Is this real or some kind of misquoted hit piece??

[hollowdweller]

Is the below real? I mean would Clinton really want such a victory??

After the whole 2000 election Florida debacle and the general feeling about stolen elections from the grassroots it seems like such a bad strategy for the long term stability of the party. It also is suspicious that this is coming out because even if it WAS the strategy I would think that it would hurt her even further in the remaining primaries.

So what is the truth beind this article. I suspect it because I saw it on Fox

top Hillary Clinton adviser on Saturday boldly predicted his candidate would lock down the nomination before the August convention by definitively winning over party insiders and officials known as superdelegates, claiming the number of state elections won by rival Barack Obama would be “irrelevant” to their decision..............

............Harold Ickes, a 40-year party operative charged with winning over superdelegates for the Clinton campaign, made no apologies on Saturday for the campaign’s convention strategy.

“We’re going to win this nomination,” Ickes said, adding that they would do so soon after the last contest on June 7 in Puerto Rico. “You’re not going to see this go to the convention floor.”

Ickes predicted Clinton and Obama would run “neck and neck” in the remaining states and that there would be a “minuscule amount of difference” between the two in pledged delegates.

But he said superdelegates — who “have a sense of what it takes to get elected” — would determine the outcome and side in larger numbers for Clinton.............

.............He also said Michigan and Florida, which voted for Clinton, should have delegates seated at the convention, even though he originally voted with the national party last year to strip the delegates because the states violated party rules by holding early primaries.

http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/16/top-clinton-adviser-says-superdelegates-will-decide-election-obamas-victories-irrelevant/

[fenriswolf]

1. nope hillary clinton will do whatever it takes

even if she has to go to the supreme court.

[gateley]

2. I think Ickes's quotes are correct but FOX's description of what he said and

their additional comments are rather sensational and misleading. I know that's surprising.

[Nitrogenica]

3. FOX news is only for righties, as far as I can tell.

In other words worthless, and always designed to benefit Republicans only.

[shaniqua6392]

4. "So what is the truth beind this article. I suspect it because I saw it on Fox"

Oh Lord, help us! We are now quoting The Fixed News Channel to discredit Senator Clinton. What have we become?????

[Kahuna]

5. Depends on what the meaning of "miniscule" is.

:eyes:

[Yael]

6. This has been posted all over the board today. Its real.