Clinton denies defeat looming for her campaign

[DeclinetoState]

by Stephen Collinson
Fri Feb 22, 12:00 PM ET

<!-- end storyhdr --> WASHINGTON (AFP) - Hillary Clinton Friday denied she was contemplating defeat for her White House bid, after she paid a wistful tribute to Barack Obama which some observers saw as an admission of possible failure.

Reeling from her Democratic rival's 11 straight wins in nominating contests, Clinton fought back against the perception that her performance Thursday in a high-stakes debate in Austin, Texas, had a valedictory tone.

"I intend to win, obviously. I'm working very hard, and Ohio and Texas are critical states," the New York Senator said in an interview with ABC News, referring to two do-or-die nominating contests on March 4.
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IOW, her goose is cooked and she knows it. Bye-bye, Hillary.

[Suzie]

Hello Obamanation. :(

[Lubbock]

Which only goes to prove just how true that old saying is about denial not being just a river in Egypt.

[Lazarus]

One wonders just exactly what states she must win to mathematically stay in the game at this point... Or, more to the point, one wonders which states, if she loses, will be the end of the road for her...

Actually Im hoping they will end up in a cat fight in the convention... That would be glorious to behold...

Since I no longer have a candidate in the race, Im now looking for entertainment value...

[Kathy30]

She's hoping that the superdelegates won't fall for the Sharpton/Jackson threats of mass destruction should the obamination lose.

We'll have to face it again in the general election.

[maxparrish]

One can explore the remaining contests state by state, but most pundits believe she NOT only had to win the three states, but win by big margins.

The best the Hildebeast can do is win all three BUT only by slim margins in Ohio and Texas. Right now it looks like even Ohio is in trouble (thought to be a "big" Hillary state) and Texas is too close to call. In other words, she will not gain any ground on Obama, and remain more than 100 delegates behind and may enter the convention over 200 delegates short.

Worse yet, the super delegates are now breaking for Obama. It will take a 2 to 1 break to Hillary among 735 super delegates to make a difference...and that is not going to happen.

Hillary Clinton is finished - kaput. FBI files, purple rage finger pointing by Bill, on camera tears by Hillary, P.I. investigations on opponents, threats to donors to cough up, and all the sick groupies cannot save her sorry fat ass. All the feminazi hysterical women, single unwed mothers who want Uncle Sam to be their daddies, tenured women studies profs, awed Latino illegals, and compliments by John McCain are useless in determining her political future.

She has NOTHING left to fire - NOTHING is working. She will return to the Senate, still filled with the delusion that a 68 year old lady in 2016 can run again...but in reality the Clintons' return to the white house is over.

Still, Hillary may run for Senate leader...she has been careful to 'be nice' to Senate peers, even as she routinely sneers at the little people...but that is another chapter.

And Bill? He is becoming pathetic - a grayed, old, heart patient, his 'magic' fading as his star status fades, mental confusion increasing, and old lines no longer working. He will wander away, drifting in a wasted dotage chasing hotel maids. For awhile, he will seek the camera to lecture Obama on how to run for President. But in a few years, without a major appointment, he will be an echo of wiki history. Like a Ted Kennedy sideshow, Clinton will indulge in cartoonish exploits of sax playing and raspy scat in front of dwindling crowds...while diddling the young ones who linger too long.

All is joy for the moment, the Hildebeast is nearly dead. The Clintons are on the verge of defeat. The tapped out donors will jump, never to return to her national mafia. None will fear them...the long and dark fear is over.

Alas, it also means a new battle begins with a dufus as our nominee. And my own vote must remain sidelined, but I also hope that somehow, someway, McCain might win and be a real conservative...but that is a foolish hope.

Obama will rule...and the democrats will turn the clock back to 1965 and the great society - the era of darkness begins.

[DesertFox]

But somehow Clinton gets rides on a billionaire's jet, sups with a Kazakh billionaire and comes back with 31m for his own account.

[The_Elucidator]

The best the Hildebeast can do is win all three BUT only by slim margins in Ohio and Texas. Right now it looks like even Ohio is in trouble (thought to be a "big" Hillary state) and Texas is too close to call. In other words, she will not gain any ground on Obama, and remain more than 100 delegates behind and may enter the convention over 200 delegates short.


One nuance that is being overlooked is that Obama is generally doing better than his polling indicates. So unless the bloviating Hildebeast is leading by almost double digits she will lose the state. Also overlooked is the fact that both states allow crossover votes, although the evening caucuses in Texas I believe are Rats only! But Obama always does better in caucuses regardless. I'm with Max on this one; SHE IS TOAST!!

[federalisthoosier]

Clinton is not going down or out without a fight. Like a fatally wounded grizzly, Hillary can still do lethal damage to Obama's campaign before somebody pulls the plug on her own campaign.

[maxparrish]

Clinton is not going down or out without a fight. Like a fatally wounded grizzly, Hillary can still do lethal damage to Obama's campaign before somebody pulls the plug on her own campaign.
I would have agreed a few days ago - unless her 'wistful' comment to Obama was a mis-calculated attempt to repeat her act of 'humility' to get votes (e.g. the prior tears in NH) then I'd say she knows its over.

I think she'd fight to the bitter end, but she has already used every quip and claim imaginable to slow Obama...to no avail. The "experience" claim does not work because a) she does not have all the much experience either and b) it makes her seem like a part of the Washington 'problem' that needs the changing.

Bob Bickel on the radio today mentioned that they used the Wendy commercials buzz phrase "Where's the beef" to stop Gary Hart (the young change candidate of 84)..people responded because EVERYONE knew and loved the phrase.

Mondale, who never watched TV, had no clue to its real meaning. Bickel kept telling him to use it in the debates and one day he finally did...causing the audience to roar with laughter and showing how shallow Hart was.

But coming from Hillary, it would sound stupid and dated.

She has tried everything...nothing is left in her quiver. If something was working she would fight to the bitter end, but she feels people turning against her. She knows that her super rich donors are maxed out under federal law, she knows that the super deligates are fed up with her preesure.

Rather than be on the wrong side of history, I think she will concede before the convention.

[DeclinetoState]

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At least Mondale said, "Where's the beef?" and not "Where's the meat?"!

:evilgrin: