I have sympathy for her argument. She won all the key must win DEM states and all the pivotal battleground states. Obama racked up delegates with causus wins and unwinnable Red states.

tommylotto on March 24, 2008 at 2:50 PM

Problem here is that she has divided the party more than anyone could have ever imagined in the process of winning those few big states.

If she is the nominee many democrats will sit home, and many independents will vote McCain.

Her nomination is almost a guaranteed loss, and since she doesn’t deserve the nomination by any reasonable standards anyway, I doubt the the democrats are going to go out of their way to lose.

Only time will tell.

At HotAir, Allahpundit notes that the Clintonistas haven’t exactly been noted in the past for their staunch advocacy of the Electoral College. Bayh’s suggestion may signal desperation afflicting the Clinton camp since Vandehei and Harris declared Oba…

How about we just load 6-shooter with 5 empty chambers….

Dread Pirate Roberts VI on March 24, 2008 at 3:34 PM

Heck sport them two empty chambers (House and Senate)to fire at each other. (metaphorically speaking)

Mr. Grumpy has this in the bag, save an unmitigated disaster.

Seixon on March 24, 2008 at 3:08 PM

Like making Lieberman his VP.

She is arging that people voted for her in those states and that disproportionate delegate slates have helped Obama making him selected and not elected

McCain already has 10% on the Democrats, and that’s before you take into account that polls always underestimate the Republican.

Mr. Grumpy has this in the bag, save an unmitigated disaster.

Seixon on March 24, 2008 at 3:08 PM

We’ll see. Once the Dems have a nominee, the media is gonna do everything they can to drag McCain down, everything. And maybe you’re right that he’ll pretty much take this election, but the media will definitely do him damage.

Seixon on March 24, 2008 at 3:08 PM

I hope you’re right. But I thought Dole had it in the bag, and Obama doesn’t have the same baggage Clinton had, though he’s working hard to get it.

How do I know?

It happens that, as a Philadelphian, I attended Central High School – the same public school Jeremiah Wright attended from 1955 to 1959. He could have gone to an integrated neighborhood school, but he chose to go to Central, a virtually all-white school. Central is the second oldest public high school in the country, which attracts the most serious academic students in the city. The school then was about 80% Jewish and 95% white. The African-American students, like all the others, were there on merit. Generally speaking, we came from lower/middle class backgrounds. Many of our parents had not received a formal education and we tended to live in row houses. In short, economically, we were roughly on par.

I attended Central a few years after Rev. Wright, so I did not know him personally. But I knew of him and I know where he used to live – in a tree-lined neighborhood of large stone houses in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. This is a lovely neighborhood to this day. Moreover, Rev. Wright’s father was a prominent pastor and his mother was a teacher and later vice-principal and disciplinarian of the Philadelphia High School for Girls, also a distinguished academic high school. Two of my acquaintances remember her as an intimidating and strict disciplinarian and excellent math teacher. In short, Rev. Wright had a comfortable upper-middle class upbringing. It was hardly the scene of poverty and indignity suggested by Senator Obama to explain what he calls Wright’s anger and what I describe as his hatred.

In recent days, we have seen clips of several of Rev. Wright’s sermons, showing him declaring “G-d Damn America,” blaming America for intentionally creating the drug problem, for creating the AIDS virus, for supporting Israeli “state terrorism against Palestinians,” for being responsible for causing 9-11, for being white supremacist and racist and for intentionally keeping people in poverty.

We have also learned that, last year, Rev. Wright’s Church honored with a lifetime achievement award Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, who has said that “Judaism is a gutter religion,” that “Hitler was a very great man” and that “white people are potential humans, they haven’t evolved yet.” In fact, Rev. Wright accompanied Farrakhan in the 1980s on a visit to Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, which was then illegal under U.S. law. Nevertheless, the Church and Wright’s successor as pastor, Rev. Otis Moss III, have issued a statement defending and praising Wright, while completely ignoring Wright’s horrific statements.

Morton A. Klein is National President of the Zionist Organization of America.

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2008/03/24/thoughts-on-wright.aspx

Mr. Grumpy has this in the bag, save an unmitigated disaster.

“I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president.”

It amazes me how the English language has become so bastardized. So dumbed down. Orwell was right – Newspeak will happen, because the language is being destroyed, piecemeal. The United States is a federal republic. Always has been. I’d like to say that it always will be – but Socialism throws a wrench in that moving part. So does the bastardization of the lanquage.

It’s the same with the bastardized use of “Congressman,” as being synonymous only with “Representative.” The last time that I read the Constitution, a Senator was a member of Congress, too. But, hell, I’ve always said that ignorance and illiteracy are the seeds of Socialism. And so it goes.

Now let’s let them handle our health care and economy.

Fact are there to be made up.

NoDonkey on March 24, 2008 at 2:49 PM

Crap…beat me to it. I need to start reading the posts faster…

Democrats don’t have to be consistent from one moment to the next, much less from one year to the next.