Posted on 05/03/2008 3:28:33 AM PDT by Puzzleman
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Here's a rule I would like every political reporter, campaign official, TV talking head, and politician in the United States to follow. Go ahead and say, if you like, that Hillary Clinton retains a serious chance of winning the Democratic nomination. If you say this, however, you must describe a set of circumstances whereby this could happen. Try not to make it sound like a fairy tale...
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The numbers don’t lie. Obama has the lead and cannot be caught.
Probably. But say Clinton wins big on Tuesday, meaning the momentum has decisively shifted in her favor. The psychology changes then. Obama will look like an exhausted hare to Hillary's tortoise. Delegates, especially of the super kind, may rethink their decisions. Doubtful but I wouldn't rule it out.
Wrong, jch20!
Obama cannot win the nomination, and neither can Hillary. It’s gonna go to the Convention and will be decided behind closed doors.
This much is certain. If Obama is given the back room thumbs up, he will lose big-time to McLame as Hillary’s supporters won’t vote for him. The polls show that clearly. If, however, Hillary is given the nomination, there will be riots in the ghettos of large American cities.
Wisely stated, jalisco...
However, Hillary has ALREADY taken the mo...
I have noticed something in the past few days about Hillary. She looks happy. I have never seen her looking happy.
She looks triumphant, smug, entitled, queenly, proud and haughty. But never happy.
I think this is the first thing she has ever had to fight for. Evberything else was given, endowed, on Bill’s coattails.
I swear, the woman is looking more human.
The thing about this agonizingly long race was it gave even the unwashed, tatooed and pierced American the chance to lose his lunch.
In the case of traditionally thoughtful Americans: the same result, plus the unpleasant thoughts that if this is the best that can be regurged up by a 'major' political party, we're in deepest trouble.
After examining the three candidates and what the Democraps have done to the nation during their brief majority rule in Congress, anyone with a functioning brain should conclude that given the White House we'd be much closer to third world status than we are presently.
Hillary’s sole goal now is to make sure that Obama doesn’t win outright with voted delegates. She wants the VP slot. Operation Chaos will give her the leverage to do it.
Here’s the only scenario. Obama does or says something really really stupid. Bad enough that the super delegates decide he can’t be the nominee. That’s why she’s still in the game though. She knows he’s a neophyte prone to beginner mistakes.
The only way the Beast gets the nomination is to steal it and she does that at her and the Party
s great peril.
After examining the three candidates and what the Democraps have done to the nation during their brief majority rule in Congress, anyone with a functioning brain should conclude that given the White House we'd be much closer to third world status than we are presently.
Exactly.
It is interesting that, for the first time, Hillary is right about something: Obama can’t seem to close the deal... But then again, she can’t close the deal either. With all the news that’s come out and the vulnerability Obama is showing, you would think that the superdelegates would be turning her way... Just the opposite. And that MUST reflect how truly hated the Clintons now are among the Dem “leadership”. They probably despise Bubba more than Hillary, but on this score, “two for the price of one!” This truly has been delicious.
Some folks seem to want to forget that we're dealing with the Clintons here.
Call me tin foilish, but they seem to have a direct link to ....
Many of the super-delegates owe Bill/Hillary Clinton. He/she has the FBI files that contain information these Super-delegates don’t want out. Need I say more.
If Obama is the nominee and he loses in Novemer by 5% or less, isn’t there the same chance for riots in the streets that there would be just because Obama didn’t get the nomination in Denver?
The Democrats were ready to riot in 2000 and 2004. Expect more of the same hostility and election violence this year. Cars keyed, homes spray painted, swastikas on Republican election signs, bricks through the windows of Republican campaign offices, and more physical assaults on Republicans and their children. Just because the media ignored the national trend of Democrat violence and vandalism doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.
A number of superdelegates have already been exposed and replaced. It is funny reading reporters talk about the “shift” of superdelegates from one candidate to another as though none of the superdelegates themselves have been changed.
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