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Posted on 02/10/2008 7:36:50 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Hillary Clinton's most senior advisers are in a state of "panic" about her presidential prospects and are plotting to enlist Democrat leaders in Congress to thwart her rival Barack Obama's ambitions.
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The Clinton camp hopes to stop the Obama bandwagon by winning Texas and Ohio primaries on March 4, after which Mrs Clinton is planning to call on party grandees including Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Harry Reid, the party's leader in the Senate, to persuade Mr Obama to stand down.
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“We need to back our nominee like a brick wall to ensure that doesn’t happen.”
When time for the general comes around, yes I agree. But I have not had an opportunity to cast my vote in the primary and I look forward to voting for my preference. I tend to be forward-looking and I’ve been receiving very bad vibes regarding Obama and the MSM this year.
If the Clinto’s and the Dem establishment screw Obama at the Convention...Brazille will leave as many other Black voters.
If this happens the DOA nomination of McCain actually has a 50/50 shot.
Its payback. The dems crossed lines and voted in OUR primary and gave us McCain. Now we are voting in their primaries and giving them Obama. He will be sinked when info comes to light about his drug past. This will be assisted by a vengeful Hillary who will want to run in 2012.
Many good drug treatment professionals can spot users through behaviors and other subtle clues. I still think that Hillary has more drug dirt for her allies to release.
LOL What’s she gonna do when she loses? LMAO
And that's the big difference between what we could expect if she's elected rather than Obama (assuming it will be one or the other).
Obama, inexperienced socialist that he is, would most likely have a difficult time forming a coalition, and even if he were personally popular as president could only served 8 years.
I would expect Hillary, on the other hand, to assassinate her opponents, outlaw talk radio and the Republican party, and engineer a fraudulent "president for life" referendum a la Hugo Chavez, only with a more efficient way of counting the ballots.
The Dem party in FL is talking about having a caucus to assign those delegates. Hillary’s people are having a cow. They think Obama would win a caucus here.
Then we will lose 2008.
We will not win this election with Obama as the candidate. Period.
The “lack of experience” card will not work against him.
Dems will win the WH. End of story.
Yeah, okay, but remember we're talking about the general election now. We're running against Democrats, not other Republicans. If Hillary is the Dem nominee, JC's personal baggage pales in comparison.
I like JC but I sort of hope McCain doesn't go this route. It will look like nothing more than pandering.
Thanks for the correction. My memory was a little hazy on this.
I say we call in Eaker to get too the skinny errrr ah fat of the matter on the Hildebeast .....ya know he’s a professional rumpologist ....;o)
Rumpology, also known as butt reading, is the art of reading the lines, crevices, dimples, and folds of the buttocks to divine the butt owner’s character and get a glimpse of what lies ahead by analyzing what trails behind.
Want to bet if elected on a Hill/Obama ticket, he’d have the most Secret Service protection ever?
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Hillary hasn’t been doing well in caucuses. I don’t like caucuses. They take away the “secret ballot” concept, diminish turnout and allow party activists to intimidate voters. Might as well put people up against the wall and say “we wont shoot if you vote the right way”.
I don't see this happening for a number of reasons. First, let's start with why an Obama/Clinton ticket won't happen:
If Obama selects the Clintons as VP at the convention, it will be a slap in the face to all the prominent Democrats that put themselves on the line by endorsing him (i.e. Ted Kennedy). Obama will basically be putting the Clintons in position to "settle the score" with those who went against them.
I just can't see the Clintons playing second fiddle to anybody.
I wouldn't want to be underwriting Obama's life insurance policy if Obama's beating heart was the only thing separating the Clinton's from assuming absolute power.
Now for why I don't think a Clinton/Obama ticket will happen:
The Clinton's only remaining chance to win the nomination is to win ugly and that means Obama's supporters will not be too pleased to see him basically "Uncle Tom" himself to the Clintons. (I don't think Obama will go for this either.)
Had the Clintons won the nomination in a blowout and Obama only picked up a few states like South Carolina and Georgia, it would have been a natural ticket to reinforce the black vote. But Obama is now a major player on the national scene and even as VP, he would overshadow the Clintons in many ways. The Clintons do not want this, they want this to be all about them. Again, the Clintons don't like playing second fiddle.
"The one thing the Clinton and Obama camps can agree on is that John McCain, who is popular with independents and moderate Democrats, is their 'worst nightmare'.Hey, JC Watts--now there's an interesting idea."They now fear that he could pick Colin Powell or former congressman JC Watts, both of whom are African American, as his running mate."
If the Democrat Party implodes under the pressure of its own sleaze--an event long overdue--the Republicans should give top priority to bringing African America back home to the Republican Party, where it belongs:
To the Republican Party--the Party of decency and responsibility--of anti-slavery, as opposed to the pro-slavery Democrat Party!--the Party that opposed the Democrat-imposed Jim Crow laws--the Party that fought the Ku Klux Klan, which the Democrat Party supported and members of which are AT PRESENT leaders of the Democrat Party--and the Party that passed the Civil Rights Legislation that ended de jure racial discrimination in the U.S.A.
Americans of African descent should rightly support--and should rightly be supported by--the Republican Party--not the sleazy, traditionally racist, opportunist Democrat Party.
I’m not sure why they’re saying caucuses, although I suspect $ plays a part.
I understand the Michigan Dem Party is considering redoing their primary altogether.
Until the unlikely event that some enterprising reporter actually looks into O'bama's early childhood education at what he claims was a secular madrassas, I doubt your going to see any negative news on Obama.
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