Posted on 06/27/2008 1:01:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Over at S.D. Watch, Todd Epp has reported a truly breath-taking story that has the potential to derail Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s big Unity push just as it’s beginning.
… the Clinton campaign offered a major fundraiser to the state (SD Dem) party in exchange for two superdelegate votes …
Todd promises more details, and I, for one, am waiting at the edge of my seat. Given what he’s reported so far, this seems to be an ongoing offer from Clinton rather than something that faded away after the June 3 primary.
An intra-party dispute erupted Thursday during the SD Dem Convention in Oacoma. Clinton delegate and Rapid City alderman Malcom Chapman - who introduced Hillary at many of her SD appearances - became angry with SD Dem party chairman Jack Billion for resisting Clinton’s offer. This says to me that Chapman is still trying to proffer such a deal. Indeed, Epp quotes Chapman as saying he has “almost cut the deal” with the Clinton campaign.
Nevermind, I guess, that Chapman almost certainly lacks authority within the SD Dem Party to strike such a deal.
This revelation raises a lot of questions. Here’s what I think they are. Please write in with more analysis.
**Do super-delegates Cheryl Kandaras Chapman (Malcom’s wife & the SD Dem Party’s vice chair) and Sen. Tim Johnson, count as the 2 super-dels sought by Clinton? Or is she seeking 2 additional? (While Johnson endorsed Obama, he has pledged to cast his vote for whomever won SD’s primary, and that’s Hillary, as we all remember well.)
**Are the Clintons mounting a 50-state strategy of their own, seeking similar deals across the nation? If so, does that mean that she’s still aiming for her party’s nomination? What else could it mean?
**Now that word is out about this little escapade, on the eve of the Dems’ big Unity push, how quickly will it sour already fragile relations between Obama and Clinton?
**If you’re Tom Daschle, are you furious or bemused? (Tom, feel free to answer this one directly.)
**If you’re Stephanie Herseth, is this why you skipped the party convention? (It would scare me away were I in her shoes.)
**If you’re Tom Daschle, does this prompt you to make any additional efforts to retire the SD Dem Party’s notorious and seemingly endless debt?
How’s Osama’s health?
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN !!
Just look at him. I would gladly enter a pool predicting the sickly looking puke would be room temp before age 50.
And there are still fools who think She Who Must Not Be Named is not going to be the nominee....
Just wait until August...it will all happen then. ;)
“And there are still fools who think She Who Must Not Be Named is not going to be the nominee....”
And to think I was just beginning to get bored with all this... .
My, my, she is crafty. First, suspend her campaign to make it look like she’s given up. She still owns all her delegates, and is not really that far from being able to win. Then, let Obama have the stage, where he can do all of his flip-flopping with no distractions, and hope he takes himself down with his vacillating positions. Then, get him to do fundraising for her, to “retire a debt.” Genius! Now, she courts the superdelegates, trying to swing that critical number her way.
When the convention comes, she will be doing some real maneuvering, to get the Michigan delegates seated. I’m pretty sure they are out there somewhere. It makes you wonder.... Surely she would be smart enough to upset the ambitions of a relative novice like Obama. I’m sure she is only having the small trouble because he has smitten the news media like the Beatles did their teeny-bopper followings.
You have to know that Hillary is not going to just step aside. She did not get where Bill is today by playing Mrs. Nice Guy. I still think she will beat Obama on the sly, and she will not give a crap what happens because of it. Riots? No problem. An when it comes to McCain, well.... he’s old enough to be in her stack of FBI files.
My, my, she is crafty. First, suspend her campaign to make it look like she’s given up. She still owns all her delegates, and is not really that far from being able to win. Then, let Obama have the stage, where he can do all of his flip-flopping with no distractions, and hope he takes himself down with his vacillating positions. Then, get him to do fundraising for her, to “retire a debt.” Genius! Now, she courts the superdelegates, trying to swing that critical number her way.
When the convention comes, she will be doing some real maneuvering, to get the Michigan delegates seated. I’m pretty sure they are out there somewhere. It makes you wonder.... Surely she would be smart enough to upset the ambitions of a relative novice like Obama. I’m sure she is only having the small trouble because he has smitten the news media like the Beatles did their teeny-bopper followings.
You have to know that Hillary is not going to just step aside. She did not get where Bill is today by playing Mrs. Nice Guy. I still think she will beat Obama on the sly, and she will not give a crap what happens because of it. Riots? No problem. An when it comes to McCain, well.... he’s old enough to be in her stack of FBI files.
Very, very good. You’ve got something here.
Don’t forget Obama’s plane losing power at 35,000 feet.
She Beast only has to turn 151 delegates to her side between now and the convention.
This year is now or never for Hillary.
She will not go gently into that political goodnight.
2012 is still possible for MLEBW to be the nominee. She just needs to make sure that McCain wins if she can’t dispatch the Chicago pol this summer.
I just knew that “Barackary” Unity Schtick was just that...SCHTICK....BOOB BAIT FOR THE BUBBAS.....LIES!
Smells like the Bob Beckel “big news” (aka Michelle Obama tape) from a month ago.
I'll bet that you are the type of person who buys Kool-Aid from little kids when you see them selling it on the curbside in front of their homes.
Doesn’t Hussein know she’s got him in her crosshairs. I don’t give him much time.
Only minutes after Obama eats some poisoned food on board.
When he runs down the aisle in search of a parachute, he finds a closet full of poisonous snakes instead.
I have no doubt that Hillary is planning on taking it all away from Obama one way or another.
If this is true, I’m almost starting to admire her—the way one would admire a rattlesnake, or a scorpion, or a jackal.
How I PRAY TO GOD you are correct. Had it not been for Obama (the only thing they couldn’t forsee when they planned their end run around the Constitution years ago), we’d have been cursed with these swine and their freak show cabinet for another eight long years.
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