Hillary Clinton's strategy of last resort

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT: Hillary Clinton's strategy of last resort
She would have to get the DNC to count the Michigan and Florida delegates and then press her case with superdelegates.
By Peter Wallsten and James Hohmann, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
May 8, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Unable to revive her presidential campaign at the polls, Hillary Rodham Clinton now envisions a road to the nomination built on disputes over Democratic Party rules and fights over delegate selections. But on Wednesday even that route looked unattainable, with some key party officials warning that they would not cooperate with Clinton's strategy.

The party leaders' comments came as they digested Tuesday night's election results from Indiana and North Carolina -- results that extended Barack Obama's lead over Clinton in both the popular vote and nominating delegates and led some to conclude that the New York senator simply could not catch up.

The Democratic leaders' reaction suggested that setbacks for Clinton's new strategy could come as early as May 31, when a party committee meets to consider the dispute over delegates from Florida and Michigan. Under party rules adopted before the campaign began, the two states were stripped of their delegates as punishment for holding their primaries earlier than allowed.

Clinton won the states and wants them included, a move that would help her cut into Obama's lead and extend the number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination. Obama's campaign views the strategy as an unfair attempt to move the goal line. Obama's name was not on the Michigan ballot, and neither campaigned in Florida. Several party officials said Wednesday that they did not support the Clinton strategy of reinstating the states' entire delegations....

Other Democratic officials said Wednesday that they feared the political damage to the party if Clinton were to succeed in using the party apparatus to take the nomination from Obama, who has energized black voters and many other Democrats....

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-convention8-2008may08,0,5578806.story

[DJ13]

1. You know, there comes a time when patience runs out & we stop caring....

....what she wants.

Im getting really tired of the double standard of our MSM that is afraid of hurting Hillary's feelings by telling the truth about her chances when they had no problem telling the truth about all the other candidates who had no chance.

[sportbike100]

2. she's got some real guts

threatening to blow up iran with nukes if they attack israel, going to sue the oil cartels, give me a $28.00 tax relief on gas prices this summer, no way she should quit, she's got another trick or two up her sleeve, "my kind of gal"

[OneBlueSky]

3. Hillary's problem is that she really, really, REALLY wants to be president . . .

and even feels a certain sense of entitlement that she should be next in line . . . her personal ambition and perceived privilege long ago overtook what is best for the party and the nation to the extent that she can't see the proverbial forest for the trees . . . it's actually pretty sad to watch -- and is doing neither the party nor the nation any good at all . . .