Should Hillary form a Splinter Party?
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:29 am... O'Bama says he's got the grass roots support (at least in funding) and will get the nomination. He's managed to back-pocket the super delegates by starting outside the beltway, with the governors of bannana stand states who think they are/have cut an inroad with the future president who is not already in with the beltway insiders, and then, as no surprise, the beltway insiders, not to be outflanked by a bunch of bannana stand governors, jump on the bandwagon too. At the same time he is talking about reviving democracy, the guy is writing letters to the superdelegates that say they don't have to wait for the people to vote in every state... they should decare alegece to him so that the people will know who to follow (in politico speak - "rally around").
These are nothing but underhanded maneuvers to get Clinton supporters to lose hope. There are cheap wranglings to get the undecided voter to "go with the flow"... after all, most people would rather back a winner than be right, yes? So if your running a campaign based on that level of disrespect for voters intelligence, what does that say about your true appreciation for the base... not a lot! If I were one of the 8 members of Congress planning to declare, and the campaign leaked it to the press prior to the voting, I'd pull my support based on the campaign's unconcealed contempt for the democratic process.
To the candidate with the lifetime experience, the candidate who had won the battleground states, the candidate who understands the magnitude of the issues and is not going around with a can of whitewash making promises that are unequivocally "feel good" dreams... she is told to stop making trouble... to drop out of the race so all the dumb Democratic voters will know who to rally around. While the O'Bama zealots were happy to out-maneuver Mrs. Clinton in the various state caucuses, they now are quaking in their boots about the notion that they might actually get outmaneuvered at the National Convention.
Shame on you Howard Dean. Shame on you Democratic party leaders. I'd like to see Clinton tell you to go f*ck yourselves and break off to form a new party. Who else feels the same way?
nytimes.com wrote:Mr. Obama’s effort with the superdelegates began early Tuesday — at 6:58 a.m. Eastern time, Mr. Obama’s campaign announced that Joyce Lalonde, a Democratic superdelegate from Michigan, had joined the Obama campaign. If all goes as planned, it will continue through the day with a steady stream of endorsements. The moment the polls close in South Dakota, marking the official end of the nominating season — at 10 p.m. Eastern — a delegation of at least eight members of Congress who had been holding out until after the primaries will announce their support of Mr. Obama, according to Mr. Obama’s aides.
These are nothing but underhanded maneuvers to get Clinton supporters to lose hope. There are cheap wranglings to get the undecided voter to "go with the flow"... after all, most people would rather back a winner than be right, yes? So if your running a campaign based on that level of disrespect for voters intelligence, what does that say about your true appreciation for the base... not a lot! If I were one of the 8 members of Congress planning to declare, and the campaign leaked it to the press prior to the voting, I'd pull my support based on the campaign's unconcealed contempt for the democratic process.
To the candidate with the lifetime experience, the candidate who had won the battleground states, the candidate who understands the magnitude of the issues and is not going around with a can of whitewash making promises that are unequivocally "feel good" dreams... she is told to stop making trouble... to drop out of the race so all the dumb Democratic voters will know who to rally around. While the O'Bama zealots were happy to out-maneuver Mrs. Clinton in the various state caucuses, they now are quaking in their boots about the notion that they might actually get outmaneuvered at the National Convention.
Shame on you Howard Dean. Shame on you Democratic party leaders. I'd like to see Clinton tell you to go f*ck yourselves and break off to form a new party. Who else feels the same way?
Loose hope? 
