Why The Clinton/Edwards Scheme to Limit Number of Candidates Will Be Fatal to Both

[Dems Will Win]

I believe the open mic gaffe will turn out to be one of the most amazing events in political history and will finish Edwards, which will leave Obama as the anti-Hillary. Hillary herself will be mortally wounded as she has already lied about her saying cut the numbers of candidates. "We've got to cut the number" and "they're not serious." Then she said she meant the number of debates, not candidates - BULLSHIT!

They just handed the nomination to Obama.

It's not just the original gaffe now, it's lying about it. Even more important, we are seeing the candidates as they truly are -- and I'm very disappointed in Edwards. Everyone at least will see now that Edwards and Clinton are conniving politicians and putting on phony personas for the public. This is a disaster for both, as Obama comes across as genuine and what you see in public is how he is in private!

They just handed the nomination to Obama.

That's it for me with him. Hillary I expected stuff like this -- but for him to approach her!!

It made me think he's anti-war and anti-poverty just for political reasons!

The worst thing about it all is that limiting the number of candidates is so patently unfair -- especially because a late-breaking great candidate would be arbitrarily shut out.

That's not democracy -- that's more like Russian "democracy", where Putin decides who the candidates will be!!

This is going to dog Edwards and Clinton endlessly now that they lied about it and that the whole notion is anti-democracy.

What do you think? Am I right? Will this be fatal to both, or will it all blow over?

Kucinich is already going at them tooth-and-nail, accusing them of trying to rig the election!

And he's right...

We should try to have a more serious and a smaller group," Edwards said into Clinton's ear following a presidential forum Thursday in Detroit hosted by the NAACP.

Clinton agreed with Edwards, according to print reports and video footage of the exchange. "We've got to cut the number. ... They're not serious," she said.

Clinton also said she thought that representatives of her campaign and Edwards' had already tried to limit the debates, and "we've gotta get back to it," the Associated Press quoted her as saying.

The Kucinich campaign responded early Friday morning with a news release:

"Candidates, no matter how important or influential they perceive themselves to be, do not have and should not have the power to determine who is allowed to speak to the American public and who is not," the congressman said.

"Imperial candidates are as repugnant to the American people and to our Democracy as an imperial President."

The Kucinich campaign said it "will immediately take steps to address the planned actions of the Clinton and Edwards campaigns."

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200707/POL20070713b.html

Obama can win Iowa and New Hampshire now, where folks have no truck with this sort of thing. The smaller candidates can make TV Commercials of the video tape and the inisdious looking pictures.

And then there's Obama weighing in himself!!!!!!!!!!! He will look so Presidential and AMERICAN compared to them.

I think this is HUGE. What say you??

I really think this is fatal to both Edwards and Clinton