I’ll go you one better. I voted for Obama, but she would have made a good president. Let’s hope and pray that Obama gets a chance to be an even better one!
Works for me. 
Today ended it for real, didn’t it? Rahm said Obama was the presumptive nominee; Edwards, who’d been staying on the sidelines, all but endorsed him; and nine superdelegates (including one who’d been in the Clinton column) endorsed Obama today (the ninth being Joe Johnson, a DNCer from VA), reducing Hillary’s superdelegate lead to single digits - on the right side of the decimal point (269.5 - 269)!
Today really was the final cave-in of Hillary’s candidacy. As the Firesign character put it, “We’ve been waiting hundreds of years for this.” OK, it only felt that long.
What happens in WV, KY, OR really doesn’t matter. Business hours are over, baby…
Maybe it’s this?
Maybe Hillary just wants to stay in the game so she can put off admitting defeat? Ever find yourself in a situation that is becoming more and more untenable by the day? I read an article by a woman who wrote that Hillary’s attitude is similar to the way she reacted when her boyfriend of six years broke up with her for some dumb actress. She recounted how she wrote letters and became more and more desperate to get him back. The truth is that it was never going to happen. I can relate to a similar experience in my past. On the one hand you want closure and to forget about that dream (being with a special someone, or being president) yet continuing to fight for it allows you to hold on to the last sliver or bitter hope that it can happen. Maybe that’s why she does as she does? The convention is the day that the boyfriend marries the new girlfriend. Anything she can do to give herself some sliver of hope between now and then? I think she’ll do. Even after her supposed week of making cases to superdelegates. They won’t be locked in until August. I see Hillary and Bill leaving the door open until they are pushed out of the door and locked out from the inside.
I think he needs to behave pretty damn confident… but not too much. That’s the tricky part.
Remember how in 2000 Bush acted as if the presidency was his even before the FL fiasco was settled? It helps, IMO.
Fought hard, not necessarily well (or fairly). But otherwise I agree - well and timely said.
This Nate Beeler cartoon also fits.
I don’t have the same optimism. Hillary Clinton is fighting extremely hard for someone with an exit strategy. She is going into debt to continue her campaign. When I hear Clinton surrogates continuously say that anything can happen between now and the convention, I start to think they are up to no good. I bet the Clinton research team is working over time to find anything to damage Obama.
The Clintons also seem all too eager to take this fight to the convention. A number of times during this primary contest, Hillary Clinton stated that she will take her fight to the convention. I used to think it was posturing, but now I think Hillary Clinton means it. There isn’t anything rational or remotely compromising coming from her side right now.
Still in shock, hasn’t gotten absorbed and digested yet. But the numbers are stark, cold, and unyielding. Can’t remember who said, some talking head I was listening to (Davey “Bobo” Brooks?) saying that the real moment comes when people start insisting on being paid in cash. The hotels, the car rentals, the pizza guys. And if you have to use your own money, it can only mean that nobody, but nobody, believes your gonna make it. Who needs to curry favor with losers?
And if Obama’s getting his money from people and the Clintons are getting theirs from the Clintons, its toe-tag time.
The End Is Near.
I was trying to be charitable …
I agree. Lack of money and the ability to raise it is a death sentence for any politician. Maybe Clinton is counting on the money that will be available after she wins the nomination. Maybe she believes moveon will quickly throw together ads - Hillary in thirty seconds. Maybe she believes Obama supporters will start donating to her campaign. She will definitely offer Obama the VP spot. Clinton’s people are hard selling her likely nomination, and they manage to pitch it with a strait face and conviction. The Republican pundits are encouraging Clinton to stay in the race until the convention. And, my personal favorite, Clinton supporters claim that Hillary Clinton has earned the right to do whatever she wants.
I can’t relax until Clinton concedes the nomination.
Scott Rasmussen announced on Fox News that his company will not poll any of the remaining Democratic primaries. It has shifted its focus to McCain and Obama.
I agree. I’ll be gracious when she shows some sign of graciousness herself. After the NC blowout and the IN squeaker, Obama was as gracious as he could be to her in his speech, while in hers she wouldn’t even acknowledge his victory and acted like the whole thing never happened. There are real signs of psychosis coming from the Clintons, and I just can’t trust them.
Far be it from me to defend Hillary, but the transcript shows she did acknowledge the NC loss:
As Keith pointed out last night, Hillary can be as conciliatory as possible (if you call what she’s being saying the last three days conciliatory) with Bill out there as her hatchet man.
I believe the Clintons are going to continue to use any means at their disposal, ethical or otherwise, to wrest the nomination from Obama’s grasp. They’re not going anywhere. She needs to win, and she obviously has no qualms about fighting dirty to do so.
Also, I, for one, don’t give Hillary a pass, as it seems almost everyone else does, for her comments the other day about her support base. She knew exactly what she was saying. If you take as a given, as I do, that working class is synonymous with white, at least in this election, that Appalachian voters are predominantly white, that Appalachian voters on average, are much less educated than voters from other regions of the country, and that the next two primaries will be decided by Appalachian voters, Hillary HAD to use white instead of working class as a clear signal to these folks that she understands them, that they are her constituency. She could have said “hard working, working class Americans” vote for her, which is not true if you include blacks who are not voting for her in significant numbers, or is true, and a really a horrible statement in its own right, on acknowledgement that blacks are not voting for her, because of its implicit message that blacks are not hard-working. Ultimately Hillary made a calculated decision, regardless of how much she was parroting the AP article, to mention white people, not once, but twice, when it was unnecessary to do so, while at the same time making a blatant equivalence of hard working Americans to white Americans. Slip of the tongue, my eye.
I stand corrected. Thanks. 
I don’t give her a pass. Clinton quoted the AP article in response to the question: How does Hillary Clinton win the nomination? She can win uneducated white voters and Obama can’t. This is her strength and path to victory. Clinton wants to cast doubt on Obama’s electability. Surely, Clinton knows that anyone unwilling to vote for Obama because of his perceived ethnicity will not vote for a woman over a white man in the fall. Clinton will not appeal to value voters in the general any more than Obama. The Republicans win WV by appealing to the antiabortion, antigay, guns and religion voters.
Obama gets 5 more super delegates so far today. Unexpected for a Saturday.
- Kevin Rodrigues - Switch from Clinton
- Carole Burke
- Kristi Cumming - Utah DNC add-on
- Harry Mitchell
- Dave Regan - Ohio DNC add-on
Obama now takes the lead in super delegates
Clinton also gets an add-on today, but since she loses Rodrigues ends up with a net gain of 0
Obama gets another super delegate today, yes, on a Sunday.
Crystal Strait - Board Member and Former California Young Democrats President
Is this a person or a rock band?
I heard her on NPR not long ago - maybe even this last week talking about her efforts with CYD…she’s got quite the young impressive resume. She’s a go-getter.