Posted on 04/26/2008 11:11:29 AM PDT by kingattax
The Clintons are ready to tear their party up -- including making it impossible for Sen. Barack Obama to get elected president -- the way Rep. James Clyburn tells it.
While Obama himself has maintained that whatever breach is opened in the Democratic primaries by his contest with Hillary Clinton can be repaired once the Democrats have a presidential nominee, Clyburn, a political power in South Carolina and majority whip in the U.S. House, maintains that Bill Clinton is plowing Obama and the Democratic Party under in the interest of electing Hillary Clinton.
"I was sharing with the reporter the things that have been said to be,'' Clyburn said last night on MSNBC, in a talk with Keith Olbermann on Countdown about interviews that he has given in recent days, "I have gotten a lot of mail from people, telephone calls.
"I was on the campus of a university (where) the excitement was great back in January and February,'' Clyburn told Olbermann. "Now they seem to be feeling that the graybeards are positioning themselves to overturn the will of the people, these superdelegates - they don't quite understand what the superdelegates are.
"They think we're waiting in the closet somewhere to snatch this nomination away and so that's a feeling that people have got.''
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haha..bubba is campaigning real hard isnt he ?
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