Posted on 03/26/2008 10:14:47 AM PDT by IrishMike
Is it too early for Hillary Rodham Clinton to suggest Barack Obama as her vice president on the ticket? Yes, absolutely. The answer for Clinton, however, appears to depend on your definition of what "smidgen" is.
Only "smidgens of difference," she said, separate them in the critical delegate count needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination. The operative word is derived from "smidge," or "barely detectable." For example, the 5,963,110 votes that Florida counted in the 2000 election allowed Gov. Jeb Bush to award his brother George W. a disputed victory. His margin of 537 votes - .0009 percent - was a smidgen.
The difference in delegates between the Democrats is about 7 percent - not a smidgen. Though neither has enough to win, it is Obama, with 1,567, not Clinton, with 1,462, who's leading. Still, she reckons the vice president option is hers to name.
When CBS pitched the "dream ticket" idea to Clinton, in fairness, she first allowed, "We have to decide who's on top of the ticket." Then, with a straight face, she added, "I think the people of Ohio [where she'd just won handily] very clearly said it should be me." It is just such humorless gall and an awkward sense of entitlement that turns voters off to the junior senator of Chappaqua via Arkansas and suburban Chicago.
Nowhere has this turnoff been more dramatic than among African-Americans, whose votes for Clinton and her husband in all their previous elections spiraled upward from 80 percent. It's not that Obama has wowed blacks as much as that the Clintons are duplicitous with them.
First she rolled the dice and demeaned the iconic civil rights struggle of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in favor of President Lyndon B. Johnson; ....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Hillary’s already written off the black vote, from what I’ve seen and read, anyway.
Still can't let that idiotic canard go at Newsday, I see.
Eh? Aren’t those her best parts?
Neither one of them can think without a cigarette in their hand. In 2008. A couple of white knuckle cigdraggers. And nobody in the media gives a crap. If it was Bush OMG, the example for the CHILDREN, Oooooo@@@@!
537/5963110 = 0.00009 = 0.009 percent. Les, you're off by a factor of 10.
Who are you talking about? Obamas? Clintons?
Fate has certainly moved Hillary far from those days in Arkansas, when 95 percent majorities in black precincts in the East Arkansas Delta were solely responsible for the Clinton’s precious political viability.
All together now, “Welcome to the Party Pal!”
That would be a factor of 100.
I wonder if Les counted all of the absentee ballots from soldiers in his tally.
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A year ago, a Democratic ticket looked a cinch to win the White House. Now it seems headed for the wall. The Democratic Party could even be on its way to becoming marginal on the national scene, as it has already become in much of the South. And race is the reason.
At least the Republicans counted the votes. The Democrats are not counting primary votes from Florida.
Can we say "DISINFRANCHISED"???
“Hillary Clinton’s venom, gall are a turnoff”
The MSM is just now having an “A-HA” moment in realizing this?? We have known it for YEARS!!
Memo to the MSM: So, what else is new?
Don’t count them chickens....
Both. They are both secret chimneys. You can tell from their sickly pallors.
What the hell are you talking about?? Hillary banned all smokiers from the White House the first day they were in office. The Clintons (well, and Gore)are the ones totally responsible for the war on smokers. The media jumped on it because they loved them so much.
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