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Clinton Machine Shaken by Setback
Time ^ | 5 Jan 08 | KAREN TUMULTY

Posted on 01/05/2008 6:11:07 PM PST by SkyPilot

The scope of Barack Obama's victory in Iowa has shaken the Clinton machine down to its bolts. Donors are panicking. The campaign has been making a round of calls to reassure notoriously fickle "superdelegates" — elected officials and party regulars who are awarded convention spots by virtue of their titles and positions — who might be reconsidering their decisions to back the candidate who formerly looked like a sure winner.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary; ia2008; obama; panic

Democratic presidential hopeful and New York Senator Hillary Clinton gives an impromptu press conference at the Gala Cafe restaurant on Jan. 4, 2008.

Quotes from the article are below:

But it's possible that the most difficult problem is not Obama; it could be Clinton.

"She is going to be very, very resistant to all of the white boys coming back."

1 posted on 01/05/2008 6:11:08 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot
"....has shaken the Clinton machine down to its bolts."

OH, THE HUMANITY!!!

2 posted on 01/05/2008 6:12:41 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: SkyPilot

Maybe David Geffen very very prescient. Amazing


3 posted on 01/05/2008 6:15:10 PM PST by dennisw (Like that HuckaMoron has a clue)
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To: Psalm 73

down to its bolts....

Good line the writer has talent


4 posted on 01/05/2008 6:16:09 PM PST by dennisw (Like that HuckaMoron has a clue)
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To: SkyPilot

Whoa man, that pic! I’m sleeping with the light on tonight.


5 posted on 01/05/2008 6:21:21 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (13-3 Green Bay Packers - The road to the Super Bowl begins NOW)
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To: SkyPilot
Donors are panicking....

Almost as if they had paid for something with those donations(?)

6 posted on 01/05/2008 6:24:22 PM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: SkyPilot

America will not vote for a clinton or bush for a generation - that is a fact. The elite, useless media just does not get it and, we will not vote for a new yorker so rudy, while the media forced him on us is losing everywhere.

The truth is out there!


7 posted on 01/05/2008 6:30:08 PM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: SkyPilot

8 posted on 01/05/2008 6:37:06 PM PST by BenLurkin
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