I’ve mostly ignored this because until any cabinet announcements are made there isn’t much real news to it. That said, if President Clinton’s entanglements are going to make it a pain in the ass, I’d rather they not do it. Secretary of State, especially post-Bush, is an important and tough job. I think Sen. Clinton [...]
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Bullet. Freaking. Dodged.
Moving on…
Usually when I want cutting edge satire I turn to The Onion, but this Sunday’s New York Times takes the cake. Apparently those zany kids at the Grey Lady wrote up an “op-ed” by “Mark Penn”. In the rollicking good column “Penn” claims that the reason Sen. Clinton lost was because of money and not [...]
I gotta say, the “Yes We Can” line was pretty darn good.
Hillary Clinton Yes We Can Video:
UPDATE: The Obama site has a big “thank you” graphic and letter form up.
NY Times, CNN, MSNBC report that Sen. Clinton will drop out and endorse Sen. Obama on Friday.
Not finished yet, but it’s a mess. Like, couldn’t she be more graceful?
“We stayed the course”? Really, Hillary? We kind of went down that path before.
This speech just went on and on, and the crowd was right out of the Roman Coliseum with their “Denver” nonsense.
Please end this so our next president can come [...]
Clearly the Clinton folks are having a hard time getting their message straight today. Despite the wailing of the diehards, the AP is not the sort of organization that makes up a news story like that. People on the Clinton campaign told them it was going to be over today, and others have pushed back [...]
Yes, she’s moving to the next phase of action. It’s called the Huckabee Phase.
Please, God, let it be.
Members of Hillary Clinton’s advance staff received calls and emails this evening from headquarters summoning them to New York City Tuesday night, and telling them their roles on the campaign are ending, two Clinton staffers tell my colleague Amie Parnes.
The advance staffers — most of them now in Puerto Rico, South [...]
The Clinton campaign now resembles that old guy who hangs out at the club, far past his prime and a good 20 years older than the average age of the other men in attendance. They’re the guy in the Member’s Only jacket, hoping one of the women has a daddy complex and an alcohol infused [...]
To most of us this is accepted knowledge, but not the Clinton campaign. Furthermore, delegates are what determines the party’s nominee. Always has been.
I haven’t been watching this thing in full - even I am not that boring - but I’ve now seen Harold Ickes have his butt handed to him twice. First was up against Rep. Robert Wexler, and later against Sen. Carl Levin (who seriously has issues with the Iowa-New Hampshire monopoly - and I agree [...]
Taylor Marsh:
The reality is, however, that though Clinton voted for the war, there is no evidence whatsoever that Obama would have voted against the war in Iraq if he were a senator at the time
Barack Obama in 2002:
I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.
So for those of us who seek [...]
Lanny Davis and the pursuit of the ridiculous
Jeralyn of Talkleft has once again busted out the calculations on the cocktail napkin to prove once again that Clinton is the more electable candidate. Ditto for this poster on Taylor Marsh’s site (I guess they’ve quit attacking Sen. Kennedy for the moment). I wonder: are these sites going to play this stupid game right [...]
[Angry Oliver is angry]
Please, just fade away. You lost. You got close, but you lost. All you are doing now is embarrassing yourself and hurting the party and the country in the process.
First, Bill Clinton further descends into conspiracy land, doing his best Oliver Stone.
Former President Bill Clinton in South Dakota today delivered a harsh critique of [...]
I can’t stand Maureen Dowd, but sometimes facts are facts. It isn’t that I don’t believe that there hasn’t been sexism in this campaign. There has been. Of course, there has been racism as well. But sexism isn’t why Hillary Clinton is losing.
Her campaign has been poorly planned and executed versus what turns out [...]
The article from the Politico and being flogged by the increasingly delusional Clinton blogs says “GOP strategists mull McCain ‘blowout“.
The problem for the Clinton supporters and Republicans is that the rest of us live in reality, and not in a world of our own making. Some recent headlines back down here on planet earth confirm [...]
“[T]here is nothing to base that on. As far as I know”
“Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again”
“There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
“[T]he [...]
She is fracking crazy.
Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama.
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated [...]
No, Governor Paterson, Sen. Clinton passed “desperate” about three months ago.
Crickets.
This isn’t the first time the swells have tried to hurl their money around. Just a few months ago they were purporting to tell Speaker Pelosi how to do her job because she stated facts unfavorable to Clinton.
One of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s top financial supporters offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during [...]
Taylor Marsh admonishes her readers for crude comments they made over Sen. Kennedy’s hospitalization this weekend. But Marsh set the table for this a few months ago when she said the Kennedys were mafioso because Sen. Kennedy had the nerve to endorse Sen. Obama.
Is Howard Wolfson now saying that the amount of delegates needed is 2210? Because last week it was 2209 2029 and before that it was 2205 2025. It’s also funny that he says its offensive for Sen. Obama to declare victory when he secures the needed delegates, considering Sen. Clinton declared victory before the campaign [...]
Not only must Barack Obama contend with conservatives claiming he must apologize for every bad thing a black person has done ever, now the Clinton supporters say he has to apologize for all sexism. Real and imagined.
Yay. Good for her. These voters are sure the backbone of the Democratic Party, the sort of folks that are the spine of a multiethnic multigenerational coalition… oh, sorry, I can’t do it.
UPDATE: Less than 2 minutes in Clinton makes a fundraising appeal. Oh, that strikes in the heart of confidence.
UPDATE 2: Hey, they found [...]
Yes, voting for Sen. Clinton in West Virginia is just like facing down a tank in Tiannamen Square. Just the same. Identical.
Jeralyn Merritt at Talkleft writes:
As for the speculation that Obama would convince Hillary’s supporters to vote for him if he picks another female VP candidate like Napolitano or McCaskill, I highly doubt it. There is only one Hillary Clinton. Women are not interchangeable. In fact, it would be rubbing salt in the wounds of [...]
Somehow I think even Don Quixote would have considered this quest a ways past impossible.
Even if Clinton wins 100 percent of the vote and the accompanying 275 delegates available — including superdelegates (some of whom have already committed) — in the six remaining Democratic contests, she will end up short of the 2,025 delegates needed [...]
Keith Olbermann is reporting that Howard Wolfson and Patti Solis Doyle are currently negotiating book deals about their time on the Clinton campaign. As Olbermann notes, you don’t negotiate for book deals in primary season if you think you’re going to be working a campaign in the fall.
Has she said anything about it since Indiana? Certainly not to the extent she did leading up to Indiana/North Carolina.
That, my friends, is what we call a pander.
The last throes are pretty messy.
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters — including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.
“I have a much broader base to build a winning [...]
WASHINGTON - After a daylong meeting between Senator Hillary Clinton and her campaign’s top advisors and staffers, this reporter has learned of a decision to portray the mathematically certain nomination of Senator Barack Obama as the byproduct of a time traveling DeLorean car that has created, in the words of communications director Howard Wolfson, an [...]
That’s the latest - and probably last - b.s. excuse from Team Clinton on why they didn’t really lose the nomination. As I discussed with a friend last night, the Clinton campaign decided that in order to win they would throw the black vote aside and drive up their vote among white voters. What they [...]
You gotta be kidding me.
Mary Bunger, a 44-year-old single mom from Abington, emerged from the town’s general store on Wednesday, the only place to purchase a snack in a 10-mile radius.
“I am definitely going to try to go with Hillary,” she said. “I almost feel like (Obama’s) the anti-Christ from the Middle East.”
Bunger reads news [...]
It’s kind of like the math Bush pushed back in 2000. Keith Olbermann explains:
In 1992, the Clintons weren’t so digusted by economists. But they have a losing campaign to prop up, so things change.
Slate’s Tim Noah issues a challenge to journalists.
Here’s a rule I would like every political reporter, campaign official, TV talking head, and politician in the United States to follow. Go ahead and say, if you like, that Hillary Clinton retains a serious chance of winning the Democratic nomination. If you say this, however, you must [...]
This is what caused Mark Udall (an undecided superdelegate) to lash out at the Clinton/McCain rhetoric on the gas tax. She issued a challenge on the trail saying that members of congress are either “with us or against us” on the issue.
Note: I’m not denying that politically Clinton’s position is probably the more popular, but [...]