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Saturday's Comittee Meeting Aftermath Trumps Delegate Math
Saturday is merely the DNC Rules Committee meeting. How Obama and Clinton handle the aftermath will be a true test of each one’s commitment to Party unity. (It is interesting to note that the Obama camp is discouraging pro-Obama demonstrations this Saturday.)
Neither campaign will totally get its way. FL and MI delegations will not get seated in their entirety, but they will be counted somehow.
If both camps accept the decision of the Committee, then the road to a party united behind a single nominee will be easier to forge. Hopefully, the report from MSNBC (that a mutually acceptable compromise is in the works) is true.
If, however, one campaign disputes the ruling and rallies its constituency using inflammatory rhetoric, then rifts between the supporters of both candidates can only grow.
Comments (7)
There will be no compromise unless it entails Obama agreeing to become Hillary's VP. Other than that she is hellbent on taking the primary all the way to the convention, and should she fail there she'll make an independent run.
This was her time dammit!!
May 29, 2008 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree that this was her nomination to lose. Sadly for her, her campaign hit its stride too late in the primary season. (I was a Clinton supporter until the SC primary.)
I find it hard to believe that she will run as an Independent (unless her intention is to commit political suicide).
May 29, 2008 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's a case of playing chicken with Obama and the Democratic Party. Who will blink first - will Obama offer her his VP slot or will she run as an independent and cost the Dems to lose and in the process commit political and legacy suicide?
May 29, 2008 5:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Offering the VP slot to Hill would be political suicide for Obama. There's no better way to show strength than giving in to a loser's unreasonable demands.
Personally I think Hillary is totally stuffed. The only question is how much damage she will do before she realizes this... and how much damage she will do after.
May 29, 2008 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think that at this time, such a move would be political suicide. However, if history is a guide, political memory is short. In 1980, Reagan chose GHW Bush as his VP despite the latter's "voodoo economics" statement; JFK chose LBJ; Clinton chose Gore, etc. If both Senators Obama and Clinton start playing nice soon, who knows what the mood of Democrats would be by the time the convention rolls around.
May 29, 2008 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Regardless of what the politics are of offering Hillary the VP slot on an Obama ticket, the bottom line is that she will then only be one heartbeat away from the presidency. If we think that Obama's life is in danger now...
May 29, 2008 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I may not be a Clinton supporter, but I cannot believe that she would take steps to endanger the life of Senator Obama.
May 29, 2008 9:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
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