Harold Ickes,brought back to steal the nomination for Hillary! indicates what her real chances are.
Posted on 02/28/2008 10:21:44 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Harold M. Ickes may be Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s last hope for winning the Democratic presidential nomination.
Nearly 40 years after attending his first Democratic National Convention, Mr. Ickes — who has survived losing presidential campaigns, grand jury investigations and a tumultuous stint in Bill Clinton’s White House — is back at another campaign. He has a good 30 years of presidential history on nearly everyone in the Clinton campaign headquarters, but he is as sassy and dyspeptic as he was when he worked for Eugene J. McCarthy.
“I’m a little dismayed by the lack of fight on the part of our staff,” Mr. Ickes, the assistant to the campaign manager, scolded an audience of Clinton staffers dispirited after Mrs. Clinton’s losses last week, before beginning a roll call of the presidential campaigns he had helped win and lose.
Mr. Ickes, who has typically been a behind-the-scenes player, is stepping out front to make the public case for Mrs. Clinton, at a time when campaign advisers have pressed to lower the profile of her chief strategist, Mark J. Penn.
But most of all, he is serving as the campaign’s general in the fight for superdelegates, the elected officials and party leaders who may well determine whether Mrs. Clinton can grasp the nomination from Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. In doing so, Mr. Ickes is drawing on his intimate knowledge of the Clintons and their political networks — as well as delegate selection rules he helped write at the Democratic National Committee.
It is not the most rewarding of jobs these days. Mr. Ickes recounted one “very long” telephone call with a Democratic leader he had known for decades who finally, and decisively, informed the persistent Mr. Ickes that Mrs. Clinton should not count on his vote.
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Harold Ickes,brought back to steal the nomination for Hillary! indicates what her real chances are.
Returning? He never left..................
I wonder what he’s charging her? At this point, I imagine she’ll pay anything he wants.
So is he light in the loafers or what?
Thisd reminds me of the old Billy Joel song whose corus was
“And we shall all go down together!”
I think he's Ickey
LOL
That Hillary would bring have this guy brought up from the sub-basement is an indicator of how desparate she is.
It’s kinda like if Vito Corleone had to send Luca Brazzi out to talk to the press.
Sounds the the Shadow Party doesn’t want to just go quietly into the night...
Even though MoveON’s MEMEBERSHIP is supporting the New Messiah, it’s LEADERSHIP is working against them...
They KNOW where the money comes from, and they already have $140,000,000 reasons to make sure Hillary wins, by hook or by crook...
OK, NOW we know she’s desperate!
I wonder where Craig Livingstone is these days.
Nice shots of the venerable P-2.
"They're f**king us blue!"
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