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SO THEN WHY DID YOU WANT TO WRAP IT ALL UP ON SUPER TUESDAY?
Bill Clinton says REAL DEMOCRATS want everyone to have a chance to vote.
How come on December 30th, Hillary Clinton said "It'll be over by February 5th." Was she hoping to deny all this fine states their rights?
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Comments (15)
Because she's a hypocrite and a liar.
April 4, 2008 11:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
You are all being unfair to Hillary. Yes, she expected that it would all be over on Feb 5.
But she would have insisted that the voters in all the remaining states be given their chance to vote for her, too.
April 4, 2008 9:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is that simple, isn't it? It all comes down to one sentence -- that it will all be over by Super Tuesday.
It's that God damned simple. All the blogging and commenting we do, with all our facts, figures and anecdotes, comes down to that one, telling sentence.
She'd throw MI and Fl under the bus in a heartbeat, if she was the leader and Obama wanted to have MI and FL counted.
A hypocrite. A liar. That's all she is.
April 4, 2008 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
What I want to know is why no one in the media asks this question. It seems so obvious. But they let the Clintons get away with acting like they really care about voters in late voting states on principle, and not just because they are desperate for a win somewhere, anywhere.
Now that we've had a primary that is going to every state, apparently, can we revise the system in a rational way for 2012, so that everyone gets to vote without it dragging on for months?
April 4, 2008 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't understand why you don't get it! This is the rule, and once you memorize it you won't be confused any longer:
Only someone operating under such a rule could claim with a straight face that "sleep deprivation" was the cause of her repeated claims of being shot at when she was actually kissed and heard a poem!
April 4, 2008 12:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
In '04, Dean threw in the towel after Wisconsin and Edwards dropped out after Super Tuesday. Both candidates only won one state and after they were gone, the rest of the states were just a formality for John Kerry.
This time, the race is pretty tight. Perhaps math on the future makes it appear that one candidate will get closer to the goal, but neither candidate had a clear "win" by the time others have historically dropped out.
BTW: I think Dean dropped out too early in '04, but once the media had made-up its mind, his voters pretty much disappeared.
April 4, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary Rambo Clinton, The Heroine of Tuzla,
not only invented the semi colon but also the
Heads I win, Tales you Lose gambit.
April 4, 2008 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a great point you make! It's obvious that they (the Clinton campaign) really believed it would be over by February 5th because they had NO kind of plans after that date and they were spending money like there was no tomorrow.
Then all of a sudden they were downplaying Iowa..because it was, after all, just a caucus that didn't REALLY represent the "real" voters..it was just a bunch of party activists (I'm quoting her).
Then she started picking and choosing which states were important and which ones were not. Which contests were legitimate and which ones were not. Caucuses don't matter..because Bill never won them either.
The reasoning is all just a little too juvenile and childish for me. It's like playing a really complicated game with people who don't know how to lose gracefully so they keep changing all the rules until they get the outcome that they want.
The worst part of all...the joke is on us and the game is being played at our expense.
April 4, 2008 7:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
that's just what i say. she went into the race as the inevitable one. she was magnanamous with the other candidates. why? because they were just there to pretend to run against her. she went into the race with the money, the name recognition. this was her nomination!
then iowa happened. obama won iowa. instead of going to plan b, or at least considering the possibility that she had competition, HRC went on as the inevitable candidate and expected that she would have it in the bag by february 5th. you cannot convince me otherwise! the fact that she was broke after feb 5th says it all to me. the fact that she was scrambling after feb 5th to get set up in states to compete says it all to me. and she has been struggling ever since.
why the media does not talk about this makes me wonder. and HRC likes to play victim and say that if obama were 150 delegates down now, everyone would be telling him to stay in. BALONEY! if the roles were reversed, obama would have been out a long time ago. the calls for him to get out would have been deafening a month ago! there would have been no actual consideration of him. he would have been relegated to huckabee status and written off. so HRC claiming she is being treated unfairly is a load of hooey.
April 5, 2008 8:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Every day, Hillary Clinton reminds me more and more of Bush. The hubris. The lies. The lust for power. I just dont know how anyone at this point can continue to support her. Unless their ego's are so wrapped into it at this point that they cant admit they are wrong. Which, come to think of it, explains the mentality of Bush supporters.
Hillary supporters: PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES. You are becoming everything you have hated over the past 8 years.
April 4, 2008 8:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
They demand that every vote in every state be counted so that we know exactly whose votes are being overturned by all the superdelegates who are not named Judas.
April 4, 2008 11:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm telling you, the "Judas" thing is not getting old for me. Like, I think 90% of my comments involve a good "Judas" or two. And if not, then there is an implied Judas. The implied Judas works something like this:
Bartender: What will it be?
Me: Do you (Judas) have Hamms on draft?
April 5, 2008 2:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bill isn't lying, it's just that Hillary is sometimes mistaken for a Democrat.
April 5, 2008 1:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Your point is a complete rebuttal of the past 3 months of spin.
How thoroughly corrupt our press is to have regurgitated this spin, when it can be decimated in a single syllogism such as this one!
April 5, 2008 2:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Bill Clinton says REAL DEMOCRATS want everyone to have a chance to vote."
Then, after we've voted, Hillary gets the pledged delegates to switch sides. Because, after all, our votes only matter if we vote for her...
April 5, 2008 7:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
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