Clinton pleads for time

[powergirl]

Again, it's all about her - not the party - not the country. I can't wait until Obama is president.

"Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams put out a memo in which she casts the cause of keeping the campaign alive as an issue in and of itself, a kind of voting rights issue.

She lists the states yet to vote:

Together, this adds up to nearly 43 million Americans. Are their voices any less important than those of the citizens who have already voted?

Hillary Clinton respects those voters and their right to participate in this historic contest. Their votes, along with all the others, will determine when this contest is at an end. It’s the American way – everybody counts in this country.

The last time that we were told we’d better cut the process short or the sky would fall was when the Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount in 2000. But Chicken Little was wrong. What was true then is true now: there is nothing to fear – and everything to gain – from hearing from all of the voters.

I tend to agree with Steve Benen on this: This is only a subject a candidate talks about if she's forced to, and it's a second-order argument, one that has nothing to do with why she should win. In Giant's Stadium terms, it's just an argument for staying for the fourth quarter, rather than heading to your car to beat the traffic."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Clinton_pleads_for_time.html




:patriot:

[Botany]

1. She is a pain in the ass

[ekwhite]

16. Keep it positive please

Your friendly neighborhood positivity police :silly:

[GarbagemanLB]

22. Er...I'm so glad she's not a pain in MY ass....?

[L0oniX]

24. I don't want her anywhere near my ass.

:evilgrin:

[PatGund]

32. I'm positive she's a pain in my ass??

[bhikkhu]

33. Pain builds character...?

[C_U_L8R]

2. She simply doesn't know how to admit defeat and concede

seems a bit without grace or sensibility.
Whatever, she can stay as long as she wants.

[saracat]

5. Yeah Lets just coronate the saint.Forget those pesky voters!

Seems to me all our candidates who managed to "concede with grace and dignity" only handed the WH to Bush.I was never a fan of Clinton but honest to god, she has convinced me she is a fighter. The filth that has been thrown at her has been unbelievable ! She has more than earned my respect.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Keep on losing all you want.

Doesn't bother me.

[powergirl]

9. Clinton sought the coronation after Feb. 5

This is clear by her failure to have any plan for campaigning after February 5. The arrogance of this campaign is just stunning. I lost all respect I had for her because of her conduct in this campaign.

[johnnydrama]

13. John Edwards

John Edwards conceded with grace and dignity. There were still 46 states left to go.

Why did he drop out?

Why did any of them drop out? Did Gravel with his 0% say he was waiting for all 50 states to decide, before he dropped out?

[anamandujano]

14. They dropped out because they got just about nothing for votes.

Hillary has half the votes and no where did I see the word "plead" in the article. She is just giving the grounds on which the race should continue.

Obviously the Bomba has people working behind the scenes to push for an early close, since this is the only way he can be assured a win. That is the opposite of what he said the other day, but we are all used to that.

[powergirl]

15. The title of the article is as stated in the subject line

The author used the word "plead" in the title. You can verify this by clicking on the link. I'm an Obama supporter, I don't make this stuff up. :)

[NJSecularist]

21. Hillary has as much chance to win the nomination now as Edwards did before Super Tuesday. n/t

[saracat]

30. Actually he didn't 'drop out" He "suspended"and it was certainly not by his own choice

but you will believe as you like.

[johnnydrama]

31. noone forced him out

Sure he got no press coverage, but the fact remains he wasn't mathematically eliminated from the race. He dropped out because he couldn't win.

He could have said there are 46 states left, I want them all to be able to vote, just like Hill is saying.

I'm a big John Edwards fan, i'm not knocking him. I voted on Super Tuesday, I didn't even get a chance to vote for him.

But the fact is in these primaries, once you can't win, you drop out, even if nobody mathematically has won yet.

[sniffa]

3. Ah, the bargaining phase

Good to see at least she is moving on in her grief.

[Lerkfish]

4. LOL!

good one.

[last1standing]

7. If she had made plans to campaign in states after Feb 5, I'd be more willing to sympathize.

Still, it's possible that she's had a change of heart since then and is honestly interested in providing the people in these last states a voice. Either way, so long as she no longer goes negative as she did last month, I'm all for her running up till the last voter weighs in if she feels she has something that only she can give voice to. That's one of the few remaining good things about this country, Hillary Clinton or Dennis Kucinich or Pat Paulson can run for president and sometimes they will even be heard.

[Shae]

8. I don't care how long stays in the race

as long as she stops tearing down the candidate who who will most likely be the Democratic nominee and stop cheerleading for the Republican nominee.

[Skip Intro]

10. She makes a lot of sense.

[4themind]

11. Meanwhile Ickes sez:

* Confirmed that the Hillary campaign could still try to woo super-dels even if she lost the popular vote, with Michigan and Florida counted
<http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/ickes_confirms_hes_been_pushin.php>

[ekwhite]

20. I heard that on Olbermann too

This is why so many Obama supporters are calling for her to step out of the race. I certainly get flashbacks of Chicago 1968 - that kind of divisive convention will ruin the party for decades, possibly forever.

[BlueIdaho]

12. Maybe you missed this part...

Primaries continue no matter what - every time we do this dance. Even when the presumptive nominee is known by all - the process continues. Now, those "precious" votes don't count for much of anything but vote we have and vote we will. Sadly none of this will change the fact that the HRC campaign is DEAD NOW and the body core temperature is slowly cooling. Make no mistake about it this primary season over except for the shouting.

[ekwhite]

17. I'll weigh in on this one (fool that I am)

Obama has declared that he is OK with Senator Clinton remaining in the race through the last primary. We should support him. If she remains in after June, still behind in the pledged delegates, that is a different story.

[anigbrowl]

18. I'm getting so sick of this weenie I'm a proxy-victim argument

In every nomination contest cine 1988, the nominee usually had it clinched by Super Tuesday. While late-voting states may have felt a bit left out by this (especially when Kerry turned out not to be the hot ticket Dems had hoped for 2006), the Clinton campaign is basically saying that for Obama to win strongly would be unfair to everyone else.

Well, there's one very simple why this argument is grade-A bullshit, and I wish the media would put it to Clinton's campaign people, or the candidate herself: How is that she went into the race with something around 150 superdelegates, giving her a lead of about 70 IIRC - before a SINGLE regular voter cast a ballot?

[Life Long Dem]

19. I've never seen anything like this.

It's like they are pushing this beyond any normal limits. Makes me wonder wtf is gong on. And what has congress done toward the war since 2006?

Edit: ehhh.... I'm just rattling on. But I just don't want to find out they want Hillary so they can continue funding the war just like they have been.

[jenmito]

23. Someone should remind her she planned on wrapping it up on Super Tuesday, Feb. 5th.

How many states would've been "disenfranchised" THEN?

[DerekJ]

25. Chicken Little made a statement in regards to this article:

Ahem..I support McCain.. I have nothing to do with this lady

[thevoiceofreason]

26. Ti -i - i -yme, is on my side. Yes it is!

[DerekJ]

27. hahaha

I saw the movie Fallen yesterday. That bloody song sticks to you once you hear it.

[Oilwellian]

28. The whole premise of Clinton's argument is hypocritical

The only way she can win now is if the super delegates vote against the will of the people. How are our voices important to Hillary if she's asking them to do this?

[GarbagemanLB]

29. She cries at night because Michigan and Florida voters won't be heard. She CRIES.