Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic victory Sunday in Puerto Rico’s presidential primary, the final act in a weekend of tumult that pushed Barack Obama tantalizingly close to the Democratic presidential nomination.
The former first lady was winning roughly two-thirds of the votes as she continued a strong run through the late primaries.
Before cheering supporters, she predicted she would have more combined votes than her rival when the primaries end Tuesday night, claimed victories in key swing states and said that no contender will command enough delegates to claim the nomination.
“In the final assessment I ask you to consider these questions. Which candidate best represents the will of the people who voted in this historic election?” she said in an appeal to some 200 uncommitted superdelegates who hold the balance of power in the fight for the nomination.
Obama quit his church for political reason. Is he a quitter or does his church mean that little to him? Hillary never quits, but what does the Church mean to her?
Alice said, “Obama quit his church for political reason.”
I dunno. If my pastor, who I had at some political cost defended and not “thrown under the bus” when this controversy got started, came out and publicly undercut and torpedoed me the way Wright did to Obama a few weeks ago, I think I’d probably quit my church, too. It looks to me like Obama didn’t quit his church because of a new political calculation, but because of new “facts on the ground” — his pastor betrayed him (including suggesting that Obama was just lying when he said he disagreed with Wright’s views) in order to buy a few days in the national spotlight.
But Mark, Wright had already tepped down from that church when he made those remarks. Obama quit his church because of other stuff going on, which is no different than what had been said in that church many times before, except now the media was watching.
It is amuzing that Clinton has scored the greatest wins lately, and has received the most actual votes, and yet the party aparatchiks and the media seem hell bent on proclaiming Obama the nominee and the better candidate. They both stink. She stinks a little less than he, but he is wearing some heavy cologne. I think it’s starting to wear off. Will the superdelegates hold their noses and still vote for him? It’s going to be an interesting show.
Well, again, I don’t know. I think when Obama stood up in his racial relations speech in Philadelphia and refused to disown Wright it was a gesture of political courage I couldn’t imagine from either Clinton (who was busy pursuing Richard Mellon Scaife) or McCain (who has busy pursuing Hagee and the rest, no matter what he said about them a few years ago). The easiest thing would have been to cut him loose then and there and take whatever small hit there was, and I think Obama decided not to do it because of something like integrity.
Ah, as an Independent, it is most amusing to watch the collision of “values” in the Democratic race to nomination. There can be no “winner” when one is forced to choose between feminist and racial concerns as the Prime Directive. Somehow one or the other must be chosen and will be. Obama could get transgendered, of course, and have the best of all possible Prime Directive combinations. But that won’t work for Hillary who’ll merely be a white male candidate.
You have to admit, it is amusing to the non-Democratic Party observers. This collision has been in the making since the 1980’s.
What I find interesting is that Ms. Clinton currently leads in terms of actual votes cast:
Obama 17,389,116 47.3%
Clinton 17,692,901 48.1%
Clinton +303,785 +0.8%
Source: RealClearPolitics* at http://tinyurl.com/2hbf4a
What happens if she still leads tomorrow after SD and Montana? Should Obama, the leader in delegates withdraw? Or should Clinton, the leader in actual votes withdraw?
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Read RCP’s fine print which notes that caucus states Iowa, Nevada, Washington & Maine Have Not Released Popular Vote Totals and Obama pulled his name off the Michigan ballot.
Mark P. I think Obama really doesn’t understand how far to the left he is. Wright was defended becuase it didn’t seem that “bad” to Obama. Obama’s comment about God and guns shows he is tone deaf to fly by America. One of Obama’s advisors probably took him by the ear after the speech Wright gave at the press club and said dump Wright and connect with middle America. Hence the “uncle” that liberated Auschwitz story. Obama stayed at the Church with Moss (not much differant than Wright) till Plagler showed up on tape.
Dave B, I think you’re right that Obama doesn’t realize how far to the left he stands. In that sense he really does represent a change, (to the degree that the President can change society). This is evident when one compares statements made about the 3 candidates and by them, here: http://college-ethics.blogspot.com
Read “Weigh in on Obama”, then “Weigh in on John McCain” and finally “Weigh in on Hillary Clinton.”
Also, does anyone know what Hillary might have said about Vieques while she was in Puerto Rico?
After all the D complaints about the 2000 election going to the candidate with more electoral votes but less popular votes, what delicious irony that they will nominate their candidate with more delegates but less popular votes. I’d like to see someone harmonize those two positions.