Letters to the Editor
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Obama should choose a VP on May 1st
Sorry to be slightly off-topic, but I'm trying (with little hope of succeeding) to float the idea of Obama announcing his choice of VP a few days before the May 6 primaries. Enough time for the papers to dig up the good stuff, and not enough for the bad stuff, if any. Frankly the VP will have to be white, but I'm a little split on whether picking a man or a woman helps more. The woman vote is certainly an issue with Obama right now, but in the end an unassailable record on military/patriotism issues may be more helpful. I don't know if the person I have in mind actually exists, but it sure would solve some problems for Obama. He's been a little off-pitch lately, and I think he needs some help to change the tone of the race if the not the ultimate outcome.
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where were all these critics four months ago?
the timing on this is just a little too perfect
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Even that would surprise me
Even as much as I loathe Clinton and her campaign, I do think she cares about what's happening in this country. I seriously doubt she would work to give us four years of McCain just to further her oen political aspirations.
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John Edwards
Continuing off topic.
I sometimes forget that I wasn't even for Obama until Clinton made any other choice unconscionable. Edwards on the ticket would allieviate a lot of the concern that behind the glorious Obama rhetoric no substance resides. Edwards is substance. He would have been the better president, but he'll do fine as VP.
Also, post-Benen Koppelman seems a changed man and War Room seems the better for the diversity of voices. I'm a carpetbagger convert, but I'm not prepared to abandon War Room just yet. In short, I apologize Mr. Koppleman.
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"he mentioned he'd heard discussion of it in South Carolina and on the floor of the House -- that Clinton is trying to ensure an Obama loss in November so she can run against John McCain in 2012."
That may be what the Clintons are thinking, but this is her Last Chance Texaco (thank you Rickie Lee Jones). Hillary clinton won't get another chance after this. She was the overwhelming front running starting out. Her name recognition, connection, money were unrivaled. Starting out from that vantage point, if she loses the nomination her Presidential aspirations are finished...but that's the kindest outcome. She has horribly mismanaged her campaign. She has profoundly mismanaged a fortune. She has surrounded herself with the likes of Mark Penn. He's not merely an unsavory figure, his Columbian connection exposed very real conflicts between her stated positions and what her high level associates are doinf, as well as question about what her husband's motives and agendas are. She has proved her self to be a terrible candidate. She is attempting to destroy a fellow party member for her own personal gain and is doing great damage fto her party.
Like him or not Barack Obama is they type of figure political parties drool over. He's the type of figure a party can build itself around. Clinton's campaign strategy of personal destruction and "party-cide" won't be forgiven. There is already talk within the party of retribution. She may find her Senate seat in serious jepardy. If she does win the nomination by some backdoor super delegate deal that goes against the results of the primaries she will be a fatally damaged candidate fronting a shattered party. She would lose in an epic landslide in November.
This is her final moment on the big stage and she knows it. After this is settled she's finished. No matter what happens in November, there will be no 20012 for Hillary Clinton.
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No 2012
Clinton is nothing if not shrewd. Although the 2012 line of reasoning appears possible and perhaps even logical, as I've said before, it seems to me that Clinton knows at this point that this is her one shot at the brass ring.
Clinton has to know that how she has conducted herself on the campaign trail since she threw in the kitchen sink means she is unelectable in 2012 if McCain wins the general. If she had bowed out after Wisconsin, a la Mitt Romney after Super Tuesday, she would've put herself in much better position to try again in 2012 if Obama went on to lose.
But that's not the plan. Everything she has done since leaving the White House has pointed to 2008, which is why she didn't run in 2004, when she might very well might have won. Unfortunately for her, another candidate came along that people like better, which has messed up her plans.
She's fighting so hard now, because she knows this is it for her. There won't be a second chance.
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No matter what happens in November, there will be no 20012 for Hillary Clinton.
Nor for any of us.
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A serious warning
Clyburn is one of the most influential and respected black leaders in the Democratic party. His warning that the current tactics of the Clinton's against Obama may cost the Democrats support in the African American community is important.
If black turnout in important states like Ohio and Pennsylvania are even marginally reduced, John McCain will saunter to the White House. It's about time that someone in the Democratic party called Hillary on her divisive tactics.
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Clinton's strategy
How is it that some Democrats are just waking up to the fact that Hillary's strategy is to tear down Obama?
Isn;t it pretty obvious that given the facts as they exist today, Hillary has only two options: (1) attack and harass Obama in the hope that he makes such an egregious mistake that Hillary can appeal to the superdelegates that she is the only viable option; or (2) withdraw from the race.
Since a graceful exit is something that is an unkown concept to anyone with the surname "Clinton," it's clear that Hillary has only one option: attack with growing frequency and ferocity. And if the impact of these attacks is to make Obama unelectable in the fall this is a perfect outcome for Hillary, since she becomes the presumptive nominiee for 2012 and gets to play the "told you so" card for the next 4 years.
Honestly, people, when will you wake up to the fact that the Clintons care about one thing, and that is their own best interests?
They don't really care about the best interests of the country because they are arrogant enough to believe that they represent what is best. And they sure as hell don;t care about the best interests of the Democratic party. at this point, they are all about Hillary.