Clinton Puts Up A New Fight

Tuesday May 20, 2008, 11:59 am
Obama is STILL winning even with Clinton's supporters counting FL and MI.

Now Senator Clinton wants to cut off 20+ caucus state results and count Puerto Rico (not even a state) to make it so she can win.

The fact that Clinton's supporters are so insistent in not understanding the mere facts is ASTONISHING!

Tuesday May 20, 2008, 12:24 pm
The "mere facts" are that Obama will not get the needed number of delegates in order to clinch the nomination. Why are Obama supporters so afraid of having a real convention? I find the prospect exciting. If you are so secure in Obama's greatness just let the process play out.

Clinton never said she wanted caucus states not to count and it is not Clinton's decision to count Puerto Rico, that is up to the party which has given Puerto Rico a place in the process. Geez, Blue, stick to the REAL facts.

Tuesday May 20, 2008, 2:10 pm
Methinks she is staying in the race and using any questionalble math to justify it, because it forstalls the supoena and deposition for the Paul v. Clinton trial.

If the DNC and Obama camps cannot legally pay off her debts, and she has already donated $11 million of her own money (with possibly needing to pay another $20 million) why else would she keep this going?

Does she really think Obama supporters are going to ante up money for her as well as money for his campaign?

Tuesday May 20, 2008, 3:04 pm
Your reasoning is ludicrous - keep talking :)

Tuesday May 20, 2008, 7:26 pm
"I'm winning the popular vote" is the new "Iraq had WMD"

You know, I really, really don't want to write about Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign anymore. She lost. It's over. I want to focus on McCain and the Republicans.

But, the Clinton campaign spinmeisters just can't help themselves. The latest whopper is her oft-repeated claim that she's won the most popular votes. It's not true -- and it wouldn't matter if it were true. Hillary told us tonight that she's been told that she's received more votes than any other Democrat who has run for the nomination. Not true, unless the votes are counted her exact way and some states aren't counted at all. Will this never end? Just because they keep repeating this new lie over and over and over, doesn't make it true.

Markos explains how the Clinton campaign fudges the numbers to give her the popular vote lead. Team Clinton has to do some contortions that no one else takes seriously:

A reminder -- the Clinton campaign keeps claiming that they lead in the popular vote. Just a reminder that the only reason they can do that, is to claim that Obama got zero votes in Michigan, and that voters in Iowa, Nevada, Maine and Washington don't count.

I don't understand how they and Hillary herself can make that claim with a straight face.

Josh Marshall deconstructs Terry McAuliffe's talking point along the same lines:

It is ridiculous. And, it is nonsense.

When the only way Hillary can say she won the popular vote is to count an election where no one else was on the ballot while ignoring other states, well, that kinda speaks for the desperation of the Clinton campaign.

Fortunately, Obama can make a valid claim tonight that he's gotten the majority of pledged delegates. While we know that Team Clinton never really understood the delegate math, it is the delegates that ultimately matter. And, there's no way the superdelegates are going to overturn the will of the pledged delegates. Not going to happen.

Obama speaks at 10:30 PM Eastern.

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Tuesday May 20, 2008, 7:46 pm
You really are getting boring, Blue. Instead of posting the same cut and paste job on 4 different articles you could at least come up with some original material.

Tuesday May 20, 2008, 9:34 pm

Sexism, Racism, and Reality: Healing From A Hard Campaign


As Hillary Clinton's campaign winds down, commentators are talking about sexism. Good. It's infested this race, and many of us have deplored it. But reality is multifaceted. While Sen. Clinton has faced bigotry, so has her opponent. Maybe there will be a chance to learn from this hard campaign as the Democrats work on healing their party.

Many supporters of Sen. Clinton have chosen to avoid the topic of racism. That leaves the impression that they think you can't fight racism and sexism at the same time. I don't believe that. In fact, I think the only way to fight racism and sexism is at the same time, since they both come from the same root insecurities.

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Wednesday May 21, 2008, 2:38 pm
Very original :P

Thursday May 22, 2008, 10:55 am

Geraldine Ferraro's "Sexism" Neo-McCarthyism Tour Makes Another Stop At Bigotry Central

Friday May 23, 2008, 2:50 pm
As I watch Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s continuing
campaign for her party’s nomination, I see a self-focused politician
who, despite the reality of the situation, continues to stubbornly pour
money that the campaign doesn’t have into a battle that it can’t win.
And over these last several years, I have learned that these are the
specific qualities that I do not want in our nation’s next president.
— a letter to the editor of The New York Times by J. Maynard of New York City; May 22.

Let's end the Clinton pyschodrama! Call the DNC 202-863-8000.

They will put you right through to a staffer. I am going to call everyday until they do something.