That has not happened. She avoided the falling house. No buckets of water. But, New York can welcome her back as one of their own.
Posted on 06/04/2008 9:15:55 PM PDT by The_Republican
Just when it seemed on the last Tuesday of the presidential primary season that Hillary Clinton would bow to the inevitable, she enraged Democrats who expected her to start strengthening Barack Obama as nominee. During a conference call between Clinton and New York members of Congress, Rep. Nydia Velazquez suggested that only an Obama-Clinton ticket could secure the Hispanic vote. "I am open to it," Clinton replied, according to several sources.
That message, promptly made public, infuriated Democratic activists outside the Clinton camp. Clinton was horning in on the climax to Obama's amazing political feat. Worse yet, she was going public on a vice presidential bid she knows Obama does not want to offer. Talking about an unlikely dream ticket further slows the party unification process that Clinton's critics say comes two months too late because of her.
She showed that her exchange with Velazquez was no aberration by not delivering a concession speech Tuesday night. Her extraordinary bid for vice president is a new provocation by Hillary Clinton, keeping with her repeated insistence that she is electable -- an implication that Obama is not.
The backing for Clinton's attitude can be seen in my personal encounter early Tuesday morning. I bumped into a septuagenarian former congresswoman who was a staunch Clinton supporter. She told me she awakened that morning with the realization her candidate would not be nominated. Well known as a no-nonsense politician, now she showed another side: "I cried, really cried. We came so close -- so close."
Tears were shed that night by lower-income, less-educated women, but also by accomplished older professionals, such as this former congresswoman. They see Clinton as the culmination of their long struggle, with triumph snatched away by an untried, untested newcomer.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
I love a happy ending.
What happy ending?!? Did I miss the house falling from out of the sky with Dorothy and Toto in it? Did I miss the *CRUNCH*?!?
That has not happened. She avoided the falling house. No buckets of water. But, New York can welcome her back as one of their own.
Oh great.
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