Posted on 05/19/2008 4:04:36 PM PDT by mdittmar
ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Senator Hillary Clinton, in advance of the possibility that the Obama campaign will declare victory on Tuesday based on an advantage in pledged delegates, told a crowd Monday morning that a Democratic nominee will not be determined by tomorrow.
"This is nowhere near over. None of us is going to have the number of delegates we're going to need to get to the nomination. Although I understand my opponents and his supporters are going to claim that - and the fact is we have to include Michigan and Florida." Clinton continued, "We cannot claim we have a nominee based on 48 states, particularly two states that are so important for us to win in the fall. So part of our challenge is making sure that we nominate the person most able to win. And I believe that I'm the stronger candidate."
Clinton said later in her speech, "I'm gonna make my case and I'm gonna make it until we have a nominee - but were not going to have one today and we're not going to have one tomorrow and we're not going to have one the next day. And if Kentucky turns out tomorrow, I will be closer to that nomination."
Clinton also added, as she first mentioned Sunday night at a fundraiser in Kentucky, that she has endured this long campaign so that a Democrat could win the presidency. Careful not to say Obama could not win the general election, Clinton implied, as she has in the past, that he is a riskier choice saying, "anybody who is really analyzing this and saying 'OK we did not go through this long campaign to lose in the fall.' We can not afford to have four more years of a Republican president."
Speaking at a high school in Maysville, KY, Clinton supported that argument saying, "the states that I have won total 300 electoral votes. If we had the same rules as the Republicans, I would be the nominee right now. We have different rules so what we've got to figure out is who can win 270 electoral votes. My opponent has won states totaling 217 electoral votes. Now we both have some states that are going to be hard for us to win in the fall like Texas and Oklahoma. But I still have a cushion if you look at all the states that I've won and take out those that may not be in our column come the fall. My opponent has 217 electoral votes including places like Alaska and Idaho and Utah and Kansas and Nebraska. And many of his votes and his delegates come from caucus states which have a relatively low turnout."
Clinton asked for a big turnout tomorrow saying, "if Kentucky votes big tomorrow we are gonna to keep going, and were gonna keep fighting and we are going to keep making our case because you cant win the presidency without winning Kentucky."
http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/05/michelle-obama-caught-on-tape-at.html
Well, Clinton has been spending big money (her own) as of late - she may get what she pays for.
This is no where near over. Is this the same as
I ain’t no ways tired.
Can't disagree with you...Obama's proving himself to be a minor league player when it comes to the national game.
The "super" delegates have GOT to be inhaling Maalox! ;^D
“..beat the Manchurian Candidate like a rented mule.”
You mean the Mecca Candidate?
Barry Hussein warned everybody to lay off his wife or else, so if that Michelle video is real it’ll never surface. And if it does, all references to it will be banned as racist, the Republican Party will never mention it, and Obama will bring up his white grandmother again.
We oughta know the drill by now.
I just wish the GOP had 1/10 the political guts and drive of the Clintons...
“Today, on ABCs Good Morning America, Barack Obama lost his cool, calling names and making unspecified threats. Why? Ostensibly, its because the Tennessee Republican Party issued an Internet video featuring Michelle Obama saying shes proud of being an American only because her husband is running for president. Well, yes, we all heard that awhile ago.
But the real reason for Obamas extraordinary freakout is that he fears the release of the videotape, reported here, of Michelle Obama in the pulpit of Rev. Jeremiah Wrights church railing against whitey. And we dont mean Whitey Ford. Four Republican sources have told me that the tape exists. Ive also been informed that Karl Rove and his allies have a copy of it and are using it to raise funds for independent expenditure groups. The tape, Im told, will be disclosed as the GOP October Surprise. Its a ticking time bomb.
And Ive learned that a right-wing Republican billionaire has put a $1 million bounty on the video. He doesnt want John McCain to win, like a number of conservatives, and thinks Obama is a pathetically weak candidate. The billionaire wants that video released now.
Obama, speaking on ABCs Good Morning America showed fear through his name-calling: If they think that theyre gonna try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful. Because, that I find unacceptable. The notion that you start attacking my wife or my family you know, Michelle is the most honest, the best person I know. She is one of the most caring people I know. She loves this country. And for them to try to distort or to play snippets of her remarks in ways that are unflattering to her I think is just low class.
Does Obama have a copy of the whitey video? We know that he knows that his wife knows. The video really does exist. If we have to wait until October to see it, Obama might explode before then from the tension.”
It sounds like Clinton is going to release this vid, if it exists, and blame the Republicans for it. It has the makings of a Clinton classic.
Gonna & ya know ... focus groups and polsters tell me to talk like plain folk ... especially when I'm in West Virginia and Kentucky.
I question that Larry Johnson is even on speaking terms with four Republicans.
Awesome video:
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
Mrs. Clinton can send Juan Williams a nice case of scotch...on The Factor just now he blasted Barry for whining about Fox News, telling Laura I. that people are starting to see right through him.
They will see their constituent’s in Denver come August.
Not yet. But, I am keeping an eye out for it.
I hope you’re correct. In the event that the Dems take the presidency, she could not be as horrible for the country as Barak Hussein, who wants to take the food out of our mouths.
She is delusional.
First of all, she is a 'democrat' - they don't have the same rules as the Republicans, so she can't claim a victory by playing by rules from the other team. She has to play by HER teams rules.
This is the equivalent to playing golf, shooting a 130 to your opponents 80 and then claiming that you would have won if you had been playing basketball.
She can't claim 'electoral votes' on the basis of just 1/2 of the total electorate voting. She barely 'won' New York. However, come the fall election - either democrat would probably win New York. So it is an absurd accounting.
And she says 'we have to count all the states' --- except those my opponent won.
What a complete and total psycho !
Ouch! lol!
Which is funnier, Baghdad Bob or Hillary?
BUMP.
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