Posted on 05/11/2008 12:14:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Refusing to go gently into that good night, Clinton supporter Jerome Armstrong stubbornly sticks to the message that Hillary Clinton can win the Democratic Presidential nomination. He points to West Virginia as a state that serves as a good indicator of what Armstrong believes to be Barack Obama's general election problems. Sensitive to charges that fretting about Obama's general election appeal in West Virginia could be tantamount to giving credence to the views of racists, Armstrong spends a goodly amount of time denouncing anyone who would dismiss as racists anti-Obama voters in West Virginia.
This isn't particularly interesting save for two observations:
The Clinton folks actually believe that their candidate might yet pull off some sort of miracle and capture the nomination.
Despite all of the talk that Obama's nomination is now inevitable and that with said inevitability will come newfound party unity, seething anger and resentment continues to define the mood of Clinton supporters. This is, perhaps, somewhat understandable; at the beginning of the nomination contest, I don't imagine that people like Armstrong really ever thought that Obama would be able to wrest the nomination away from Clinton when they consulted the stars. Nevertheless, one would have thought that the various pro-Clinton factions in the netroots would have begun to reconcile themselves to an Obama nomination and then line up to support him against John McCain and the Republicans.
Well, perhaps eventually, they will. But for now, there remains seething anger and resentment and since it is almost the middle of May already, one could easily see the resentment continuing through the summer--especially if Hillary Clinton decides to push through the rest of the primary schedule and goes to the Democratic National Convention without having fallen on her sword. Ted Kennedy kept on fighting up to and during the convention in New York in 1980 even though he had significantly less support then than Clinton does and will have during this electoral contest. I am sure that this information will not be lost on the Clintons, I would not be surprised if they continued to play every trick in the book--and some that may not be in the book--to try to win the nomination at the last moment during a knife fight in Denver and while I have not recently checked the stock prices for popcorn companies, I don't imagine that they have gone down all that much.
Yes! Hell hath no fury like Hillary Clinton scorned, and she feels scorned that the MSM, Dems, and camp Obama are trying to take what she feels is owed to her away.
HILLARY: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when Vince Foster took that headshot from the Schoolbook Depository? Hell no!
HOWARD WOLFSON: [whispering] Vince Foster?
TERRY MCAULIFFE: Forget it, she's rolling.
HILLARY: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough... [thinks hard] the tough get elected! Who's with me? Let's go! [runs out, alone; then returns] What the f--- happened to the Clinton Machine I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the chutzpah? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Hillary, we might get indicted." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Obama, he's a loser! McCain, loser! Ron Paul--
TERRY MCAULIFFE: F---ing Loser! Hillary's right. Menopausal, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it by rebuilding our campaign around the issues, and by always telling the American People the truth, but that would take four more years and cost millions of dollars of her money. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done at the Convention.
HILLARY: We're just the guys to do it.
BILL: Let's do it.
Obama campaign meme: If your not with us you are racist.
I would never have believed that I would have wanted Hill over
anyone, sad to say its true.
barbra ann
'Why Grandmother, what big eyes you have!'
Me too.
You are not alone. It is a reflection of the sad state of affairs in the U.S. of A. that B.O. may actually infest the White House. Given that prospect, I’d choose (swallowing hard) the Hildebeast.
If Hillary can beat Obama in Oregon, what will the Democrats do?
"Cut the Cake!"
THAT’S the spirit beast! Don’t stop fighting until August 28!
“By the time we got to Denver-stock we were half a million strong!”
Stay with it Rhino butt!
Rush still thinks his “Operation Chaos” is still alive. Personally, by continuing this garbage, Rush is losing his credibility.
Hillary says she will stay in to the convention, until a candidate has been selected. Rush admits that Obama is the weaker candidate, yet he is continuing to support the beast. WHY?
He should be out supporting the republican candidate McCain whom he hates.
hilllereee is SO yesterday. She has no dignity...hanging on like a beggar.
I wish he would start supporting McCain with at least half the enthusiasm he has supported Hillary.
“Nothing’s Over Until We Decide It Is!”
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
It is fitting, no? All of these "FOBs" whom the Clintons historically threw overboard the instant there was trouble are now bailing on them when they are needed most. What goes around comes around.
Message, Juan? You cannot give the finger to those who would be your strongest allies and hope to win.
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