I'm glad that the Clinton campaign is not throwing in the towel after this next round of primaries. Everyone knows that the caucuses are not necessarily representative of everyone who wants to particpate; i.e, shift workers, single moms, and others who have other responsibilities and who cannot be in one place at one specfic time.

And I agree: If the Obama-ites and the media have already crowed their guy king of the party, then he should do a clean sweep. To not carry one big state, like Ohio or Texas, says that clearly the base has not yet decided to be done with the selection process. Obama isn't THAT far ahead to claim this thing is over.

It's just too damn bad that HRC keeps ruining it for everyone, isn't it? But, hey, it's our nomination process not MSNBC's. Sorry, cable pimp pundits and Obama-ites, cancel that balloon drop.

good suggestion that it has now become the time for the previous Democratic Party candidates to weigh in. They are the luminaries of the party and really must show the commensurate level of leadership.

They surely will do so after Tuesday, we can only hope.

Now approaching the ridiculous, but I guess when you're getting your proverbial butt kicked you use anything you can.

This is a death cry is ever I heard one.

Incidentally, I'm very proud that I totally busted Mark Penn's chops in a Washington Post chat a few months ago. And he backed down!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/09/14/DI2007091401680.html

Hey, I'm from Rhode Island!

And for your information, the latest polls have Obama up 15% over Hillary. So if she's counting on a save here, it's not looking good for her.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/28/politics/uwire/main3889995.shtml

We were actually invited to go hear Bill Clinton speak a few days ago (in fact, I think the speech was today). Didn't go.

I can't believe her team blew well over a HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS and an incredible lead in the polls simultaneously. And she wants us to believe that she's COMPETENT?

Just how does anyone GET that far from reality?

Mark Penn must be off his meds.

Maybe if all of a sudden I got amnesia or started smoking a LOT of crack and forgot the fact that Hillary Clinton had doublge digit leads in the polls for Ohio and Texas, I could buy this...

You know Hillary has run her campaign, pretty much the same way George Dubba ran the Iraq War, the inevitability of winning and absolutely NO PLAN B.

Arrogance and Stupidity are a BAD combination.

Why do hate 100+ comment threads that just devolve into pie fights about "experience"? You must hate America...

/snark

I have to say that I do like the comparative peace restored to The War Room with the banishment of the Anonymouseketeers.

I was never an HRC supporter so I'm probably not a good source, but I'd say it was: "I'm not a republican + Experience" as opposed to Obama's "I'm not a republican + Hope & Change"

Problem was her 'experience' was either either seen as misrepresented by a lot of people (certainly I saw it that way), OR even more unfortunate, her 'experience' is what Obama was offering 'change' from.

I would say Obama's success is based on his campaign being designed to run against HRC whereas HRC's wasn't designed to run against anyone in particular because of the 'inevitability' thing.

What WAS her core message? I've forgotten. I'm not sure she ever had one clear, core message.

All I can think of is that slogan, Ready on Day One, something like that. Meaningless blather to begin with since she is no more ready than anyone else in the race. None of them has ever led a country before.

Hillary is ready to move on to other pursuits. Someone in her high-paid group of lackeys needs to tell her that.

"If you are acting like the nominee -- if you are, essentially, declaring the race over -- you ought to be able to win the contests that are coming up," Howard Wolfson told reporters during the call (which lasted more than an hour; I hung up about 65 minutes in, after Wolfson admitted he had accidentally disconnected himself and asked whether he had missed anything).

Is this tactic--a multiple-hour conference call to harangue a minor rhetorical point--part of a scheme to keep writers on the line until deadline, hoping they'll just post the Clinton talking points? Anyway, thanks for reporting Wolfson's tiny, but telling bit of incompetence.

Ya, when that Times article came out last week about her finances and how much money she was spending on consultants, etc... the thought that popped into my head was: Looks like people took advantage of her 'inevitability' to score some dough

Regarding Hillary’s campaign blunders, I posted this info a week ago under… some Salon article:

Last Friday (2/22) I heard on the talk show Radio Times on WHYY (NPR-Philadelphia) how everyone believed it was a foregone conclusion that Hillary would be the Democratic nominee, so her campaign attracted workers and leadership that were focused less on running a successful campaign and more on the jobs or concessions they hoped she would give them after she was elected. Guests who said this were John Nichols, the Washington Correspondent for The Nation, and Jim Geraghty who writes the Campaign Spot for National Review Online. One or the other of them, anyway. (I haven’t looked for any more writings by these guys or their publications about the campaign, but if anybody finds anything I’d love to know about it.)

Well I was trying to be fair and comment without saying what I thought of her core message. Though it seems like her core message wasn't doing it for her anyway.

This is getting out of control. We need Edwards and Richardson and other prominent Democrats to speak up and make an endorsement of Obama and bring an end to this misery.

Can they possibly think that people aren't noticing that the Clinton campaign is spinning out of control while Obama's just hums along, moving forward, making sense?

At some point, we have to realize that the way a person "leads" his/her campaign is a window into the kind of leader they would be in every situation. Hillary is becoming an embarrassment to the idea of "leadership" and if this doesn't stop soon, she will become a parody.

Who needs Saturday Night Live when your own campaign staff is putting out this stuff?