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May 21, 2008

Obama, Clinton Split Primary Wins

Rick Moran
It was Hillary huge in Kentucky while Obama rolled up an impressive win in Oregon. And Obama passed something of a milestone in that he now as an absolute majority of pledged delegates - those delegates won in the primaries and caucuses.

It only buttresses his case that he deserves to be the nominee of the party:

Obama's top strategist, David Axelrod, said getting the pledged delegate majority was an "important milestone," but not the end of the trail.

Neither candidate is expected to reach the 2,026 delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination.

That means the race is likely to be settled by "superdelegates" -- party leaders and officials who will cast votes at the Democratic convention in August.

Speaking in Iowa, where he won the first-in-the-nation caucuses, Obama told supporters, "it was in this great state where we took the first steps of an unlikely journey to change America."

"The skeptics predicted we wouldn't get very far. The cynics dismissed us as a lot of hype and a little too much hope. And by the fall, the pundits in Washington had all but counted us out. But the people of Iowa had a different idea," he said.

Obama continued to look to the general election, focusing his attacks as he has for the past week on Sen. John McCain, while commending Clinton for "her courage, her commitment and her perseverance."

Clearly, Obama is coming down the home stretch and approaching the finish line. Hillary is running out of arguments - and time. Only three primaries remain; Puerto Rico on June 3 with Montana and South Dakota 2 days later.

Will she quit? Probably the earliest she would exit is after the situation involving Florida and Michigan's delegates is settled. She has promised to see that their votes were counted and if the Democrats are smart, they will resolve this issue the last day in May when their rules committee meets.

If not then, it is expected that Obama will pass the magic delegate number of 2025 sometime in mid June. At that point, a quick and graceful exit by Clinton would give the party time to stitch itself back together so that the convention is the lovefest everyone hopes it to be.

The pressure on her will be enormous to get out. And yet, she may stay in it until the first ballot of the convention, hoping that Obama will make a fatal gaffe. It's not much of a strategy and probably unrealistic. It could come out that Obama was a commie spy in his youth and I doubt the Democrats would deny him the nomination.

Hence, expect an exit from the race by Clinton no later than July 1.

Posted at 11:46 AM | Email |

Comments

What if he is a spy now?

Posted by: Peter Gibbons | May 21, 2008 12:20 PM

Had I heard the news back in 2007 that Clinton would exit the race before being nominated, I would have been deliriously happy. Quite honestly, a year ago, I couldn't fathom a worse idea for this country than Hillary as POTUS.

How I misunderestimated (again) the Democrat party when it comes to dumping on the USA.

Who knew that Democrats could come up with a candidate even worse than the Clintons.

Posted by: Scott | May 21, 2008 12:20 PM

Obama will soon be indicted, along with Blagojevich, for his role in the Rezko/Auchi/General Mediterannean/Syrian mafia criminal enterprise. Most of the charges will be 18 USC 1346 (mail fraud honest services) charges.

That's why Hillary is staying in the race: she knows that Obama--a small time hood--is going down soon. Wait til Rezko is convicted.

In fact, Evelyn Pringle has been laying out the case in unprecedented detail in her wonderful "Curtain Time for Barack Obama." She has been doing it for weeks at opednews.com. Here's a convenient link to the services, below.

The next installment will give you a good idea of where 18 USC 1346 figures in, as Obama dutifully plays his organized crime role in the legislature, by making sure that Rezko continues to have control over the State boards which hand out the contracts and provide the "pay" for the "play." Obama is quite the scum. The boards are the reason the U.S. Attorney calls his overall investigation, Operation Board Games.

How do Obama supporters feel--after reading about his criminal activities in excruciating detail in Pringle's articles--about supporting this front-and-center hood?

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0805/S00245.htm

Posted by: John Ryskamp | May 21, 2008 01:37 PM

It is NOT OVER until someone crosses the threshold in required delegates. Until then, the process should be allowed to proceed.

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-and-capitulation.html

It would be undemocratic to do otherwise.

Posted by: PacificGatePost | May 21, 2008 03:49 PM

One statement caught my attention in Rich Moran's article. The felt belief of Obama that he deserves to be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party over Hillary. What did Obama ever do to deserve such an honor? His attitudes of self-importance and superiority is why he is not connecting with many down-to-earth Democratic voters. Had the information about Rev. Wright and Wilian Ayers surfaced during the time of the Iowa primary season, there is a good possibility that Obama would not be where he is today. Hillary should stay in the race. If the tables were reversed, I would suspect Obama would do the same. Obama has many lessons to learn. Among them being that excessive pride and self-adulation can often result in a hard ending.

Posted by: Nancy Thorner | May 21, 2008 10:27 PM

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