Saturday, January 26, 2008

Hillary used party rules to steal election?

From: Chris Hedges - Will Hillary tear apart the Democratic Party?

If you are Barack Obama, do you feel like everytime you turn the Billary camp is manipulating the situation to gain delegates or money or media?

All the candidates agreed to stay away from Michigan and Florida, at the request of the party. Then Hillary wins those two states, most probable. Then she tells her delegates from legal states to support adding the delegates from the two illegal states. The ones where Barack didn't even campaign.

Problem? Not in the Clinton world. Now here's the issue for me, I want John McCain to face Hillary. So, frankly although I feel bad that Barack is being lapped, it's going to work out.

Maybe Barack in 2012?
CLINTON TRIES TO REINSTATE MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA'S DELEGATES.

I hear all the time from people in Florida and Michigan that they
want their voices heard in selecting the Democratic nominee.

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. I know not all of my delegates will do so and I fully respect that
decision. But I hope to be President of all 50 states and U.S. territories, and
that we have all 50 states represented and counted at the Democratic
convention.

I hope my fellow potential nominees will join me in this.

I will of course be following the no-campaigning pledge that I signed, and
expect others will as well.

But if this pushes her over the edge, the Obama camp, and their supporters,
really will feel that she stole her victory
blog it

1 comment:

Chris Hedges said...

Hi Steve,

Polling suggests that McCain is the only one who has the "juice" to beat Hillary.

I wonder if all of the conservative talk show hosts "attacking" McCain as not being conservative enough will make him more appealing to Reagan-Democrats who were turned off by all of the attacks on the "neo-cons" by the lefty wingnuts.

While it isn't fair, Obama will likely lose to Hillary because she has a superior political machine. The best thing for the GOP is that Hillary and her camp will have created so much acrimony that it might be impossible for the two to get together to run as a team. (Although, that would be the way to go for the Democrats, if they wanted to patch things up).

Maybe it is good that Hillary is willing to fight dirty to ensure that she wins the nomination. It would be a great thing for the GOP since her negatives are so high.