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The Hostage Crisis Continues
MMmm. Clinton Kool-aid. Num num num num:
Clinton backers appeared on early morning television programs to stress that she was still in the race and to urge party leaders and elected officials known as superdelegates not to flee to Obama.
“This candidacy and this campaign continues on,” Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson said on CNN.
This race now is no longer a race, but a hostage crisis. Hillary is surrounded, and she can see the super-delegates through the windows of the bank lobby and she knows they are armed to the teeth, wearing their kevlar vests, weapons sighted, aimed, and with the safeties off. In her heart of hearts she knows it is over, but still she keeps the pistol cocked at the head of the party. Maybe, just maybe, something will happen and she can make it to the fueled plane she demanded be taken to the airport and then she can go away to her big payday. She has come this far, she can’t quit now. Miracles happen.
But it won’t happen. It never does. Not even in the movies, at least not the good ones.
The only thing left to be resolved is how many hostages she kills.
Quote of the Day
On CNN’s The Cafferty File
Question: What will Hillary do now?
Response: She’ll keep going on the road to the White House, where she’ll meet the nation’s first black president.
Love. It.
People Who Should Be Buried Up To Their Neck in Human Waste and Then Forced To Listen to Vanilla Ice
I will start with people who feel the need to mark every god damned email with a red urgent marking. Call me if it is that damned important- you have my number, jackass.
Your turn.
Actually, Clinton CAN Win!
…if she wins all of the remaining contests with at least 75% of the vote and 63% of the remaining uncommitted super-delegates.
Be ye afraid!
Calculate your own infinitely small Clinton nomination possibility scenario here.
A Gift Basket For Whoever Thought Of That Idea
Picking up a tidbit from John’s post below…
House Republicans will hold a rally with President Bush on Wednesday morning, with all 199 members invited to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to show solidarity with the president, according to GOP sources.
You really have to sympathize with Newt. The President is a national disgrace. He polls worse than any President since they invented polling. At 28% he polls worse than the human papillomavirus. Blind, deaf Americans living under rocks for very long periods of time have figured out that everything the President touches is a half-assed failure. Any sane person would treat the guy as radioactive.
So what gives? I have to assume that this little pep rally will be about as well attended as Alberto ‘abu’ Gonzales’s farewell party at the DoJ. Still, if this is the political genius coordinating 2008 Congressional races you can sort of understand why Republican partisans outside of government have gotten so frantic.
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McGovern Calls on Clinton to Quit
Via a commenter, this:
Former Sen. George McGovern, who backed Hillary Rodham Clinton, is urging her to drop out of the Democratic presidential race.
McGovern said Wednesday he has decided to endorse Barack Obama.
After watching the returns from the North Carolina and Indiana primaries Tuesday night, McGovern says it’s virtually impossible for Clinton to win the nomination.
The only surprise here is that, unlike the rest of us, he had to wait til he saw last night’s results to make that connection.