Entries tagged 'Hillary Clinton'

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Because We Knew You…

… we’ve been changed for good.

This picture, from an event yesterday in South Dakota, seems to summarize the day pretty well. For some reason, it reminds me a lot of the picture of JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This country is better off for having had an energizing, inspiring and engaging primary season, the dividends of which will continue to pay off in the coming months.

For, as Churchill once said, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning.”

(Picture from Getty Images. Reproduced in low-resolution for artistic commentary.)

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Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Ickes Reserves Right to Call for Nuclear Option

Harold M. Ickes, a senior adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton, today said that her campaign was reserving the what amounts to their last best option, challenging the decision of the Rules and Bylaws Committee before the entire Democratic National Convention this summer in Denver.

“This decision violates the bedrock principles of our democracy and our Party,” he said. “We reserve the right to challenge this decision before the Credentials Committee and appeal for a fair allocation of Michigan’s delegates that actually reflect the votes as they were cast.”

Ickes’ comment came just before the RBC passed a resolution (by a vote of 19-8) seating all of Michigan’s delegates and awarding each a 1/2 vote and passing unanimously a resolution to award Florida’s delegates 1/2 a vote as well.

Evidently, Ickes and some other Clinton supporters entered the meeting thinking there was actually a possibility that a “fair allocation” meant that Sen. Barack Obama should receive no delegates at all. In fact, reports say that Obama had the votes for a 50-50 split, but chose to accept a lesser split in the interest of party unity.

Chalk up another magnanimous decision on behalf of Sen. Obama and another selfish (and hopefully empty) threat by Sen. Clinton’s campaign. Hopefully the superdelegates can help stick a fork in this election on Tuesday so we can get on to the important battle against Sen. John McCain.

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Friday, May 30th, 2008

Hillary in Grade School

In honor of this weekend’s Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting, a funny clip from the Internet video group 60 Frames:

 

 

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Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Obama the Statesman

On Saturday, the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee will meet in Washington, D.C. to discuss what to do about primaries in Michigan and Florida.

While a compromise that would award each state half of their delegates seems to be emerging, there has been questions all week whether hordes of protesters would appear outside the RBC’s hotel to make their candidate’s position clear (as if they weren’t crystal clear already).

A group of Hillary Clinton supporters have created a Web site and called for a massive rally outside the hotel, featuring prominent members of Congress, to demand that the RBC “must honor our core democratic principles and enfranchise the people of MI and FL and their respective delegations.”

They, of course, make no reference to changing the rules in the middle of the game, a concept mastered on the playground by most five-year-olds.

In contrast, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign announced Wednesday that they were asking their supporters to stay away from the hotel to avoid further dividing the party. Instead, the campaign called for potential protesters to join one of the nearby voter registration and mobilization events in the nearby battleground state of Virginia.

Sen. Clinton’s supporters have the right to hold a peaceful protest anywhere they wish. That I do not question. What I do question, however, is their judgement in trying to extend this contest in such a combative manner.

Come next week, the Democratic Party will have to begin healing itself to prepare for the general election in November. Clinton’s supporters would do more good for the party by basebuilding and reaching out to new voters.

But I guess that’s the job for the statesman, also known as Barack Obama.

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