Barack Obama would like to remind you of something: He won and she didn’t. It’s about him now and not her. He has made history, and she is history.
Not that Hillary Clinton admitted to any of that in her nonconcession concession speech Tuesday night, after Obama attained the delegate votes he needs for the Democratic presidential nomination
For someone giving indications she would like to be Obama’s running mate, Clinton was surprisingly ungracious. In fact, if you had just awakened from a (blissful) 17-month sleep, you would have thought she had won.
“Because of you, we won together the swing states necessary to get to 270 electoral votes,” she told the crowd in New York City. “I want the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected, to be heard and no longer to be invisible.”
But her fighting words only increased the need for Obama to show that he can be strong, tough and in charge. Clinton’s unwillingness to recognize Obama as the victor only increased the need for Obama to act like a president and not like a doormat. And denying her a vice presidential slot may be a way of doing that.
"Stupid is as stupid does" is one of my favorite movie quotes. (Forest Gump)
He made history because he received 90-95% of the black vote, and in the early going he received a fair amount of the so-called blue collar vote. His so called "Iowa Event" happened because it was a caucus in which the "blue collar" voters couldn't attend because they were working. Later, as his associations with various people who are not acceptable to the mainstream became known, his white voter count dropped, and he showed he couldn't win the "must" states of Ohio and PA. And this:
It has been a hard-fought and sometimes bitter campaign, but Obama is not, one of his senior advisers assured me Tuesday night, going to spend a lot of time in the next few months wooing Clinton supporters whose feelings may be hurting.
“I think there are always immediate feelings of disappointment and anger,” Anita Dunn said. “But in the months ahead, he must appeal not just to the constituency groups who favored her in the primaries, but those he wants in the general election, and that includes independents and Republicans.”
Yeah, I wouldn't either. Especially if I had the support of Maxine Waters, the notable mainstream Democrat (sarc alert):
“Look at how many switched today to Obama,” he said. “Look at the Clinton supporters, look at Maxine Waters [the congresswoman from California who endorsed Hillary Clinton in late January but switched to Obama on Tuesday], who were passionate advocates for Hillary, but who switched to Obama.”
Shorter and plainer in Hussein's own words.
Hold on a minute sweetie.... the boys will tell you when they want dinner.....
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