“If the Clintons knew how is it that they never used it in the primaries of 08 when Hillary was running for the top job? She wasn’t running for some lower echelon position. Makes absolutely no sense to me for them to keep quite when the were looking for the big enchilada.”
That Catholic priest, Michael Pfleger, is the one who neutered the Clintons’ plans. Do you recall his horrible, hateful, racist routine? I have a black friend who is not radical or political. She could recite Pfleger’s entire monologue word for word, w the *exact* inflections & gestures Pfleger used. She couldn’t repeat it often enough; I’ve never seen her take such pleasure from anything like that before or since.
Once Pfleger painted Hillary as the entitled white woman railing against the upstart black man, she was toast. You can’t win in the Dem party w’out the black vote, & she wasn’t getting it after that. If you look at her campaign trajectory, everything comes down to the Pfleger monologue. Watch it again, if it’s hazy in your mind. Hillary had no chance after it went viral. [Plus, Obama called BJ Clinton a racist for good measure/just in case they didn’t get the point. It all came down to race, & Obama played his favorite card like a pro (race baiting being one of his few areas of expertise).]
Hillary decided it was better to give up the nomination rather than to tear the party apart and lose anyway.