Posted on 02/15/2008 5:30:43 AM PST by Perdogg
This is big news, and may well be the beginning of the end for Hillary Clinton's super-delegate strategy. The New York Times reports that Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), a legend of the civil rights movement who had endorsed Hillary last year, is switching his super-delegate vote from her over to Barack Obama.
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LOL. Someone better break the news to CNN. Last I knew the net still had the guy on the shelf.
Lewis has a higher loyalty than to the Democratic Party.
Serves the Democratic Party right. Live by the race card, die by the race card.
The man was my representative for way too many years. He didn't even answer the letters or return the telephone calls of his white constituents . . . can't be bothered. Even though I was a campaign contributor (Julian Bond was running against him, and there are some things that are worse even than John Lewis.)
looks like the check bounced from Hillary! Productions
Serves the Democratic Party right. Live by the race card, die by the race card.
Dare I say it? They’re fleeing her like Rats.
If these defections continue at their present pace, space in Fort Marcy Park will soon become back-ordered.
Any criticism will be met with the little kid shouting, "THAS RACISS!"
I think Obama will be harder to beat though.
Any criticism will be met with the little kid shouting, “THAS RACISS!”
And the House of Clinton will have fallen.
The Clintons have accumulated many, many enemies during their reign of terror. So long as she was the anointed frontrunner, nobody would speak against her because they feared the possible consequences, whether an IRS investigation or Fort Marcy Park. But once people feel it's safe, they'll desert in droves.
We'll have to wait and see if this is a temporary crack in the dam that she can still patch up with money and threats, or if it's passed the point of no return.
What do you expect, Obama has shelled out about $900K to super delegates while the Clinton’s have only put out Chelsea and $200K.
I think Hillary will be harder to beat. If she manages, by hook or by crook, to get the nomination, she will, by hook or by crook, win the election. For one thing, she and Bill had complete access to all classifeid information for eight years, so expect the mother of all October surprises if she’s the nominee. She wants it so badly she’ll destroy McCain if she has to, and she has the opposition research to do it. Second, if Obama is the nominee, expect Clinton, Inc. to be quietly working behind the scenes to hand the election to McCain. That way she could run again in four years, instead of having to wait eight, when she will be too old.
“Live by the race card, die by the race card.”
Didn’t the article say that Lewis would be hard pressed to vote against the expressed will of his constituents? His district went overwhelmingly for Obama. That’s why he’s switching. Ditto for others in the Cong. Black Caucus who’s districts went for Obama. These guys have to answer to their constituents. I just don’t think it’s about race here. I assure you, if Hillary carried his district, Lewis would still be supporting her.
Civil Rights PIMP John Lewis ...
Fixed it.
But in the 5th, this has presented a radioactive issue this time (black vs. white). So Lewis is dumping the party in favor of Obama.
It is exactly poetic justice, because the party has stoked the fires of racial enmity for its own benefit for YEARS.
I don’t care who he supports. John Lewis is a damn liar.
So...it's okay now to be a racist?
A friend of mine has a copy of an issue of Sepia from the early 70s with an article entitled: "Julian Bond: America's First Black President?" or something to that effect.
I dunno. Run an angry, old coot liberal against a younger, charismatic liberal and it'll be like Nixon vs. Kennedy in 1960. Hell, McCain already looks as pasty white as something that crawled out from under a rotting log. Putting him next to the permanently-tanned Obama and people will do little but remark about how McCain looks like he's got one foot in the grave.
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