Posted on 02/18/2008 9:44:14 AM PST by smoothsailing
Hillary and Obama: It's About to Get Real Ugly
by Armstrong Williams
Posted 02/18/2008 ET
Before the primary season began the Democratic Party reached an agreement with its potential presidential candidates that they would not campaign in Florida or Michigan and that the delegates from those states would be meaningless. All the candidates agreed, which in effect, made the Florida and Michigan primaries moot because none of the delegates could be used by the candidates vying for the nomination. The Clinton campaign was the main advocate for this “ban” because at the time they felt they were invincible and would have little competition from the field. A few months later Super Tuesday arrived.
Super Tuesday was Hillary Clinton’s chance to wipe Senator Barack Obama out of the picture, but what happened was shocking and humiliating to the once unstoppable and formidable candidate. After the votes were tallied Clinton’s campaign had to face the realization that despite winning the big states (California and New York) she was still in a horse race that was neck in neck with the upstart from Illinois.
The result of Super Tuesday was a loss of momentum over the coming weeks which led to less money raised, less positive talk in the news, less volunteer sign-ups, and less energy than her rival. And then she shook up her campaign by removing (or forcing the resignation of) her deputy campaign manager. The cold hard truth is that Clinton is in danger of losing the nomination despite going against her word and campaigning (and winning the non-races) in Florida and Michigan. Now, out of desperation, the Clinton campaign is lobbying the Democratic Party to reverse its prior decision and count the Florida and Michigan delegates in the final delegate count, despite their earlier disqualification. How outrageous!
Even more astounding than Clinton’s backstabbing is the fact that now the Democratic super delegates are actually coming into play. This is how the super delegate system works: The super delegates are comprised of former presidents, governors, senators, party high ranking Democratic Party officials and other elite Democrats. They make up about 20 percent of the total delegates and have been around since the 1980’s. Super delegates are free to support any candidate they choose and are not tied to any specific state. Currently there are 796 Democratic super delegates, about 400 of which have yet to pledge their support for either Obama or Clinton. Usually these super delegates’ votes wouldn’t be important because the nominee would emerge before the convention as they win enough regular delegates. In this race however, it is possible that neither Democratic candidate will win the 2,025 delegates needed to secure the nomination; thus, at the Democratic Convention the super delegates could literally decide the winner.
The Obama campaign is now realizing that Clinton is willing to fight nasty by pushing for Michigan and Florida delegates to be included and by persuading super delegates by all available means. Well, the Obama camp is not sitting idly by and allowing the Clinton's to do what they do best: continue their trail of corruption, and total disregard for rules and guidelines.
The word on the street is that the Obama campaign and New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg have already met and devised an incredible plan if Clinton wins the nominee. Mayor Bloomberg would give nearly $1 billion to Obama's campaign after which Obama would bolt from the Democratic Party and run as an Independent candidate with king-maker Bloomberg as his running mate. The Obama campaign realizes that Obama is too new at this game and doesn't have the political weight of the Clintons to bring in the true heavy-hitters of the party's hierarchy. So, according to sources it was Bloomberg himself who suggested this cunning strategy. It's mind boggling that the Clintons are willing to destroy the entire Democratic Party, and potentially in the process lose the White House and seats in Congress, for their own selfish thirst for power and glory.
Whether or not this sort of madness occurs, the race for the White House is becoming uglier with each passing day. Unless Clinton gets knocked out of this race in the coming days, which is a high possibility considering she has lost ten straight states and got swept last weekend and earlier this week, we can all expect her and her husband to pull out all the stops to get her through. But the fact remains, she is not nearly the candidate that Obama is, and the Democratic Party would be far better served to quickly move to support Obama and make him the nominee.
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Called "one of the most recognized conservative voices in America" by The Washington Post, Armstrong Williams is a pugnacious, provocative and principled voice for conservative and Christian values in America's public debate.
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Getting Ugly, they are both pretty ugly to start with. A Mitt they are not.
Straight from the Too Good To Be True Department.
“The word on the street is that the Obama campaign and New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg have already met and devised an incredible plan if Clinton wins the nominee. Mayor Bloomberg would give nearly $1 billion to Obama’s campaign after which Obama would bolt from the Democratic Party and run as an Independent candidate with king-maker Bloomberg as his running mate.”
Uh, yeah... right. So if Obama wins through normal channels, he is going to take Bloomberg on as his VP?
Let’s hope Armstrong is right! Finally some good news for GOP! ;o)
What is up with this happy horse-shinola that Bloomberg is some kind of “king maker”? Who on God’s green earth recognizes Bloomberg as a politician outside of political pundits and New Yorkers? Did I miss a decade or something?
It’s the only way Bloomberg could “give” him a billion dollars.
$1B from Bloomberg for an O/B ticket?
Laughable.
The WWF will have nothing on this cage match.
McCain (R) vs. Hillary (D) vs. Obama (I) all at once?
Wow... sounds like it’s popcorn and C-SPAN time!
;^)
No it's not.
The Clintons are willing to do far, far more than "...destroy the entire Democratic Party, and potentially in the process lose the White House and seats in Congress..." for their own selfish thirst for power and glory.
What amazes me is that the writer is surprised by this. Do you really think Hillary would drop $5 mill of her own money if she wasn't capable of doing anything to win the nomination? Wake up, child...
Since when have secret deals between billionaires and Presidential candidates been discussed on the “street?”
It is? Mind boggling to who?
To me, the demonRAT primary is a thing of beauty.
Give them machetes and put them in Bronco stadium for a winner take all.
What’s outrageous and mind-boggling?
The Clintons did the same thing to the Dem party in Arkansas.
This is actually pretty intelligent on Obama’s part, threatening to leave and take the black vote with him without having to say a word. The Democrat Party elites will throw Hillary overboard without a second thought rather than let that happen, since it would throw the election to McCain. Hill and Bill were useful to the party as long as they were winning elections, but they aren’t winning elections anymore.
The Grifters have been outmanuevered by the newbie in the empty suit. Whoever’s advising him is very, very smart.
Yes, she is going to steal it. http://youtube.com/watch?v=9Z6D0SCkPW8
Hitlery has been turning a blind eye to the human waste at her side for 30 years in an effort to reach this point.
Her dreams are nearly realized and she is not about to make her entire life as a vicim for naught. The very idea that she will concede is hysterically funny as we won’t ever accept a loss under any circumstances.
Socrched Earth primary my friends. Billary believes they have paid for this party and expect to be rewarded again.
She is not dead until her stockinged feet curl up under the house and the ruby slippers pop off.
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