Clinton:"We have not gone through this exciting, unprecedented, historic election, only to lose."

[Poll_Blind]

  But you have lost. What was once your inevitability to become the nominee has now become the inevitability that you will not. On the morning of June 4th, America and the world will know the results of all the primaries and you will come up short.

  You have been cut much slack but make no mistake, if you do not concede shortly thereafter there should be no question in any reasonable mind that you and your backers are willing to sabotage the 2008 Presidential election in favor of the Republicans if you are not deemed worthy enough a candidate to participate in it.

  Your campaign has already made history as the first serious female presidential contender in U.S. history.

  Continuing this beyond the first week of June will make history of a different sort which you neither desire nor can foretell the outcome of except in one respect.

  You will still lose.

PB

The quote is from today's story from CBS.

[endarkenment]

1. Ok, she is officially never going to quit.

[AllentownJake]

2. Nope

She's gone Kamikaze. Can you blame her with all the sexism and the foul campaign Obama ran against her :sarcasm:

MY TURN IT WAS MY TURN!!!!

[Poll_Blind]

15. Speaking of Kamikaze, who picked the imagery for her posters?

PB

[cliffordu]

3. Can they make her quit?

I guess she could be out in the parking lot in Denver on a flatbed truck with a megaphone.....

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. Alex Forrest: "I won't be ignored, Dan! "

[CoffeeCat]

20. LOL!

That is spot on!

Hide your bunnies...Hillary is coming!

[Poll_Blind]

25. Googling: "hillary clinton" "fatal attraction" returns 30,700 hits.

:evilgrin:

PB

[Window]

27. LOL!

[K Gardner]

38. Perfect.

[backscatter712]

30. There's a bunny boiler in the race! n/t

[PBS Poll-435]

39. And this subthread IS NOT evidence of sexism.

Yep.

[XemaSab]

46. Okay, fine... she's nothing like Alex in Fatal Attraction. She's more like every Lifetime movie ever

with the Democratic party in the role of the heroine and Hillary in the role of the abusive/crazy partner.

There.

Happy? :shrug:

[symbolman]

49. Yeah, like SPURNED PEOPLE don't go crazy..

Just because it was a woman then it was Sexism..

I'm sure that since more Male adapters are sold in electronic stores than Female that its Proof of sexism..

I prefer Humanism, ever heard of it? Obama promotes it.. :)

[CoffeeCat]

4. She is not quitting on Tuesday....

...or anytime next week.

Why would she allow the fact that the race is over--or the fact that she lost--prevent her from
pressing on and destroying Obama's chances in November?

The SD's have sided with Obama 6:1 within the past two months. There is no indication that they
will magically change their minds and go with her. In fact, just the opposite has been indicated.

However, that will not stop her.

She was entitled. We are merely objects in her way .

A great deal will change next week though. With the race over, and an avalanche of SD's in his corner--she
will look even more pathetic, desperate and deluded.

She may continue to harm Obama's chances, but at that point--she will be destroying herself and any political
future that she may have left.

So--it will be interesting, if nothing else.

[SoFlaJet]

8. I think Keith set the precedent last night TS

with the putting her on ignore...sure shills like Ed Rendell and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz will still be given air time to the desperate like Dan Abrams' show just for the yucks value but that's about it

[CoffeeCat]

19. That's probably a good strategy...

She has no money, but she needs air time. It is best to ignore her.

The only way she'll get it, is by making a spectacle of herself.

...so I guess we can expect to see a lot more of her in the coming days!

:wave:

[Poll_Blind]

21. I think Keith did the right thing insofar as he can. Who knows what she'll say or do next, though?

  And what righteous excuse she'll use for saying or doing it?

PB

[TwilightGardener]

5. Yes--you have. Fucking narcissist.

[NC_Nurse]

6. Happens all the time. Why is she any different from any other losing

candidate. Lots of elections are exciting, unprecedented, and historic - take Obama's for instance....

But I guess it's OKAY if HE loses.

WHAT.THE.FUCK.EVER.

[Poll_Blind]

24. That's a valid question. The widely-accepted answer is that she...

...differs from most other losing candidates in a race such as this in that she hasn't left yet, though she is unable to win. At this point, I cannot begrudge her finishing out the last primaries. The damage is done whether she leaves the race today or next week. There is a certain nobility to finishing out these last primaries before leaving because she will have accomplished, at least in some eyes, her self-described goals.

  However, she and her surrogates have been giving every indication that they plan something more.

  Politicians, even powerful ones, do not always get what they want. They may try to turn the tide but most of them have the sense to know when their time is up. Because politics is mostly about the long game.

  If she continues past the first week of June everyone will know that she has no long game- that her position in the Senate was merely a stepping stone to the Presidency and that she cares little for the fallout and for the rest of her senatorial career.

  Not to mention what it's doing to the Democratic party, itself.

PB

[George_Bonanza]

7. Um, yes you have!

Wow, the sense of entitlement is unbearable: "If I wanted it so badly, why shouldn't I win?!"

[CindyKay]

9. She's Delusional

Clinton:"We have not gone through this exciting, unprecedented, historic election, only to lose."

Ya Wanna Make A Bet ??????????? :rofl:

[Aloha Spirit]

10. Wow, that story is harsh! "Clinton Casts Wide Net of Exaggeration"

BILLINGS, MONT. -- During an evening rally in Montana’s largest city Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton explained to the crowd why she should be the Democratic Party’s nominee, but what ensued was a list of overstatements and exaggerations as she made her case. “You have to ask yourself, who is the stronger candidate? And based on every analysis, of every bit of research and every poll that has been taken and every state that a Democrat has to win, I am the stronger candidate against John McCain in the fall,” she said.

[TwilightGardener]

13. "Exaggeration"? More like "Lies".

[Poll_Blind]

22. It is, but at some point people have to call a spade a spade with her lies.

  As painful (even as an Obama supporter) as it is to see the mainstream media take a turn like this, it gives me hope. Can you imagine if every news outlet were touting her ability to win as much as she does?

PB

[WeDidIt]

11. I sincerely hope she pulls back from the edge

Going over the cliff and taking the Democratic Party with her is no way to lose gracefully.

[Connie_Corleone]

14. There is one winner and one loser. You're the loser, Hillary. Shut the fuck up.

[DeschutesRiver]

16. Nature of competition

someone wins and moves on; someone doesn't and is left behind. How close is was is just a subject for stories you tell your grandkids about that great race of which you were a part.

Someone always comes in second, or "loses" if Hill prefers that word. And she is the lucky winner of that slot in this race. Just wishing doesn't make it so.

[stray cat]

17. Two candidates have gone through it and last I checked one must lose

[DCofVA]

18. Nobody's gonna lose

With Obama as President we will all be winners, even Hillary. She is a Democrat, afterall.

[stratomagi]

23. No, not "only to lose."

You are going to lose sorely and poorly.

[WeDidIt]

26. Who would have thought SNL would be prescient?

Just like The Onion was prescient after teh sCOTUS selected Bush.

[symbolman]

50. And let's not forget the Hilarious SatNightLive skit

with the big drippy horror letters as the Title,

"The THING That Wouldn't LEAVE.."

John Belushi sitting on the couch eating popcorn, watching late night TV while making calls to Australia while his Hosts Beg him to go home, they have to Work in the morning..

:)

[Cha]

28. Guess what dunderhead hilary rotten clinton?!

:silly: Ya lost, genius. And, you know what? The way you ran you're fucking campaign..I'm not surprised you don't even know that you're already on the dust bin of history.

[zulchzulu]

29. Hillary Clinton will be the "Shoichi Yokoi" of American Politics

She'll be a holdout of the 2008 Presidential Race. Like Shoichi Yokoi, who continued fighting for the Japanese until he was found in 1972, she will still be saying she could have won...if only...

January 1972
Corporal Shoichi Yokoi was found by two hunters while he was fishing along the Talofofo River. He brought back his army-issue rifle, which he said he wanted to return to "the Honorable Emperor," adding: "I am sorry I did not serve his majesty to my satisfaction." He had seen reports of Japan's surrender in leaflets and newspapers scattered about the island but refused to surrender because he thought they were American propaganda. "We Japanese soldiers were told to prefer death to the disgrace of getting captured alive," he said.

http://www.wanpela.com/holdouts/registry.html#guad

[Az_lefty]

31. Hillary the Bill are all about themselves. They will never go away quietly.

[Crunchy Frog]

32. She's turning into Glenn Close from Fatal Attraction.

[Marnieworld]

33. Someone should remind her that she described herself as "Rocky Balboa"

He lost his "historic unprecedented" fight as well. :eyes:

[moondust]

34. But she's been running for YEARS!!!

All the posturing, all the manipulations... Doesn't that mean anything? :cry:

[Poll_Blind]

42. The best laid schemes of mice and politicians...

..., gang aft agley. (I'm pretty sure that's Gaelic for "fuck up")

:evilgrin:

PB

[moondust]

44. O woe! O woe!

:cry:

[greguganus]

35. Exciting? Put down the crackpipe rodham! n/t

[yodermon]

36. Nov ballot will be Barr/Clinton/McCain/Obama n/t

[Ian_rd]

37. Why does this sound like the reason to stay in Iraq?

We can't let those 4,000 soldiers doe for nothing! We need to keep fighting even though there is no such thing as victory!

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

40. It appears then that they have gone through this historic, unprecedented election for no reason.

[formercia]

41. Pride before the fall.

This is playing out like some classical tragedy. All these little backup schemes have failed to stem the tide.

Next time, don't ask Poppy for advice.

[Poll_Blind]

45. And when she falls, she's going to fall HARD (cartoon)....

PB

[formercia]

48. Political seppiku

Bvvvitt!

[AZBlue]

43. Someone get her some help, please.

She's got the congressional health plan, I'm sure it covers mental health appointments (or long-term stays).

[GoesTo11]

47. She is making it harder for future glass-ceiling breakers

She basically says if the party doesn't nominate her, it's sexism and they'll pay the price.

From the party's perspective, it's not worth the risk of having candidates who won't lose gracefully.

The next serious woman candidate won't be able to run as the woman candidate, because people will fear another Hillary debacle. The next woman candidate will have to be post-gender. Hillary has taken the potential asset of being a history-making candidate away from her successor, by turning it into a cheap manipulative stunt.