Posted on 04/19/2008 8:59:23 PM PDT by Aristotelian
WASHINGTON Nancy Larsons 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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But I can't help but beleive that what was attributed to Chelsea as "Why? Why? was rhetorical, anecdotal and not an actually quote.
Ditto to LOL!
Maybe she was misquoted and was saying, “whine, whine whine”. :)
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