Posted on 03/19/2008 8:13:05 AM PDT by xtinct
WASHINGTON - Liberals are antsy. They haven't seen Democratic voter enthusiasm like this in a long time and they'd rather not wait until the party's August convention to harness it to the party's presidential nominee.
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are still fiercely competing just when liberal activists and labor leaders wanted to mobilize voters and gear up their message for the general election.
Activists who gathered at a Washington hotel this week said Obama and Clinton have energized the electorate with their prolonged contest, but several warned that a convention fight could be fractious and leave little time to mount a general election campaign against Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain.
"There is always that danger," said Karen Ackerman, the political director for the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor federation. "The way that this plays out in terms of how the nominee is eventually chosen matters a lot."
Lately, the way it has been playing out is with hot rhetoric — the Clinton camp points out Obama's ties to an indicted businessman who was a political patron and the Obama camp responds by demanding that Clinton release her tax returns. Meanwhile, neither candidate can win the nomination with delegates selected in state primaries or caucuses, and so they conduct parallel campaigns wooing party leaders who will also get a say at the convention.
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Yes they are! Read my tagline which I have had up since 2006.
What if the Queen wins PA and maybe NC ? Then there will be a real entertaining floor fight in Denver . Maybe Hillary and her southern bigot crowd will again go after him with the race card. This could be very very beautiful, maybe even a race riot !
hillary will win pennsylvania and obama north carolina. bank on it.
Well, they might not want a convention fight, but what about me? I really, really want one. I plan to lay in stocks of popcorn and beer.
I hadn’t heard about the missing staffer. Got any more info?
....And Operation Chaos continues to dumbfound democrats.
this makes total sense.
When it MATTERS, the left is not up to a REAL fight.
The Democrat Party is good at surrender, is good for giving up, but they are horrible for follow through.
for them Reality Bites.
One good thing about this is that both Obama and Hillary are having to go farther and farther left to appeal to their party’s lunatic losers, which means they’ll have less time to pretend to be centrist for the general election.
Liberals never want to fight. They prefer a drum circle.
Obama is trying to convince the Democrats that they should rap up the nomination now, so that he can start debating McCain. That’s what he said in his speech, today.
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>What if the Queen wins PA ..
What if? It would be a visible interposition of God for her to lose Pennsylvania.
>and maybe NC ... - Belongs to Barack.
>>hillary will win pennsylvania and obama north carolina. bank on it.
Agreed.
I predict violence at the convention in Denver. There was a lottery held yesterday to determine which parks the various protest groups would be permitted to use. It was a drawing of submitted cards. The most notorious of these groups, Recreate 68, somehow had their cards left out of the drawing. The drawing was cancelled. Waiting to see what happens next.
“I want a fight. I want fist fights, chairs being thrown, name calling, spitting, cussing, slapping, scratching, and hair pulling”.
Be still my heart! I just hope we can get that lucky.
Thanks. This is the first time I’d ever seen his name in print. Nothing on the news as far as I can tell. Strange.
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