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For Clinton, chickens come home to roost (Super Delegates may NOT stand by Clinton)
Boston Globe ^ | 2/13/08 | Ron Fournier

Posted on 02/12/2008 11:11:45 PM PST by xtinct

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.

more stories like this. 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 super delegates -- 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 build 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 likes 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 Virginia's primary Tuesday and stood to claim Maryland and the District of Columbia to extend his consecutive win streak to eight.

Obama has won 21 of 33 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."

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; democrats; hillary; potomacprimary; ronfournier; superdelegates
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Lots of ammo against Hildabeast in this article... kind of a chronicle of past sins.
1 posted on 02/12/2008 11:11:47 PM PST by xtinct
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To: xtinct
She may pay a high price for their selfishness soon.

Payback is a female dog.

2 posted on 02/12/2008 11:14:09 PM PST by Lexinom (McCain: Bob Dole with a temper)
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To: xtinct; ontap; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; ...
...kind of a chronicle... of past sins!

This proves without a doubt... Shakespeare was so damn wrong!

3 posted on 02/12/2008 11:17:03 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: xtinct
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?"

That Bill. All class.

4 posted on 02/12/2008 11:22:36 PM PST by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but they’re really after folding money.)
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To: xtinct
Yes. It appears that they'll "go with the flow."

For Clinton, Bid Hinges on Texas and Ohio
The New York Times
February 12, 2008
PATRICK HEALY

Excerpt:
She has to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she’s out,” said one superdelegate who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, and who spoke on condition of anonymity to share a candid assessment. “The campaign is starting to come to terms with that.” Campaign advisers, also speaking privately in order to speak plainly, confirmed this view...Some said that they, like the hundreds of uncommitted superdelegates still at stake, might ultimately “go with the flow,” in the words of one, and support the candidate who appears to show the most strength in the primaries to come.

5 posted on 02/12/2008 11:23:54 PM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: Bender2

He wasn’t wrong about revenge being best when served up cold!


6 posted on 02/12/2008 11:24:07 PM PST by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: fortheDeclaration
He wasn’t wrong about revenge being best when served up cold!

I love the smell of Napalm in the morning, it smells like victory!

7 posted on 02/12/2008 11:30:01 PM PST by null and void (President Hillary!™ Clinton? Time to invest in body bags. Again...)
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To: xtinct
Just loving it immensely but, as these ARE the Clintons, I’m not ready to accept the pronouncement of political death until I’ve seen the results of a certified autopsy by an impartial Medical Examiner. I’m sure this position is held by many of the “Rats” described in the article as well. Hence their reluctance to be quoted or to openly and irrevocably commit.
8 posted on 02/12/2008 11:30:52 PM PST by TCats (The Clintons Are Not Just Wrong - They Are Certifiable AND Dangerous! See my Page)
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To: xtinct
I know it's late, but isn't this writing just awful?

the so-called super delegates -- won't hesitate to ditch the former New York senator

Former? Did I miss something?

running from her campaign likes rats on a ship

Don't rats usually run OFF a ship? And I've never heard of rats "looking for clear waters"

Maybe it's just me...

9 posted on 02/12/2008 11:31:54 PM PST by ProfoundMan (Money is the mother's milk of politics but righteous indignation is the drug of choice.)
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To: xtinct
Super-delegates, of the party, by the party, for the party: the ultimate disenfranchisement.

Sounds like Hillary will be relying on non-democratic means to obtain the Presidency.
Nothing new here.

10 posted on 02/12/2008 11:35:07 PM PST by wai-ming
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To: fortheDeclaration

“revenge is a dish best served with cold cuts” Tony Soprano


11 posted on 02/12/2008 11:35:17 PM PST by Defendingliberty (www.gulagthebear.com, www.DraconEarthsavers.org)
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To: fortheDeclaration

It’s so cool to have Hillary losing the black vote just like the Republican always do. It’s still sad that most of the blacks vote as a group instead as individuals, in the country that produced Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Clarence Thomas, ect.


12 posted on 02/12/2008 11:41:26 PM PST by factmart
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To: JennysCool

So according to this article there are currently 396 “super-delegates” uncommitted...... and that’s a pretty dramatic sudden swing if a lot of them decide that Obama Hussein is the future nominee and many/most decide to come out for Obama..... if Shrillary and Bill could have locked down any of those 396 by now they would have done so, as the Democrat hack notes. It could be that Obama has a lot of dry powder ready when he wins a couple more primaries, or certainly after March 4 if he sweeps..... there may well be a stampede of those remaining “super-delegates” plus the MSM to try to end the thing quickly and annoint Obama as the nominee.


13 posted on 02/12/2008 11:41:50 PM PST by Enchante (Hillary Clinton: Bring Back Maggie Williams, the Hero(ine) of FosterGate!!)
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To: ProfoundMan
LOL - Now that you mention it, the article does have the tenor and texture of an eighth grade composition in an average Public Middle School English class. The similes get in the way of the story.
14 posted on 02/12/2008 11:43:40 PM PST by TCats (The Clintons Are Not Just Wrong - They Are Certifiable AND Dangerous! See my Page)
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To: Bender2

uUnless I’m mistaken about your image reference,

“A rose is a rose is a rose” was written by the lesbian Gertrude Stein.

If it’s a reference to “a faded rose”, I’ve read the poem, but cannot place the author. It’s STILL not apropos.

I MUST have missed something.


15 posted on 02/12/2008 11:44:25 PM PST by Don W (Vote YOUR Honor, or it could become: Vote, your Honor.....)
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To: xtinct
This 21st century Lady Macbeth will not go quietly into the night.
16 posted on 02/12/2008 11:44:27 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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To: fortheDeclaration

She reaped what she sowed. Think of these people watching their TV sets and watching her slow political death:

Linda Tripp, all of the Travelgate victims, all of the victims of Bill Clinton’s sexual attacks and trysts, Monica Lewinsky in particular; all of the attorneys that were dumped from the Attorney General’s office when Bill Clinton took office (mass dumping); all the victims of their shady dealings who ended up in jail (during WhitewaterGate) while they ended up in the White House.

All of the staff whom Hillary bullied while in the White House when she was displeased; all of the military personnel whom she used as her personal valets, carrying her luggage for her, and dealing with her other forms of belittlement; and a myriad of other people that were her victims who must think they have died and gone to hog heaven watching her demise coming incrementally and inevitably. I salute all of them. The victims get the last laugh on their tormenter(s), Billary. That is, all of them that are still alive. Cheering from their graves:

Jim McDougal
Vince Foster
Dead bodyguards in Arkansas
Dead witnesses
Dead fundraisers
Dead women
Dead investigators


17 posted on 02/12/2008 11:47:26 PM PST by flaglady47 (Space for rent: seeking new candidate tagline that will last more than 1 week)
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To: ProfoundMan

I’m right there with you, ProfoundMan. I was scratching my head and scrunching my face as I read.


18 posted on 02/12/2008 11:54:18 PM PST by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: flaglady47

P.S., forgot one, cheering from his grave:

Ron Brown, Sec. of Commerce, who died under mysterious circumstances:

Ron Brown Former Chairman, DNC; Commerce Secretary Died May 3, 1996. Ron Brown died along with 39 other people when the T-43 (a converted 737 used by the Air Force) carrying the group on a trip to Bosnia crashed while approaching the Dubrovnik airport. On the verge of being indicted and having stated his willingness to make a deal with prosecutors, Ron Brown’s death brought to an end his ability to testify. Military investigators concealed from the public the fact that a perfectly cylindrical hole, the size of a .45-caliber round, was found in the top of his head. No autopsy was performed.


19 posted on 02/12/2008 11:54:59 PM PST by flaglady47 (Space for rent: seeking new candidate tagline that will last more than 1 week)
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To: ProfoundMan
And on the subject of rats leaving a sinking ship, I read a funny flipping of the term tonight as it relates specifically to The Beast and resigning staffers:

"The sinking ships are leaving the rat."

20 posted on 02/13/2008 12:01:03 AM PST by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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