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Hillary Rodham Clinton: “Don’t Write Her Off…”
Barack Obama’s dramatic/impressive recent victories have generated a pro-Obama hysteria in the media and the blogosphere. To an outsider, it may appear that Hillary Clinton is now lagging far behind and may not make it to the White House. However, in an extremely well written article Gerard Baker, the United States Editor and an Assistant Editor of The Times of London, argues that “Hillary Clinton can still save her bacon”.
Next two weeks, he says, would be very crucial for Clinton…Only, if she can somehow transform her message. “It began a year ago with the insistence on her invincibility, as though she did not need to earn the nomination but was owed it by a grateful party…And she made the catastrophic mistake of letting her husband run riot…”
If sagacious self-confidence turned into insufficiency of humility in the case of Hillary Clinton, the same story seems to be repeating in the case of Barack Obama. “Hubris, the ineradicable flaw that helps humans to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory, has played merry havoc with this eventful US presidential primary season.”
Baker explains: “On Wednesday, David Plouffe, Mr Obama’s campaign manager, told reporters it was now ‘next to impossible’ for Mrs Clinton to finish the primary campaign with more elected delegates to the party’s nominating convention than Mr Obama, proof of his campaign’s burgeoning self-confidence…The message, therefore, implicit in Mr Plouffe’s observation is: It’s over, we’ve won.
“…But with more than a third of all the elected delegates – more than 1,000 – still to be chosen in the remaining states to vote, and with Mr Obama clinging to a current lead among that category of delegate of a little more than 100, it could certainly count as premature…”
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5 Responses to “Hillary Rodham Clinton: “Don’t Write Her Off…””
If she weren't so warped and low-level power-hungry, and if the DNC were more intelligent than they currently are, Clinton would have the DNC provide funds to Florida and Michigan to hold new elections, so that the delegates from those two states could be seated legitimately at the convention, and Clinton could claim credit ahead of time for this being “her” idea, “making your voices heard,” and do better in the elections than she might otherwise be expected to do against Obama.
The DNC better straighten up and fly right AND abide by their own rules. Plain and simple.
As far as writing Senator Clinton off, not by a long shot. I expect her to really go after Senator Obama in the next debate (and Obama knows this). Things are going to be alot less cordial than before.
Less cordial = no Clinton-Obama.
(We already know it would never be Obama-Clinton!)
Clinton is not out of this race yet, despite all the pro-Obama news. Not yet.
As much as I want my man Obama to win, I think he and Hillary are more or less tied. Obama is ahead, in numbers and delegates, but Obama isn't that far ahead and 15 states (plus Puerto Rico and Guam) still need to vote.
I never bought into the whole “Hillary is inevitable” and there's no way I'm buying into the “Hillary is out” fervor right now. I think the next chance of determining if Hillary is out will be March 4 (when the next biggies TX, OH vote). If she gets less than 40% in both, then I'll start writing her obit. But if she and Obama are more or less equal, then I think she'll probably stay in the race unless she does absolutely abysmally in PA.