Posted on 02/18/2008 9:44:14 AM PST by smoothsailing
Hillary and Obama: It's About to Get Real Ugly
by Armstrong Williams
Posted 02/18/2008 ET
Before the primary season began the Democratic Party reached an agreement with its potential presidential candidates that they would not campaign in Florida or Michigan and that the delegates from those states would be meaningless. All the candidates agreed, which in effect, made the Florida and Michigan primaries moot because none of the delegates could be used by the candidates vying for the nomination. The Clinton campaign was the main advocate for this “ban” because at the time they felt they were invincible and would have little competition from the field. A few months later Super Tuesday arrived.
Super Tuesday was Hillary Clinton’s chance to wipe Senator Barack Obama out of the picture, but what happened was shocking and humiliating to the once unstoppable and formidable candidate. After the votes were tallied Clinton’s campaign had to face the realization that despite winning the big states (California and New York) she was still in a horse race that was neck in neck with the upstart from Illinois.
The result of Super Tuesday was a loss of momentum over the coming weeks which led to less money raised, less positive talk in the news, less volunteer sign-ups, and less energy than her rival. And then she shook up her campaign by removing (or forcing the resignation of) her deputy campaign manager. The cold hard truth is that Clinton is in danger of losing the nomination despite going against her word and campaigning (and winning the non-races) in Florida and Michigan. Now, out of desperation, the Clinton campaign is lobbying the Democratic Party to reverse its prior decision and count the Florida and Michigan delegates in the final delegate count, despite their earlier disqualification. How outrageous!
Even more astounding than Clinton’s backstabbing is the fact that now the Democratic super delegates are actually coming into play. This is how the super delegate system works: The super delegates are comprised of former presidents, governors, senators, party high ranking Democratic Party officials and other elite Democrats. They make up about 20 percent of the total delegates and have been around since the 1980’s. Super delegates are free to support any candidate they choose and are not tied to any specific state. Currently there are 796 Democratic super delegates, about 400 of which have yet to pledge their support for either Obama or Clinton. Usually these super delegates’ votes wouldn’t be important because the nominee would emerge before the convention as they win enough regular delegates. In this race however, it is possible that neither Democratic candidate will win the 2,025 delegates needed to secure the nomination; thus, at the Democratic Convention the super delegates could literally decide the winner.
The Obama campaign is now realizing that Clinton is willing to fight nasty by pushing for Michigan and Florida delegates to be included and by persuading super delegates by all available means. Well, the Obama camp is not sitting idly by and allowing the Clinton's to do what they do best: continue their trail of corruption, and total disregard for rules and guidelines.
The word on the street is that the Obama campaign and New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg have already met and devised an incredible plan if Clinton wins the nominee. Mayor Bloomberg would give nearly $1 billion to Obama's campaign after which Obama would bolt from the Democratic Party and run as an Independent candidate with king-maker Bloomberg as his running mate. The Obama campaign realizes that Obama is too new at this game and doesn't have the political weight of the Clintons to bring in the true heavy-hitters of the party's hierarchy. So, according to sources it was Bloomberg himself who suggested this cunning strategy. It's mind boggling that the Clintons are willing to destroy the entire Democratic Party, and potentially in the process lose the White House and seats in Congress, for their own selfish thirst for power and glory.
Whether or not this sort of madness occurs, the race for the White House is becoming uglier with each passing day. Unless Clinton gets knocked out of this race in the coming days, which is a high possibility considering she has lost ten straight states and got swept last weekend and earlier this week, we can all expect her and her husband to pull out all the stops to get her through. But the fact remains, she is not nearly the candidate that Obama is, and the Democratic Party would be far better served to quickly move to support Obama and make him the nominee.
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Called "one of the most recognized conservative voices in America" by The Washington Post, Armstrong Williams is a pugnacious, provocative and principled voice for conservative and Christian values in America's public debate.
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Obama better tighten up security on his airplanes. As I recall, John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash at a time when there was growing talk that he should run for the US Senate post that Hillary was interested in.
Wherever Hillary is, it’s automatically ugly.
She is mean, back stabbing and vicious. She will stop at nothing to reach her goal of ultimate power so she can transform the USA into a communist paradise.
Wow,Bump to save my spot.
Bill Clinton was willing to make China a military power in return for campaign cash for the 1996 election, building up a country that is in a kind of cold war with the US already and could at some point be in a real war with us. Compared to that, inflicting harm on his own party is peanuts. Of course he really belongs to a party of one—the party of Bill Clinton.
bump
At least we know O"k"arma price for the VP. Buy yourself the VP what has Ameri"k"a come too.
You got that right. That would call for a whole lot more popcorn and Miller beer. Sit back and watch the democrat party implode from within.
We could only hope...
We can only hope! The fact is that the Democrat actions in Florida affected the Republican primary as well. If the Democrats had had a real primary McCain would not have won and Romney would be our nominee.
LOL! bump that.
Soros.
yup TUX ,.. to yer post #60 , .. (( AND!!! there will be infighting amomgst the LibMedia ,.. oh how delicious! ))
Mike “The Nurse” Bloomie’berg can throw his $$$$ around ,.. btw , .. Bloomie does have a nice “Ca$hFlow” ,..
the only problem is , if Obama/Bloomberg do win ,.. there will be NO SMOKING around the globe (*snicker*)
LOL!
The campaign will be bringing in some new villains on to the staff.
brokered convention
meet
Brokered Election Day
No Holds Barred
All Bets Reset
The Clinton’s have a lot of nerve trying to seat the delegates after agreeing that they wouldn’t be seated. I hope that the DNC avoids appearing more corrupt then they are by saying no to this dirty backroom deals. This is proof positive that the Clintons don’t mind cheating during an election, this is so in your face. Now I know they will do anything to win, including election fraud. Getting the DNC to change the rules after the fact is election fraud. It’s wrong. Hillary must be a sociopath, only a sociopath would cheat so blatently. No wonder she is called Hitlery. She doesn’t care what people think, she just wants what she wants and to hell with the agreed upon rules!
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