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Clinton Donors Object to Pelosi Comment (On Drudge)
AP via SFGate ^ | 3/26/8 | NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 03/26/2008 3:29:59 PM PDT by SmithL

Twenty top Democratic donors who are supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for saying superdelegates should support the presidential candidate with the most pledged delegates.

No matter what the outcome of the 10 remaining contests, it will be nearly impossible for Clinton to overcome rival Barack Obama's lead in pledged delegates, because they are awarded proportionally based on the outcome.

So it will be up to the nearly 800 superdelegates — party activists and elected officials who aren't bound by any vote — to put one of the two candidates over the mark of 2,024 delegates needed to win the nomination. Obama has 1,406 pledged delegates to Clinton's 1,249, according to The Associated Press count.

Pelosi, who has not endorsed either candidate as chair of the Democratic National Convention, said during a March 16 appearance on ABC's "This Week" that it would be harmful to the party if superdelegates don't support the pledged delegate winner.

In their letter, Clinton's supporters said superdelegates "must look to not one criterion but to the full panoply of factors that will help them assess who will be the party's strongest nominee in the general election."

The letter also noted the donors "have been strong supporters" of the House Democrats' fundraising arm. "We therefore urge you to clarify your position on superdelegates and reflect in your comments a more open view to the optional independent actions of each of the delegates at the national convention in August."

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, "This letter is inappropriate and we hope the Clinton campaign will reject the insinuation contained in it."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 110th; 2008election; botox; california; clinton; demagogicparty; democratinfighting; eatingtheirown; election2008; hillary; nancypelosi; pelosi; sanfrancisco; sanfrannan; superdelegates
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To: SmithL
"What ever happened to the party of "make every vote count"?"

That only means when it counts for a klintoon.

41 posted on 03/26/2008 5:07:16 PM PDT by libs_kma (The land of the free, because of the brave)
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To: SmithL

Condemning Chinese oppression in Tibet, sticking fingers in the eyes of Hillary... who is that woman, and what did she do with Nancy Pelosi?


42 posted on 03/26/2008 5:55:46 PM PDT by Content Provider (A republic, if you can keep it)
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To: unkus

As it becomes clear that they are out of power, more and more will jump ship and start dishing vile dirt on them to boot.

After this, I’m wondering if Hildy might even have some trouble getting re-elected Senator from NY. Maybe people there are getting sick of this crapola and the Spitzer/successor-whatzhisname debacle only reminds them what the Rats are like.


43 posted on 03/26/2008 7:02:36 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Rush was right when he used to say: "You NEVER win by losing.")
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To: fightinJAG

She’ll keep that gig: She knows how to cheat; and once she’s in power, she own’s the ballot boxes.


44 posted on 03/26/2008 7:05:12 PM PDT by bannie (clintons CHEAT! It's their only weapon.)
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To: SmithL

Make every vote count for Hillary.


45 posted on 03/26/2008 7:06:05 PM PDT by bmwcyle (McCain has yet to give conservatives a reason to vote for him)
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To: maine-iac7
If the super delegates should just give their votes to the one with the highest delegate count - then why have super delegates at all?

There you go again, getting all rational.

The whole purpose of installing the superdelegate system was to be able to override the Rat rank and file when the politicos determined that they were going to take the party down the toilet---as in McGovern.

Truly, the superdelegates were created for just such a situation as exists today, in this race, between these candidates.

But there's no way politically the superdelegates can function as such. Not gonna happen. The only way I see them brokering a ticket is if they get Al Gore to come in and run with Obama, as Pres or VP, after pretending to offer it to Hildy and announcing that she turned it down. Of course, thereafter she'll witch and moan, but by that time, even the Rats will have come to understand that she's a pathological liar and no one will take her seriously. Plus the moonbats simply LUUUUUVVVVVV Al Gore. Once he's on the scene, everything else---including Her Thighness---will be quickly forgotten.

46 posted on 03/26/2008 7:07:32 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Rush was right when he used to say: "You NEVER win by losing.")
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To: bannie

You’re probably right.

But it says a lot about the state of the ‘Toon brand that someone rational such as myself can wonder such things at this point.


47 posted on 03/26/2008 7:09:32 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Rush was right when he used to say: "You NEVER win by losing.")
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To: eureka!
That's why there will be a 'rat war.

And trust me, the war gets worse if the Beest takes the big prize. We get rid of the last RINO, and the rats eat each other up while we find the next conservative leader to take over in 2012. And we will give him a Republican Congress that we take back by 2010.

Sometimes you gotta have a Jimmy Carter to get a Ronald Reagan.

48 posted on 03/26/2008 7:14:37 PM PDT by hunter112 (The 'straight talk express' gets the straight finger express from me.)
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To: SmithL
Oh, so Harridan Hag Hillary donors think they are buying the presidency?

Guess since the Clintons sold the Lincoln Bedroom, as well as our nuke technology, they think they can sell the highest elected office of this great country.

When will Pelosi, Gore, Edwards, and Reid throw their support to Obama and give the Clintons the thumb down?

Get it over with already.

49 posted on 03/26/2008 8:45:34 PM PDT by harpo11 (Rush, had better have a back-up strategy just in case the third term grabbing Clintons win the WH.)
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To: eureka!

junior mint? They’re very refreshing.


50 posted on 03/26/2008 9:15:27 PM PDT by Tigercap (McCain. For Supreme Court judge nominations and WOT progress if nothing else.)
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To: maine-iac7

I thought it was worth a second read. Good post, both times!


51 posted on 03/26/2008 9:48:45 PM PDT by MonicaG (Help Wanted: Conservative leadership '08)
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To: Argus

“If the candidate with the most pledged delegates should win every time, what do the Dems have Superdelegates for? I thought that system was instituted as a firewall against a radical, unelectable in the general, moonbat candidate (i.e. George McGovern redux) somehow getting the majority of delegates in the primaries and winning the nomination. Seems to me Obama is exactly the sort of situation they came up with Superdelegates to prevent.”

Yeah, but the ultra-moonbat wing of the party is trying to change the rules for superdelegates as fast as they can, while simultaneously arguing that MI and FL situation is set in stone. The democrat party will dissolve before our eyes on convention night.


52 posted on 03/26/2008 10:15:29 PM PDT by COgamer
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To: hunter112

Re#48 True, however, I prefer that Hillary destroy the party as she is doing and McCain serve one term with a young conservative vice president to take over. We live in different times and when the peanut farmer was in office, i.e., the war on terror...


53 posted on 03/27/2008 7:54:46 AM PDT by eureka! (This primary has turned into a real depressing experience. *sigh*)
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To: eureka!
I'd love to see McCain do something that President Bush did not do, namely, find a rising star in the Republican Party, and give that man the visibility he needs to be a future leader. But my bet is that the VP nominee is going to be some obscure white guy whose name even FReepers will have to Google up just to see what he looks like.

As for the times being more dangerous now, I'd dispute that. The Soviets were still a co-superpower that deserved the name "evil empire", Marxists were invading our hemisphere through Nicaragua, and the oil sheiks were jacking up oil prices, threatening to wreck our economy. It was the American people needing to see that these problems needed a real leader to solve them, and not just some dreamy idealist. The mood of the Rats surrounding Obama reminds me of their foolishness in thinking Jimmy Carter was man enough to be President after the Nixon-Ford era. Our enemy is technologically stupid, not the nuclear and rocket scientists of the old USSR. The only real weapon they have is that we've been far too timid to really blow them to bits, the way even a WWII Democrat would have done.

When a leader does a reasonably good job of keeping the American people safe for a long period of time, the liberals among them think anybody can do it. It takes a bad President to make them re-appreciate a good one.

54 posted on 03/27/2008 4:01:10 PM PDT by hunter112 (The 'straight talk express' gets the straight finger express from me.)
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To: hunter112

Points taken and would agree but for 9-11, 7-7, Bali etc...


55 posted on 03/27/2008 4:43:26 PM PDT by eureka! (This primary has turned into a real depressing experience. *sigh*)
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To: eureka!
And the way Americans have forgotten how well we have been protected by a Republican President since 9/11, means we might just need to have another attack during a Rat president just to see that we need another Republican, one that will truly bring vengeance and justice to our enemies.
56 posted on 03/27/2008 8:04:07 PM PDT by hunter112 (The 'straight talk express' gets the straight finger express from me.)
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To: hunter112

Oh, that is going to happen regardless I fear.


57 posted on 03/28/2008 8:01:40 AM PDT by eureka! (This primary has turned into a real depressing experience. *sigh*)
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