Notice the rhetorical framing she is pushing here. "Elected delegates and caucus delegates". As if delegates elected by caucus are not really elected. Working the audience to delegitimize the caucus results, which of course she does poorly in.

Oh lord.

Another mistep by Clinton and just flat wrong in some many ways. The obvious contradiction being tha she's "fighting for rights of MI and FL voters" and then says something like this.

Obama camp needs to hit hard back on this stuff - start calling her out that she want sto undo the will of the voters. I'd be out there every day asking "Will Hillary accept that the Democratic nominee is the person with the most delegates and the most popular votes"?

Make her defend a position that pits her against the will of voters. That could turn off people who have yet to vote and who will decide this election.

I posted about this on my diary on Dailykos as slinkerwink. It's a very disturbing prospect for me in the sense that Clinton isn't willing to honor the democratic process in order to steal the nomination.

I'll give Hillary credit--she is one relentless bitch. But honestly, none of this is going to work. She's not going to pick up a single delegate with this crap.

mark halperin is a tool ...

ahhhhhh ..... i feel better.

I am a STRONG Senator Obama supporter (and delegate to the county convention) in a caucus state and in fact Senator Clinton in correct. Delegates elected in the precinct caucus are not required by any rule other than their sense of what is correct to stay with the candidate they supported in the caucus at the county convention. In Iowa the county convention is 15 March. Last week I received a call from the Obama campaign (a real person) making sure I was going to the convention and still supported Senator Obama. Later in the week we received a robo call at our home from the Clinton campaign stating if your are going to vote for Senator Clinton push 1. Do not know where the call would go from there because 1 was not pushed; however, the implication was clear - the Clinton campaign will pursue all delegates until the final vote has been taken.

they probably have dirt on certain delegates they can use to coerce their vote. i mean hillary hired a team of private investigators to dig up dirt on her husband's opponents and lovers and blackmailed them into silence.. i dont see how she could throw a wrench into obama's delegate lead otherwise.

She may be correct but given with how the pledged delegates are chosen (they are generally VERY committed to the candidate) I am willing to bet she can't get any to vote for her. This is silly.

And Hillbots have the nerve to be offended when people call Shillary a scumbag? I'm sure there are quite a few scumbags who are upset with being likened to Hillary.

It may be too optimistic to assume she is preparing for her less than graceful exist after April 22; but she certainly knows how to influence other to tell her to ended on April 1. And who is the fool?

Can somebody tell me where is idiotic when needed!
Please help!

She is a bad girl.

Simple Question:

Why is Senator Obama being treated in the media lately as if he were in second place to Senator Clinton?
Mr. Obama is WINNING in … as you know, in:
Pledged Delegates, Popular Vote and Overall States !!!!

And for Senator Clinton to suggest that the SUPERDELEGATES should select her because she won MORE BIG STATES
in the PRIMARY and therefore … ONLY Senator Clinton can claim those same states in the GENERAL ELECTION is … FALSE!

Trust me … with the record turnout of Democratic voters this Primary Season,
If Senator Obama should ultimately become the Democratic Candidate for President …
he will SURELY get a majority of the democratic voters in the General Election in the states that Senator Clinton won in the Primary Election.
Why? Because all of us Democrats want CHANGE and we want it now!

Let the pledged delegates … popular vote … and overall states speak for themselves NOW (as in, Today)!
Senator Clinton really must step down! And the Democratic Party needs to get UNITED if it wants to win this November!

I feel like in 1992 the U.S. stepped in dog shit and we can't scrap it off our shoe.

I was seriously thinking about the Miller's Crossing analogy myself -- especially in regards to The Tears.

"What are you gonna do? Shoot me? I'll just squirt out a few more and you won't have the heart."

Paraphrased, I know, but I'd really been thinking about that for some time as I just saw Miller's Crossing for the first time about four or five months ago. Fantastic movie.

Hillery is like anthrax, ebola, the henta virus, dengue fever, and the black plague all rolled up in one. I'm pretty sure she and Bill drink the blood of orphaned infants. She should be pumped full of effluvient and released into deep space.

Neck-Snapping Spin.

To woo the Supers and Caucus Delegates, Hillary will need to wound Obama so badly he won't be viable any longer as the nominee....A truly inspiring strategy that is sure to attract voters, youth, underrepresented groups and even Republicans and Independents.

Geez real shocker....

1. Why do you think she wants mail-ins for florida and mich....she can stuff the mail and highjack the mail truck....

2. I feel bad for the delegates...imagine being harrassed at home by th clintons....I wonder if they have a door knocking campaign...

3. Why are they complaining about the caucuses...because they did not realize the cheating value in advance....

4. God bless the party elders...great job Gore, Edwards and Carter...where is Pelosi...come on....does she have to shred the constituion b4 these fat cats get off their rumps and get the off the stage....they are really on their last breahes...stop acting like tinman from oz....

5. Is she the american Putin? I won michigan is like barry bonds saying he is the home run champ...

6. Will they wait until next week to start back with the hate-filled foreigner smears, the subtle muslim hate attacks...looks great to our country and the world...great role models...party elders do you have a fucking pulse?

7. What will be the subtle pro white...dont vote for the uppity well spoken brother? In south carolina we had the jesse comment, among 3 or 4 more...they were dismissive of Dr King...I knew white guys were responsible for the entire civil rights movement...scaring ohio jews with farrakhan and ohio working class with anyone nonwhite....it was like a yummy race/class highball setting back ohio progress by 40 years....

please unite behind BO so we can handle the business in front of us: McCain and taking the bottom to the top of the ticket blue...please stop looking back...they are behind us and we need to let them go. We cant suffer thru 8 more years of the above craziness...please someone make it stop....

That sounds right about the second ballot.

So she's telegraphing the strategy which would be to use whatever strategies are available to prevent a first round ballot decision.

Probably it is not that hard... and then once you not only do that, but demonstrate the level of influence you have in the party, you can scare up enough pledged delegates to switch their affiliation.

Now do party rules require a majority? Plurality? How do you ensure that the first ballot fails?

You know what would be ironic? If enough of Senator Clinton's pledged delegates, recognizing that she simply can't win the nomination, take her message to heart and switch to Senator Obama.

I'm just sayin'.

And the Beer Hall Putsch was just a procedure set up in 1923 in Munich . . .

ve are only following ze procedures . . .

When Obama decides not to disenfranchise millions of voters in 2 important general election swing states, then the once and future Senator from Illinois can take the high road regarding voter disenfranchisement. Until then he should know better than to broach that subject.

This is obviously a great way to become president. I guess the money she and Bill got will come in handy for this.

They should just remember not to spend all of it in the primaries, she will have buy enough electoral votes in the general election so that she'll get her 270 votes.

A faithless elector can be punished, but only after they already have voted, and that's not a problem as long as she can pardon them when she becomes president.

And they said that Obama was the innovative candidate...