Clinton Cribs from the Bush Florida Stolen Election in 2000

[tabatha]

March 6, 2008

If you wanted to compare the playbook of the Clinton campaign since New Hampshire, you'd find the right precedent in the Bush v. Gore race, only Clinton would be channeling Bush, not Gore.

Let's look at the facts -- as our columnist P.M. Carpenter -- has pointed out today. By almost all media projections, Obama will finish the run of primaries ahead in the popular primary vote, ahead in pledged delegates, and ahead in the number of states won. In a democracy, we call this winning the election. And to boot, Obama has won by consistently bigger margins than Clinton, and has led McCain in most polls. (Obama will probably even end up beating Clinton in delegates awarded in the Texas primary, where she barely won the contest in the popular vote -- and allegedly with the help of dittoheads who Limbaugh told to vote for her because she would unify the Republican Party against her and be the weaker Dem candidate in the fall.)

But Clinton rules have a different set of standards, just like Bush did. They bring the heavy artillery representing the entrenched moneyed interests of the Republicrat status quo in D.C. to redefine democracy. It's no longer who wins the election; it's who bullies their way into mugging the process through threatened lawsuits, flip-flopping like a dying fish about DNC rules that the Clinton campaign originally agreed to, bullying superdelegates, and denying that the will of the people counts for anything.

So, the Clinton campaign today (and if Obama had lost 12 straight primaries, you can be sure the Clinton campaign would have "worked the refs" hard enough to have made him withdraw long ago) is doing what Bush did in 2000, shaking down democracy.

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/059

[DJ13]

1. AAARRRRGGGHHHHHHHH

She's really going too far.

:mad:

[Avalux]

2. There are so many similarities between Clinton and Bush it's alarming.

Bottom line - they both feel they don't need to play by the rules and RESPECT our democracy. They want what they want, no matter who gets trampled in the process. It's the "ends justify the means" mentality.

[wileedog]

3. "In a democracy, we call this winning the election."

nt

[KittyWampus]

4. plus, Obama has netted many super delegates evaporating her early lead

[leftstreet]

5. "shaking down democracy"

Excellent article

[Kokonoe]

6. Holy cow are we allowed to say this crap.

[blocker]

7. sad but true!

no wonder she gloryfies MCCAIN!

[City Lights]

8. She's George Bush in a pantsuit.

I reject and denounce her! :thumbsdown:

[AtomicKitten]

9. I do believe the Clintons' kamakazi politics will bite them in the ass.

I can't get over how stupid this tactic is particularly if she has any aspirations about running again.