Posted on 04/01/2008 4:46:08 PM PDT by george76
In an interview with me this morning, senior Hillary adviser Harold Ickes confirmed that Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a key topic in discussions with uncommitted super-delegates over whether Obama is electable in a general election.
The comments from Ickes, who is Hillary's chief delegate hunter, are to my knowledge the first on-the-record confirmation from a Hillary adviser that the Wright controversy is a subject in conversations between the Hillary campaign and the super-delegates her advisers are trying to win over to Hillary's side.
In the wide-ranging interview, Ickes also:
* Said that it was possible that Hillary forces on the convention credentials committee could bring a so-called "minority report" to a full convention vote, though he also said that this is something Hillary doesn't want to happen
* Confirmed that the Hillary campaign could still try to woo super-dels even if she lost the popular vote, with Michigan and Florida counted
* Said that there was no risk of Hillary's efforts "tearing the party apart," described the current campaign as "genteel," and dismissed those worrying about the damage the campaign could do to the party as "hand-wringers"
"Look what the Republicans did to a genuine war hero," Ickes said, in a reference to John Kerry.
When I asked Ickes if the Hillary campaign would still try to woo super-dels even if she was behind in the popular vote counting Florida and Michigan, he said: "I think being ahead in the popular vote is an important factor. I don't think it's dispositive..."
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Ickes pointed out that when he worked for Ted Kennedy’s losing presidential primary run against Jimmy Carter in 1980, Kennedy aides brought a minority report calling for delegates to be able to vote their consciences...
Genuine war hero....that probably fragged himself...and was lucky that someone else didn't do him.
molon labe
Yeah! like Benedict Arnold eh?
>> Harold Ickes confirmed that Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a key topic in discussions with uncommitted super-delegates over whether Obama is electable in a general election... Ickes also said that it was possible that Hillary forces on the convention credentials committee could bring a so-called “minority report” to a full convention vote...
heh heh... you said, “minority report”...
RACE WAR!!!!!!
DISCLAIMER: no actual republicans were harmed in the making of this jackass race war.
Who, Falstaff?
I suppose the Obama camp is talking about snipers to the Super-Delegates.
Nope, it's what Reverend Wright, a private citizen has to say.
Ickes is an effin little punk and deserves to be without bodyguards in flyover country.
He is a genuine war hero for Nort Vietnam. His picture is displayed in their Vietnam War museum.
John Kerry can give Hillary one of his purple hearts ?
Obama might want to use the Muslim card against Hillary...Huma
While sitting in a love fest........
Ickes and his Commie Dad bite the big one. This asshole wouldn’t know a Hero if the guy was standing beside him. This is one of her butt lickers that I would love to meet and greet.
Proof again that the libs live in a different universe where what they call the truth is simply made up as needed and then believed like it was the Law of Gravity.
All this crapola about Wright is very interesting, but..........
For Hillary’s henchmen to bring it up to super delegates, saying Obama’s unelectable because of this, how, exactly, does any of that make Hillary any more electable, given her very high negatives????????
If the super-delegates vote their conscience, they might all collectively abstain on the 1st ballot, and then look for new candidates at the convention.
I wish that every person in America was made aware of that.Kerry is without doubt the enemy within.
Wow, it’s a good thing that Burp Obama severed ties with Wright and doesn’t have him in his corner anymore!!
/sarc
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