Desperation. And she wears it so well.

I'm surprised that Hillary doesn't understand that these kinds of tactics just make her look desperate. They are admissions that she's losing and that she cannot win. Plus the idea that the pledged delegates should ignore the will of the people smacks of entitlement and the drive for power at any cost. I'm sorry, but it's over...the Wright "controversy" didn't stop Obama (and even gave him an historical moment), and with Florida and Michigan out, there is no way for her to overcome him in popular votes, states one, or pledged delegates. The sooner she drops out and endorses him, the better for the Party and the country.

It's incredible that she refuses to grasp:

1) how unlikely it would be for her to "unpledge" a pledged delegate, and/or

2) how utterly destructive it would be for the party if she somehow succeeded in doing so.

nice. it's not like those delegates were directly elected by the voters to represent the will and decision of those voters or anything, and are at least morally obliged to represent them fairly.

but if all of that pathetic "democracy" gets between me and a chance for the Presidency; it'll have to go.

Had enough?

She's sick! She's absolutely sick! Someone needs to bring her down from wherever the hell she is and give her a dose of reality.

Meanwhile, the entire Democratic party is getting burned with her "do anything" to win politics. Something needs to end this.

Do you ever fear that we, the lowly obsessed political junkie, spends way more time paying attention to the race than many of the superdelegates?

After reading this claptrap, Hillary sure does.

I'm just curious what the hell can the superdelegates... oops, I'm sorry... the Automatic Delegates must be thinking? Do they really think she has a point? Really?

Apparently, she still can't *#%*ing believe this young *#%* is taking away her title. I can't imagine what else would explain her behavior.

I don't think this statement is actually about the pledged delegates at all, but rather intended to make massive lobbying of the super-delegates more palatable.

In effect, she's trying to make super and pledged delegates fully fungible and this lobbying as part of the expected process. Why should she drop out? NO delegates have made their choice yet, the delegate count is really 0-0 etc etc.

I'd been toying with the notion that she is posturing to run again four years from now in the event of a McCain win come Nov.. But even that doesn't make sense. Who would vote for her when she is so overwhelmingly responsible for the Obama defeat?

That was my last attempt to make any sense of her actions. Now all I can do is draw Lady Macbeth parallels.

MSNBC's political section is ALL Clinton above the fold, all gushing headlines.

Is it okay to just go ahead and say now that she's out of her #%%@! mind?

Someone at Kos referred to Hillary's Bosnia story as "WhopperGate", and they linked to this picture.

Now that is funny!

I hope the tags are right, new to that here.

Hillary is right about the delegates and once they discover that we have all been SWIFTBOATED by the Republicans into voting for Obama, who would get beat by McCain big time, they will vote for Hillary, who can beat McCain and that is why the Republican press has been so hard on her. We have all been fooled into thinking Obama was more than an EST trained speaker. Check out all the Republicans that have donated to his campaign. We have been SWIFTBOATED folks and Hillary knows that and that is why she is staying in the race.

Hey Pennsylvania, you have exactly four weeks to get a clue. She's a joke. Vote Obama if only to stop this madness.

Have you stopped to consider that some Republicans really want to vote for Obama because they believe he'd be a good president?

Is she sure she wants to go there?

She's the one that lost delegates to Obama at the Iowa State Convention.

She ended up losing one national delegate to Obama.

In her dreams.

The pledged delegates will vote for Hillary, the sky will open, the light will come down, Celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect.

..snigger.

"Hey Pennsylvania... Vote Obama if only to stop this madness. "

WE ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reality just like fantasy they can switch!

It is just sad to watch how crazy Hillary has become. Does she really think that the pledge delegates will overturn the election? Does she really think the super delegates will overturn the election? If such happens, there will be a riot in Denver and she will have a real Bosnia situation on her hands.

Let's cut to the chase. It's not about the Democratic party anymore. It's all about saving Clintonism. I am a cradle to grave Democrat who has voted for every nominee since McGovern, albeit sometimes more enthusiastically than others.
Now, I am being asked to vote for a candidate who -- if she seizes the nomination -- has destroyed the party that has been my political home for over 30 years? Sentator Cliton has shown herself to be a liar and an opportunist -- in her made quest to seize a poisoned chalice. She has neither the judgement nor the wit to be president.

It's time to shut down Hillaryland and move back to Realityland.

How much more contempt for voters can she express?

"It doesn't matter how many more citizens voted for the guy - if we can steal it it's ours."

Now just wait for the Hillary camp and their zealot followers to accuse Obama of doing this.

From "Head of State"

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-misspoke.html

"Monday, March 24, 2008

I Misspoke

It was a treacherous night landing. Ice had formed on both of our wings, and as I looked out the port window, I could see it breaking into shards, flying off into the night sky with each near barrel roll of our C-50, highlighted by the flares shooting past on either side of the cabin, turning them into falling prisms of wildly careening light.

As the cabin lurched back and forth and the sounds of rocket fire percussed the urgent, faltering rhythm of our right engine, I unfastened my seat belt, and, finding my center of gravity, rose from my seat, moving past aides shock still in their chairs, arms locked like girders against their arm rests in terror, and walked up the center aisle to the pilot's cabin.

"How long to Kosovo"? I shouted over the screaming whine of the altimeter's alarm, marking our steep descent. The pilot turned, looked at me in shocked recognition--"How...how did you make it up here? No one has ever walked up here in these conditions before! How..."

"Never mind that!" I barked, with what I hoped was a not too stern forcefulness, combined with sufficient steel and empathy to create the appearance of a firm imperturbability. "Check the master FMC! Is it working or has it failed?"

The pilot, paused, as if in amazement at my readiness, and then himself awakening to crisis, looked to the Control Display Unit . "It's down! It's down!" he shouted. A bead of sweat began to form on his brow.

I knew what I had to do. "Get out of there!" I commanded, and pulled him from the seat, from where he crumbled to a fetal position on the floor behind me. Stepping over him, I took the chair behind the console.

"Check the Central Maintenance Computers and activate the NAV RAD for alternate radio tuning capability!" I shouted to the co-pilot. He, too, had broken down in tears, his head buried in his hands. I looked to his ID on the console. Another newbie.

Well, this was another one where I would have to go it alone.

Quickly, I tore the scarf from my neck and fashioned it into a crude lasso that could be used for EFIS/EICIS control. Catching the lever with my right hand, I activated the cabin loudspeaker with my left. I knew that the passengers had likely been gulled by the earlier soft patter of the pilot. "Brace yourself! Get ready! These aren't just words!" Then I pulled the lever back hard, sending us rocketing towards the runway.

"You'll never make it!" I knew that voice, and turned. Richardson! How did he trundle up to the cabin? "Out of here, Judas! And take that quivering beard with you!"

I could feel bolts straining against Pennsylvania steel as I pushed the '50 down, down, down to the ground below us. Suddenly, an explosion punctuated the sky--Hand held rocket fire at 3' o'clock!

I quickly performed the evasive maneuvers that I had learned for so long, and so well. My face became angry, then sad, then gentle, then intensely serious, then was finally rocked by a powerful squealing, an unnatural burst of laughter. That did it! The rocket exploded harmlessly behind us.

Now. Now it was time to take the stick and bring this shaking, careening flight, parts straining against themselves until nearly ready to burst, down to the ground. I put my arms to the twin arms of the FO-AP, set the APC, and with all of the strength remaining in me, began to push the levers down. Straining, I pushed harder. And harder. I could see the runway rising before us in the glare shield. I would have to find the remaining strength to bring it down.

Finally, as if a burst of superhuman might had been somehow delegated to me, I pushed the levers into locked position. I could hear Penn in the cabin shouting "We're landing...We're going down!" as I felt the rough shock of the landing gear snapping into place.

Sparks flew as we hit the runway, bullets ricocheting off of the cabin, one wheel touching pavement. I looked straight through the windshield--the militia, arms at the ready stood at the runway's end. The last obstacle.

I turned the craft hard, sending it hurtling sideways across the pavement. It swept the militia away in a single screaming motion that combined with the screaming that arose from the cabin, as we continued to move towards the small, makeshift terminal, where the dignitaries, negotiators, and heads of state awaited for my arrival.

I did not close my eyes. I did not let go of the wheel. I watched--as we ground to a halt just before the doors of the terminal.

I looked fore, at the dignitaries protecting themselves from the sniper fire that raged around them. I looked aft, at the passengers, shaken but safe.

We had arrived. All was good.

Just a moment...

Due to the discovery of a video of the above described occasion, I would like to make few small corrections. The flight was in fact actually a regularly scheduled chartered flight that was actually flown by the pilot and co-pilot--although the pilot did have a cold, and during the flight, I did at several times give serious attention to our flight conditions (notes indicate that I found it "a bit bumpy") I would also note that the dinner, Salmon with Creamed Potatoes, was undercooked, and was served with a Riesling that was unusually dry. It is also true that we were met not by a militia but by a girl's youth soccer team. However, it was necessary for me to dodge a soccer ball as team members demonstrated their often aggressive skills. No other shots were fired.

In short: I misspoke."

Cite:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-misspoke.html

Well, let's look at the bright side. Debating this new bizarre story at least might push that unfortunate Bosnian "I was under sniper fire" story off the top of the stack.

For now.

Seriously, though. How long are we to pretend that these two candidates, these two campaigns are essentially even?

They're not. One is winning, one is losing, and all the chocolate ice cream in the world won't hide that fact forever.

There's "exclusive video of Obama in St. Thomas" on CNN.com. Seems like they've got the free time to look into this pledged delegate business.

Hillary is one rusted piece of junk

From Kos

Five Ways Clinton Leads Obama
by Cameron Fredman

Total number of "yellow" states on Wikipedia’s map of the United States

CLINTON: 5

OBAMA: 4

By Barack Obama’s own admission, at the conclusion of his Iowa address, he noted, "we are not a collection of red states and blue states." He failed, however, to specifically identify the colors that should be assigned to the states. If anyone is to resolve this question, it is Wikipedia, the repository of all human knowledge, which makes clear that we are a nation of green, yellow, red, and pink states. It’s important of course that this study be conducted in a fair and nonarbitrary fashion, so I determined the color metric (yellow) by eliminating the states least frequently associated with submarines in Beatles songs. This yields a slight advantage to Hillary Clinton, 5 to 4.

Total number of Commonwealths

CLINTON: 1 (Massachusetts)

OBAMA: 1 (Virginia)

Here the race is neck and neck, but Clinton is expected to take Pennsylvania. As there are only four commonwealths total, it is virtually impossible for Obama to beat Clinton on the Commonwealth count. If Clinton beats Obama in Kentucky, his claim that he has won more states will be canceled out by her claim that she has won more Commonwealths.

Total number of "New" States

CLINTON: 4

OBAMA:0

Hilllary Clinton has won New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, and New York. By contrast, Obama has failed to win a single state with the word "New" in its name. Obama’s failure among self-proclaimed new states, raises serious questions about his supposed strength among young voters (new people) and his supposed message of change (new policies).

Average Highest Elevation

CLINTON: 6135 Feet

OBAMA: 6097 Feet

Frankly, I’m surprised that more attention hasn’t been drawn to this. Obama claims to want to elevate the level of discourse, but he has failed in states with the highest elevations. Clinton has won on Mount Whitney (California), Humphreys Peak (Arizona), Boundary Peak (Nevada), and Wheeler Peak (New Mexico). Perhaps more significantly, there are so few peaks left that despite the close margins, Obama has no hope of regaining the altitude vote. Clinton also leads among states with the highest average mean elevation: (Clinton: 1908.8 feet Obama: 1457.7 feet).

Average Official State Mixed Drink

CLINTON: Wine, Milk, Coffee, Cranberry Juice, Orange Juice, Tomato Juice

OBAMA: Kool-Aid, Beer, Conecuh Ridge Whiskey, Milk, Moxie, South Carolina Grown Tea

It’s a close call, but on balance, Clinton has the better tasting official state mixed drink. Here’s how this is tabulated: Most states have an official state beverage (Wikipedia State Beverage List). Using equal parts of each state beverage from each state that each candidate won, I was able to produce two mixed drinks. I don’t want to go into the judging details except to say that Obama’s combination of Whiskey and Kool-Aid left me questioning whether his coalition of voters can hold together beyond the late night taco bell run.

I wish the media would just say it for what it is, each delegate she uses to hijack the election and overturn the will of the people equals the disenfranchisement of over 10,000 for superdelegates, and anywhere from 4,000 to 12,000+ for pledged delegates, depending on state and turnout. This is her only path to the nomination, basically stuffing the ballots with 10,000 at a time, while at the same time whining about Florida and Michigan and the importance of every single vote. The hypocrisy is astounding, just as is the fact that NO ONE will point out the obvious. Here is my full take on it:

http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/03/hillarys-only-path-to-nomination.html

If someone can reconcile Clinton's new delegate-poaching plan with her previous talking points about respecting the "will of the people" who voted in Florida and Michigan - please enlighten me.

Because, if getting delegates who were allocated to particular candidates - based on the outcome of primary elections (or caucus attendance) - to vote for the opposing candidate isn't effectively disenfranchising the voters, what, pray tell, is?

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/

It is apparently lost on Mrs. Clinton that she is advocating that delegates break their promise or "pledge."

This, along with the duck and run in Bosnia lie, falls under the heading "dishonesty."