OpEdNews - Diary: The fat lady hasn't sung yet, but she's on stage, preparing for the aria

Hillary Clinton can't win, but she can make sure the Democrats lose!

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I can't remember which sportscaster it was who popularized the phrase, "It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings." From Dave, the Infidel Sage:

Dave's Quote of the Day

"What a strange campaign. Hillary remembering events that didn't happen, and Obama forgetting sermons he wish he hadn't heard." - blogger Hugh Hewitt

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has actually been taking a few days off from campaigning, vacationating -- yes, that's a Picoism -- in the Virgin Islands, whilst United States Senator, former First Lady and Bosnian combat veteran Hillary Clinton continues to scour Pennsylvania for votes in our April 22nd primary. Kind of makes you wonder if Senator Obama knows something that we don't! Well, being here in the keystone State, you can see it happening. I don't watch a lot of television, but I turn it on while I'm getting dressed for work every morning, and the campaign commercials are on. For the past few mornings, I've seen Mr Obama's main commercial here, and it's a bland recitation of Mr Obama's accomplishments, a generally positive commercial. There is nary a word about his opponent. In other words, it's a "vote for me" commercial, not a "vote against her" advertisement. Senator Clinton hasn't been buying commercials on the stations I watch at the times that I watch, so I haven't seen hers yet. But the morning news shows were full of Mrs Clinton's comments condemning Mr Obama for not bailing out of the Rev Dr Jeremiah Wright's church, a "you can't choose your relatives, but you can choose your pastor" ¹ expression. Yesterday evening's news broadcasts were begun with Mrs Clinton's misspokement about coming under sniper fire on a visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina, complete with the news footage of a beaming Hillary Clinton and smiling and safe Chelsea Clinton getting off the plane, shaking hands with people and greeting the crowds. It was the kind of media coverage of a Clinton lie that conservatives thought the professional media should have been doing from 1992 through 2000. Conservatives thought that the media gave the Clintons political cover for a decade, with CNN being derisively referred to as the "Clinton News Network." And this morning the news broadcast -- and I can't remember whether it was on WBRE out of Wilkes-Barre or WPVI out of Philadelphia, as I flip between the two -- noted calls from Democratic "leaders" for Mrs Clinton to quit the race, with the "Tonya Harding effect" mentioned, people claiming what I have said for a while now, that Mrs Clinton is running in a manner that tries to injure her opponent to make him unable to win the general election. Over the past couple of weeks, the trial balloon of a "superdelegate miniconvention" has been floated, the idea that the 795 superdelegates -- consisting of party officials and Democrats holding certain elective offices -- would get together before the August Democratic National Convention and decide the nomination; since neither Mr Obama nor Mrs Clinton can win enough elected delegates to come to the Convention with the majority needed to win, the superdoopers will be the ones who decide this thing. Such a miniconvention hasn't been decided upon, and the Democrats would prefer to avoid such, because it makes it plainly obvious what's going on; I'd actually expect a series of teleconferences, away from the media. But it seems to me as though Senator Clinton has already lost. Oh, Senator Obama doesn't have the delegates to win yet, but we have to consider just who the superdoopers are. They are professional Democratic Party leaders and Democrats holding elective offices. Some may favor Mrs Clinton and some may favor Mr Obama, but one thing they all favor is Democrats --especially themselves -- winning elections. Two things are weighing on their minds:

Democrats cannot win elections without the black vote; and
If Barack Obama is seen as being cheated out of the nomination, black voters may stay home on election day.

Some of these superdelegates are up for re-election themselves in November, and those superdoopers are not going to jeopardize their own chances in November. It doesn't matter how supportive of the Clintons they are, and, James Carville's comparison of Bill Richardson to Judas Iscariot notwithstanding, they will desert Hillary Clinton if they see sticking with her as damaging the party's and their own prospects in November. The Clintons may be evil and conniving and totally self-interested, but they aren't stupid, and they can see this problem looming as well as I can. Mrs Clinton tried to get around the problem by offering Mr Obama the vice- presidential slot a few weeks ago, something Mr Obama derisively dismissed. To put it very bluntly, the man doesn't want to be the Clintons' House Negro, and he knows that's exactly the role he'd be assigned as vice president. And Mr Obama also knows the math, and the problem the Clintons face. The Democrats don't like to discuss this in public, because it involves crass calculations based on race, but don't think for a moment that they are too noble to have considered it. That's why Senator Obama can take a few days off from campaigning, to rest in the Virgin Islands. He knows that Hillary Clinton cannot win unless he willingly surrenders or does something so monumentally stupid that black voters wouldn't see it is party treason if Mrs Clinton won te nomination. The fat lady hasn't sung yet for Mrs Clinton, but she's on stage and ready -- and it's the Democratic party leaders and their willing stooges allies in the professional media who have given her her curtain call. _______________________ ¹ - I'm working from memory here, so the quote may not be exact.