Posted on 04/19/2008 8:59:23 PM PDT by Aristotelian
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 who 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.
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We only supported you because we thought you would win and we wanted our share of the spoils. Now, we think he is going to win...
In the highly unlikely event that she does manage to steal the election, the turncoats in question will be sleeping with one eye open...
Life wouldn’t be worth living.
....and sending their least favorite child down to start the car in the morning...
I’ve never seen those pics before.
lovely wedding picture.. is that background symbolic, or what?
Boo-hoo! The Clintons must have run out of cash. I would have worked them a little more before I put the shiv in.
Mark
“Why, why”?
Vocabulary of a recent college grad.
I don't think those relationships were the kind that endear people to you once you're out of power and/or money.
I expect there's a lot of Democrats these days who feel like the Munchkins before the coroner arrived with the death certificate for the Wicked Witch!
I've seen way too many B-grade horror flicks to think that it's safe to turn one's back on the apparantly-dead monster and begin the celebration. Hillary is just such a creature and any celebrating of her demise could be a big mistake until the death certificate arrives in the form of a convention naming Obama as the candidate.
Assuming things don't get so nasty that she ends up supporting McCain.
Bingo and I think there is a lot of fear of the Clinton machine also.
A “delightful” young woman listens to others and doesn’t repeat “why why why”over and over when they tell them they have made a decision. One “why” suffices.
She sounds like my three year old who says why over and over when I say “no cookies before dinner”
It was taken in a place where one does things that shouldn't be witnessed in public.
LOL!
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