After Pennsylvania, The Battle Continues to Rage for Obama and Clinton
Posted on April 23, 2008
The nightmare scenario that worried Democratic leaders for months, which many have stated publicly, has come to pass.
With Hillary Clinton winning the Pennsylvania primaries with a double digit win, it assures the Democratic party that the bitter contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will continue, with no real end in sight.
Clinton comes one step closer to the popular vote and Obama still leads in delegates.
A New York Times piece blames Clinton for negative campaign advertising and she responds on the Today Show, where she was also asked about the exit polls which showed that 67 percent of Pennsylvania voters think she attacked Barack Obama unfairly…yet, she points out quite correctly that 55 percent of the voters voted for her anyway. (H/T Hot Air)
What this shows is that right or wrong, for Hillary Clinton, negativity has worked in Pennsylvania, although using a candidates own words against him, pointing out the flaws of your opposition and pointing out their inexperience, for some could be called just smart campaigning and not negativity.
Which puts Barack Obama in a bind.
He has made it a cornerstone of his public statements to say he wants to change politics, he doesn’t intend to go negative and he refuses to “play” the Washington game.
He has played it up to a point, but he has also made many missteps along the way, which are pointed out time and again by many, especially Hillary Clinton.
In one article at Washington Post, it seems that some also believe Obama needs to take the gloves off and keep them off, as they titled their piece, and some question if it is already too late to save the Democratic party from becoming any more fractured than it has already become between Clinton and Obama supporters.
Next stop? May.
In May,Saturday the 3rd in Guam, Tuesday the 6th, Indiana and North Carolina, Tuesday the 13th, West Virginia and and Tuesday the 20th, Kentucky and Oregon, according to the New York Times Democratic Primary Schedule.
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Hillary Clinton is going to be the cause of the democrats losing in the fall to John McCain for certain. its beyond me why people cannot see thru her. she cannot be trusted and is dishonest and only out to do anything to get what she wants. she’s been preparing for this for years, even before Bill Clinton left the White House. I’m another democrat who will stay home in November and not vote as is many of my friends and neighbors if Senator Obama doesn’t by some miracle become the nominee.
Josie “cannot be trusted and is dishonest and only out to do anything” also applies to Obama. He has either lied about his relationship with Reverend Wright and former domestic terrorists, or he is a clueless fool. What else that might affect his judgment has escaped his mental radar? If I had to choose between Obama and Hillary, I would pick Hillary because too much about Obama is still unknown.
I chuckled when I noticed a headline in the NY Times early this morning to the effect that “the battle will ‘wage’ on.” No wonder it’s losing ad revenue.
This Democratic primary is too good to be true. But I’m now more fearful of Clinton. The Democrats are stuck with Obama–though he’s going to get steamrolled. But if Clinton can overtake the media and Obama and the numbers, she’s capable of anything.
Alas, Democrats are stuck with Barack (George McGovern) Obama. I was watching two of Obama’s bigger media fans–Chris Matthews and Mike Barnicle–on Morning Joe, and I’ve concluded that an ever-growing number of Americans (Republicans and Hillary supporters) have concluded that Obama is, indeed, un-American. And it ain’t about race.
Barnicle said that Obama comes off as “too cool for school.” Pat Buchanan chimed in that Obama is “all faculty lounge.” And Matthews delivered the crusher, saying that he believes that deep down Obama killed himself with Catholics when he said that he didn’t want to see his daughters “punished with a baby.” He went on to specify it not in terms of abortion but in terms of valuing the “sanctity of life.”
So, there you have Obama supporters, your guy is “the ghoul who’s too cool for school, but not too cool for the faculty lounge.” Keep in mind, that 25% to 30% of the vote in November won’t win the election. People’s backs are turning away no matter how hard you and your guy scream.
It not a question of Obama or Hillary. It is a question of having a
Democrat elected to the Presidency in November. The longer this
campaign continues, the result will be a candidate that has
hopelessly damaged and weaken. The Democratic party will be
hopelessly divided.
You may believe that the candidates are being vetted, tested, or
challenged before the general election. What is happening that
campaigns are so divided that it will become impossible to unite the
party.
It is not reasonable to believe that the party would unite behind a
candidate that did not win the majority of elected delegates. It is
now apparent that Hillary cannot win a majority of elected Delegates.
The question is not if Hillary has the right to continue her
campaign. The question is should she? Even if by some miracle she
should win nomination…would it be worth having. MCCAIN WINS!
I encourage everyone to Email Senator Bayh and encourage him to save
the Party by asking Hillary end her campign.
senator@bayh@senate.gov
My prediction: neither Hillary nor Prince Charming will be the nominee come this summer.
Instead, the Donks will turn to the only possible alternative. The True Savior of the Nation………….
Ron Paul.
“He’s tanned, rested, and READY.”