Posted on 03/11/2008 8:00:20 AM PDT by OESY
She's going to keep coming. The Obama campaign can tout "the math." Pundits can insist she leave the race. Former liberal supporters can complain about her smash-mouth tactics. But Hillary Clinton is not going to relent.
The New Yorker compares her this week to a Hollywood cyborg or zombie. To make a current movie analogy, she's the Anton Chigurh of Democratic politics.
As the creepy villain of the Oscar-winning "No Country for Old Men," the murderous Chigurh is an unstoppable force. If "No Country" is a movie about the inexorability of evil, the Democratic race could be about the inexorability of Hillary Clinton.
She's not electrifying on the stump, her campaign is dysfunctional, and- truth be told- she's not particularly experienced.
What Clinton has is a shameless will to power and a near lock on an old-school Democratic coalition built on working-class whites. That's enough for her to try to pry the nomination from Obama's hands one finger at a time.
When the Obama campaign and its supporters in the press say "the math" rules out Clinton, they mean that she will never catch Barack Obama in pledged delegates won through primaries and caucuses.
He probably will continue to lead her by about 100 pledged delegates out of roughly 3,200 total. But nothing says that the leader in pledged delegates wins the nomination....
Obama is trying to knock down the notion, but has yet to burn his ships behind him by ruling out running as VP in any circumstance. Unless he does, doubts will remain about whether he has the stomach for what Hillary will drag him through....
About this there can be no doubt: When Clinton said at the beginning of her campaign that she's "in it to win it," she meant it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
brind = to soak in brine?
Well there’s your problem right there. No wonder it doesn’t work.
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