Hillary acts like she didn't realize there was going to be caucuses!!!

[KansasVoter]

She annoys me so much!!!

She got her ass kicked in the caucuses because she could not campaign worth shit.

No offices set up after Super Tuesday. No ground support for caucuses. No planning.

If that does not make people realize Obama is more ready to run a national election I don't know what will.

And he is raising about $40 million a month.

She is being beat by a guy NOONE knew and she started with a huge advantage.

Amazing anyone can defend her campaign at this point.

[LSparkle]

1. How can she manage the economy when she can't manage

HER CAMPAIGN AND ITS FINANCES?

:eyes:

[Coexist]

2. not ready on Day One of the race, was she?

[islandmkl]

3. note to Washington, D.C.:

put the Coronation on hold, please. Thank you, Hillary Clinton

[KansasVoter]

5. Wow, Does Hillary Whine!

[jgraz]

4. "Nobody could have anticipated that people would use caucuses to pick a nominee"

I'm shocked, shocked!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

6. Link to her "acting like she didn't realize there was going to be caucuses!!!" Please.

Thanks.

[islandmkl]

7. for starters:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/clinton-lowers.html

[islandmkl]

8. my favorite:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/03/bill-clinton-it.html

"It's the caucuses that have been killing us," he added.

--Bill Clinton: Caucuses 'Killing Us'
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ABC News' Teddy Davis, Sarah Amos, and Talal Al-Khatib Report: While speaking by phone Thursday to his wife's Texas supporters, former President Bill Clinton downplayed the importance of caucuses..

[johnnydrama]

10. sorry bill

The caucuses had nothing to do with killing you. It's the fact that you gave up on all the states that the caucuses were in.

[cjsmom44]

11. RE: HOW ABOUT THIS ONE...

THIS IS MY PERSONAL FAVORITE ABOUT CAUCUSES

"my husband never did well in caucus states either," "caucuses are primarily dominated by activists" and "they don't represent the electorate, we know that."

WELL NO YOU DON'T HILLARY CLINTON

I LIVE IN MAINE AND I WOULDN'T CALL STRUGGLING LOW TO MIDDLE CLASS FARMERS A BUNCH OF ACTIVISTS

THERE WERE NO AND I MEAN NO ACTIVISTS AT OUR CAUCUS

SECONDLY...
IT IS A VERY WHITE STATE ONE OF THE WHITEST STATES IN THE NATION

SO SHE WON'T GET AWAY WITH DISSING CAUCUS STATES....

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

12. Welcome to DU.

:hi:

[cliffordu]

14. YEP, welcome to DU!!

:hi:

[ShortnFiery]

17. Caucuses were not so gawd awful bad for HRC's hubby in 92' 96' that Bubba changed the SYSTEM?

Now why was that? Could it be that caucuses are bad for HRC because her "illustrious" campaign WAS NOT PREPARED *on Day 1* after Super Tuesday? :evilgrin:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

9. Sounds like she's reflecting on the process in which she's involved and everything she says is

accurate.

It's a flawed process, for a democracy, but it's not like our government hasn't had other crazy processes before. When the process only nets 10% of the voters in any district, it's not working too well.

Where did she say she was surprised there would be caucuses? :shrug:

[Rageneau]

13. Obama has more experience than Hillary when it comes to gaming elections.

Obama is an old hand at using the arcanity of rules to his own advantage. He "won" his first election by sneaking around to disqualify all the poeple running against him until it was to late for them to respond to his underhanded tactics.

What Hillary obviously didn't understand was that there is a way to win the Democratic nomination without counting all democrat votes and without actually reflecting the will of the people -- which caucuses do not.

Obama, inherently shrewd, and hand-fed on Daley Machine Chicago-style politics knows that winning is the only important thing.

[crispini]

16. Hillary seemed to have no problem with caucuses...

when Bill was running.

[grantcart]

15. See this is how reality gets turned around. The caucuses help Hillary

If there hadn't been caucuses she would have still been beaten in those states but it would have been by larger primary type numbers - It would have added several hundred thousand more votes to Obama's popular vote margin. He might not have gotten quite so many delegates but Hillary wouldn't be wasting everyone's time talking about primary vote margin - she would have been even further behind.

[rainbow4321]

18. She and her people were ignorant about TX's 2 step (supposedly)

Reported back then by the WaPo that her camp "didn't know" about TX being partially caucus til a few weeks before our day of voting. Uh, did her husband NOT go thru the very same TX 2 step TWICE???? Did they bitch and moan about it back then? No because HE WON.
The more I see her arrogance, I don't think it was so much "didn't KNOW about it" as much as it was "didn't think TX would matter".
Then reality set in..TX would very much matter and, oh BTW, HRC you know how you suck in caucus settings?? Well, TX is part caucus.

[SoCalDem]

19. She never thought she would need them

She expected to finish a close second in Iowa...to EDWARDS

Michigan, New Hampshire, California, New York, New Jersey,Florida were "slam dunks"..