Not_so_fast "Not so fast ...the full-page ad in this morning's USA TODAY*****

[rodeodance]

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/


'WomenCount' says it's too soon to count Clinton out







Not_so_fast "Not so fast ..." the full-page ad in this morning's USA TODAY declares. "Hillary's voice is OUR voice, sand she's speaking for all of us."

"We want Hillary to stay in this race until every vote is cast, every vote is counted, and we know that our voices are heard," it concludes.

The ad was paid for by WomenCount PAC, which USA TODAY reporter Fredreka Schouten tells us is a newly formed political action committee that includes among its founders Susie Tompkins Buell, a major Democratic fundraiser and a supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Buell, Fredreka reports, is based in northern California and is a co-founder of the Esprit clothing line. She's a "Hillraiser:" Clinton's designation for fundraisers who have collected at least $100,000 for her presidential campaign.

WomenCount says it was created "to ensure that the 51% of American citizens who are women have their values and votes counted in the political process and supports candidates in support of progressive, political values.


Posted by Mark Memmott at 11:13 AM/ET,

May 16, 2008 in Ads, Democrats, Interest groups, Presidential race,



Better photo in the ad:

[Two Americas]

1. you know....

You know... (musing here today)

Clinton is supposedly finished, right? The nomination is all sealed up and we are supposed to believe that Obama is in the same position that Clinton or Gore or Kerry were in at this point, yes? All over.

But think about it...

We have a candidate who, toward the end of the primary season, has recently won Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and West Virginia, and pretty convincingly at that. Obama supporters cannot claim, as they are, that these are the same as the Michigan of Florida situation - that they count for much of anything for some reason. We also have a candidate who is in a much, much closer second place position than many other candidates from the past who took their campaigns to the convention - Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Jerry Brown, Dennis Kucinich. No one screamed at those candidates to give up and drop out.

Cognitive dissonance seems to be the defining feature of the Obama campaign, and "in for a penny, in for a pound." Once the truth becomes whatever they want to believe is the truth, everything can be twisted to fit the agenda. They are saying that Clinton should drop out because she has no chance. That is not true, and they know it is not true. They are saying she should drop out because they fear that she does have a chance.

[Two Americas]

2. gosh

This is my really big insight of the whole primary season, and no response?

:cry:

:rofl:

[Horse with no Name]

3. Better yet

THEIR candidate doesn't stand a chance while she is still in it.
He can't close the deal unless she bows out.

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. You're not alone in coming to exactly that conclusion

I've been reading that around the Hillary blogosphere too.