Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Scorched Earth?
Is Hillary Clinton’s primary goal in staying in an obviously lost presidential nomination race to insure Barack Obama’s eventual defeat in the general election? A harsh accusation to be sure, but mounting evidence points in that direction. If Obama were defeated by John McCain, Hillary Clinton would be supremely positioned to win the Democratic Party nomination to take on the then 76 year old, former P.O.W., McCain. Her arguments from this race about electability would play strongly is the thinking. If however, Obama defeats McCain in November, Hillary Clinton would be out of the question until 2016. If it is not her intention, is the effect the same?
The core of what makes the Clarion think such an equation is in the mind’s eye of Hillary Clinton is the tortured, Orwellian nature of the math required to make the argument that she could still win the nomination. It is not just about her team playing the race card. She can’t control what Geraldine Ferraro says. Ultimately, she can’t even control what Bill says. Make no mistake her team has played on this point, even she did, herself, between West Virginia and Kentucky.
What is Orwellian or at least counter-intuitive are her arguments about how many votes she has received. She wants to count Michigan and Florida where she was the only candidate on the ballot. Today on talk radio she compared not counting Florida’s primary to the Bush-Gore 2000 Florida debacle. One can only think her insane or maniacal, when she make points with this kind of logic: Clinton wants Michigan and Florida where only she ran to count, but she does not want the caucuses to count (where Obama won) because they mimic town hall meetings. Not too mention, the elephant in the room, which no one from either campaign has the stones to talk about, Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos which has quite clearly netted Clinton upwards of 200,000 votes in so-called “swing states” of folks who have absolutely no intention of voting for her.
It is the Clarion’s firm belief that this problem, primary voters who won’t vote for her in the general election goes much deeper for Hillary Clinton. We will address that in part II of this piece tomorrow.
Labels: 2008's President, Politics
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Double speak, Clinton style...
Hillary Clinton told New Hampshire Public Radio in the fall, "It's clear this election [Michigan is] having is not going to count for anything. I personally did not think it made any difference whether or not my name was on the ballot."
She gave a speech to supporters in Boca Raton, Fla., Wednesday, claiming, "Some say that counting Florida and Michigan would be changing the rules. I say that not counting Michigan and Florida is changing a central governing rule of this country."
Forebodingly Orwellian, the lust for power has eroded any ethics she ever had.
Hillary Clinton told New Hampshire Public Radio in the fall, "It's clear this election [Michigan is] having is not going to count for anything. I personally did not think it made any difference whether or not my name was on the ballot."
She gave a speech to supporters in Boca Raton, Fla., Wednesday, claiming, "Some say that counting Florida and Michigan would be changing the rules. I say that not counting Michigan and Florida is changing a central governing rule of this country."
Forebodingly Orwellian, the lust for power has eroded any ethics she ever had.
Listening to her makes me feel crazy. After Iowa she said it was "up to the voters" and when she started losing she said "all they do is vote," implying it was the superdelegates that really matter. Now it's the popular vote, and a popular vote she's trying to manipulate AFTER she signed off on Michigan and Florida not counting. She's moved the goal posts out of the stadium.
In my English 102 class that I teach, we have a "Hillary Crazy Watch" going, where we talk about how her rhetoric illustrates she really is going crazy, or thinks everyone is really, really stupid.
I agree: this metaphyisal desire for power, the ontolological desire to BE president, has washed everything else away.
In my English 102 class that I teach, we have a "Hillary Crazy Watch" going, where we talk about how her rhetoric illustrates she really is going crazy, or thinks everyone is really, really stupid.
I agree: this metaphyisal desire for power, the ontolological desire to BE president, has washed everything else away.
More:
"One hundred percent of her energy is on the popular vote," a senior adviser said. "The only thing she can control is how hard she works and what effort she puts into the remaining three contests. She wants to end this with as many votes as she can."
Well, duh. Except: THE POPULAR VOTE DOESN'T MATTER!! Ask Al Gore about it.
"One hundred percent of her energy is on the popular vote," a senior adviser said. "The only thing she can control is how hard she works and what effort she puts into the remaining three contests. She wants to end this with as many votes as she can."
Well, duh. Except: THE POPULAR VOTE DOESN'T MATTER!! Ask Al Gore about it.
I couldn't agree more.
"...metaphyisal desire for power, the ontolological desire to BE president, has washed everything else away."
What's English class 102 saying these days?
"...metaphyisal desire for power, the ontolological desire to BE president, has washed everything else away."
What's English class 102 saying these days?
The populate vote count, well as her husband might have said, "It depends on what your definition of count is." Hillary Clinton is going define a way no matter the counterfactuality.
from...JIM KUHNHENN, AP
"Clinton includes the results of Florida, where no campaigning occurred, as well as Michigan, where Obama's name was not on the ballot. Her calculation fails to include caucuses in Iowa, Maine and Washington, all of which Obama won. In those states, delegates were awarded but party officials did not report any popular vote breakdown between the two candidates."
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from...JIM KUHNHENN, AP
"Clinton includes the results of Florida, where no campaigning occurred, as well as Michigan, where Obama's name was not on the ballot. Her calculation fails to include caucuses in Iowa, Maine and Washington, all of which Obama won. In those states, delegates were awarded but party officials did not report any popular vote breakdown between the two candidates."
