The talking heads have been yapping in the past few days wondering if it’s time for the Clinton campaign to shut down. Vermont senator, and Democratic bigwig, Patrick J. Leahy sent out the first salvo saying essentially Clinton had no chance of getting the prize
“Senator Clinton has every right, but not a very good reason, to remain a candidate for as long as she wants to,” Leahy, a Obama supporter, said.
This brought tons of sound bites from camp Clinton, all of them making clear she has every intention to fight until the bitter end. While Democrats are uneasy about how the primary has turned ugly, any calls for Clinton to drop out now are premature. Sure she is slightly behind in the delegate count, but if she wins the Quaker State next month and can a pull a win in either North Carolina or Indiana, then she can make a good case to the super-delegates the prize should be hers. Of course, if she loses two of the next three primaries it will officially be Clinton campaign death watch. Here is a bold prediction: if Clinton stumbles in Pennsylvania (and that’s a big if because the polls give her a comfortable lead), then it’s over. No amount of spin will be able to explain that type of loss.
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Obama's supporters have worked long and hard for that reaction.
Mutual respect. If you can't give it, don't expect to get it.
Hillary go home, take Willy with you. So, McCain can get moved get moved into the White House. Obama can go back to Chicago, cuddle with his racist wife. Continue his studies with on being Anti-American with his radical pastor Rev. Wright. His his good friends William(weatherman) ayers and his wallet Tony Rezko.
Go home Hillary - - and take Willy with you.
Enough is enough.
Hillary Clinton has lost because of her cynical Iraq war vote - without which she'd be the presumptive nominee today - the total incompetence of her campaign (including, most prominently, her slice-and-dice pollster and ex-campaign director), her inability to inspire a flea, her despicable and very deliberate race-baiting, and her failure to understand that using GOP tactics against primary opponents would ultimately render her utterly unacceptable to the supporters of the victims of your swiftboating and, as a side effect, the party establishment itself.
These media bias and sexism excuses are pathetic. Indeed, she's played the gender card so frequently that she's rendered the word "sexism" meaningless.
Why are the people who disagree with James's view called "talking heads" and said to be "yapping," while the Clinton propaganda is characterized in valiant terms? For James's sake, I hope he doesn't play poker.
As for what passes for analysis here, James should have just left off the long, last paragraph and given us a link to one of the 10,000 other pundits who've already said exactly the same thing.
Will someone please fire him from this board?
Are you saying Hillary is a drama queen?
You do make a fair point: all politicans generally tend to overstate their role in life for dramatic effect (although I do think the Clintons are unique in their ability to blow hot air with a straight face). I was just having some fun with Hillary and the Bosnia story.
Seriously, though, I am no fan of Hillary or Bill, and it's not because of their over-inflated sense of self; rather, I find her and Bill too politically conservative (i.e., DOMA, DADT, NAFTA, death penalty support, vote to invade Iraq) for my tastes, and their modus operandi (i.e, travelgate, filegate, pardongate, perjury, campaign financing, Nixonian campaign tactics) a tad too corrupt for my morals.
Indeed, even if I agreed with the Clintons on substantive policy issues, I still probably could not bring myself to vote for Hillary based on the corruption factor that is the foundation of her political machine. I support Obama, but in the unlikely event Hillary is the nominee then I'm voting for Ralph Nader.
I don't think the media is unduly harsh on the Clintons; rather, the Clintons brought it on themselves by their own actions. If the Clintons don't want the media to report negatively on them, then the Clintons should behave better.
He who lives in glass houses should not cast stones!
Barack Obama was be caught half dozen, if not more times over in stated stories. Everything from trying to relate his father to the JF Kennedy Airlifts.
Obama has said, he was produced during the Selma March, not only was he not produced, he was born two years from the date (long birth- I guess.) And his birth father was not even in this country at the time.
Additionally, there is not one homo on the blog, that has not "over in stated" a story at some point in life, for a little drama.
Get a grip on life!
Washington Post: Last Sunday:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/29/AR2008032902031.html?hpid=topnews
You might be right about the anti-Clinton bias expressed by the mainstream media. For example, when Hillary actually was on a dangerous covert mission to Bosnia with the special forces, she personally took out three enemy snipers at great risk of sullying her pantsuit; however, the media falsely reported her as being on nothing more than a goodwill mission to entertain the troops with Sheryl Crow and Sinbad.
The democrats is handing the White House to the republican on a silver platter.
Even assuming -- and that's a big assumption -- Hillary wins all of the ten remaining states by a margin of 60 to 40 over Obama, she still will be behind Obama in pledged delegates, popular vote, and states won. Accordingly, what mandate would she have to cajole the remaining superdelegates to overturn the will of the people?
As Hillary continues to pursue her impossible dream she only damages herself: her positive rating -- never high to begin with -- is down 8 percent in the last two weeks to 30-plus percent; Obama leads in national polls against Hillary by his highest margins ever; and Hillary is earning the wrath of the common people by stiffing local vendors on their bills to the campaign because she no longer is generating sufficient cash flow.
Hillary should lose gracefully, and abandon the race now rather than risk irreparable humiliation to what's left of her clout and reputation. However, whether she stays in the race or not is largely academic; the people and the Democratic Party have made up their minds that Obama is the nominee notwithstanding the denial in the Clinton camp.
It's over: Hillary's just the last to know.