ShareThisWhen Hillary Clinton peers ahead on the campaign trail these days, she cannot help but see the tunnel at the end of the light.Soon the spotlight in which she once twirled alone, far ahead of a dimly lit pack, will be no more. Stretching ahead of that, for her, there appears to be only the darkness of the tunnel that is more commonly known as the corridor of power that leads to the Capitol Dome.Yes, the dome gleams ever white against the capital sky. And yes, it is, for some, their ultimate aspiration, a seat at the pinnacle of power, a career cap of glory. But Hillary Clinton is not and has never been one of those others.After all, she spent eight years at the mountaintop, in the gleaming white mansion at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, just 16 blocks up the road. And then she went from the mountain to the Hill, getting herself elected to the Senate.But a seat as the junior senator from New York, a state she didn't much know until she worked it and won it, was never intended to be her grand prize. That's why she never put herself on the insider's track to be part of the Senate's Democratic Party leadership team, but instead worked tirelessly on the outside, helping Democrats win elections, which has the added dimension of building a nationwide network of appreciative allies for whom she had campaigned and to whom she had contributed her time and, of course, her political action cash.It seemed a solid foundation for a launching pad, a fitting place to fire up her personal fame and political reputation and rocket away to an instantaneous lead in the presidential race. Uncatchable, said some pundits. Unstoppable, said the rest. Until she was caught and stopped.Now she finds herself alone on a trail where the light has dimmed and vision is difficult at best. Focusing ahead, all she can see is the tunnel and for her it seems dark indeed. It is the corridor of power that leads to the dome of prestige, but suddenly that junior seat from New York looms as her only sure prize. And being number 36 in seniority among the Senate's 49 Democrats just doesn't much cut it as a grand prize for one who has twirled so famously in the spotlight for some many years -- decades, in fact. Not even when she knows, deep down, that the spotlight was really not hers for most of those decades, but his.So it is understandable why she has resorted to trying all manner of desperate moves and maneuvers to try to hang around long enough, winning just enough, to stay around in the event that something can happen and Democrats will turn to her at last and she can be resurrected as the life of the party. Yet again.But desperation never begets subtlety. And so, there was the once and former Democratic presidential frontrunner, in Sioux Falls, S.D., meeting with the editorial board of the Argus Leader newspaper. When she said something that was received as being so shocking that the pundits and the chattering heads are still talking about it on the nonstop cable news.It happened when she was asked that suddenly old question of why she doesn't just abandon her now-Quixotic quest for the presidency as so many Democrats say she eventually must, so should now. "Historically, that makes no sense," she said, adding: "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."Gasps were exceeded only by disgust when word of what she'd said in Sioux Falls whipped across the country like a windswept prairie fire. Pols, pundits and just plain people reacted as one. Clinton's team rushed to explain and then she issued one of those Washington-braunschweiger apologies _ the kind that is not really about the offender but the offended, so it never says "I'm sorry" but just I-regret-if-you-took offense.That's what Clinton did -- and she further de-blamed herself by emphasizing that she said it mainly because her mind was filled with the sad news of Ted Kennedy's brain cancer diagnosis: "The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive."Time out. Way back in happier times for Kennedy and Clinton, on March 6, the day after Clinton won the Texas and Ohio primaries, Time Magazine managing editor Rick Stengel asked the senator if party leaders might want to end the contest early. "No, I really can't. Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn't wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June, also in California. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual."Time Magazine put her words on its web site on March 6 and published them in the March 17 magazine. But the talking heads paid no attention to it. Not until Clinton said it again, just the other day, in that major media metropolis of Sioux Falls. (It is yet another of Campaign 2008's wacky ways that Time apparently just doesn't have the clout of the Argus Leader.)Clinton's assassination comment was deplorable. Her apologia explanation was calculatedly acceptable on the surface -- but cynical when seen in the glaring light of its full context.The darkness of the looming tunnel may provide a worthy respite for us all.(Martin Schram writes political analysis for Scripps Howard News Service. E-mail him at martin.schram(at)gmail.com.)
Hillary sees tunnel at the end of the light
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Hillary sees tunnel at the end of the light
Those that choose to support Hillary seem to be as singularly focused as her and her husband. From early on the Clintons biggest supporter in the early years, David Geffen, made the bold and difficult choice of shedding inside information on the lying ways of the Clintons. At every trying turn when Hillary was made accountable by a tenacious press, her lying (some call it "misstatements") comments were exposed. One can only imagine the lying that takes place behind closed doors. She simply can not be trusted, and unless their daughter has her head buried completely in the sand, she also appears to have taken the lying juice served up all too well in that now, politically dyeing a slow death family.
Just The Facts
DON'T BE DUPED AGAIN AMERICA !!!
IT'S ABOUT ELECTABILITY !!!
Large numbers of BUSH_McCain Republicans have been voting for Barack Obama in the DEMOCRATIC primaries, and caucuses from early on with the backing and help of the medical and insurance industry. Under the direction of the George Bush, and Karl Rove vote fraud, and vote manipulation machine. Because they feel Barack Obama would be a weaker opponent against John McCain. And they want to stop Hillary Clinton from fixing the HUGE! American, and Global mess they have created. shocking!!! isn't it. Just gotta love those good old draft dodging, silver spoon Texas boys. Not! :-(
You see, the medical and insurance industry mostly support the republicans with the money they ripped off from you. And they don't want you to have quality, affordable universal health care. They want to be able to continue to rip you off, and kill you and your children by continuing to deny you life saving medical care that you have already paid for. So they can continue to make more immoral profits for them-selves off of you, and your children's suffering.
With Hillary Clinton you are almost 100% certain to get quality affordable universal health care for everyone very soon. And you are also certain to see major improvements in the economy for everyone.
The American people face even worse catastrophes ahead than the ones you are living through now. It will take all of the skills, and experience of Hillary Clinton to pull the American people out of this mess we are in. Fortunately fixing up, and cleaning up others incompetence, immoral degeneracy, and mess is what the Clinton's do very well.
Hillary Clinton has actually won by much larger margins than the vote totals showed. And lost by much smaller vote margins than the vote totals showed. Her delegate count is actually much higher than it shows. And higher than Obama's. She also leads in the electoral college numbers that you must win to become President in the November national election. HILLARY CLINTON IS ALREADY THE TRUE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE!
Just look at Oregon for example. Obama won Oregon by about 70,000 votes. But approximately 79,000 Bush republicans switched party's back in January to vote for Obama in the democratic primary. They are not going to vote for, or support any Democrat in November. Are you DEMOCRATS going to put up with that. Are you that stupid, and weak. The Bush republicans think you are that stupid, and weak.
As much as 30% of Obama's primary, and caucus votes are Republicans trying to choose the weakest democratic candidate for McCain to run against. These Republicans have been gaming the caucuses, and open primaries where it is easier to vote cheat. This is why Obama has not been able to win the BIG! states primaries. Even with Republican vote cheating help. Except North Carolina where 35% of the population is African American, and approximately 90% of them block voted for him. African Americans are only approximately 17% of the general population.
Hillary Clinton has been OUT MANNED! and OUT SPENT! 4 and 5 to 1. Yet Obama has only been able to manage a very tenuous, and questionable tie with Hillary Clinton. This is even more phenomenal when you consider she has been also fighting against the George Bush, Karl Rove vote fraud machine in the DEMOCRATIC primaries, and caucuses. Hillary Clinton is STUNNING!.
If Obama is the democratic nominee for the national election in November he will be slaughtered. That is crystal clear now. Because all of the Republican vote cheating help will suddenly evaporate. And the demographics, and experience are completely against him. All of this vote fraud and Bush republican manipulation has made Obama falsely look like a much stronger candidate than he really is.
You will have another McGovern catastrophe where George McGovern lost 49 of 50 states. And was the reason the super-delegates were created to keep that from happening again. Don't let that happen to the party and America again super-delegates. You have the power to prevent it. The only important question now is who can best win in November. And the answer is HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON. That fact is also now crystal clear.
And YOUNG PEOPLE. DON'T BE DUPED! Think about it. You have the most to lose. As do African Americans. Support Hillary Clinton. She will do her best for all of you. And she will know how to best get it done on day one.
The democratic party needs to fix this outrage. Everyone needs to throw all your support to Hillary Clinton NOW! So you can end this outrage against YOU the voter, and against democracy.
The democratic party, and the super-delegates have a decision to make. Are the democrats, and the democratic party going to choose the DEMOCRATIC party nominee to fight for the American people. Or are the republicans going to choose the DEMOCRATIC party nominee through vote fraud, and gaming the DEMOCRATIC party primaries, and caucuses.
Fortunately the Clinton's have been able to hold on against this fraudulent outrage with those repeated dramatic, and heroic comebacks of Hillary Clinton’s. Only the Clinton’s are that resourceful, and strong. Hillary Clinton is your NOMINEE. They are the best I have ever seen. Probably the best there has ever been. :-)
“This is not a game” (Hillary Clinton)
Sincerely
jacksmith... Working Class :-)
p.s. Cynthia Ruccia - I'm with ya baby. All the way. "Clinton Supporters Count Too."