Will any of them be telling her to stop smashing Obama down? Unlikely.

Honestly, does Hillary know something we don't know? How does she really think she's going to win this?

Throwing good money after Bad is EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

Sinbad, sadly, did not get an invitation.

However, if Sinbad had been invited, Sinbad would have two questions for Senator Clinton:

1) Do we eat here or at the next place?
2) Do you consider me "lucky" to have been invited to Bosnia with you?

Clinton/Sinbad '08 - Seriously, Hillary, you're embarrassing yourself.

They'll be talking about 527s, for sure.

I once supported Robert Menendez as a possible Presidential candidate -- no longer. The man doesn't know when to take a loss and quit damaging his OWN party.

i can dream that her top donors will be adults and talk some sense into her campaign.

Hey, the journey to Pennsylvania Avenue goes through Pennsylvania, get it? That's the new spin and it makes awesome sense! I assume the party will shut down the race after she wins in Pa, since none of the other state count. SO the message of the meeting is six more weeks to victory!

What can Hillary Clinton possibly tell them? Can she admit that she's running for 2012 now? I know she can't possibly say that she's trying to get Barack Obama defeated in November, so she can run again in four years,... but can she imply it? Her supporters must know that, don't you think? What other explanation is there? She can only win the nomination THIS year though dirty tricks, thus tearing apart the Democratic Party.

I see only three possibilities:

1) She really thinks she can win this year through dirty tricks, but that Democrats will have no choice but to vote for her anyway (unlikely).

2) She knows that Barack Obama will win the nomination, but if she can destroy his chances in November, she can say "I told you so," and be perfectly situated for the nomination in four years.

3) If she can stay close enough to Barack Obama, she can get the super-delegates to force him to accept her as V-P (not the other way around - you know that's not going to work). This will position her even better in four years, if Obama loses in November (no one will blame the V-P for that, even if she worked to bring it about).

It is possible, I suppose, that she DOES want to be V-P, as a consolation prize and a stepping stone to the presidency. If that's the case, she might try to win in November, but I suspect that she wouldn't try very hard. The really important thing, for her, would be to keep her on the fast track for the NEXT presidential nomination.

Well, it will be easy to tell if she really wants to be V-P. If she stops the negative campaigning, then she'll be willing - though not happy - to see Obama win in November. If not, she's set her sights on nothing but the presidency in 2012. But can't her supporters see that? Do they care?

At least feeding them won't cost a fortune. They can send out for Chinese:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-donors19oct19,0,4231217.story

What's special about today?

And why did they make this known?

And these "top donors" have to be the same people who've been with her all along, right?

I hope someone brings up Ferraro...but I'm not optimistic. 'Cause isn't Ferraro herself a fundraiser?

God, this is getting ugly.

In the 44 primary contests, she's a resounding 14-30 (or 15-30 if you want to treat the Texas caucus as a separate event).

14-30.

32% win record.

Think about that for a minute. She's lost over 60% of the contest. How she is still in this race is a testament to the efficacy of her media spin shop and the gulliability of the media. This thing is over. It's just a question of how much damage she and her supporters are willing to do to the Democratic Party in their vain attempt to make a show of it.

They need to pay more attention to the wisdom of Bill Bradley, than to the incoherent ranting of Geraldine Ferraro.
Former senator Bill Bradley, who is a leading supporter of Obama and ran for president in 2000, accused the Clintons of “lying” in pursuit of victory.
“The bigger the lie, the better the chance they think they’ve got. That’s been their whole approach,” he said. “She’s going to lose a whole generation of people who got involved in politics believing it could be something different.”
Bradley believes that Clinton will stop at nothing to tear down Obama even if it boosts John McCain, who was confirmed last week as the Republican nominee: “The Clintons do not do long-term planning. They’re total tacticians and right now their focus is on Obama, not McCain.”

Are you the real Sinbad? Or are you someone else using his name and avatar?

Either way, this is brilliant. Keep on posting!

This is about her muscling her way onto the ticket.

It really is getting bizarre isn't it. It's as if she's living in an alternate universe. Doesn't she have one good honest friend who can shake her back into reality.

100 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON

Hillary's campaign is out of money. These donors are probably bundlers. Cash flow through the Internet must not be enough.

DONORS: Mrs Clinton, please tell us why we must continue to support you? You are behind in the delegate count, you have lost more states, you are behind in the popular vote and the national polls show BO beating McCain by a wider margin than you!

Hillary: Well, you guys, if truth be told, i didnt major in math, i majored in miracles. Besides, as a woman of faith, i am praying and asking God to strike BO down with lightening before June. Remember, God doesnt help those who dont help themselves.

All of us so called racists who are for HRC are for tearing down this party and starting a new party and excluding you folks. Slash and burn. 3rd party run. Let you bums have this party and we have our party.
When this is over we will win. That is what I hope she is saying. You can have this New party we will have the OLD party. See who survives.

"Hillary's campaign is out of money. These donors are probably bundlers. Cash flow through the Internet must not be enough."

They are probably cheating with internet donations. Their big bundlers who are maxed out can contribute through shell voters.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102101069.html

"DONORS WHOSE addresses turn out to be tenements. Dishwashers and waiters who write $1,000 checks. Immigrants who ante up because they have been instructed to by powerful neighborhood associations, or, as one said, "They informed us to go, so I went." Others who say they never made the contributions listed in their names or who were not eligible to give because they are not legal residents of the United States. This is the disturbingly familiar picture of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign presented last week in a report by the Los Angeles Times about questionable fundraising by the New York senator in New York City's Chinese community. Out of 150 donors examined, one-third "could not be found using property, telephone or business records," the Times reported. "Most have not registered to vote, according to public records.""

She's probably taking the cynical approach of trying to nasty up the primary enough to where people that are in Obama's camp are so disgusted with the whole process that they just pack their bags and let her, the establishment walk out with the nomination.

Quite frankly, this all has grown old. I don't know how much I would be able to stand a McCain vs. Hillary general election. It would be smear, smear, lie, distortion, smear, lie, lie from both sides.... I am a college graduate. I'm not going to sit by and listen to the ignorance (not to be an elitist, but give me a break).

I'll be the Republican here for today if I have to and say that I never liked her from the very beginning, even before the '06 election. I knew that all the stuff we've seen is what she was all about from the beginning and having her as a nominee wouldn't be enough progress in the right direction to make a vote for her worth my while.

babble, babble, babble.

mumble, mumble.

What if this is what they say it is, a state of the campaign meeting?

What if they're honest with themselves about the state of the campaign?

Her only path at this point is to attack Obama, factionalize the party and have the Super Delegates overrule the will of the people.

This approach has destructive short-term and long-term consequences for her. First, it would make her virtually un-electable in 2008, not because the Democrats would rally against her (I don't think most will), but because it would give the GOP a monumental gift: "doesn't trust the will of the people" or "will do anything to attain power." She'll be seen by Independents as the next iteration of Bush, instead of the "maverick" John McCain.

Her approach will also kneecap her in 2012, especially if she's seen as contributing directly to the election of a Republican president in 2008. Every Democratic primary opponent in 2012 will remind voters of this. She won't be able to hide from it and we'll have had four more years of GOP rule to be furious about.

All-in-all her best long-term winning strategy is to either clean-up her campaign and accept the consequences of the primaries (ala Edwards in '04) or to "suspend" her campaign. If Obama implodes (sex scandal, corruption, etc) before the convention, she'll be the legitimate nominee as chosen by the SDs. If Obama goes on to lose the general, she'll be considered the front-runner again in 2012 but won't be seen as the reason for Obama's loss.

Just a thought. A wishful, naive, self-deluding thought...

Ugh. Hopefully there will be some adults in attendance to shake some sense into her. She's fought a good fight, but she came up just shy of winning. It's time to step down while she still has some credibility intact.

My fantasy is that they are going to cut her off. Her candidacy must be bleeding money and if they are business people, why would they want to continue to invest in someone who 1) Mismanaged her campaign and 2) doesn't look like will win.

She is not a sure bet as she was for them at the beginning of this primary and they have to know it. They can count as well.

Janeo

Uh Oh, too late already