AP Does It Again
The AP is reporting that Hillary Clinton will today announce that Barack Obama has the delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination. The bad news for the AP is that Hillary just issued a statement saying it has no such intention. Here’s what the AP is reporting:
Hillary Rodham Clinton will admit Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation’s first female president. A senior Clinton campaign official confirms to CBS News that Hillary Clinton will “acknowledge but not concede” the race tonight. The official says “she has no plans to concede the race tonight.”
Here’s Hillary’s statement:
“The AP story is incorrect. Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination this evening.”
The AP is an embarrassment. Not surprisingly, MSNBC is reporting that Hillary will concede tonight:
Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials told the Associated Press, a move that would effectively end her bid to be the nation’s first female president.
The report, which cited two campaign sources, said the former first lady would stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City, but that for all intents and purposes the campaign was over.
MSNBC and the AP are crafty enough to throw in a caveat but their headlines show their pro-Obama bias. What they don’t know is that they’re handing the GOP their best shot at keeping the White House. Had MSNBC and the AP done their due dilligence on Sen. Obama, he wouldn’t be on the verge of being the Democratic presidential nominee. Had the Wright tapes come out before Super Tuesday, this race would’ve been entirely different.
Jim at Gateway puts it succinctly about an Obama administration would mean:
The two Far Left Democrats are so alike it’s scary. Barack Obama even chose Jimmy’s Anti-Israeli National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski as an advisor with his campaign.
It isn’t a stretch to say that Obama would be Carter’s second term. That isn’t a flattering portrayal of a candidacy considering the fact that Carter is the worst president in history.
I can’t blame Hillary for pushing back. If she hadn’t run a terrible campaign early, she’d be the nominee by now.
Technorati Tags: Hillary, Obama, Jimmy Carter, Agenda Media, MSNBC, Associated Press, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Fascinating that you want to waste your time parsing words about an event that hasn’t yet occurred, even though it makes no difference about what the AP reports Hillary may or may not say. I guess we’ll all just have to wait and see.
But I do understand the purpose of your wishful thinking. The wedge that republicans have been trying to put through the Democratic party hasn’t caught hold, and it must be scary for republicans to look at the turnout figures throughout the Democratic primaries and see the handwriting on the wall (or, as Bill Frist put it, Democrats Win Landslide Victory). Why, there was practically open glee over the California Supreme Court decision on gay marriage… until a new poll suggested that the issue will not play out as the radical rightwingnuts wish.
But Obama as Pres. Carter’s second term? That’s good for a belly laugh! You have it backwards, sir… McSame is Bush’s 3rd term, and one that the country simply cannot abide. But go ahead and push the Carter/Obama meme. The country is so desperate to dump the Bush cabal, Carter could probably get re-elected himself at this point, not to mention Obama could hardly do worse than Bush in emulating Carter’s (Nobel Prize winning) Camp David Accords.
Face it: Bush is the worst president ever, he’s destroyed the republican party, damaged the United States at home and abroad, left us less safe, less prosperous, and worse off than any president in history. His low-20’s approval ratings are just the tip of the iceberg.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Rocky must’ve drifted off course. Surely, he was headed for the Daily Kos or some other playground for hopeful changeniks.
The Demos take pride in the number of votes they’ve accrued during the primary season. But primary numbers don’t mean all that much. Yes, lots of young people have entered the electoral realm, and it’s not surprising that they’ve leaned toward the left. After all, it’s much sexier to be a Democrat. How many Republicans sport bellybutton rings?
Still, many people who voted in the Demo primaries weren’t Demos at all. Here in California, Demos opened their primary to independents who, typically, wind up voting with the right. Perhaps that explains why Hillary won the Golden State. A similar thing happened in New Hampshire. After Obama won Iowa (not surprisingly), and after the press relentlessly promoted his double-digit lead in New Hampshire, many independent Granite State voters, those who might have voted for Obama, figured that Wonder Boy was all set to win; so they pulled a Republican ballot, voted for McCain, and gave the win to Hillary. Both the Demos and the press hate to admit this, so they blame Hillary’s tears. They’ll be the ones crying in November.
What’s more, after it was clear that McCain had won the GOP nomination, many GOP voters and conservative independents opted to vote in the Demo primaries in their home states — for whatever reason. For Demos to count on those votes in the fall is indeed very hopeful. But change will come. The Rockys of the world will be jaw-dropped shocked in when their Wonder Boy gets whooped by the old geezer from retirementland.
As for the gay marriage issue in California, we’ve already been through this BS before. We voted it down in 2000, and now that the court has overturned our will, we’ll just vote it down again in November. There’s no point in getting upset about he court and whining like a bunch of hormonal Demos. We’ll just wait till election day, and correct the error of the State Supreme Court.
Yes, Obama will amount to no more than Carter II. Obama who talks about change wants to drag us all back to the past, to the worst four years in the past half century. It’s no surprise. He was only a teen back then, kicking back in the islands, smoking up some ganja while reading the Koran. And what Rocky says about Bush is actually true of Carter: “the worst president ever…[who] damaged the United States at home and abroad, left us less safe, less prosperous, and worse off than any president in history.” It’s this sort of factual misdirection that’s typical of islamic rhetoric, now adopted by the Demos in preparation for their future dhimmitude.
Finally, only young people, those who were just beginning to pick their pimples when Bush was first elected, have no idea how different McCain is from Bush. Again, the young can bitch and moan and whine all they like, but it’s not going to change history, however they hope it will. Come November all those over 30 — the vast majority of the electorate — will calmly walk to the polls and make John McCain the 44th President of the United States.
When that happens, all the young Demos will take to the streets and show us all how mature they are, proving their judgment as poor and their over-rated messiah was weak.
God Bless the Ignorant!
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
You know, you’re right! All those over-30 voters — you know, the ones with money — are going to vote for McSame just like they’re donating money to his campaign. Oh wait, they’re not donating the money — even after McSame secured the nomination.
And what a use of the time McSame made as these past couple of months have crept by! He set the tone, defined himself and his opponent(s), and rallied the base. Oh wait, he didn’t. He was just so busy trying to tamp down the lobbyists in his campaign, he didn’t have time to make use of the incredible advantage he has squandered.
Oh well, at least the belly-button ring supply is ample. I hear even the old folks are getting them these days!
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Enjoy your arrogance, Rocky. You’ll have five long months to spout off before you’ll have to start licking your wounds.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
What happened, Gary? You said Hillary was the ordained candidate! You weren’t wrong *again* were you? Tell us Obama is going to be president and maybe your luck will hold. You should learn not to prognosticate.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
No I didn’t. I’ve been one of the few Republicans who thought she was the easier candidate to run against. Don’t be putting words in my mouth like that.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Obama has this election in the bag. McCain won’t be able to separate himself from Bush, even if his policies are as different as you proclaim, Zen Man.
What it comes down to is that McCain is a weak candidate who supports continuing the disastrous Iraq War and the same old economics policies that hasn’t worked for the masses. This election won’t necessarily be decided by young voters, but by people sick of the same old shit.
But you can keep the dumbasses who think Obama is a secret Muslim.