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She's Still Toast

3.6.08 @ 12:01AM

NO ELECTION FOR FRONTRUNNERS
Re: Philip Klein's Kitchen Sinked:

How can you accuse Obama of not delivering a KO? Did anyone truly think he could KO Hillary after Iowa? It was just getting started and we all knew that. Obama won Super Tuesday with more states, more votes and more delegates. Because Hillary refuses to give up does not mean Obama didn't KO her. He KOed her as much as anyone could KO Hillary.

Look at McCain and Huckabee. I don't see you writing about how McCain still couldn't KO Huckabee even though the math made it literally impossible for Huckabee to win. So was it a failure for McCain because he couldn't KO someone who couldn't even get up off the mat, but who refused to get out of the ring? On your terms, I see McCain's inability to get Huckabee to leave the race as a much significant story.

This whole pundit theme of "he had three chances..." is already getting old. No one expected Obama to "win" the nomination after Iowa. No one thought he even had a chance to do so. If you did, you know nothing about political campaigns. And if you didn't think Hillary had the money and the will to stay in until Texas and Ohio in the least, you clearly know little about Hillary Clinton and her violent refusal to take the high road in politics.
-- Brian Rich
Moscow, Idaho

While I'm sure that a certain Elton John song is getting a lot of airplay today, the likelihood is that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee, barring a serious meltdown in his campaign. In order to negate his delegate lead, the Clinton campaign would have to win the majority of super-delegates, which would appear to Barack's supporters as a backroom deal, or manage to seat the Michigan and Florida delegates, or both, in which case, the perception of the Democratic Party would be that the movers and shakers had closed ranks and resorted to the kind of chicanery that they normally reserve for Republicans in order to select the white woman over the black man.

A Republican who failed to remind African American voters that Democrats were the party of Jim Crow, slavery and segregation, or that their current superdelegates include a former KKK Kleagle who is now the senior senator from West Virginia, would be throwing away the opportunity of a lifetime. An Obama nomination carries its own opportunities in Florida and Michigan, where John McCain can make the claim that the Democrats, who had previously demanded that they count a few hundred dangling chads, this time refused to recognize the votes of millions and a clear majority. It's unlikely that outraged Hillary supporters in those states would come out for McCain, but they may lack the motivation to go the polls at all, keeping Florida safely red and putting Michigan in play.

It's also unlikely that the Democrats could unify the party with a combined Obama/Hillary ticket. Hillary will not play second to Obama, not after having been in the White House as first Lady, even if it gives her another shot at the remaining fixtures and silverware. The only hope for a unity ticket would be if Hillary were at the head, but that has its own risks. If Hillary were to try to take the lead slot and place Obama on the ticket as her vice president, the Democrats would remain vulnerable to a question of how he came in with more popular delegates but ended up having to give up his seat and move to the back of the bus.

I would not want to be Howard Dean when that question is asked.
-- Mike Harris
MAJ, U.S. Army

It is now the turn of faltering "savior in waiting" Barrack Hussein Obama to unleash the plague of past Clinton scandals on Hillary. Despite being in bed with dubious foreign contributors himself the "Obamanation" needs to remind voters of the Clinton's cozy relationship with Buddhist monks, Indonesian businessmen, the communist Chinese and Chinese dishwashers. As the "prince of peace" continues to declare his love for North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Syria and Venezuela he needs to remind the fanatics at MoveOn.org it was Bill Clinton who established America's policy of regime change in Iraq. In fact, George W. Bush was just doing Clinton's dirty work for him ergo Hillary is the "mother" of all problems relating to Iraq and the War on Terror (since Obama refuses to accept reality that we're winning in Iraq and the Iraqis are reconciling this would be easy for him to do).

Didn't Hillary vote for the war before she was against it? Will Hillary expand the war to include a ground battle against pro-Obama Iran? Has she repudiated using force against psycho Hugo Chavez to keep the peace in South America? Though an ethically challenged corrupt Chicago Democrat Obama can also remind voters of Hillary's shady business practices -- cattle futures, White Water, etc. He might even have his minions in cyberspace to begin speculating about Ron Brown's death. Conspiracy theory kooks in the Democrat party are a dime a dozen so I'm sure "Imam Obama" can spin up the nut jobs with a few well chosen words. He can even run ads asking America do they want a woman who was nothing more than a glorified law clerk handling national security issues. Oh the joy! Oh the humanity!

Thanks to many Texas and Ohio conservatives new life was breathed into the Clinton campaign. Hopefully, the mud and "bloodletting" will really get going as America's two most incompetent and unqualified politicians fight for the Presidential nomination of the party of despair, depression and defeat. Aren't "chick fights" a joy to watch? Which "gal" is going to come out on top -- the has-been or wannabe? Hillary vs. Obama is the "cat fight" with the potential to make the 1990's "Clinton soap opera" look boring.
-- Michael Tomlinson

Just because Republicans don't have a dog in this fight doesn't mean we can't enjoy the battle.

Hillary believes that the Democratic nod was to be gifted to her because, to paraphrase the late great country singer/songwriter, Tammy Wynnette, she stood by her man. (After all, he is just a man.) If HRC didn't truly believe she was to be automatically granted the nomination, she would have walked out on The Boy President long before he was so ingloriously impeached, but that poor choice is behind her. She has too many other items on her agenda (such as Bill's present peccadilloes) to worry about his past indecisions. Now that she has to fight for the prize, she is going to do all that she can to ensure that she walks away the winner. Barrack Obama may be able to beat back her assault (doubtful) but as Nietzsche so wisely proffered, "What does not kill me makes me stronger." If BHO can withstand the underhanded trickery and covert assaults of the Clinton team, he might prove a much more formidable opponent to our enemies than his current rhetoric would indicate. Currently, these remain only interesting hypotheticals. Until the Democrats can figure out a way to avoid self-destructing, Senator McCain has time to build up a war chest, choose a VP, and most importantly, mend the rift between himself and the core constituency of the GOP.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

Here's some interesting numbers. Remember the spreadsheet with projections the Obama campaign had?

Well, whoever did it up was right on. Final results aren't in for 100% of the Ohio and Texas precincts, but here we go.

Letter to the Editor

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