I wonder how Howard Wolfson says these things with a straight face.
“This is now the Obama campaign’s primary message to the American people,” Communications Director Howard Wolfson said. “Not to build him up, but to tear Senator Clinton down.”
Once it was clear the Super Tuesday strategy was failing the Clinton campaign - by their own admission - decided to throw the “kitchen sink” at Sen. Obama. They get a little blowback and now they call foul.
I guess that’s another page out of the GOP notebook they’re copying.
I keep wondering how, if Senator Clinton somehow manages to pull the super-delegates over to her side to get the nomination, she expects to win back all of the Obama supporters that she and her campaign staff (*cough* Mark Penn *cough*) have derided as “unimportant” or in other such dismissive terms.
“Sorry, folks, I take it all back”?
It won’t happen. She will lose in a landslide, even if the Republicans are tepid in their support for McCain. A great big chunk of Obama supporters will stay home, and Clinton would need them to show up and vote for her in order to win.
I don’t think that Hillary supporters would have similar cause to not vote for Obama.
This might just be the last blog I write about politics in America. I have written about Obama being the American Mandela, the burden of the hope he brings, and the man he is in his own right. But I don’t know anymore. I still believe in Obama, but I just don’t believe in American politics anymore. If this is how they want to play politics in America then I don’t want to play anymore. This is too sick. This is nothing to be proud of. Yes, they won - the cynics and morally corrupt. This is just not right guys. This is not what people fought for and died for. The Founding Father would be ashamed. And so should they. http://angryafrican.net/2008/03/23/the-founding-fathers-will-be-ashamed/
mambochicken23: I don’t think that Hillary supporters would have similar cause to not vote for Obama.
True, they wouldn’t have similar cause. Obama hasn’t tried to change rules he’s already agreed to or dismiss folks who didn’t vote for him as unimportant or stump for the Republican candidate or …
But that won’t stop some Hillary supporters from not voting for him. In the clearly expressed view of far too many of them, Hillary has a divine right to the nomination and if she is denied it they won’t swing to Obama.
Well, that’ll be their loss, won’t it?