"Why? Why? Why?"
Posted on 04/19/2008 2:19:11 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
April 20, 2008 For Clintons, a Time to Find Truest Friends By MARK LEIBOVICH
WASHINGTON — Nancy Larson’s most difficult conversation was, by far, the one with Chelsea Clinton.
“It was just heartbreaking,” said Mrs. Larson, a Democratic National Committee member from Minnesota and more to the point, a superdelegate who had initially pledged herself to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. This was last Saturday, after the former first daughter learned that Mrs. Larson would be shifting her allegiance to Senator Barack Obama.
“She is a delightful young woman who loves her mother very much,” Mrs. Larson said. “She was really pushing me. She kept asking me why I was doing this. She just kept asking, ‘Why? Why?’ ”
It is a question many in the Clinton camp are asking these days, sometimes in conversations far less civil than that one. After nearly two decades building relationships with a generation of Democrats, Mrs. Clinton has recently suffered a steady erosion of support for her presidential campaign from the party stalwarts that once formed the basis of her perceived juggernaut of “inevitability.”
Some of it is just business, practical politicians putting aside ties to the Clintons to follow the will of the voters in their states or making a calculation about who seems best positioned to win.
The immediate fallout, with the Pennsylvania primary only two days away, is electoral. Mrs. Clinton has been losing potential endorsers and superdelegate backing from grass-roots activists like Mrs. Larson as well as elected officials, party luminaries and former Clinton White House aides (the most recent being former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who endorsed Mr. Obama on Friday). It is the constituency that provided Mrs. Clinton with an early lead among superdelegates, one she retains although by a narrowing margin.
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Is this quality entertainment, or what?
I was around long before Hillary ran for President, and I’ve never been a Democrat!
Ironically, the Clintons are the only Democrats who see how deeply flawed BHO really is. They know that electing him would be disaster for the country and the party, just as Carter was.
In this one case, I will admit that “I feel their pain”.
Nancy Larson got turned off by the sniper fire in Bosnia.
Don’t the clintons know that they have no FRIENDS? Those people around ‘em? They’re all OPPORTUNISTS or BLACKMAILED or FROZEN-FEARFUL or DEAD.
This is so sad. I feel so bad for Chelsea. I feel sorry for Hillary Clinton just being cast aside like this after all she has done for the Democratic Party. My heart is breaking for her. /s/
““These are people that the Clintons gave an opportunity to serve,” said Mr. Panetta, speaking generally. “They helped give them the titles they now have, and made them a lot of money. I think the Clintons probably feel they are owed something.””
Oh, you mean a “kickback”?
Pimped!
Besides being a liberal BHO permits those liberals needing a constant bath of moral superiority adulation this rare chance to prove their moral merits. Just listen to them when they discuss any query as to BMO's personal qualifications to be POTUS.
If the chance of either of those two being elected is not enough to cause Conservatives to check their pettiness at the door and mark the ballot for McCain in November, I don't know what is.
My advice to the Clintons: If you want loyalty, buy a do...oh, wait a minute, that didn’t end well, did it?
I sure hope Clinton steals the nomination away from Obama. Hillary can be very vindictive and payback is such a bitch. It will be fun to watch!
Check the cemeteries or the penitentiaries or the Chinese embassy.
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