Posted on 02/13/2008 7:00:20 AM PST by jdm
After Barack Obama swept the Potomac Primaries last night, one might have expected Hillary Clinton to say a few words to her supporters to explain the losses. If so, the crowds that turned out for her in Texas had to manage their disappointment. They managed to let her know when they disagreed with her, however:
As news of her triple defeat in the Potomac Primary sank in, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did what has become a specialty in recent weeks: She headed someplace else.
After flying from Virginia to Texas for a rally on Tuesday night, Clinton did not publicly acknowledge, even in passing, that three significant primaries had taken place that day and her campaign had not issued a statement hours after results were announced. ...
When Clinton mentioned having differences with Obama over health care and the mortgage crisis, she was booed. Her comments continued past 9:30 p.m. Eastern time, as the polls in Maryland closed and the race was called for Obama, but in the giant arena, with a crowd her campaign estimated at 12,000, it seemed as though the defeat had not happened.
She talked about George Bush and Barack Obama being "all hat and no cattle," a rather strange reference for someone who has no executive experience at all. Her only public-policy leadership experience came from a task force that attempted to nationalize health care and lost her party control of Congress. In fact, the debacle was so bad that the Clintons have kept the records from going public for months.
It also might cause a few people to recall Hillary's history with "more cattle". Questions still remain about how she managed to turn $1,000 in cattle futures into a $100,000 profit. What was the wife of the governor of Arkansas doing in partnering with the head of a corporation in a state-regulated industry to turn an almost unheard-of profit from a minimal investment? Talk about all hat, no cattle!
Beyond that, though, Hillary still remains the favorite to win the nomination. She now trails in overall delegates for the first time, and in pledged delegates Obama leads by over a hundred, 1059-956. Without the 796 superdelegates, neither can win the 2,025 delegates necessary to get the nomination, and the primary map will soon start favoring Hillary. I doubt that the gap will get much wider, and it will likely narrow considerably. Unless Obama can keep widening it all the way to the convention, he's sunk.
Here's why. The superdelegates represent the elected and appointed establishment of the party. The Clintons have spent the last sixteen years putting most of them in power. They have campaigned for them, raised cash for them, and gotten them their jobs. Most of them are superdelegates because of the Clintons in one way or another. Barack Obama, on the other hand, just won his first national office three years ago, and has done far less for most of these elected and appointed officials.
When the Clintons come calling, which will most of these people choose to support? The people who put them in the position of casting this vote, or a candidate who hasn't done hardly anything for them? Will they select the candidate that wants to incorporate the establishment into the next administration, or the one that has campaigned on the promise to clean out the establishment?
Obama had better hope he wins everything between now and Denver. If he has less than a two-hundred delegate lead going into the convention, he won't win the nomination.
No it isn't. They sleep in seperate beds. There is no room for Hillary, Huma AND Bill in the same bed.
But I feel bad for Huma if she has to wake up to that.
Hildabeast’s is a storybook candidacy isn’t it?
First, the “off with their heads!”
Soon: “I’m melllllting.... mellllllting!”
I will be surprised if Hillary wins by superdelegates. I can’t imagine that the party would allow itself to be torn up like that, despite the Clintons’ pleading.
Supposedly she’ll be in Robstown and Corpus today.
... all ass and no class.
Regards
This is the high-water mark for Obama - but Hillary may be forced now to offer the VP slot to him instead of Bill Richardson. Black-Hispanic racial tensions are going to be a key factor - blacks can accept Hillary because she doles out the cash on schedule, but I'm not sure Hispanics will ever trust or accept Obama on the ticket.
Yes, but won’t it be fun to see the Democrats disenfranchise all of the African American voters.
This might be a double bucket of popcorn movie. Fun stuff.
We're talking the Clintons here. They have no scrupples and only a lust for power no matter the price.
I don’t understand the booing. Wasn’t this a Hillary rally? Or were there Obama people there? It would be nice if the article explained.
Which begs the question: If Hilary wins, do they bring the silver BACK to the Whitehouse, or is this all about finishing up the set? Inquiring minds need to know.
“If he has less than a two-hundred delegate lead going into the convention, he won’t win the nomination.”
If he has the lead and doesn’t get the nomination there will be nationwide riots. Will the Dem party cut their throats? Pass the popcorn, please.
>> causing most of them to sit this one out come November.
Will the “sitting out” come before or after the race riots?
If H! is “selected” by the “super duper delegates” as the nominee, and Obama has even ONE more committed delegate than she, there will be a firestorm inside that arena in Denver. It will make ‘68 Chicago look like a picnic in the park. They’ll try and placate the “commoners” by offering Obama the VP slot, but if I were him, I’d turn it down flat. As we edge closer to the convention, look for H! campaign staff to be burning up the phone lines and cell towers calling in her 900 FBI file threats to the “super” delegates. Pulling strings and yanking chains is her only hope.............
BS. The Dem bigwigs [read superdelegates] are not going to vote for Hillary if she winds up second to Obama thru the primary process. The Dem party would split apart and destroy the enthusiasm and momentum built up by the Obama supporters. Stealing the election from the people would be political suicide for the Dem party, especially when the victim is an African-American, the Dems most loyal constituency. If Obama emerges from the primary process as the top vote getter in terms of delegates, he will get the nomination.
I seriously doubt that Bubba has spent a night in the same bed with her in MONTHS!!! He is too busy spending his time in bed with his bimbos.
She was in the back of my woods and I don’t know what the reporter here is talking about, cause She filled the auditorium to the gills. They started lining up at noon time to see her at 7 and of course like bubba she was running awfully late. No reports of Boos by the media here. Perhaps the boos were aimed at President Bush. Oh I live in a city cesspool filled with RATS and illegals. El Paso Texas. A big city run by ugly RATS! Our city is getting thousands of soldiers in the income years, perhaps in the future we can turn this city around...God willing! Salute to the men and women stationed here at FORT BLISS military base! God Bless them!
It is a vast right-wing conspiracy!
If I were Obama I'd be hiring a food taster and watching my back about now...those who cannot be humiliated and defeated or ground into insignificant powder by Clintonco usually wind up dead.
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