Starting Gate: A Bitter End

Summer's here but the primary campaign continues to roll on – barely. The DNC Rules and Bylaws committee will meet this Saturday to at least begin the process of resolving the in-limbo delegations of Florida and Michigan. Puerto Rico votes on Sunday and in one week, South Dakota and Montana will complete the Democratic primary process.

But the campaign obits continue to roll in for Hillary Clinton's once-inevitable effort. The Washington Post speculated on Clinton's eventual return to the Senate full-time, following a similar story by the New York Times. And the AP is asking readers to imagine what life without a Clinton involved in presidential politics will be like.

Any slim hopes of convincing those all-important superdelegates to somehow come around and boost her to the nomination may have vanished in the flap over Clinton's reference to the assassination of Robert Kennedy, something she quickly apologized for.

Even Clinton, who vows to continue her campaign through to the end is displaying some signs of fatalism. As CBS News' Fernando Suarez reported yesterday, the candidate treated her entourage traveling with her in Puerto Rico to a "last supper" of sorts.

Clinton continues to push back aggressively against the idea that she should exit the race. "People have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa," she said, exhibiting a bit of bitterness. If true, they won't have to wait much longer to get their wish.


Around The Track

John McCain wants to tour Iraq with Barack Obama and said the Democratic front-runner has "has wanted to surrender for a long time."

President Bush will join McCain in Arizona today for a private fund-raiser.

Obama said again that he won't necessarily meet with Iranian President with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if elected.

A McCain-Obama matchup could mean a vigorous contest for Western states, which is one reason both candidates spent their holiday in New Mexico.

Former Republican congressman Bob Barr won the Libertarian nomination on the sixth ballot at the party's nominating convention.

Former President Carter told Sky News that he believes Clinton will be out of the race after the primaries end on June 3rd. "I think at that point it will be time for her to give it up," he said.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Senator Tom Coburn says the GOP is in "denial" about its future: "Many Republicans are waiting for a consultant or party elder to come down from the mountain and, in Moses-like fashion, deliver an agenda and talking points on stone tablets. But the burning bush, so to speak, is delivering a blindingly simple message: Behave like Republicans."

[renonv5]

It isn''t over yet. Don''t count your chickens..............

[b-easy63]

Hillary supporters, consider if you kill Obama''s chances to win in Nov 2008, look for Obama supporters to kill HRC chances to win in any other election year. Because you will be due payback--go against your party to spite a candidate, then don''t be surprised when the same favor is fired back on you.

[fmrdem]

McCain will , in the words of Teddy Roosevelt, "walk softly but carry a big stick". This is the kind of CIC we need, not one who will tiptoe through the tulips while sipping on a latte.

[fmrdem]

Is it true that Obama is considering Chelsea as a running mate? That would be an incredible ticket!

[j810nts21]

The Democrats have failed once again. If the way it seems to be going, Obama gets the nomimation, at least Four more years looking inside the White House. It is so sad they did not get behind Hillary, none of what happened to her and by her would have happened.
After Eight years of Hillary, Obama would have the needed experience to beat any Republican challenger. He might have seen his friend Reverend Wright gearing up to cause him a problem and stop it before it started. The Rezko trial would be over and gone preserving his squeeky clean image. McCain will win this election by landslide numbers, there will be no need for the Electoral College or Supream Court to step in. McCain will be a do nothing president, he will leave all policies as Status Quo, he will have no choice, the Democrats will control both Houses out of spite alone not one item McCain asks for will go through without being reduced or changed in one manner or another.
Worst of all, American troops will continue to be shipped into Iraq, continue to be shot at, continue to be wounded and continue to die.
The US will end up in a Deep Resession for a long period of time. We will see long lines at the Gas Stations as rationing will be brought back. The good news, we will live through it no matter how long it lasts, What shape the economy will be is another question.
Lord have mercy on our souls.

[omaar-101]

The B!tch is Done and the Fight she`s Fighting is mathematically Impossible, she wants to Broker a Deal.

Obama is moving on toward the general Election and Both Obama & McCain, knows that Hillary is DONE...

All but Hillary, her Demented & Delusional Followers, her Husband Bill and her daughter Chelsea.

Obama says as well as Others, She can Run, for as Long as she wants.


Whose Stopping her ?


Noone

And yet Bill Clinton, Hillary and her Supporters, are saying stay in the Race...

Whose Stopped her, Whose Stopping her ?

Noone...Not a D@mn Soul on Earth.

Run Hillary, Run !! By All Means Run !!!


Noones Stopped You or Ever Stopped You, its a Figment of Both You and your Husband Bill`s Political Imagination & Your Political Campaign Concoction.


Montana & South Dakota is Obama`s


The Puerto Ricans came out by the Thousands, to SEE Obama, still they can`t Vote in the General Election, So technically, their Vote is only Symbolic and their Votes, don`t Realy Count !!!


Run until your Blue in the face...Hillary

Obama & McCain, both know You area Non Factor.

[sgtrds-e4]

The DNC is letting her run out the clock, but this will be decided by the middle of June at the latest. Barack is the nominee.

[lordmi]

Wait for convention - she will show us the end of the ...common sense.
Super better to stand up.
NOW.

[undermyboot]

Even those who do not call themselves conservatives must acknowledge the power and enduring value of core conservative beliefs: belief in individual agency and responsibility, respect for American institutions and traditions, a resolute commitment to freedom, a willingness to take principled moral stands. It is a movement that draws its inspiration from towering figures: Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Burke. It stands for caution in foreign adventures, fiscal sobriety and a profound respect for tradition.

Or at least it used to stand for those things. Today''s conservatism is a caricature of that movement: It embraces pointless wars, runs up a vast debt, and trashes the Constitution. Selling out their principles for power, abandoning deeply seated American values and traditions simply because someone on "their side" demanded that they do so, conservatives have made a deal with the devil that has reduced their movement to an empty, ends-obsessed shell. How did the party of Lincoln end up marching under the banner of Tom DeLay and Rush Limbaugh, *** Cheney and Ann Coulter?
Quoted from article by Gary Kamiya

[b-easy63]

I read the NYT article about Clinton no longer being in "politics" which I took to mean a Presidential race. That is a ridiculous argument. She will be back in 2012 and will no doubt run then. This is no different than the Clintons not running during Bush''s terms. They were not there, but everyone knew they would be back. So, Hillary will be back. But if her supporters decide to throw the election now just to spite Obama''s nomination; they should not be surprised if a return by her in 2012 is not met with open arms and that she fairs worse then than she does now.

After all, payback is a *****--and if some Dems want to scuttle the hopes of their own party out of spite and allegiance to Hillary, they should not be surprised if they meet similar mindsets if they try to run her in 2012. What goes around comes back around.