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In the meantime, Cindi "Cougar" McCain is busy measuring the drapes in the Oval Office.
And if that doesn't make your skin crawl, nothing will.
All I can think of is for the undeclared superdelegates to come out now for Obama and put it out of her reach. I'm so disappointed in Sen. Wyden who said that he is not going to make up his mind until the convention.
Continue to stress that the Obama campaign seeks compromise and a fair solution to the question, though they shouldn't have to since these rules were decided long before the first ballots were cast. Continue to note that the Clinton campaign refuses any and all calls to discuss the situation in a calm and reasonable manner. Continue to underscore that the senator who is positioning herself as "ready from day one" to lead the world's largest and most powerful nation has run a terrible, mismanaged campaign that is now some $20 million in debt. Continue to point out that a Clinton return to the White House is a return of the DLC, triangulation, cronyism and doublespeak.
The only good thing I see coming out of this is that it will be impossible for Sen. Clinton to push for the veep slot. Someone who has caused so much damage to the process of choosing our candidate has no place on the ticket. In fact, I continue to hold out hope a real progressive will challenge her in NY and send her off to Long Island with Bill.
except one of them has a penis. not sure who at this point.
Now that sHillary is messing things up,what are THEY planning to do for the good of the party and to ensure we win the presidency?
An Obama~Clinton~Fusion~Ticket!
We political junkies here may be enthralled with this hoop-la.
But to the average working American out there...all they see is a Democratic Primary split right down the middle between Obama and Clinton.
The most productive and progressive action would be to marry the two candidates.
A heaven made DREAM TICKET for the Democratic Party....
A black Man and a Women...what an honorable achievement!
Even republicans are saying how much they're attacked to Obama's sophisticated/modern-style and constantly the GOP have commented how they respect and admire Clinton's spunk.
These are potential voters!
Andrew Sullivan said it best...it's absolutely a Win-Win!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/column...
Bull Shit. She lost.
And the Democratic Convention will be her High School Prom, where she can get her revenge on the delegates who laughed at her.
and that it's being stolen from her
someone needs to pull the plug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nV_0oQDiRA
Hillary could have easily said to the voters of Kentucky, "Vote for me because you believe in the things I stand for. But never, never, base your preference on the color of candidate's skin." That would have been class. Nope! She sucked up to the bigotry and ground-in racism of the south.
Good news though! David Gergen has raised the question of why she didn't take the high road. Expect to hear it shortly all over the news.
Thus, Obama chose not to put his name on the ballot in MI. But Hillary did.
How in the HELL can they possibly figure out how many/which delegates to seat from either state? Why does Hillary get to call a do-over, and how could this possibly be fair to Obama?
Why doesn't the MSM clearly discuss this issue?
Oh. right. I know the answer to that stupid question.
As a 55-yo female with 3 adult daughters, I'm as big a feminist as you can find. But I also have a spiritual (as opposed to religious) mindset, an open mind and an IQ in the triple digits. I would LOVE to see a woman in the White House.
Just not THIS one.
Hillary is a Republican in a 1970's feminist pantsuit. Her time is so over.
I haven't seen a recent tally, but are there even enough uncommitted superdelegates left to get him to 2,210, the number that Clinton insists is the magical one for the nomination? Because mark my words, she will not accept anything else.
She is holding the entire party hostage to her ambition, and she is willing to let it die in captivity to get what she wants.
Why is Hillary carrying the primary season on beyond all logic, actual mathematics, and reason? Because IT WORKED for Bush in 2000! The Rethugs created so much chaos, dragged out the deadlines and kept moving the goalposts, until they found someone who could AND would CHANGE THE RULES after the game was played and declare that the actual loser would be coronated as the winner.
Hillary is playing the same game: looking for the media to catapult the propaganda for her; convincing the super-delegates to vote for her in spite of the popular vote; lying about the math and whether caucuses should be counted; use the DNC rules committee to change the rules on May 31. If nothing else works, she will go to the "Democratic Supreme Court," i.e., the National Convention in Denver this August to get the nomination in what would be a complete rejection of the rules, of precedent, and all fairness.
If I were more tech-savvy, it would be a responsible act to create a YouTube video where Hillary's monogram "HRC" and her picture morph into those of "GWB." How curious that on the standard keyboard, the letters that make up Hillary's mongram are only 1 or 2 keys away from the letters in Bush's monogram.
She somehow manages to out-pathetic herself every day.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/12/27/us...
KKKarl Rove sunk McCain's campaign in 2000 with a whisper campaign he "fathered" a "black" child out wedlock.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/8/26/31853/5881
The McCain actually adopted Bridget from Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, which is a Muslim (83%) country.
The bigots will have a hard choice to make in November, that's why I hope Bob Barr runs as the Libertarian candidate. He'll get the bigot and evangelical vote in one swoop! Obama will win like Clinton did in 1992.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-wo...
No more. She's entirely on par.
Not a best case scenario, but at this point, what the fuck good is a party when the entire thing can get held hostage by two self-serving egomaniacs? The last shreds of pretense that the will of the electorate means anything are blowing away. Steal this one away from the person who won the battle fair and square at your own peril, Clintons and DNC party officials.
And how can bigots and minorities be in the same party????? The exit polls weirded me out. I guess that is the legacy of the Clintons' triangulation. :-(
http://futurama.wik.is/Washington_D.C.
The Vicoden Mummy wears "size 0" Lucky jeans in Vogue...
Last meal??? Sometime in the late 70s...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
Meow!
Size -4.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...
Hillary Clinton is power hungry and willing to destory our Country by allowing McCain to destroy the Supreme Court.
G.
If she ruins our chances in the Fall - let's make sure she loses that Senate seat.
G.
Hillary was proud of her racist win in West Viginia, now supposed there was a state that Obama won because hard working Americans, hard working male Americans(that could not vote for a woman) and Obama was proud of that win. Hillary would have lost the what ever is left of her mind. Hillary has no problem in being proud that she wins the racist votes and tells the Super-delegates that this is the reason she should be the nominee.
So now all the voters that did not vote for Hillary are sexist
If the Democratic nominating process is divided in half, Obama starred in the first half. But once some of the veneer was peeled off his carefully crafted image the second half belongs to Hillary. She has the momentum and her recent wins in some key states revealed some serious Obama problems with key Democratic constituencies.
Hillary has a much better chance of defeating John McCain -- and he must be defeated. The pros among the Super Delegates know Hillary is the party's stronger candidate in November but they'd rather lose in November than risk alienating black voters. So it's OK to slap around the bitch; women ought to be in the back room making coffee anyway. If Obama were a young white junior senator Hillary Clinton would be the nominee.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court takes a hands off stance when it comes to nominating procedures established by the parties. If the federal courts would take the case the caucuses couldn't pass the smell test. Millions of voters are basically denied a voice in the Democratic nominating contest because of the number of states that hold caucuses. None of the delegates selected at caucuses should be seated at the convention in Denver.
Democrats who don't want John McCain sitting in the Oval Office will regret it if Obama is the nominee. He's a fraud and once voters figure out why leftists like George Soros, David Brock, DailyKos, John Aravosis, etc., jumped on his bandwagon before the idea became popular the party will lose on the scale of McGovern's debacle in 1972.
Wow, just wow!!!!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/21/164...
Before primaries even started, her campaign had raised tons of cash, had about 260+ superdelegate endorsements and her nomination was "inevitable." She was going to have it wrapped up by Super Tuesday. Along comes this Obama character. He beats her in Iowa. He outraises her like crazy not by having people who maxed out on what they could give to him early on, as the few donors she had did, but by building a true grass roots network of people who gave in increments, on average, less than $100. She doesn't wrap it up by Super Tuesday. In fact, this Obama character BEATS her on Super Tuesday. Then he goes on to 11 straight primary wins building up a huge and, yes, insurmountable lead. She finally hits her stride. However, she hit her stride, like so many sports teams, AFTER she was eliminated from the possibility of winning. Now, she wants to CHANGE THE RULES. Those rules I signed off on? No...I want to seat those delegates I AGREED would not count last year, before the process began. Now...I'm going to characterize my wanting to change rules into "count every vote." I'm going to say it's like Florida 2000. But, here's not what I'm going to tell you...the deal with Florida 2000 is that they didn't obey the rule, which said to discern the will of the voter. So...in 2000 they did NOT follow the rules. Now....I also want them to NOT follow the rules. Oh...and let's not forget when Howard Wolfson said the following: "And overall, we have a significant lead among delegates, overall, which, obviously, at the end of the day is what is going to positively determine which Democrat is our party's nominee." (Got that here: http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/cb...)
Here's my question to the Clinton folks: What am I missing here?
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And if Hillary were a man everybody would be saying "How does being the president's husband qualify this clown to be president?"
Hillary has the most votes, let's nominate her!
What happened to "letting the votes count" ?
You hillbots are such lying phonies.
Hillary does not has the most votes and anyway that is irrelevant because we nominate on the basis of delegates. Stop trying to change the rules.
Howard Wolfson said the following: "And overall, we have a significant lead among delegates, overall, which, obviously, at the end of the day is what is going to positively determine which Democrat is our party's nominee." (Got that here: http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/cb...)
it is passing them by, and they know it.
I want a Hillary supporter to honestly say, that she would be having the same argument on behalf of Obama, if it was she that was ahead, and Obama was behind, and needed these votes to win even after he had even signed an agreement to have these 2 states excluded.
Come on, let;s hear you say, she would be doing the same thing in the name of fairness even if she was ahead, and had also been the one to comply with the rules that she agreed to, but that Barack had gone against them, and even though he had also signed the same agreement!! Bet she wouldn' t care about the Fl. and Mi. voters rights then, would she??
What about the people's choice then, she would thumb her nose at them, if that was the case, and you all know it, now talk about being genuinely fair. No, she is doing this just to benefit her, she could care less about any of you people in these 2 states!! What a joke she is!! Oh, and a big phony to boot!
Here is the general diagnosis, let me know what you think:
Diagnostic Criteria
1. A pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior lasting at least 6 months, during which four (or more) of the following are present:
Note: Consider a criterion met only if the behavior occurs more frequently than is typically observed in individuals of comparable age and developmental level.
1. often loses temper
2. often argues with adults
3. often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules
4. often deliberately annoys people
5. often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
6. is often touchy or easily annoyed by others
7. is often angry and resentful
8. is often spiteful or vindictive
Maybe we can collectively convince her to seek help, get prescribed to some Paxil, and make her able to reason with before the convention gets here.
lol
Hillary may be demonstrating the classic symptoms and stages of the Grieving process--- grieving a significant loss; in this case, the loss of her lifelong dream.
As we know, the first stage of the grieving process is Denial, denial that the loss has actually occurred. This seems to be the stage Hillary is currently stuck in.
The next stage of the grieving process is the Anger stage--- becoming angry that the loss has occurred, feeling the loss is grossly unfair, and fighting back against the loss. The Anger stage is part of Denial. She's there as well.
The third stage of the grieving process is the Bargaining stage--- trying to strike some type of bargain to stave off the loss, like a bargain with the Super Delegates, with the Florida and Michigan delegates, with herself, with God, with whoever. Bargaining can also involve futile efforts to fend off or reverse the loss, like trying to find a way to mortally wound Obama's electability.
Things begin changing once one enters the fourth stage of the grieving process. The fourth stage is where adjustment really begins. This is the stage called Depression. It is an inevitable, even necessary, stage of the grieving process, i.e. the letting go process.
It seems Hillary is doing everything she can to avoid entering the stage of depression, to avoid going down into the loss itself through the depression it contains. So she keeps recycling between the first three stages, the Denial stages. She can and will do this until all doors, all hope, all possible options are finally closed to her. She can and will do this as long as there are still primaries to win, and delegates to possibly win over.
But when all sense of hope is gone, when all options have been exhausted, when there is nothing left to think of doing or that can be done, when everyone, including those closest to her say it's over, then Hillary can and is most likely to enter the Depression stage, to grow through it, and then to arrive at the final stage--- and ultimate goal--- of the grieving process, the Acceptance stage. Acceptance is the stage of letting go, of being on the other side of the loss, of moving on.
The Super Delegates can help Hillary get unstuck in her stage of grieving and move into the Depression stage. They can do this by putting Obama over the magic number of declared delegates. Hillary's family can help Hillary get unstuck by being loving but firmly convincing her the hope is gone and it is time to get out. The sooner these groups, and others do this, the sooner Hillary will be able to finish her grieving and move on. I think Hillary will need this help.
Rollin out de dough
Bama in de den
Opening up the brown unmarked envelopes....
Hmmmm..... that doesn't rhyme....