Hillary Clinton plots to win super-delegates as Barack Obama breaks

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3607752.ece

Barack Obama has granted himself a three-day Easter campaign break, secure in the belief that Hillary Clinton needs a miracle to win the Democratic nomination. Yesterday he was reportedly heading to a Caribbean beach with his family — perhaps to avoid being photographed attending his Chicago church, where the Rev Jeremiah Wright’s sermons have caused him such embarrassment.

The Obama campaign is highlighting polls suggesting that he has ridden out the worst of recent storms. Even some of Mrs Clinton’s own aides apparently put her chances of victory at only one in ten.

In an interview published yesterday, Mr Obama acknowledged that Mrs Clinton “has the right to continue to compete”, but added: “She’s just trying to tear me down — and that’s not the kind of politics we’ve been about.”

Although there is no evidence to suggest that Mrs Clinton’s supporters were behind the row about Mr Obama’s pastor — or efforts to hack into his passport records — they are desperate to wreck Mr Obama’s electability before the August convention.

[FrenchieCat]

1. they are desperate to wreck Mr Obama’s electability before the August convention.

That says it all.

[billbuckhead]

2. Blaming others for his problems, maybe his grandmother can call Hillary and make her quit