Commentary: No graceful bow-out for Clinton

[gateley]

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Lest anyone think the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination is going to end peacefully in June, forget about it.

Sen. Hillary Clinton will do anything and everything to win, and the idea that Sen. Barack Obama should give in to her demands to seat the Michigan and Florida delegates is ludicrous. When you're ahead, you don't concede any ground. If the roles were reversed, she would do the same

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In Florida on Wednesday, she invoked slavery and the epic civil rights battle against Jim Crow in her quest to count the vote in Florida as-is.

But The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets say the Clinton camp doesn't care. Her biggest backer, former President Clinton, is telling her to stay in it until the end, hoping to persuade superdelegates to switch and give her the nomination.

The DNC rules committee will meet May 31. Expect a bloodbath. Trust me; there will be nothing nice about that meeting.

The Obama camp better not let its guard down. The Clinton camp is gearing up for a protracted battle. Folks, this is for all the marbles, and feelings -- and party -- be damned.

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more>>> http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/27/roland.martin/index.html

[DJ13]

1. If she takes it to the convention she can forget staying in politics

Her reputation as a poor loser will tarnish both her career and Bill's legacy.

[bhikkhu]

4. I keep saying she still has good opportunities left...

to exit gracefully, to be a strong party leader, etc. Perhaps after the last primaries in a few days...but at this point all the calls for her to withdraw that Bill complains so much about, and the "I just don't understand it" that we hear from HRC, are really just the frustrated cries of the majority of the party - enough already! You lost, get over it, go away, we have things we need to do here!

[BenDavid]

2. The first act will be to get the Flordia and Michigan folks seated

as this will raise the delegate count for a person to win. Second, she will take the fight on to the convention and convince super delegates she can win. Whateever she decides to do I will support her decision.

[cliffordu]

3. How is she going to convince the stupordelegates she can win?

what PRECISELY will she say to make your little dream a reality???

Please answer me. I REALLY want to know. Maybe I'll switch my allegiance if your argument is sound.

[gateley]

5. It will be interesting to see how that goes on Saturday.

Although the author of the article says the meeting will be a 'bloodbath', I don't really think it will be. Those on the committee have had a long time to think about it, and have probably already been communicating with each other.

If she does take it to the convention, I'm not sure how successful she'd be convincing the SDs to come on over to her side. Many of them have expressed a desire for this to be "over", so they might not look to kindly at a couple of more months of this. But as always, who knows?

I think we'll know a lot next week. If Obama gets a tsunami of SDs and reaches the new number, she'd probably concede (especially with her financial situation as it is). He he doesn't, we'll know we're in for a ride!

[Window]

7. Aw...aren't you special.

[shadowknows69]

8. Why do people keep slipping of my igSnore list somehow?

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

6. Clinton Patiently Waits

I campaigned so vigorously for the 'hard-working white vote' and I have to say I'm disappointed. America's gun-loving, racist crazies have really let me down."

Clinton Patiently Waits for Obama Assassination

Ridiculopathy Tuesday May 27, 2008

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Chalk it up to another unfair attack on Senator Hillary Clinton. During an interview on Friday, Clinton related Robert Kennedy's tragic death forty years ago to Senator Obama's history-making candidacy as a reason why she remains in what, from all appearances, is a doomed death spiral of a campaign. Not surprisingly, media treated it like a career-ending gaffe.

"Out of context, it may have seemed that I am crossing my fingers wishing for Senator Obama to be assassinated in the near future, which I agree would be creepy and ghoulish," explained Clinton. "It's not that I'm not hoping for something terrible like that to happen. I'm counting on it. At this point, it's pretty much the only game plan we have left. There's an enormous semantic difference between 'hoping for' and 'counting on' something, and I think most people can pick up on that. As for why people are still so upset about what I said, I blame sexism in the media."

According to leaked Clinton campaign documents, the idea of an RFK-style shooting is just about the only remaining item on their exhaustive list of contingency plans- next to a fanciful scenario involving a meteor falling from the sky and killing everyone on the Obama team, but even that was added only as a consolation to an especially bitter campaign volunteer.

This week Clinton's people will begin distributing a new fundraising letter featuring RFK's photo, urging supporters to send cash to pay off the Clinton campaign's many overdue debts "just in case" something terrible happens.

...more at the link