I do so love a circus.
Posted on 03/26/2008 3:29:59 PM PDT by SmithL
Twenty top Democratic donors who are supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for saying superdelegates should support the presidential candidate with the most pledged delegates.
No matter what the outcome of the 10 remaining contests, it will be nearly impossible for Clinton to overcome rival Barack Obama's lead in pledged delegates, because they are awarded proportionally based on the outcome.
So it will be up to the nearly 800 superdelegates — party activists and elected officials who aren't bound by any vote — to put one of the two candidates over the mark of 2,024 delegates needed to win the nomination. Obama has 1,406 pledged delegates to Clinton's 1,249, according to The Associated Press count.
Pelosi, who has not endorsed either candidate as chair of the Democratic National Convention, said during a March 16 appearance on ABC's "This Week" that it would be harmful to the party if superdelegates don't support the pledged delegate winner.
In their letter, Clinton's supporters said superdelegates "must look to not one criterion but to the full panoply of factors that will help them assess who will be the party's strongest nominee in the general election."
The letter also noted the donors "have been strong supporters" of the House Democrats' fundraising arm. "We therefore urge you to clarify your position on superdelegates and reflect in your comments a more open view to the optional independent actions of each of the delegates at the national convention in August."
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, "This letter is inappropriate and we hope the Clinton campaign will reject the insinuation contained in it."
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Denver should be fun.
I think the whole Rat universe is getting to understand how ruthless and gutter-dwelling the ‘Toons are. They are starting to understand that the Republicans were right about the creeps all along.
They should be afraid. Very afraid.
Clinton sends out the Leg Breakers! No surpise here. I hope she wrecks the party in the process.
I do so love a circus.
If the candidate with the most pledged delegates should win every time, what do the Dems have Superdelegates for? I thought that system was instituted as a firewall against a radical, unelectable in the general, moonbat candidate (i.e. George McGovern redux) somehow getting the majority of delegates in the primaries and winning the nomination. Seems to me Obama is exactly the sort of situation they came up with Superdelegates to prevent.
The Dems don’t need Rush Limbaught. They produce Operation Chaos all on their own.
Good thing Pellicano is busy in court right now or a Clinton enemhy might be sent to sleep with the fishes just to send a message.
All the Rats who are jumping off the Clinton garbage barge had better hope and pray the Clintoons don’t get back in the White House. There will be hell to pay.
“The Dems don’t need Rush Limbaught. They produce Operation Chaos all on their own.”
True but the commentary and the play-by-play is a fun addition.
These people (who are for the most part career politicians) are little more than addicts (name your poison here). They care about little else but to perpetuate their hold on office peddling favor with donors to get the precious coin that is required to satisfy their craving . . . which is to hold onto a position among the “elected” aristocracy that today is the US Congress, etc.
Oh boy, would there. They know it, too. That's why there will be a 'rat war. The Obama supporters have cast their lots and there is no turning back...
It will get to a point of no return. And Hitlery and Bill will do anything to get back in the White House, as everyone knows (including the Rats jumping off the garbage barge). Plenty of Obama people are going to take to the streets in Denver and elsewhere, I am sure.
I hope to he*l the sheeple are watching all this typical Socialist chaos and ask themselves: "How could these people run the country? How would they react in time of an emergency?"
I hope to he*l the sheeple are watching all this typical Socialist chaos and ask themselves: "How could these people run the country? How would they react in time of an emergency?"
Re#14 Sure seems that way. One thing for sure is that Hillary is sticking until all primary votes are cast—”three months more” in her words. It is a Hail Mary strategy (by necessity) that Obama totally tanks on the electability issue, one that Hillary goons will assist. We are in for quite a spectacle and I don’t even like popcorn...
Go Hillary Go!!
I used to chuckle at all the “popcorn” references here on FR. You all have been right from the start. LOL!
Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, and Bill Richardson come from states that the “popular vote” went to Hillary Clinton in their Primary elections...and yet all three have pledged to vote for Obama...Are they all going to change their votes to Hillary now?
>Bo)
Here’s another case where Hillary Clinton told a bald-faced lie...
http://www.newsmax.com/morris/Hillary_bosnia_morris/2008/03/25/83058.html
How can any democrat feel comfortable when such people run for president?
Most Blacks will realize they have always been delegated to the back of the bus on the ride around the plantation. It is sad but true how white liberals have used and abused them. Then Jesse Jackson and Al sharpton, et al are so invested in racial turmoil, it has turned into a viscious circle.
The very purpose of super delegates is to act as a check on the voter's stupidity because the elite know best. It is a very Democrat concept, albeit not Democratic.
I can think of no group more deserving of a riot in Denver. They may get it even if Obama agrees to take second spot and plead for unity.
BTW, the last losing VP to get elected on a Democrat ticket was FDR. Who was the last sitting VP to win election as a Democrat?
YES!! If it looks like Obama is going down, they will switch and they will be able to say.."Hey, we voted for the Black Guy, now we support the girl...we are good liberals".
Denver ain’t gonna happen.
Nope. These are the Godfathers of the Limousini Liberalas family. They've had a meeting...decisions have been made. Pelosi kept the Minutes. Only the Clintons have yet to be made the 'offer'...
John Edwards still has 26 delegates
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/17/national-delegate-count-tally/
these 26 could be very important in the final count, especially if Hildabeast can get close.
what if she is only 25 delegates behind after the primaries are over....what would John Edwards want to endorse her and send those 26 votes to her?
maybe she can give him some tips on where to get his hair done.
I still say every primary should be on the same day in every state. No more of this king making before we get to cast a vote. The voting should be on a Saturday from 6 am to 9pm. None of this New Hampshire and Iowa crap. Enough is enough.
I’m staying far away from Denver this summer.
The whole purpose of the super delagate is to give the "most electable" candidate the best chance of winning. If, the closer we get to August, OsamaObama's numbers tank and the Hildabeast's rise, the super delegates will most likely vote for Clinton, giving her the nomination. If this happens it won't be pretty - on a number of levels. Blacks and Obama supporters will (understandably) go batshit, and the 'Rats will be forced to expose to the public just how corrupt their super delegate system is.
i guess pelosi doesn’t think it should apply to richardson or kennedy or kerry, etc (afterall they ignored the voters of their states)
...and besides if pelosi thinks they are just supposed to support the peoples choice, they why are there even superdelegates in the first place?!
I hope it makes Chicago in 1968 look like a pic-nic.
One way to look at it might be Pelosi and Hitlery would end up in a big Cat Fight.
there is NO WAY that hussein obama would have anywhere near the votes he has if the people of iowa onward were aware of his pastor of the last 20 yrs
...hussein is a fraud...but take comfort in knowing that he is al-quaeda’s first choice for president
Even as late as this afternoon I have talked to an Obama supporter who had only heard a little bit about the Obama paster master. MSM had to get some of it out, but as little as possible.
Remember, Pelosi outranks the big, bad "junior" Senator who got her seat handed to her on a platter.
Dig in, pleaty more where this came from!! :)
That only means when it counts for a klintoon.
Condemning Chinese oppression in Tibet, sticking fingers in the eyes of Hillary... who is that woman, and what did she do with Nancy Pelosi?
As it becomes clear that they are out of power, more and more will jump ship and start dishing vile dirt on them to boot.
After this, I’m wondering if Hildy might even have some trouble getting re-elected Senator from NY. Maybe people there are getting sick of this crapola and the Spitzer/successor-whatzhisname debacle only reminds them what the Rats are like.
She’ll keep that gig: She knows how to cheat; and once she’s in power, she own’s the ballot boxes.
Make every vote count for Hillary.
There you go again, getting all rational.
The whole purpose of installing the superdelegate system was to be able to override the Rat rank and file when the politicos determined that they were going to take the party down the toilet---as in McGovern.
Truly, the superdelegates were created for just such a situation as exists today, in this race, between these candidates.
But there's no way politically the superdelegates can function as such. Not gonna happen. The only way I see them brokering a ticket is if they get Al Gore to come in and run with Obama, as Pres or VP, after pretending to offer it to Hildy and announcing that she turned it down. Of course, thereafter she'll witch and moan, but by that time, even the Rats will have come to understand that she's a pathological liar and no one will take her seriously. Plus the moonbats simply LUUUUUVVVVVV Al Gore. Once he's on the scene, everything else---including Her Thighness---will be quickly forgotten.
You’re probably right.
But it says a lot about the state of the ‘Toon brand that someone rational such as myself can wonder such things at this point.
And trust me, the war gets worse if the Beest takes the big prize. We get rid of the last RINO, and the rats eat each other up while we find the next conservative leader to take over in 2012. And we will give him a Republican Congress that we take back by 2010.
Sometimes you gotta have a Jimmy Carter to get a Ronald Reagan.
Guess since the Clintons sold the Lincoln Bedroom, as well as our nuke technology, they think they can sell the highest elected office of this great country.
When will Pelosi, Gore, Edwards, and Reid throw their support to Obama and give the Clintons the thumb down?
Get it over with already.
junior mint? They’re very refreshing.
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