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Hillary Clinton Vs. The Democratic Party
Mathematically, she cannot win. And in the process of this narcissism, plans to take down the entire enterprise with her. Her campaign failed to plan for February, and that's where she lost it. The wins she had this past weekend are good for a headline or two, but at the end of the day she'll end up gaining a single-digit amount of delegates at best. By design, political campaigns are exercises in vanity, but this is ridiculous.
Clinton's path to the nomination, then, involves the following steps: kneecap an eloquent, inspiring, reform-minded young leader who happens to be the first serious African American presidential candidate (meanwhile cementing her own reputation for Nixonian ruthlessness) and then win a contested convention by persuading party elites to override the results at the polls. The plan may also involve trying to seat the Michigan and Florida delegations, after having explicitly agreed that the results would not count toward delegate totals. Oh, and her campaign has periodically hinted that some of Obama's elected delegates might break off and support her. I don't think she'd be in a position to defeat Hitler's dog in November, let alone a popular war hero.
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Disagree.
Your "math" makes presumptions about the SuperDelegates, and it presumes there will be no re-vote in FL and MI.
If she wins PA decisively, then wins a revote in Florida decisively, and does just OK in Michigan, neither candidate will finish with 2025, and we throw it to the superdelegates.
And. once again, she will have powerful arguments to make her case before the superdelegates.
You Obamas are trying to make it sound like it's a Clinton-DNC back-room deal, and trying to make a victim out of Obama to pressure Dean and the DNC.
Disingenuous, manipulative Bull.
This is just the process working as designed, as Pelosi has said.
You of all people HAVE to admit the Party NEEDS to solve the injustice of having millions of good Democrats left without a voice in selecting their candidate in MI and FL not because of something they did, but simply because of the greed, arrogance, and sheer stupidity of their state Party Dem leaders.
Regardless of the results.
Wellstone: "You of all people HAVE to admit the Party NEEDS to solve the injustice of having millions of good Democrats left without a voice in selecting their candidate in MI and FL not because of something they did, but simply because of the greed, arrogance, and sheer stupidity of their state Party Dem leaders."
When the plans were made to move the primaries up, and it was clearly stated that if that happened the delegates would not be seated, were those "millions of good Democrats" complaining and pressuring their state Dem leaders to not move the primaries?
I've got small children. I tell them clearly when they are not supposed to do something. The penalties for doing so are well known. I don't let them break the rules and then complain that they shouldn't have to face the consequences they knowingly brought about.
Here's a good link for you, on just what role Hillary played in the Northern Ireland peace agreement she has been pushing as part of her 'experience.'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/08/wuspols108.xml
In short: there is no there there.
Here's a good link for you, on just what role Hillary played in the Northern Ireland peace agreement she has been pushing as part of her 'experience.'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/08/wuspols108.xml
In short: there is no there there.