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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 08:12 AM
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This sums up Hillary's Blind, Endless Movement pretty darn well
>>> Long ago, the Clinton campaign took to heart the Talking Heads’ advice to “Stop Making Sense.” Back in January, the campaign’s position was that amassing delegates was the only true measure of who was winning the nomination. But when Barack Obama surged ahead in the tally of pledged delegates, winning 11 primaries and caucuses in a row, the Clinton brain trust started making a case for “the popular vote” as the most reliable indicator of the party’s wishes.

Does an aggregate count of votes mean anything when some states held closed primaries where only registered Democrats could participate, some states held open primaries where independents and/or Republicans could also vote, and some states held caucuses that basically involved a show of hands in gymnasiums and community centers?

It means nothing. But the Clinton campaign has found a way to claim that if for some reason you did this ridiculous exercise of lumping together apples, oranges and bowling balls, and finally came up with two numbers, hers would be greater than Obama’s. Since Obama now leads substantially in both pledged delegates and superdelegates—and since he has enormous leads in fundraising and the number of states won—the spurious “popular vote” metric is all that Clinton has. So she’s playing the hand she was dealt.

Even this tenuous advantage, however, requires counting all the votes cast for Clinton in Michigan, where Obama wasn’t on the ballot, and in Florida, where neither candidate campaigned. A few months ago, Clinton had no problem with the fact that votes in those two states—which defied Democratic Party officials by moving their primaries up in the calendar—wouldn’t count. Rules, after all, were rules.

Now, maybe rules aren’t rules after all. Keep moving forward until you drop. In a speech Wednesday, Clinton evoked the Declaration of Independence, the abolitionist movement, the civil rights struggle and the campaign for women’s suffrage as she demanded that the votes from (((two unrecognized primaries be counted.))) <<< from: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080523_dream_on_hillary/
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WHAT IS NEXT FOR THIS WOMAN when she is now playing the Women's Lib Card to no avail? I mean, GIRLS, is this really how dumb we are (she thinks we are) that we MUST VOTE for this woman now mainly because she is a woman?

This, I think, is on spot for describing the hilarity of Hillary's desperation to win when she is losing...

"the ridiculous exercise of lumping together apples, oranges and bowling balls"
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 08:13 AM
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1. HRC is a FINO
and a whole lotta other things too.
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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 08:51 AM
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2. The fact she's riding on the back of the big Male Donkey
Bill, completely blows the 'women's lib' ruse.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:03 AM
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3. And the fact that she got on the donkey's back by using the troops back as a stepping stool
blows the argument that she is fit to be CIC
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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:15 AM
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4. Speaking of "blows the argument that she is fit to be CIC"
I recall the "Obliterate Iran" and can only think..." sooooo McLame-ish and 100 years of more war.

She is being consistent on her belief in 'Lil Bush's lies and her vote to invade Iraq.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 11:46 AM
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6. Very true.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 11:45 AM
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5. Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan are spinning as this proceeds...ugh..n/t
Edited on Sun May-25-08 11:45 AM by monmouth
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