Hard to believe, but there it is:
Sen. Hillary Clinton told a gathering of supporters last week that she’s looking for a “strategy” for her delegates to have their voices heard and “respected” at the Democratic National Convention — and did not rule out the possibility of having her name placed into nomination at the convention alongside Sen. Barack Obama’s.
“I happen to believe that we will come out stronger if people feel that their voices were heard and their views were respected. I think that is a very big part of how we actually come out unified,” Clinton, D-N.Y., said at a California fundraiser last Thursday, in a video clip captured by an attendee and posted on YouTube.
“Because I know from just what I’m hearing, that there’s incredible pent-up desire. And I think that people want to feel like, ‘OK, it’s a catharsis, we’re here, we did it, and then everybody get behind Sen. Obama.’ That is what most people believe is the best way to go,” she said.
“No decisions have been made. And so we are trying to work all this through with the DNC and with the Obama campaign.”
Ummmm…yeah….sure, Hill, whatever you say.
Meanwhile, back in the real world…
For a couple weeks now the old man has been rumbling ’round the house with words like “floor fight” just waiting to burst out. I’ve downplayed this because, well, the old man is 81 and getting on in years and, heck, why would Hillary do something like that? But now I’m not so sure – Obama is weakening by the day against McCain and now the House Democrats are starting to implode…and what was once a sure-thing now looks, at best, like a dicey proposition. The Democrats gather in Denver 18 days from now – and if between now and then there is more evidence that the Democrats nominated the wrong guy, then who knows what might happen?
Hillary certainly hasn’t given up her ambitions and if anyone out there thinks that Hillary believes Obama is the better candidate then I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell ya. The mind harks back to the 1976 convention when Reagan spoke and the gathered GOPers at that moment realised that in nominating Ford, they had nominated the wrong man…might be that more and more Democrats are realising that placing your bets on a rookie with ultra-leftist and corruption skeletons in the closet could be the wrong way to go. Remember, Obama only has a first-ballot majority courtesy of those superdelegates, who can still switch, if they have a mind to.
Of course – more than likely this will blow over and that Obama will have a smooth running love fest in Denver…but it ain’t over till the fat-thighed lady sings, and she’s not entirely ready to get out on stage, it would seem.
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