Hillary will win the primary against Obama. Despite the fact that Obama won five states last Saturday, is pulling in more money, and is gaining momentum, Hillary still has huge wins in Florida and Michigan in her back pocket. I know what you’re saying: The DNC are keeping those delegates out. And heck, it wouldn’t be fair because Obama’s name was not even on the ballot in Michigan, right? Wrong.
If needed it will happen. She started laying the groundwork last month:
“I hear all the time from people in Florida and Michigan that they want their voices heard in selecting the Democratic nominee,” the New York senator said in a statement. “I believe our nominee will need the enthusiastic support of Democrats in these states to win the general election, and so I will ask my Democratic convention delegates to support seating the delegations from Florida and Michigan.”
Or how about this tidbit,
“the state (Florida) party is going ahead with congressional-district caucuses on March 1 to pick the people it plans to send to Denver next summer.”
Why would Florida do that unless there was at least a small chance those delegates were going?
So even if Obama does get more legitimate delegates, Hillary will ensure that those from Florida and Michigan are allowed in, killing his chances. In fact, this whole thing could have been a set-up to begin with. Why else did she keep her name on the Michigan ballot unless she knew it’d come into play later? She’s essentially playing poker with cards up her sleeves.
And don’t even get me started on how she’s using her daughter to influence the super delegates and playing the race card to destroy Obama’s chances among white and Hispanics.
No way! It’s going to be chitlins (sic) and cornbread in the White House.
@#32
A cute little racist comment. How imaginative!
The Republican primary is over so I guess you can go back to sucking dicks in airports.
#33 – Lighten up, it was a joke. I suppose you didn’t get that round mouth from eating square meals.
#33 – Just FYI
http://tinyurl.com/37yvf2
#30, the people also voted against Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry.
They can’t be that stupid!
DrudgeReport has this:
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SHARPTON CALLS ON THE DNC TO NOT SEAT MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA DELEGATES
Wed Feb 13 2008 09:42:14 ET
Dear Governor Dean:
I write this letter as a former Democratic candidate for President of the United States and a civil rights leader who has fought his entire life for fairness and justice for all people regardless of the color of their skin. I firmly believe that changing the rules now, and seating delegates from Florida and Michigan at this point would not only violate the Democratic party’s rules of fairness, but also would be a grave injustice.
As former Presidential candidates we both know that, whether we liked them or not, we adhered to the rules set forth by the Democratic party to select its nominee for president. For example, I would have much preferred starting the nominating process with caucuses and primaries in South Carolina and Washington D.C. than Iowa and New Hampshire. Nonetheless, I knew the rules, abided by them, and ultimately accepted the consequences. Changing the rules in the middle of a presidential contest is patently unfair both to the candidates (including Senator Edwards) and to Democratic voters everywhere.
Some have said that not seating delegations from Florida and Michigan disenfranchises Democratic voters — especially African American voters — from those two states. That claim, if true, should have been made many months ago before the decision was made to strip these states of their delegates, and, once the decision was made, it should have been vigorously objected to and contested by those who felt it disenfranchised voters. To raise that claim now smacks of politics in its form most raw and undercuts the moral authority behind such an argument.
As a civil rights leader who is neutral in this presidential primary season and who highly respects both remaining Democratic candidates, I think we have a responsibility to protect both candidates from charges that the process was tainted so that our eventual nominee does not start the general election campaign under a cloud. Clearly, the justifiably proud and intense passions of each candidate’s supporters will be on full display in the months leading up to the convention. However, the Democratic Party and independent voices within must temper over enthusiasm by either side and the party must be resolute in ensuring that there is one set of rules by which we select our nominee.
In Progress,
Reverend Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network
#37 Balbas
Well that makes up my mind.
Whatever the ‘Reverend’ Al Sharpton says and wants, the exact opposite must be true and ethical.
Several of Hillary’s actions over the past short while have turned off a lot of Democrat voters. By having Bill get into a pissing match with Obama, her claims that Obama’s health care plans are inferior to hers, her superior attitude especially over the “pimping” incident, and increasingly negative campaign, she has shown herself to be petty and beneath the standards Americans want as a President.
Although credit should go to Obama for his popularity, notice should be made of Clinton’s campaign imploding. The pimping comment reaction is where she lost her bid for the Presidency.
It is also true that the best Democratic contenders have had to drop out. Edwards, Richardson, Bidden, and Dodd, would have all made excellent choices and great Presidents. That, I blame on the Clinton steamroller effect with an Obama topping.
#38, Cinaedh,
And I suppose you’ll let Ann Colture decide which Republican candidate you’ll support.
38,
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
#40 – Mister Catshit
“And I suppose you’ll let Ann Colture decide which Republican candidate you’ll support.”
Yes. Exactly the opposite of whoever she supports except – I just can’t see putting the same people back into office who’ve been there for the past eight years, no matter who their front man puppet happens to be.
#41 – smartalix
That’s true but in my opinion, Sharpton neither knows nor cares about what’s true or what’s ethical.
He doesn’t say anything he doesn’t think will benefit him personally and the self-service here is blatant.
I’m sure he thinks President Obama will be most grateful and shower him with power and wealth.
#36 – Lost, Lost, Lost, and Lost.
perkel, if you have any connections to your candidate, here’s some advice for her:
Barack is running away with this, and the race war failed. The only way out of it is to double down or reverse it.
Play up immigration as an issue. Obama has previously admitted that illegal immigration is holding down black wages and jobs, but amnesty is still worth it. Now he isn’t saying that anymore while supporting amnesty. Call him on it, and claim that he is a traitor to his race.
Hillary left herself plenty of room to take an anti-immigration stance, and now is the time to ride that to the White House.