For Clintons, a Time to Find Truest Friends [“There is a lot of Clinton fatigue in the party...]

New York Times ^

[Sub-Driver]

April 20, 2008 For Clintons, a Time to Find Truest Friends By MARK LEIBOVICH

WASHINGTON — Nancy Larson’s most difficult conversation was, by far, the one with Chelsea Clinton.

“It was just heartbreaking,” said Mrs. Larson, a Democratic National Committee member from Minnesota and more to the point, a superdelegate who had initially pledged herself to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. This was last Saturday, after the former first daughter learned that Mrs. Larson would be shifting her allegiance to Senator Barack Obama.

“She is a delightful young woman who loves her mother very much,” Mrs. Larson said. “She was really pushing me. She kept asking me why I was doing this. She just kept asking, ‘Why? Why?’ ”

It is a question many in the Clinton camp are asking these days, sometimes in conversations far less civil than that one. After nearly two decades building relationships with a generation of Democrats, Mrs. Clinton has recently suffered a steady erosion of support for her presidential campaign from the party stalwarts that once formed the basis of her perceived juggernaut of “inevitability.”

Some of it is just business, practical politicians putting aside ties to the Clintons to follow the will of the voters in their states or making a calculation about who seems best positioned to win.

The immediate fallout, with the Pennsylvania primary only two days away, is electoral. Mrs. Clinton has been losing potential endorsers and superdelegate backing from grass-roots activists like Mrs. Larson as well as elected officials, party luminaries and former Clinton White House aides (the most recent being former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who endorsed Mr. Obama on Friday). It is the constituency that provided Mrs. Clinton with an early lead among superdelegates, one she retains although by a narrowing margin.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

I think Rush said it best. The Democrats, as a party, are just tired of these people (the Clintons.) They’re tired of being controlled by the Clinton machine, the Clinton mafia all these years.

[mirkwood]

Why, Why, Why???

[hinckley buzzard]

Clinton is discovering just what quality of person has been willing to serve the crime family all these years. What did these dirtbags expect? Honor among thieves? Gimme a break. The 'rat party under the sway of the Clintonoids has been one huge hogwallow for twenty-odd years, and now the hogs are merely squirming into place at a different trough.

Whaddasupprise.

[top 2 toe red]

I sure hope she doesn’t...Obama can be beat like a rug in the General.

[upsdriver]

And Hillary can’t be beaten as easily?

[Rider on the Rain]

So do I, and as bad as she is, it surprises me how many of her so called friends have turned against her.

[nuf said]

I think it is because the democrats are sexist. Isn’t that the way they reason? When given the choice between a female and a male, if you choose the male, then you are sexist.

[Jerrybob]

I think this is known as “the chickens coming home to roost”.

[txhurl]

'Hillary, we're going to take some things superdelegates away from you for the common good.'

[top 2 toe red]

Uh, no...the clinton crime machine will steal, kill, rig, blackmail, bribe, buy, threaten their way into the WH given the nomination.

[bannie]

I agree...but they BOTH SCARE ME!

[top 2 toe red]

In this one case, I will admit that “I feel their pain”.

Oh, so do I and it gives me great, great pleasure.

[sheana]

Funnier than heck! To her face: Yeah, yeah, I support you, all the way, you bet!
Soon as her back is turned they go Obama. rofl

[sanjacjake]

My thoughts exactly. Thanks. All this other crap
is essentialy the off shoot of the pervert’s action
and Hillary’s martyrdom, so to specak. They both
are a disgrace to the nation. As for Obama, he has
yet to join the sleaze crowd...will he or won’t he?
Actions speak louder than words..it is said...his words
have done pretty good this far...actions still out there? JK

[detch]

I just want Hillary to go away.

She is EVIL, many Democrats are seeing that, particularly after the Bosnia lies (3 times — whatta staff, huh?) brought to light the many other lies they’ve all had to live through.
I remember the “show of support” for Bill on impeachment day, when they were kept waiting on the White House lawn for over an hour (a cold day) for Bill to show up.

That's the way it's been for a lot of Democrats that “owe Bill and Hillary” everything. NOT. As Bill and Hillary (and now Chelsea) are now seeing unfold before their eyes.

[RichBruer]

The fix is in for Obama. It will take a little while before the witch is dead.

[mombonn]

former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who endorsed Mr. Obama on Friday).

Yikes! I heard someone on Fox teasing that a shocking endorsement was about to be announced, but was gone for the evening, and wondered who it would be.

[randita]

[4Liberty]

[Theresawithanh]

Yep, and I’m enjoying every last minute of it. I don’t think Bill and Hill thought that it would ever come to this, that the dem party wouldn’t continue to love and adore them. Along comes Obambi, someone who is bright, shiny, new and exciting to many dems, and it’s, ‘who are you guys, again?’