Posted on 05/07/2008 7:25:46 PM PDT by Red Steel
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AFP) — Hillary Clinton sent a new signal Tuesday that she is ready to prolong her battle with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination past the end of the primary calendar next month.
Clinton insisted that the Michigan and Florida presidential primaries, which were voided over an internal party row, must be reinstated, raising the prospects of a party splitting backroom feud with her rival.
She said in June, "if we haven't done it already, we are going to have to resolve Florida and Michigan. They were legitimate elections, people came out and voted."
The former first lady spoke as voters in Indiana and North Carolina went to the polls in Democratic primaries, which will play a key role in shaping the end-game of the Democratic presidential duel.
Standing at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway auto racing track, she said the true finish line of the presidential race was 2,209 delegates -- including Florida and Michigan, and not 2,025 as has long been assumed.
"It's 2209," she said, after being endorsed by Indy 500 driver Sarah Fisher.
Clinton currently trails Obama in nominating contest wins and pledged delegates. His campaign says he is now only 276 votes short of capturing the Democratic Party nod.
The former first lady's last hope of overtaking her rival now rests on nearly 800 top party officials or superdelegates, and she is arguing that Obama is a liability in a general election matchup with Republican John McCain.
Florida and Michigan were stripped of their convention delegates after the two states jumped forward in the nomination calendar in contravention of party rules.
Clinton won both states, but Obama was not on Michigan's ballot.
If it had counted, Florida's vote would have given 105 pledged delegates to Clinton and 67 to Obama, out of a total 185. Florida has 25 superdelegates.
The primary in Michigan would have given 73 delegates to Clinton, with 55 uncommitted out of a total 128 pledged delegates. It also has 28 superdelegates.
>> raising the prospects of a party splitting backroom feud with her rival
Oh please. PLEEEEEZE. Do it, HilLIARy! YOU GO GIRL!
Wow! What a surprise!
She wants to be vice president at the least and then in line for 2012
Ah the old Clinkstone ploy eh ?...” Depends on how you define ‘is’ “...
Depends on how you define ‘Win’ or ‘Delegate count’ If she can’t win within the rules of the DNC she’ll just change them..She must live for turmoil..apparently she doesn’t care about possibly losing a huge bloc of voters, as long as she gets her way...
The delegates will show her the way.....out.
There is one thing and one thing only that will cause Senator Clinton to drop out of the Presidential race. Her death.
Not only should the Democrats have do-over elections in Michigan and Florida, they ought to revote in the early states that Obama won, since the voters didn’t know enough about him to make intelligent decisions. Many of them wouldn’t have voted for him if they had known about Jeremiah Wright.
Howard Dean can't. Democrat leadership (Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Kennedy, etc.) can't. Ex-President (and loser) Carter can't. No one can tell the Clinton's anything. They are splitting their party effectively ensuring a non-electiable candidate and a pissed-off voter base.
Thank you God.
“Many of them wouldn’t have voted for him if they had known about Jeremiah Wright.”
Many of them wouldn’t have voted for her if they had known about:
Cattle futures
Juanita Broaddrick
Rose law firm billing records
FALN terrorist pardons
Travelgate
F’n Jew bastard
Don’t look her in the eye
Peter Paul
Sniper fire
Take money away for the common good
The Democrat problem is they know Barak Hussein Obama is seriously unelectable and they can’t do anything about it. Hillary is determined to usurp the will of the people and the Democrat leadership can’t let that happen.
Rush has them backed in a corner. He has dared them to give it to Hillary, and they know the consequences will be widespread (congress and statehouses) if they do, because they count on 90% of the black vote in every election.
The Clinton’s will take this all the way to the convention. Their hope is that B Hussein comes up short of committed delegates on the first ballot. If that happens, she’ll win the nomination, because I’m sure there are a lot of cold feet over the Wright and Ayers problems.
You got that right!
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