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Mark Thompson on Sirius radio said he was shown a document by a “highly placed” Clinton supporter. The document outlined a plan wherein if Obama had a 5 point or less lead over McCain in the polls going into the convention, Hillary would sign the nomination form and force a roll call. It went on to state that SD’s are being informed at this time of her intentions.
OK, it’s a rumor, but I like it.
Update
And the lucky boy to be worthier of a key note than Hillary is – Mark Warner
Why? They are really salivating for Virginia. maybe they should check with Kerry and the effect on North Carolina (or South Carolina for that matter) of putting their favorite son – Tabloid Boy – on the ticket.
Ben Smith is careful to make sure that the “reward” we’re offered in exchange for having our votes stolen doesn’t go to our heads
Clinton “is one of four prime-time headline speakers. We will have a separate keynote speaker,” said Jenny Backus, a consultant to the convention. “Stay tuned.”
So, you bitter women – STFU! Your candidate gets a one in four prime time speeches – don’t get greedy now, OK? Just be grateful and obey!
I am sure this is motivated by the obsession that she not outshine Michelle.
Personally, i never understood the cache of a speech at the coronation. I am kinda fixated on democracy rather than pageants. Which, makes me – I suppose, a dead-ender.
And for the commentator who thinks I need to grow up, here’s that picture again:
Turns out not all of us were amused by the cool hole secret handshake
(and they call Bush the fratboy)
At first, Rick Husong was stunned by the overwhelming wave of negative and sometimes crude reactions to his bid revealed in Whispers last week to build a pro-Sen. Barack Obama movement around a hand salute dubbed the Big-O. Among the hundreds of comments posted on the Whispers site were those comparing it to a gang gesture, a Nazi salute, or worse. “This is how Sieg Heil got started. And, no I’m not saying Obama is Hitler. I just think people should be careful about slipping into a personality cult for a charismatic leader
Then he decided to slip back into delusion
I would call that a raving success,” he says, adding that he plans to make his Big-O the “peace sign of our generation.”
Which is rich – considering that Obama wants to continue and escalate existing wars and start new ones.
I am posting this to use the link as a short answer to “how can you vote against Democratic values?” BS:
Mind you they missed “I never said I’d wthdraw the troops” or “Blackwater got a bad rap”
Cafferty is throwing a K0 size fit on this – asking for a response.
As I don’t know if mine will make it through moderation, here it is:
Yes. In order to satisfy democracy, and DNC’s own rules and traditions:
1972:
Ted Kennedy – 12 votes on first ballot
Kennedy had no chance of winning, but his name was placed in nomination.
1976:
Ted Kennedy – 1 vote on first ballot
Kennedy had no chance of winning, but his name was placed in nomination.
1980:
Jimmy Carter – 1981 delegates
Ted Kennedy – 1225 delegates
Uncommitted – 122
Kennedy had no chance of winning, but his name was placed in nomination.
1984:
Jesse Jackson – 465 votes
Jackson had no chance of winning, but his name was placed in nomination.
1988:
Jesse Jackson – 1218 votes
Jackson had no chance of winning, but his name was placed in nomination.
2004:
John Kerry: 2192.5 Pledged delegates
Howard Dean: 114.5 Pledged delegates
Dean had already dropped out, with no chance of winning, but his name was placed in nomination.
2008:
Barack Obama: 1766.5 Pledged delegates
Hillary Clinton: 1639.5 Pledged delegates
Post yours.
Update
Just saw the most excellent response posted at the Confluence
Update
Seems the B0 surrogates inthe press are on alert – the same meme in Baltimore Sun
We’re referred to as ‘dead-enders” in this one
Update
Linking these fantastic videos of Democratic conventions history to be shown to everyone confuzled about rights and privileges in Denver.
and a banner with all the info from Hillarysupporters.com
Sent in by AnnieNYC:
As Obama thinks the unity pony may cry )
if delegates get to represent their constituencies , Hillary’s delegates all over are being threatened. One of them didn’t take it lightly:
Director of the Colorado Democratic Party threatened the status of a national delegate, alleging she made “disparaging public remarks” about Sen. Barack Obama.
In a saga reminiscing of the abse all of us took during the primaries
told a fellow delegate, in what she believed was a private e-mail exchange, that she was not sure she could vote for Obama at the Democratic National Convention later this month.
The other delegate apparently filed a complaint with the state Democratic Party suggesting Millstone lose her status as a delegate.
“I think that it was calculated to have an impact on other delegates and I think this kind of communication does have a very chilling impact on other delegates because people become afraid to speak up. They become afraid to say what they think.”Millstone added, “You can’t get unity by telling people to shut up.”
Update
Ed Rendell is also pressuring delegates
If anyone approaches you about signing a petition to place Senator Clinton’s name in nomination at the Democratic National Convention, the Governor has asked me to ask you to refrain from signing such a petition until we know what Senator Clinton and Senator Obama have worked out.
and AP is trying to rationalize this mess as “good for Obama” – in their campaign surrogates mode again:
Whether Sen. Hillary Clinton stands at the side of Sen. Barack Obama during his bid for the U.S. presidency or not, her exit from the race could give him the boost he needs, a new marketing study suggests.
Well, we know they are scared. Rupert to the rescue! If the marketing study shows…I remember they also used to say how it would be good for Bush if dems took congress.
Update: found out B0 said on teeve that girl candidates in nomination make Unity pony sad . You don’t hate ponies, do you?
NY Sun paints a scenario for Denver
Despite all these factors, Mr. McCain is running roughly even in the polls with the presumptive Democratic nominee, Mr. Obama, a time when he is supposed to be way ahead. In early August of 1988, Governor Dukakis was ahead of Vice President Bush by a wide margin. In early August of 2004, Senator Kerry was ahead of President Bush. If Mr. Obama doesn’t have a big lead now, it could get pretty ugly for the Democrats as November approaches, the theory goes.
The public will discover that Mr. Obama, notwithstanding his reputation as a silver-tongued orator, is not that good a debater — which explains why he did his best to dodge debate invitations from Mrs. Clinton and Mr. McCain.
I like this picture
Mrs. Clinton’s Tuesday keynote address, scheduled for the Tuesday of the Convention, could then start to sound less like an endorsement speech and more like a final campaign plea. If it’s a real hit, anything can happen. Expect, too, the well-timed release of some public poll showing Mrs. Clinton doing better than Mr. Obama in matchups against Mr. McCain in battleground states. Already the Clinton campaign is surfacing, through the forthcoming issue of the Atlantic Monthly, a memo portraying Mr. Obama as “not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.”
and a nod to us:
Mr. Obama may think the primary campaign is over, but Mrs. Clinton’s die-hard supporters still itch for a last-minute surprise.
Sent to me by Central Park 7:
We, Hillary supporters are familiar with their tactics since way back in the primaries. We are now hearing from a recently awaken koolaid drinker who has experienced the same:
Around the time of the last primary, a member of the Party Builder (hereafter known as PB), invited several Obama supporters from Barack Obama’s campaign blog site, to join the PB blog in an effect to drown out the unhappiness of Clinton supporters. Instead of working with the “dissenters”, or those who refused to fall in line with the Democratic nominee, these bloggers repeatedly insulted and goaded them. Even going as far as throwing around homophobic slurs and harassing specific bloggers.
I knew who was responsible for Clinton supporters being silenced. She came to the blog with the purpose of silencing dissenters. When she couldn’t do it herself, she bragged that she had connections within the DNC and would get the public blog straightened out….
I am sure every PUMA who was on line during these primaries has a story that match that tactic. The Oborg “assimilated” us all. Or did they? Some of us Just Said No Deal and created a new reality based community.
But the entry reminds us all of a very good reason to make sure no more power is accumulated by those thugs.
and other wacky stuff on the Obama official site. No one seemed to notice anything wrong with it. Goes like this:
“Chicago’s dead community has led the world in postmortem political activism, said Mr. Payger. Most of the world’s great faiths view death as a broadening of awareness and a merging into oneness. We feel that the increased wisdom and awareness that follows death is why Chicago’s dead community has always voted
and this entry ends
left in a hearse with a bumper sticker that said “Dying to Vote For Obama in 2008.”
It’s one of several. Ah, the perils of the lack of sense of humor!
In the same vein – check this training video for Obama volunteers – level 2 obtained with great sacrifice
Here it is, fellow PUMAs. In print (and it gets better as you go through the entry). Mark Ambinder actually entertains the thought that it may happen. In a negative way, of course, but still:
QUESTION: If there was a situation where Clinton’s most dedicated supporters managed to wrest the nomination away from Barack Obama at the convention, do they seriously believe Obama supporters would then vote for Clinton?
This is the comment after posting a Puma Pac letter to a super delegate.
The possibility enters in their consciousness. Giant step ahead.
Adding from a right wing site a scared “She’s baaack” – with a list of signs – such as the appearance of JSND, PUMA and reading events in a strange way such as this:
The Leaked Hillary Memos: Just as Obama is gathering national attention for stalling in the polls in the year of the Democrats, the Clinton campaign seems to have misplaced about 200 memos calling Obama unelectable “except against Attila the Hun”,
OK, except for the part
and it just so happens that Andrew Sullivan of Atlantic Monthly has found them. Lucky for the campaign, the memos didn’t fall into the wrong hands… like the New York Times.
It’s a good read otherwise.
And the idea gains traction – without the negativity
Could Senator Clinton win the Democratic presidential nomination at the last minute by taking advantage of buyer’s remorse among Democratic super-delegates who are dismayed by the performance of Senator Obama’s campaign so far?
wonders NY Sun. More:
Is all this enough to prompt Democratic super-delegates to re-think their allegiance to Mr. Obama and hand the nomination to Senator Clinton? If you count Michigan, Mrs. Clinton won the reported popular vote in the Democratic primaries and caucuses, 17.8 million to 17.5 million, and won many of the hotly contested big battleground states that the Democrats need to win in November — Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, New York, New Jersey, Florida. She won Massachusetts even after Senators Kennedy and Kerry endorsed Mr. Obama.
And PUMAs get their due
We have no illusions about the ultra-long-shot of Mrs. Clinton’s chances of actually emerging as the Democratic nominee, but they are not technically impossible, as Mr. Obama is no doubt aware. Mr. Obama skipped a visit to a military hospital in Germany. He spent this weekend on vacation in Hawaii. Mrs. Clinton spent last week visiting wounded service members at Fort Drum. Mr. Obama may think the primary campaign is over, but Mrs. Clinton’s die-hard supporters still itch for a last-minute surprise.
hey, a few days ago, in DC this was just a crazy idea that we turned into a possibility. It’s now being printed.
And spread.
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