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Clinton Election Juggernaut Accelerates

correntewire.com — After Hillary Clinton ’s historic 41-point victory in the West Virginia primary, two questions loom: How long will Barak Obama cling to his shattered dreams of the presidency, and how much damage will be done to the Democratic Party by his stubborn and divisive refusal to accept the obvious?

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  • theuniversal, on 05/17/2008, -4/+10The description for this submission is hilarious! Can the submitter actually be that delusional?
    • ostracize, on 05/17/2008, -3/+3I thought it was parody at first.
    • fumiste, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2Love that insouciance! Just like McGovern in '72. And Obama has really succeeded in putting together the old McGovern coalition. I'm sure Obama is more uh.., er.., hmmm, more articulate, so he is sure to do better than McGovern's 1-1/2 states netting 17 Electoral Votes.
  • halrob, on 05/17/2008, -5/+4The DNC needs to wake up!
  • SantiagoJJJr, on 05/17/2008, -7/+6It's called electability. Hill has it, BO does not.
    • Sinaca, on 05/17/2008, -3/+4Yes, Obama is so unelectable. That's why he is kicking Hillary's ass.
      • fumiste, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Since you apparently do not understand how the Electoral College works, I can only surmise you just want Obama to be the nominee even if he's likely to go on to lose the GE and give us 4 more years of Republican waste and war.
    • fumiste, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2Absolutely, Obama can maybe win if McCain falls off a stage, and nothing on Michelle, Rezko, Wright, NAFTAgate, Professor-gate, Ayers, Hamas, New Black Panther Party or anything else that's damaging comes out. Even if it does, the Republicans might not use it. Like Obama says, this will be a debate on the issues, right?
  • endodoc79, on 05/17/2008, -3/+3It's the map in November that counts, once the superdelegates understand that Sen. Clinton will be the beneficiary of their switchbacks
    • Sinaca, on 05/17/2008, -3/+3LOL. Yes look at them all switching back.
  • MadKennyP, on 05/17/2008, -4/+8How was Hillary's 41-point victory "historic"?
    Obama won Idaho by 62 points; DC by 52 points; Hawaii by 52 points; and the Virgin Islands by 82 points.
  • bluevillage, on 05/17/2008, -3/+5Funny that Clinton was implying not so long ago that it was Obama's supporters who were DELUSIONAL.
  • Cooney8, on 05/17/2008, -4/+3Hillary is slowly but surely winning over voters. The Obamamania is going the way of the pet rock, and the lava lamp.
  • tcbishop12, on 05/17/2008, -3/+1Let's say, shall we, that Hillary Clinton's remaining primary rival were not Barack Obama but a white male. Any white male. Suppose she were actually ahead in pledged delegates (she is not), led in the popular vote in DNC-approved contests (she does not), had raised the most money (she has not), and had attracted the most contributors (a big "no" there as well).

    But for the sake of argument, let's assume she has.

    Let's further suppose that her rival had responded to her success by suggesting he might pick her as his vice-presidential nominee. And that, as she gained more momentum, he asserted that superdelegates should nevertheless make him the nominee because he could attract the working-class voters the party needed to win in the fall.

    Clinton supporters, like the author of this submission, would likely find those suggestions sexist.

    Wouldn't you? Come on now - at least be honest about it.

    And yet Clinton and her camp have made these very same suggestions in this campaign. Clinton's political arguments and rationale for staying in the race have found a broad acceptance among her backers - an acceptance that would be really hard to imagine if a similar case were made by a lagging rival in a race Clinton led.

    Clinton has lost the nomination. Holding on at this point may be admirable, but only if the laws of mathematics and space and time are suddenly switched, if perhaps up becomes down, and greater becomes lesser, is a belief in Hillary's chances anything but utterly delusional.

    Rather, Obama and his team have out-thought, out-sought, and out-fought Clinton and hers. As a candidate, Clinton is smart and tough - we'll give die hard Clinton supporters that, to be sure -- - but Sen. Obama has proved the one who better met the moment.
  • Winston84, on 05/18/2008, -1/+1*****
  • fumiste, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2For a while there I was wondering if those rumors that Obama is the Rovian Manchurian candidate might not have some validity. Then again, I figure that's just another one of those false conspiracy theories, when I see the apparently genuine utter amazement of most Conservatives at the idea that the Democrats would actually give the nomination to the guy with all these albatrosses around his neck, and faced with an impossible scenario to victory in the Electoral College.
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