(Sen) Feinstein asks Clinton for her primary game plan

[sabra]

Source: The Hill

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) most prominent Senate supporters, said Wednesday that she has asked the former first lady to detail her plans for the rest of the Democratic primary.

“I, as you know, have great fondness and great respect for Sen. Clinton and I’m very loyal to her,” Feinstein said. “Having said that, I’d like to talk with her and her view on the rest of the race and what the strategy is.”

Clinton, who eked out a win in Indiana Tuesday night but lost big to front-runner Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in North Carolina, has not responded to Feinstein’s phone call, the California senator said.

“I think the race is reaching the point now where there are negative dividends from it, in terms of strife within the party,” Feinstein said. “I think we need to prevent that as much as we can.”

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Meantime, several other Senate Democrats said Wednesday that they are detecting a shift in the race between their colleagues.

Read more: http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/feinstein-asks-clinton-for-her-primary-game-plan-2008-05-07.html

[John Q. Citizen]

1. What is it about 11 million dollars Sen Feinstein doesn't understand?

[doublethink]

2. Touche !!! n.t.

[Barrymores Ghost]

11. That's gonna leave a mark! n/t

[newmajority]

3. Maria Cantwell and Diane Feinstein have given up on Hillary. Her two best DLC friends in the Senate

If that isn't proof that she's done, I don't know what is.

[truedelphi]

6. I think a deal has been made between those who count in the military industrial oligarchy

Formerly known as the USA.

She is perhaps being promised full support on FOX and on CNN. Karl Rove who is now a Fox commentator speaks again and again of the rightness of Clinton requesting that FL and MI be seated.

I think the media will continue to whip Obama with any issue they can - and they will continue to spin the seating of the last two states' delegates as being about "real democracy"

Did anyone here ever think they would see the day when Karl Rove speaks of the need to "count every vote!"?!?

[John Q. Citizen]

8. Except that any election where campaigning is prohibited is a bogus election. I don't

care if it's FL or if it's Burma.

[truedelphi]

9. Oh I agree but in agreeing I want to make it clear that

I don't want Hillary by herself making up the rules on how the FL and MI situation will resolve itself.

Howard Dean has talked about it as a three pointer -- 1) needing to resolve BOTH candidates' attitudes and 2) also the needs/attitudes of the people in the two states as well as 3) the needs/attitudes of the people in the other 48 states.

[AZ Criminal JD]

15. All three points can't be met and Dean knows it.

That's not leadership.

[truedelphi]

20. So is there a solution? The media is not going to let this go away

EVERY CITIZEN MUST HAVE A VOICE IN THE PRIMARIES!! say the talking heads.

FL and MI must be seated!! They say.

So we must hope that there are some considerations in place - not just that Hillary gets her way!!

[Kokonoe]

4. Maybe because of her support for Hillary on a sinking ship,

she wants to see the emergency exit map to the lifeboats.

[truebrit71]

5. If DiFI bails out Hillary really is toast...she might not even make it to May 20th

...

[MaineDem]

7. This is indicative of wavering support for sure

I think we should sit back a bit because I wouldn't be surprised if a graceful exit strategy was being worked out right now.

[pokercat999]

10. I think Bill and Hillary are waiting a "respectable" time to

start the negotiations with Obama so they can withdraw. Look for them to ask that the Obama campaign pay the past due and upcoming debts for the Clinton campaign.

[Barrymores Ghost]

12. Will the DNC cover her debts? n/t

[Yael]

13. Why in blazes should ANYONE cover her debts?

They made $109 MILLION dollars since 2000 -- yet all of this talk about Obama or the DNC paying off her debts off of the backs (donations) of the middle class?

Seriously.

If either the Obama campaign or the DNC pays her back her OWN LOAN (of which she is paying herself $10k a month in interest on -- by law) they had better not ask me for a damn dime ever again.

If I wanted my middle class butt paying off her fucking loan, I would donate to her directly.

[Barrymores Ghost]

14. I'm not saying anyone should...just asking if the overtures are being made.

Put yer pants back on, Hoss.

$11 million is just a drop in the Clinton's financial well, and I damn sure don't want a dime I've donated going to refill the pockets of that egomaniacal DINO or her tragic disappointment of a husband.

Take a breath. You're among friends.

[ima_sinnic]

16. I sooo agree -- I have scrimped to send money to Obama & he needs it

to counter the crap that I'm sure she is going to (indirectly) throw at him (while appearing all loyal and "innocent") -- I need reassurance that he won't be paying any of her debts, which she so STUPIDLY and INCOMPETENTLY incurred HERSELF, because of her own GREED and DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR -- why the #%(*&Y should he, anyway? Is she now going to blackmail him -- pay my debts and I'll leave off of the Wrightsian kind of stuff? what a piece of #%(*&ing work.

[ToughLuck]

18. I hope she won't do that, if she does, she does so with great peril to her political future

[ToughLuck]

17. Wow..I think I am hearing the beginnings of a drum role here.

[fascisthunter]

19. Edited: Hopefully She'll Step Down