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I guess the Clintons haven't heard the old country saying that "you don't crap where you eat"....Or when you've dug yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Dems addressed alarm and concern about Clinton’s negative campaign to the press.
Its funny how Bill Clinton can turn on the charm and swagger to get people to forget his "transgressions". Its like being married to a wife beater and inviting them back after the bruises heal. But top democrats are not being taken in by the old Clinton charm... A key dem launches a shot across the bow:
Top House Democrat denounces Clinton campaign tactics Posted by: Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON -“Scurrilous” and “disingenuous” were among the words a top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives used on Thursday to describe Hillary Clinton’s campaign tactics in her bid to defeat Barack Obama for their party’s presidential nomination.
House Democratic Whip James Clyburn, of South Carolina and the highest ranking black in Congress, also said he has heard speculation that Clinton is staying in the race only to try to derail Obama and pave the way for her to make another White House run in 2012.
“I heard something, the first time yesterday (in South Carolina), and I heard it on the (House) floor today, which is telling me there are African Americans who have reached the decision that the Clintons know that she can’t win this. But they’re hell-bound to make it impossible for Obama to win” in November, Clyburn told Reuters in an interview.
The offense has hit home, NC Rep GK Butterfield warns that the Clintons tactics may cause irreparable harm:
Obama Backer: Irreparable Breach Between Clinton And Blacks Is Foreseeable
Sam Stein HuffPo April 25, 2008A key Obama supporter in North Carolina said it was "foreseeable" that an "irreparable breach" had been created between the black community and the Clintons as a byproduct of conduct during the Democratic campaign.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield, a African American Democrat from North Carolina, was asked on a conference call to respond to comments reported earlier in the day by Rep Jim Clyburn, in which he qualified former president Bill Clinton's recent primary conduct as "bizarre."
"Jim Clyburn is my very best friend in the U.S. Congress and he and I talk on and off the record every day of the week," said Butterfield, who predicted that the race in North Carolina would ultimately be decided by single-digits. "That said, I had not read his comments... But politics by its very nature is a competitive process and there have been times when Sen. Clinton has walked up to the line and there has been a time or two when she has stepped over the line in terms of her comments... Whether there is an irreparable breach, I don't think we are at the point right now where we are at an irreparable breach, but it is foreseeable and that is why I encourage civility."
In the days leading up to the Pennsylvania primary, Bill Clinton was quoted on a local radio station as blaming the Obama campaign for "playing the race card" on him. A day later, he denied that he had ever made such a remark. In an interview in Friday's New York Times, Clyburn responded to the episode, as well as other Clinton remarks, by saying: "black people are incensed over all of this."
And what do the Clintons do when digging themselves into a hole? - DIG DEEPER
ABC News > Audio: Clinton Camp Testing Attacks on Obama- Robo Calls in North Carolina
On Wednesday, Obama-backing musician in Black Mountain, North Carolina, David LaMotte, got a phone call from a pollster for Sen. Hillary Clinton, Garin-Hart-Yang, in which negative messages against Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, were being tested.
..."I'm going to read you a few criticisms opponents might make about Barack Obama," the pollster said. "For each one please tell me if they give you very major doubts, fairly major doubts, some doubts or no real doubts about supporting Barack Obama for president.
"At a time when we need leaders who are clear, strong and decisive, Obama has been inconsistent, saying he would remove all troops, but then indicating that he might not, and pledging to renegotiate NAFTA, but then sending signals that he would not actually do so as president.
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You can listen to some of the call, which LaMotte record and emailed to me, HERE.Says LaMotte, in an email, "the questions, as you'll hear, are unanswerable if you don't accept the basic premises laid out in them, like the classic push poll example 'Are you still beating your wife?' You can't answer that 'yes or no.' I don't accept that Barack pledged to walk away from NAFTA OR that he 'sent signals' that he wouldn't really do it as president, both of which are premises for the question. Like Hillary, he pledged to renegotiate, and to walk away if other parties refused…..
The math is against Senator Clinton winning the Democratic nomination.
NO Democrat can win the General Election without the African American vote. She has lost that.
The math shows that Hillary can't win the democratic nomination unless she wins every single election contest with at least 60% of the vote. She can not catch up to Obama's lead. Her other option is to try to get delegates and super delegates to go against the will of the people.Clinton is losing superdelegates as time goes by, while Obama is gaining superdelegates. A top Clinton fundraiser just defected as well.
Obama has entered an agreement to help the DNC raise money, Hillary hasn't agreed to such a deal. No wonder, since her campaign finances are so tenuous, even with the neary $10 million in donations after the PA primary, Hillary Clinton’s debt continues to grow. Hillary cannot win without breaking Barack Obama's back. The math is against Senator Clinton. Finally, and a stolen nomination would greatly harm the democratic party and cost the Democrats their chance to take back the White House.
