Clinton’s Project T-Shirt – Now?
I just received an email inviting me to vote on my favorite Hillary Clinton t-shirt, and wondered… what is her point, exactly? The finalists are here. Isn’t it a little late to be putting t-shirts out there?
On Newsgang Live today we went around and around yet again about whether she was the right person for the VP slot. I still believe that she is looking for a way to pull the rug out from under Barack Obama for the nomination ahead of the convention, or push it all the way to a floor fight. I do not believe that if she finally concedes defeat, she will magically do a 180 and be Barack Obama’s new best friend. I think she’s vindictive.
If I am wrong, I will be the first to post an apology right here on the blog.
Others disagree, arguing that she is the ONLY candidate for VP that makes sense.
When I see emails like the one inviting me to vote for the T-Shirt winner in this contest, I think my instincts are right. What do you think? And which shirt do you think will win?
Sphere: Related ContentAn Alternative Solution to FL and MI?
Seat the delegations, but move them to the end of the roll call to prevent any last-minute machinations on the convention floor.
I’m more or less convinced that if Clinton doesn’t get her way with the rules committee on Sunday, she’ll will take the battle to the convention, and the meeting of the Credentials committee. So seat them so she doesn’t get to resurrect the “your vote doesn’t count” argument for three months, but change the roll call order to bring their vote in after all of the other states who didn’t break the rules.
Sphere: Related ContentFlorida and Michigan Analysis Done Right
Required reading. After researching the issue myself and getting ready to write about it for one last time, I found this post by poblano on Daily Kos, which has so excellently set out all of the arguments for how the Michigan and Florida delegates could (and should) be seated, that I abandoned mine and encourage you to read this one, start to finish.
Rules Committee, are you listening? Because this is the right way to do it.
Sphere: Related Content4-8-92: Bill Clinton is the Democratic Nominee
Not June, no. APRIL.
NattheDem also points out that Bill Clinton agrees with the April 8th date in his memoirs.
Sphere: Related ContentMemo to the Mainstream
To: Mainstream Media Outlets, including the NY Times, Washington Post, Cable Networks and Broadcast News
From: An Informed Democrat
Re: Your addiction to misinformation, horseracing, and misplaced hope
Please be advised that this metric is worthless.
There is only ONE METRIC that matters when it comes to the nomination for the Democratic Party.
Read this carefully. The only metric for measurement is this: DELEGATES.
Let me repeat this one more time: It’s delegates. Delegates. DELEGATES.
Not popular vote. NOT. POPULAR. VOTE.
Got it? Good. Then quit writing articles that make that metric seem legit, when it is not. Quit trying to make it seem like the nomination is being ripped away unfairly from Hillary Clinton. Because it’s not. It’s about winning delegates in every state, not just the ‘big states’. If you need some brushing-up on the rules, the DNC has graciously laid it out in a format that high-school students everywhere understand and could articulate better than you hacks. Try taking a course in Convention 101.
Thankyouverymuch.
Sphere: Related ContentA Pickup of 40 Superdelegates?
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this rumor. It first surfaced out of the reports of the California State Convention last week, where the final delegates were chosen and a resolution for party unity was affirmed by the Obama and Clinton camps.
The Field has learned that Cardoza is the first of a group of at least 40 Clinton delegates, many of them from California, that through talking among themselves came to a joint decision that all of them would vote for Obama at the convention. They have informed Senator Clinton that it’s time to unite around Obama, and that they will be coming out, one or two at a time, and announcing their switch between now and the convention if Senator Clinton doesn’t do the same.
This would end it, because it would result in a net 80-delegate spread, taking one out of Clinton’s column and adding one to Obama’s column. 40 will not give him the magic 2025, but I suspect it is the beginning of the superdelegates’ signal to Senator Clinton that Barack Obama is the choice for party nominee.
Cardoza’s endorsement also had a warning:
I am deeply concerned about the contentious primary campaign and controversy surrounding the seating of delegates from Florida and Michigan – two states Democrats need to win in November. I will not support changing the rules in the fourth quarter of this contest through some convoluted DNC rules committee process. Yet, we must find a resolution to seat the Michigan and Florida delegates so these states’ voters are represented at the Convention. I believe we need to avoid this potentially divisive situation by uniting behind one nominee and bringing the party together immediately. Therefore, I have made the decision to support Senator Obama at the Democratic Convention in my role as a super delegate.”
Yes, this is exactly what the superdelegates should be doing. The key, of course, is to do it in a way that allows South Dakota and Montana to have their say.
And in the meantime, let’s hope Senator Clinton takes a bit more care with her words. We know she thinks they’re “just words”, but words inflict pain as well as inspire.
Cardoza’s endorsement means game, set, match.
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