Entries from May 2008 ↓

It’s 1968 all over again. Get out your armbands and flowers, people. Busloads of Hillary Clinton supporters are heading to the District from Florida and Michigan to protest at the DNC Rules & Bylaws Meeting on Saturday. Calvin Woodward of AP has the details as of today.

Naturally, the Clinton campaign disavowed having anything to do with the planned rally. “I am aware that there are lots of people very passionate about this topic who are coming,” said Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson.

In today’s First Read, Mark Murray details “Hillary’s Final Pitch.” Her final argument to superdelegates relies on just one thing: electability. She and Bill are also talking a lot lately about the popular vote, but that argument is specious in the extreme, because it depends entirely on the inclusion of votes from the non-contested and uncounted Florida and Michigan primaries. Counting uncounted votes appears to be, well… Clintonesque. Continue reading →

This will be the first of many posts on the subject of why Barack Obama should not ask Hillary Clinton to join his ticket as the Democratic Party’s Vice-Presidential candidate. Reason Number 1 was articulated in an offhand witticism by the usually serious David Gergen, appearing on CNN on the evening of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries. Continue reading →

ABC News’ Jake Tapper reports on the latest salvo from Hillary in the Land of the Hanging Chads:

In Sunrise, Fla., Clinton assailed countries “where votes don’t count. Continue reading →

It gets curiouser and curiouser, said Alice. Here is Ben Smith’s account on Politico.com about Hillary’s latest crusade. It appears that she wants her people marching in the streets. Which is, apparently, what will happen on May 31st outside the meeting of the Rules & Bylaws Committee of the DNC. Get ready for the sit-ins. Maybe she will bring back Abbie Hoffman to attempt to levitate the headquarters of the DNC.

Hillary Clinton speaking yesterday Boca Raton, the Land of the Hanging Chad:

“Here in Florida, more than 1.7 million people cast their vote, the highest primary turnout in the history of Florida. And nearly 600,000 voters in Michigan did the same. And not a day goes by that I don’t meet someone who grabs my hand or holds up a sign, no matter where I am, in Kentucky or anywhere else, and says, ‘Please, make my vote count.’ I believe the Democratic Party must count these votes. They should count them exactly as they were cast. Democracy demands no less. Continue reading →

Grim news… Kentucky and Oregon primaries recede into the background as “Lion of the Senate” is diagnosed today with a malignant brain tumor. Continue reading →

“You know, Kentucky has a history of picking presidents. People don’t get elected president without winning Kentucky,” said Hillary Clinton this week. Last week, she used almost identical words to describe West Virginia. It’s like a game of MadLibs with her. Continue reading →

From an article by Jodi Kantor in yesterday’s New York Times, “Gender Issue Lives On as Clinton’s Hopes Dim”…

“When people look at the arc of the campaign, it will be seen that being a woman, in the end, was not a detriment and if anything it was a help to her,” the presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said in an interview. Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is faltering, she added, because of “strategic, tactical things that have nothing to do with her being a woman.”

The only valuable thing about John “I’m So Pretty” Edwards’ endorsement, from the Obama perspective, was the timing, and only in the sense that it stole the spotlight from Hillary after her manhandling of Obama in the mountains of West Virginia.

Otherwise, the endorsement was meaningless. Edwards only showed that he knows how to count delegates, Continue reading →