Posted on 01/27/2008 6:57:51 AM PST by Mo1
I’m getting tired of the primaries already, but it sure is good to see Hillary look so frazzled....I predict more fake tears in the near future. :)
I guess not. It only takes one swift kick in the behind to send them flying....:)
I truly liked what Obama said, there should be no red states or blue states, but the united states. Would that it could be.
The Clintons continue to promote hatred and increase the great divide.
My stance is:
ANYBODY BUT HILLARY.
Oh, I feel certain it’s been their greatest REALITY check in decades. I rejoice in seeing a REAL choice among democrats. Even if that choice turns out to be superficial, it comes at the cost of HATE FILLED democrats. I am so weary of that. The Clintons ARE hate.
Oh, I feel certain it’s been their greatest REALITY check in decades. I rejoice in seeing a REAL choice among democrats. Even if that choice turns out to be superficial, it comes at the cost of HATE FILLED democrats. I am so weary of that. The Clintons ARE hate.
This is the weirdest thing. My computer is bonkers again.
It’s not just you.
Hey there Girlfriend :) It isn’t your computer tonight, its FR. I’ve had the dangest time just logging on and was about to giveitup when I broke through. LOL
Chickens come home to roost
By RON FOURNIER, Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON - For years, Bill and Hillary Clinton treated the Democratic National Committee and party activists as extensions of their White House ambitions, pawns in a game of success and survival. She may pay a high price for their selfishness soon
Top Democrats, including some inside Hillary Clinton's campaign, say many party leaders — the so-called superdelegates — won't hesitate to ditch the former New York senator for Barack Obama if her political problems persist. Their loyalty to the first couple is built on shaky ground.
"If (Barack) Obama continues to win .... the whole raison d'etre for her campaign falls apart and we'll see people running from her campaign like rats on a ship," said Democratic strategist Jim Duffy, who is not aligned with either campaign.
The rats started looking for clear waters when Obama won Iowa, narrowly lost New Hampshire and trounced Clinton in South Carolina before holding his own in last week's Super Tuesday contests. He won primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia on Tuesday to extend his consecutive win streak to eight.
Obama has won 23 of 35 contests, earning the majority of delegates awarded on the basis of election results. The remaining 796 delegates are elected officials and party leaders whose votes are not tied to state primaries or caucuses; thus, they are dubbed "superdelegates."
And they are not all super fans of the Clintons.
Some are labor leaders still angry that Bill Clinton championed the North American Free Trade Agreement as part of his centrist agenda.
Some are social activists who lobbied unsuccessfully to get him to veto welfare reform legislation, a talking point for his 1996 re-election campaign.
Some served in Congress when the Clintons dismissed their advice on health care reform in 1993. Some called her a bully at the time.
Some are DNC members who saw the party committee weakened under the Clintons and watched President Bush use the White House to build up the Republican National Committee.
Some are senators who had to defend Clinton for lying to the country about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Some are allies of former Vice President Al Gore who still believe the Lewinsky scandal cost him the presidency in 2000.
Some are House members (or former House members) who still blame Clinton for Republicans seizing control of the House in 1994.
Some are donors who paid for the Clintons' campaigns and his presidential library.
Some are folks who owe the Clintons a favor but still feel betrayed or taken for granted. Could that be why Bill Richardson, a former U.N. secretary and energy secretary in the Clinton administration, refused to endorse her even after an angry call from the former president? "What," Bill Clinton reportedly asked Richardson, "isn't two Cabinet posts enough?"
And some just want something new. They appreciate the fact that Clinton was a successful president and his wife was an able partner, but they never loved the couple as much as they feared them.
Never count the Clintons out. They are brilliant politicians who defied conventional wisdom countless times in Arkansas and Washington. But time is running out.
Two senior Clinton advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the race candidly, said the campaign feels the New York senator needs to quickly change the dynamic by forcing Obama into a poor debate performance, going negative or encouraging the media to attack Obama. They're grasping at straws, but the advisers said they can't see any other way that her campaign will be sustainable after losing 10 in a row.
Clinton strategists are famous for poor-mouthing their own campaign in order to lower expectations, but these advisers have never played such games. They're legitimate, and legitimately worried.
The fear inside the Clinton camp is that Obama will win Hawaii and Wisconsin next week and head into the March 4 contests for Ohio and Texas with a 10-race winning streak. Her poll numbers will drop in Texas and Ohio, Clinton aides fear, and party leaders will start hankering for an end to the fight.
Clinton should find little comfort in the fact that she has secured 242 superdelegates to Obama's 160.
"I would make the assumption that the ... superdelegates she has now are the Clintons' loyal base. A superdelegate who is uncommitted today is clearly going to wait and see how this plays out. She's at her zenith now," Duffy said. "Whatever political capital or IOUs that exist, she's already collected."
Few Democrats want to cross the Clintons when they're on top. But how many are willing to stand by them when they're down?
oh, grrrrroan... I’m talking to myself.... LOL I’m finally able to get online tonight and I’m sitting here all by myself LOL.
G’night :)
Although running from that old guy might do it too. It's really all right Cards, they like your power point stuff.
:-)
I tried to watch the dog show last night but only saw parts of it.
However, I just got back from a dinner meeting and ran into a woman who was there.
Now, if you saw the end when they judged best of show and that beautiful beagle won, could you hear shouting from the audience?
My friend said a bunch were chanting “Poodle! Poodle” as another crowd yelled “Beagle! Beagle! Did you hear that?
I wish I could have seen more of the show. The dogs were fantastic. I’d never have a beagle, but the winner was the pinnacle of his breed.
That b&w photo of the old lady holding up big bloomers brings me back to my childhood in a small Massachusetts town that had a woman’s clothing store run by two old ladies like her. It was the quietest store in town; when the floor creaked the sound went on forever.
That chick needs help. :P
When will you ever learn that at your age you shouldn't mistake the Viagra for the sleeping pills.
You are really waaaay overstimulated here. And at your age, that can't be good.
Just keep hiding your anger at the US and you'll be fine........
I’m with you on that, Letitring.
ANYBODY BUT HILLARY!!
It *does* keep him from rolling out of bed, though...
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