They stubbornly continue to argue that after the dispute over Florida and Michigan's disqualified delegates is decided and after Puerto Rico, which holds its primary on Sunday (and where Clinton is favored to win), Montana and South Dakota vote the following Tuesday (where Obama is favored to win), Clinton can surpass Obama in the popular-vote count.
So what? It's the delegate count that matters when determining the party's presidential nominee. Both Democratic and Republican party rules say so. The popular-vote count matters more in the November election -- and even then, as demonstrated in 2000, the Electoral College has the last word.
It is a telling display of denial of reality and wishful thinking that some Clinton supporters are hoping -- even praying -- for a last-minute scandal to erupt to take Obama down, prompting the party's superdelegates, who are flocking to Obama in ever-larger numbers, to abandon him and vote for Clinton at the party's August convention in Denver.
Psst! Hey, Clintonites! This blogger's got a newsflash for you: It ain't gonna happen. And the longer you hold out for that imaginary turn of events, the more you reveal yourselves as being unwilling to face the fact that your candidate is going to lose.
You're also revealing yourselves more and more as being motivated by a clear bias against Obama -- perhaps because of the fact that Obama is on the threshold of becoming the first presidential nominee of a major American political party who's black (which was clearly demonstrated in West Virginia and Kentucky and to a lesser extent in Pennsylvania) and who's a member of the post-Vietnam War, post-civil-rights-era Generation X (conveniently forgetting that, at 46, Obama is the same age Bill Clinton was when he was elected in 1992).
Why Hillary Clinton Will Never Be President
Most of all, Clinton's supporters are in complete denial of another cold reality: The former first lady is despised by 50 percent of the national electorate -- who have told pollsters repeatedly for more than two years that they will never vote for her in the general election under any circumstances.
The principal reason for half the country's dislike of the former first lady? Contrary to the assertions of some Clinton supporters that misogyny lies behind the opposition, the actual cause for the high public distrust of Clinton is that she has repeatedly been caught making misstatements, half-truths, flip-flops and -- in the case of her 1996 visit to Bosnia -- outright lies.
A secondary reason: Bill Clinton. The former president has experienced a dramatic fall from public grace since the Monica Lewinsky scandal nearly drove him out of office. Unspoken in the public commentary on the 2008 campaign is an undercurrent of opposition to the former president returning to the White House, even in the unprecedented role of the nation's "first gentleman."
Indeed, as the campaign has unfolded, Bill Clinton has proven himself to be more of a liability than an asset to his wife's run for the White House, alienating the Democratic Party's most loyal voter constituency -- African-Americans -- with his racially insensitive attacks on Obama during and after the South Carolina primary in January, his ill-timed remarks on his wife's Bosnia visit and his repeated attempts to compare Hillary to GOP nominee-elect John McCain on foreign-policy matters.
The thought of Bill Clinton once again haunting the halls of the White House is simply too much for many Americans to accept -- just as the thought of Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter's vice president, occupying the Oval Office proved too much for most Americans to accept in 1984.
George Santayana warned that "those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them." It's all too clear, to this blogger at least, that the Clintons haven't learned from history and are repeating the mistakes of past failed Democratic campaigns for the White House.
This time, however, the voters have wisened up and are passing their verdict long before the November election.
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Volume III, Number 35
Copyright 2008, Skeeter Sanders. All rights reserved.
So what? It's the delegate count that matters when determining the party's presidential nominee. Both Democratic and Republican party rules say so. The popular-vote count matters more in the November election -- and even then, as demonstrated in 2000, the Electoral College has the last word.
It is a telling display of denial of reality and wishful thinking that some Clinton supporters are hoping -- even praying -- for a last-minute scandal to erupt to take Obama down, prompting the party's superdelegates, who are flocking to Obama in ever-larger numbers, to abandon him and vote for Clinton at the party's August convention in Denver.
Psst! Hey, Clintonites! This blogger's got a newsflash for you: It ain't gonna happen. And the longer you hold out for that imaginary turn of events, the more you reveal yourselves as being unwilling to face the fact that your candidate is going to lose.
Why Hillary Clinton Will Never Be President
Most of all, Clinton's supporters are in complete denial of another cold reality: The former first lady is despised by 50 percent of the national electorate -- who have told pollsters repeatedly for more than two years that they will never vote for her in the general election under any circumstances.
The principal reason for half the country's dislike of the former first lady? Contrary to the assertions of some Clinton supporters that misogyny lies behind the opposition, the actual cause for the high public distrust of Clinton is that she has repeatedly been caught making misstatements, half-truths, flip-flops and -- in the case of her 1996 visit to Bosnia -- outright lies.
A secondary reason: Bill Clinton. The former president has experienced a dramatic fall from public grace since the Monica Lewinsky scandal nearly drove him out of office. Unspoken in the public commentary on the 2008 campaign is an undercurrent of opposition to the former president returning to the White House, even in the unprecedented role of the nation's "first gentleman."
Indeed, as the campaign has unfolded, Bill Clinton has proven himself to be more of a liability than an asset to his wife's run for the White House, alienating the Democratic Party's most loyal voter constituency -- African-Americans -- with his racially insensitive attacks on Obama during and after the South Carolina primary in January, his ill-timed remarks on his wife's Bosnia visit and his repeated attempts to compare Hillary to GOP nominee-elect John McCain on foreign-policy matters.
The thought of Bill Clinton once again haunting the halls of the White House is simply too much for many Americans to accept -- just as the thought of Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter's vice president, occupying the Oval Office proved too much for most Americans to accept in 1984.
George Santayana warned that "those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them." It's all too clear, to this blogger at least, that the Clintons haven't learned from history and are repeating the mistakes of past failed Democratic campaigns for the White House.
This time, however, the voters have wisened up and are passing their verdict long before the November election.
# # #
Volume III, Number 35
Copyright 2008, Skeeter Sanders. All rights reserved.
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