pals, who lambasted Sen. Al Franken's "stolen election"
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Thanks for sharing, Governor. Now please take a cue from Norm Coleman, and go away
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