Letters to the Editor
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Barring a colossal mistep by the Obama campaign...
I can't see how Clinton can win the nomination without it being tainted. She certainly can win it, The Clinton pull with the superdelegates is very real, but I think she seriously underestimates the extent to which people will turn away if the prevailing perception is that her nomination was illegitimate. If the convention rolls around and Obama still has the lead in elected delegates and the popular vote (barring Michigan and Florida), nothing will make a Clinton win seem valid, nothing. More and more one gets the impression, though, that for Clinton the only acceptable outcome is her winning the nomination, and if it doesn't go that way then the American people can all just fuck themselves.
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Interesting to see all the complaints of sexism
about party leaders asking a candidate, who has close to no chance of winning the nomination, to step aside so the Party can ensure that the actual nominee can have the time and resources needed to win in November. Yes, it must surely be sexism when the big, bad, party leaders dare to do such a thing. And being demoted back to the U.S. Senate, no less. Poor, oppressed Hillary.
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@debaser
People tend to forget what led up to the people who were nominated and concentrate only on the many Democratic candidates who have lost.
Anyway...on to the serious stuff...you'll get no argument from me on the state of the Habs vs. that of my Devs. Le sigh. It's not just that NJ can't seem to win a game. It's that they don't seem interested in winning. Last night, they were obviously playing to take the game into OT, not to try to win it in regulation, and it backfired on them when NY scored a fluke goal w/about 3 minutes left in the third. They lost. It was their own fault because they were playing not to lose, which, despite the team's rep as a defense-first machine, they don't usually do, they get a lead and prevent the other team from scoring - they play to win that way (sorry - everyone who doesn't care about this, for taking this completely off topic).
I would guess that if NJ even gets into the playoffs (they might run the table with losses) they get swept in the first round. I think the Habs have a good chance of going to the Finals if they can avoid the Rangers - you guys seem to have a problem scoring against Lundqvist, I suspect it's the fact that his pads take up the entire bottom part of the net.
And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.
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Jaundiced Media
It's sad to see the media choosing a president yet again. You'd think we learned our lesson. The media chose Bush & that was disastrous. Now they've chosen Obama. I'm sick of how biased the coverage has been. If the public would delve into a tiny bit of independent research they'd see Obama for the fraud he is. Nominating him is the best shot McCain has & Leahy & his pals need to think about that.
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@calibre
Re lies about Obama's record: when one's record is so obscure and contradictory, it's probably easy to make comments about it which will be interpreted by some as lies. Reading the following is pretty instructive (and yet one more Obama contradiction the MSM will likely never cover):
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/judicial-watch-obama-intended-to-leave-no-paper-trail-2008-03-26.html
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It's the math stupid!
If you have a race, that can't be decided by getting to the finish line, (rained out marathon, yellow flag at car race, etc.) It's accepted practice to award the win to the racer in first place.
It's clear neither candidate can reach the 2000+ finish line. Mathematically, Hillary can't catch up. It's not sexism or prejudice, it's common sense. She is not an evil person, or a monster, she is just not the leader.
Why can't her supporters just wrap their minds around that fact. The race is done, the outcome is inevitable. The longer she strings this out, the worse it will be for her and the party.
More people picked Obama, now let's get on the same team, or prep your kids for Iraq/Iran part III.
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Obscure?
Oh, you mean maybe like how if your record is so transparent and archived, WITH VIDEO FOOTAGE, it's easy to um, misspeak? Can you perhaps respond to my actual comment regarding such a Hillary supporter defecting because of her tactics? That'd be cool. I readily conced Barack isn't perfect, nor do I expect a President to be such. However, the unadulterated (pun intended) desperation and clawing and grasping at straws by the Clintons is definitely turning me off to her candidacy. That and her being behind in integrity (granted, that's subjective), pledged delegates, popular vote, and things like that there.
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@Kate-tex
You are citing judicial watch -- You mean Larry Klayman!!!!!!! I would never ever believe a word Klayman said, I have solid professional reasons for saying that. I won't say them here because Klayman sues at the drop of a hat, hell he sued his own mother.
I mean talk about grasping at straws.
BTW you see Hillary's support is down and negative up -- part of that is attributable to her so-called supporters, an bunch of whom seem to be Republicans trolls. I put you in that category, because all you have done is hurt both democratic contenders (I wonder which screen name you post for Obama under?)
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Obama supporter OK with Hillary IN
Hey man, if she wants to keep going let her. I think it would be risky for her to stop now.
At least let the next few states run and see what happens.
If she drops out, Obama will have more difficult time pulling in her base than if it is perceived as fair and square.
It would be no different if the shoe was on the other foot. Imagine if Obama went to convention with less pledged delegates and somehow the supers chose Hillary instead, it would be harder for Hillary's folks to pull Obama supporters on board.
As bad as all the wrangling seems to be for the PARTY, it would be WORSE if this isn't settled in what is perceived as FAIR. Because at the end of the day neither Hillary nor Obama can win the general with only their own supporters.