Bill Clinton needs to call Hillary. She’s closer to facing reality that it’s Over. John Edwards also agrees and will endorse Obama this evening.
Hillary said on CNN’s “The Situation Room”
It’d be ‘terrible mistake’ to pick McCain over Obama
CNN) — Hillary Clinton on Wednesday reiterated her vow to stay in the Democratic presidential race, but she said it would be a “terrible mistake” for her supporters to vote for John McCain over Barack Obama.
“I’m going to work my heart out for whoever our nominee is — obviously I’m still hoping to be that nominee, but I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that anyone who supported me … understands what a grave error it would be not to vote for Sen. Obama.”
So what is Bill clinton up to?
Oooops, another new low….Waaaaah, my wife is being punished. This is the same Bill who remained silent in the 2000 stop the vote count.
MISSOULA, MT — Bill Clinton today made an expanded and direct argument for seating Florida and Michigan delegates, suggesting his wife is being punished and arguing that Obama’s campaign opposed a re-vote
“I never thought it would be the Democratic Party that didn’t want to count votes in Florida. I thought that was a Republican strategy — or strategery as the case may be. And I just ask you all this, do you really believe Florida would be getting this kind of treatment if the vote had turned out the other way?”
For more than six minutes, Clinton went through the timeline of how both states lost their delegates, and who was to blame. While he has made the case before, he placed new emphasis on it today, as it becomes clearer that seating the delegates from both states is one of the few remaining options to help Hillary Clinton defeat Obama.
“Hillary offered a revote in Michigan; we offered a revote in Florida,” Clinton said. “In both cases, the other campaign said, `Nope, no re-vote, we will just see what to do when this thing is over.’ Why would we put Michigan at risk and pretend that these people didn’t show up and pretend that somehow she is responsible and the voters themselves are responsible and she should be punished for what intermediaries did?”
Clinton said the removal of Florida and Michigan had a “superficial element of fairness” because Obama and John Edwards took their name off the ballot. But, he added, they did that because Hillary Clinton was ahead in the polls and there was a “very organized and funded campaign to get everyone to vote uncommitted.” However, Clinton herself said last fall that the Michigan contest was “not going to count for anything.”
“So if we are gonna decide a closely held contest, it shouldn’t be decided with those kind of tactics and those kind of principles,” he said. “This should be a great empowerment election, and how ironic it would be, if after so many people have been empowered through internet giving and active participation, if the thing would be decided by the most disempowering top-down, and I think mindless decision I can recall in a month of Sundays.”
Fresh from West Virginia the Clintons have some bragging rights….the reverse racial vote…hard working Americans, white Americans, the working class, that bolsters their electability argument.
Last night there was another election in Mississippi, the equivalent of a 7.9 mag earthquake, and this may be the real reason the Clintons are staying put:
This business of Travis Childers winning an extremely Republican district on the heels of two other Democratic special election wins drives home how infuriating the idea of even having an extended “electability” argument about “who can win” is at this point. The reality is that given current conditions, either Clinton or Obama is very likely to win. That, I assume, is why Clinton is fighting so hard. There’s no need to join David Corn in reaching for esoteric explanations, she’s fighting hard for the prize of the nomination because it’s a very good prize to have.
A commenter to this post notes:
Obviously. This is what stings her the most. The fact that winning the Democratic nomination is tantamount to winning the Presidency for all intents and purposes and she let it slip through her fingers.
That commenter nailed it. However Hillary’s Time chart has expired.
and Edwards is endorsing Obama
ABC News confirms that John Edwards will endorse Barack Obama at an event tonight in Michigan:
Former Sen. John Edwards is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential candidate Wednesday evening, in a dramatic attempt by the Obama campaign to answer concerns regarding Obama’s appeal to working-class voters, several senior Democratic sources tell ABC News.