Posted on 05/19/2008 4:04:36 PM PDT by mdittmar
ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Senator Hillary Clinton, in advance of the possibility that the Obama campaign will declare victory on Tuesday based on an advantage in pledged delegates, told a crowd Monday morning that a Democratic nominee will not be determined by tomorrow.
"This is nowhere near over. None of us is going to have the number of delegates we're going to need to get to the nomination. Although I understand – my opponents and his supporters are going to claim that - and the fact is we have to include Michigan and Florida." Clinton continued, "We cannot claim we have a nominee based on 48 states, particularly two states that are so important for us to win in the fall. So part of our challenge is making sure that we nominate the person most able to win. And I believe that I'm the stronger candidate."
Clinton said later in her speech, "I'm gonna make my case and I'm gonna make it until we have a nominee - but were not going to have one today and we're not going to have one tomorrow and we're not going to have one the next day. And if Kentucky turns out tomorrow, I will be closer to that nomination."
Clinton also added, as she first mentioned Sunday night at a fundraiser in Kentucky, that she has endured this long campaign so that a Democrat could win the presidency. Careful not to say Obama could not win the general election, Clinton implied, as she has in the past, that he is a riskier choice saying, "anybody who is really analyzing this and saying 'OK we did not go through this long campaign to lose in the fall.' We can not afford to have four more years of a Republican president."
Speaking at a high school in Maysville, KY, Clinton supported that argument saying, "the states that I have won total 300 electoral votes. If we had the same rules as the Republicans, I would be the nominee right now. We have different rules so what we've got to figure out is who can win 270 electoral votes. My opponent has won states totaling 217 electoral votes. Now we both have some states that are going to be hard for us to win in the fall like Texas and Oklahoma. But I still have a cushion if you look at all the states that I've won and take out those that may not be in our column come the fall. My opponent has 217 electoral votes including places like Alaska and Idaho and Utah and Kansas and Nebraska. And many of his votes and his delegates come from caucus states which have a relatively low turnout."
Clinton asked for a big turnout tomorrow saying, "if Kentucky votes big tomorrow we are gonna to keep going, and were gonna keep fighting and we are going to keep making our case because you cant win the presidency without winning Kentucky."
The cankles are still cackling
.....and she has not yet begun to sing
This is going perfectly. Let us just hope that Obama is keeping his airline schedules a secret and having his limosine “swept” each time before they start the engine....
Don’t worry, Hitlery; the Riot Police will escort you into the Convention Center (Pepsi Center) in Denver.
If just a few republicans had her huevos.
Actually, I was hoping to see the Sgt. at Arms escort her
OUT of the Convention, preferably screeching and raging while making specific threats.
Slick and the Hildabeast are not just persistent, they actually seem confident.
I see two possibilities: They are lining up an independent run, in which feminist voters may give them a plurality in a 3 or 4 way field; or they expect Obama to be removed from the race one way or another.
If they had any more good dirt on him, they would have played it by now so they are either waiting for another scandal, one that has not quite ripened yet, or they expect something else.
Well, if there is a Michelle Obama ‘whitey’ tape out there...not that Hillary would know about it (wink, wink).
Yesterday here ((and on other forums)) it was mentioned that the ‘tape’ would drop on the 22nd (Thursday) but I havent read any more of it...anyone see anything else about it?
“Actually, I was hoping to see the Sgt. at Arms escort her
OUT of the Convention, preferably screeching and raging while making specific threats.”
Don’t forget the Straight Jacket and the guys in White Coats.
“I see two possibilities: They are lining up an independent run, in which feminist voters may give them a plurality in a 3 or 4 way field; or they expect Obama to be removed from the race one way or another”
There is a big movement by Hitlery supporters to do just that. I have heard two Dem women call Hannity within the last week or so with those sentiments.
“I see two possibilities: They are lining up an independent run, in which feminist voters may give them a plurality in a 3 or 4 way field; or they expect Obama to be removed from the race one way or another”
There is a big movement by Hitlery supporters to do just that. I have heard two Dem women call Hannity within the last week or so with those sentiments.
She is going to stay in as long as she can because she knows there is a video tape of Michelle Obama using racist whitey rants. I personally think the GOP has the tape and will sit on it until Obama gets the dem nod. Clintons want it to sink him. If the tape comes out and CLinton gets the nod, the black vote and Obama nuts will stay home on election day.
The Hilderbeast is still bleating! Can’t wait for Her Royal Thighness’s concession speech. Should be worth taping for posterity. Then, maybe we will have heard the last of the Clintoon family of felons, rapists, thieves, perjurers, and sexual predators.
Good riddance libtards!!!
The date, May 31, is also the day the DNC rules committee convenes for what was expected to be a contentious meeting over whether and how to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida.
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