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By: John Cole May 21, 2008 at 3:23 pm
No graceful exit in sight
For Our Lady of Inevitability:
Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is willing to take her fight to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to the convention if the two states want to go that far. In an interview with The Associated Press, Clinton was asked whether she would support the states if they continue the fight.
The presidential candidate said Wednesday, “Yes I will. I will, because I feel very strongly about this.”
Clinton is calling for delegates from both states to be seated at the convention based on the primaries. Both states were stripped of their delegates because they voted early, violating national party rules. Clinton won both states; Barack Obama’s name wasn’t on the Michigan ballot.
Translation:
“If this party doesn’t give me the nomination, I am gonna blow shit up.”Once again, the
hostage crisis metaphor is appropriate. A roll down memory lane, when Hillary discussed the Michigan election last October:
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http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=10425">Video)
What a contemptible wretch Sen. Clinton has turned out to be, and I find it stunning that many Democratic blogs who routinely bitch about the various and numerous violations of rules, law, and international agreements by the Bush administration sit by and swallow this nonsense from the Senator Clinton.
*** Update ***
After courting the white vote for months in Appalachia, Mrs. Nixon informs us that seating Florida and Michigan are akin to the Civil Rights Movement. No.
Seriously:
“This work to extend the franchise to all of our citizens is a core mission of the modern Democratic party,” she said. “From signing the Voting Rights Act and fighting racial discrimination at the ballot box to lowering the voting age so those old enough to fight and die in war would have the right to choose their commander in chief, to fighting for multi-lingual ballots so you can make your voice heard no matter what language you speak.”
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Chait
nails it:
This gambit by Clinton is simply an attempt to steal the nomination. It’s obviously not going to work, because Democratic superdelegates don’t want to commit suicide. But this episode is very revealing about Clinton’s character. I try not to make moralistic characterological judgments about politicians, because all politicians compromise their ideals in the pursuit of power. There are no angels in this business. Clinton’s gambit, however, truly is breathtaking.
If she’s consciously lying, it’s a shockingly cynical move. I don’t think she’s lying. I think she’s so convinced of her own morality and historical importance that she can whip herself into a moralistic fervor to support nearly any position that might benefit her, however crass and sleazy. It’s not just that she’s convinced herself it’s okay to try to steal the nomination, she has also appropriated the most sacred legacies of liberalism for her effort to do so. She is proving herself temperamentally unfit for the presidency.
Misogynist!
Obama has
clinched the pledged delegate majority for the three other scenarios. There are 212 superdelegates uncommitted.
Obama currently has 1965 total delegates, Hillary 1782, after adding the FL and MI delegates allocated under each scenario
Scenario 2 Nomination: 2103.5
Obama needs: 76.5
Hillary needs: 247.5 (35.5 more than the number of superdelegates remaining)
Scenario 3 Nomination: 2084.0
Obama needs: 86.5
Hillary needs: 251.5 (39.5 more than the number of superdelegates remaining)
Scenario 4 Nomination: 2162.5
Obama needs: 106.0
Hillary needs: 261.0 (49 more than the number of superdelegates remaining)
Hillary's best case scenario gives her 51 of the remaining 86 pledged delegates. Depending on the scenario agreed to, 3 to 16 superdelegates for Obama would leave Hillary having to rely on all the remaining super delegates plus a few of Obama's.
Obama will get at least 35 delegates from the remaining contests. He then needs only 41 to 71 supers or 20% to 34% of the remaining.
Hillary seems to be operating under the bizarre notion that increasing the margin between what Obama has and needs helps her.
Clinched is clinched.
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