The Inside Story On What The Advisers Are Telling Hillary
This report is put together with information from Clinton campaign insiders, including people from our region involved in the campaign. The report is telling in that it shows the level of anguish and debate now going on inside the troubled Clinton camp.
Basically, there are three options under review.
ONE: The candidate stays in until June 3rd, declares a moral victory, endorses Obama and leaves the race.
TWO: Senator Clinton drops out after securing a place for Michigan and Florida delegates at the Democratic Convention.
THREE: She stays in the race through the convention, even if Obama goes over the top in delegates.
The logical choice is number one. Hillary Clinton is a powerful candidate and a fighter. The fight in her is what makes her attractive to her followers, and even Obama supporters who respect her will power and resolve. If the insiders, those closest to her prevail, she might decide to stay in through the convention, a move that would be risky to her continuing political career.
What most people, especially in media, fail to understand is how her continuing imagery as a battler who will not quit, will help her in the long run. The math says she cannot win now, but America is all about fighting the odds. That comeback fight is respected. Obama has gained such respect by being so resilient with all that controversy erupting during the middle of key primaries. Even in losing, Hillary Clinton can carve out a continuing legend of a person who will not be denied. This is just good politics.
Speaking of good politics: Who is designing John McCain’s schedule. He should be criss crossing the nation like there is no tomorrow, But his schedule, from this reporter’s perspective, is much too light. He needs Tom Ridge involved in that campaign right away. Ridge will give him much-needed advice on how to appeal to Democrats. Ridge was twice elected Governor in a Democratic state. He would also be a fantastic choice for Vice President.
TV NOTES - Local stations in Philadelphia are again paying lip service to the Presidential campaign. 30 seconds of video, without sound, doesn’t satisfy the public’s craving for information on this contest. Wake up TV people, or continue to lose audience. This year, it’s all about the election.
TOM LAMAINE — The longtime KYW TV weatherman is retiring. Tom is ageless. He was a pleasure to work with. And I wish him well.
FOUR: She “Vince Fosters” Obama.
This was reported to me by someone who used to be a Clinton insider before he became a liability, a liability who unexpectedly met with a serious accident.
The “fight” in her, which is driven by ego rather than principle, is also what makes her so unattractive to everyone except her followers.
Hello Larry,
your right Hillary Clinton is a fighter without quit,SO STEP 3 works, you never know what can happen,the american blue collar people see Hillary as the never quit people they are and the numbers are growing.
obama and edwards made some seen tonight right out of the book of vince mcmahon and fake wrestling,is this what obama calls the new politics,i was waiting for hulk and andre the giant to come on the stage,and Hillary will whip them to.
WWF is fake/
Larry,
that edwards and obama fiasco was so staged and phony and planned for weeks,i quess that’s the obama new politics all fluff and talk,and what has john edwards won lately,the more important endorsement will be his wife’s.
let’s go to kentucky and see what the blue collar americans think of that phony balony high school play in michigan last night.
Larry,i had flashbacks of edwards and john kerry with a suntan,Help i think i have ptsd.
Larry,
You’re spot on about Tom Lamaine he came across as a gentleman and he is in the top ten list of weathermen in phila.tv.history.
Of course number one Weatherman of all time is channel six’s Jim O’Brien without question.
JR, you’re foaming at the mouth. Obama and Edwards pulled off a media coup. Of course it was planned. And it was effective at changing the subject and reminding everyone that Hillary is still trying to play games five, six, and seven of that seven-game series in which Obama won the first four. It’s not “politics as usual” to have good timing.
Those Michigan voters you heard booing when Edwards praised Hillary? Those people didn’t have an option to vote for Obama. Those were voters who wanted their voices to be heard, which won’t happen if Hillary gets her way on her Quixotic quest to change the rules to 2210 after game four ended.
Superdelegates continue to come to Obama. The writing’s on the wall. Hillary is throwing good money after bad.
By the way, did you see the Daily Show last night? Jon Stewart skewered her over her claim that an eleven-year old in Kentucky sold his bike and video games in order to donate to her campaign. Then she wasted it all on confetti in West Virginia. Something for him to think about as he walks to school and back home, where he has no video games. Hillaryious!
leo you’re spot on,
obama with edwards on his side,should have a huge win in Kentucky on tuesday nite,all the blue collar americans will flock to obama and edwards now.
Larry,I had flashbacks all nite of john edwards and john kerry with a suntan holding hands and hugging each other,help Larry help!
Larry,
The dog and pony show last night by the barry obama team is the new politics,to humiliate your opponent,is a dangerous way to play and always comes back to haunt them.
Larry,Hillary deserved better than that,obama may have all the fluff and talk,but the fact is Hillary is the stronger democratic candidate if not in ‘08 then it will be ‘012.
The obama team will be political road kill in november if they get that far.
So Edwards held out until Barry promised him the position of Att’y General in the shadow (imaginary )Obama cabinet.Hillary should stay in the race ’til Denver & when Barry gets swamped in November she’ll be positioned for a run in 2012.JR,you’rre message seems to be a bit mixed these days.What’s up ?
I believe that hillary is fighting so hard because she knows that if she doesn’t win, her future in politics is over.
Since there will no longer be a need for her charade of a marrage to her coxman hubby bill clinton, I can see a divorce happening some time soon.
YAP, it really does seem that Jack Russell has contracted rabies.
JR, what about NARAL’s endorsement of Obama? How did Hillary manage to alienate NARAL?
Hey-Hey…Obama’s gonna win…why? Cuz he is NOW wearing that pesky ole US Flag pin! Of course that makes Obama, let’s say…disingenuous?… shows his original reason for NOT wearing the flag is full of sheet.
JJ, I’d argue that it shows what idiots the majority of U.S. voters are, but that’s just me.
I think Hillary is fighting so hard because she will be an even more powerful senator, especially if the president is McCain. She is trying to wound Obama with the white working men so they will vote for McCain and Hillary will be much more relavant than if there was a president Obama,who would certainly and wisely ignore her and Bill.
Too much thinking.
It’s all about Hillary. Everyone else and everything else is secondary.
There’s a bone, Jack. Now roll over.
John Edwards is a phoney-baloney. America saw thru his “I’m for the little man” gimic. You can refer to me as the Ren-dog… or Mr VP!
John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama are walking down the street together. They happen upon a homeless person.
McCain stops, gives him his business card, tells him to come into his office and offers to help him find a job. He reahes into his pocket and hands the man a $20. He smiles.
Not to be outdown, Hillary Clinton stops by the next homeless person. She give him the address for the welfare office. She reaches into John McCain’s pocket and pulls out another $20. She gives the homeless person $5 and keeps $15 for administrative fees. She smiles.
Next homeless person they encounter, Barrack Obama decides its his turn for action. Her embraces the homeless person. He tells him to have hope and that change is coming. He smiles.
That’s the difference between candidates.
Aesop, you forgot the part where John McCain pours a bucket of toxic sludge into the homeless guy’s lungs and then pummels him about the face and neck and then refuses to give him a job because he doesn’t have a fixed address or a good credit rating.
And Hillary would be reaching in Cindy McCain’s pocket, not John’s. John doesn’t have that kind of money to be throwing around.
The other thing I forgot to mention is the only people in this story get tax stimulus checks are the homeless.
Aesop, you forgot the part where Obama then sips a glass of Chardonay wine, cups his hand and farts in it- and smells it- then a warm smug feeling overwhelms him as he reassures himself that empty platitudes really do stike a chord with the poor. He also recognizes that he has never created a job for anyone, so he has no idea how to help the guy find work, but that’s okay. Obama just takes another whiff from his cupped hand and says again- change is coming!
Funny thing, George, is that McCain also never created a job for anyone other than a bunch of Chinese operatives who “programmed” him in captivity in Vietnam. Maybe McCain would suggest that the homeless guy marry an heiress whom he could later call a “trollop” and a “c*&t” in front of a number of people.
George, rather sensory for 8AM on a Friday.
LB, none has ever created a job. Hillary would like to create a million new federal hack positions with her healthcare plan, however.
George, the GOP falsely smears Obama as a Muslim. But they also smear him as a “Chardonnay-drinking liberal.” Only Muslims don’t drink alcohol, especially the fundamentalists. So I think the GOP needs to work on making its slurs more consistent.
Aesop-Does Barry also say “One “.Or hasn’t that campaign officially begun ?LB,I cringe every time you make mention of programing.I think you’re starting to believe it.
And, Aesop, Hillary created a “job.” It was under the desk in the Oval Office.
Larry, YAP’s right. We need you and your network of insiders to get us the real scoop on whether McCain underwent psychological programming when he was in captivity.
I think it’s an attractive hypothesis. It might explain a lot of his abberant behavior and his temper.
Larry, we need your nose for news.
why should hillary quit the race now.Let the rest of the states and PRhave their say then see what happens.Has everyone forgot that the slime ball Kennedy stayed until the convention and he was 800 delegates behind carter,and from the looks of things didn’t hurt his political life at all but of course he believes in do as I say, not do as I did.
I am changing my party to the gop the dems are judas and I am sick of them,
Pat,
You don’t really want to compare HRC to Ted Kennedy do you? That is a really slippery slope.
Ted Kennedy represents EVERYTHING that is wrong with American politics yet the Peoples Republic of Taxachussets keep sending him back to Washington along with degenerates Frank and Stubbs.
Larry, have you spoken to Arlen Spector about dropping this NFL thing? He is starting to sound like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory (or LB with the programming thing)
Welcome to the GOP Pat! It’s a great place and we’re happy to have you. I’d offer you a glass of Chardonay, but given my earlier comments we’re only serving Merlot today. However, we own a winery and produce great quantities of Chardonay and secretly enjoy it. We also profit by selling it to the growing number of smug fart-smelling San Francisco liberal intellectuals, who buy it from us with other people’s tax money.
To those who doubt that John McCain was programmed in Vietnam/China, think about it. If you’re the Red Menace and you capture a high value prisoner whose father is a ranking military officer with political insider ties, what are you going to do with the prisoner? Feed him tea and crumpets? He’s a Chinese sleeper agent. If elected, he’ll capitulate to Red China’s policy demands.
George, what’s “Chardonay”?
George-leo drinks mad dog 20/20,he just votes for the chardonay elitist like barry obama and john kerry.
JR, the “MD” is for Mogen David. Stop it with the anti-Semetic remarks.
Leo-My guess is that the “Manchurian Candidate ” had a profound effect on you.The reality is that historically.there’s no love lost between Vietnam & China .And while war may make strange bedfellows,the degree of cooperation probably didn’t exceed shipping & an air base sanctuary.If you insisted he’d been sent to Russia & beaten for his knowledge of the A-4 (or A-6 ,whatever )I wouldn’t argue.But then he would’ve been shipped off to some Gulag & we’d never have heard of him again.
YBP, you can cut out that masking propaganda. You’re just trying to throw Larry off the scent of a BIG SCOOP. Besides, we all know that one red is the same as another. The Republicans taught us that.
I don’t think McCain was programmed. If anything he was scrambled.
Scrambled-pun intended ?
Leo. I hope you’re kidding about the programmed stuff, that’s just not right and is disrespectful to his, his father’s, and grandfather’s service to our country. The Vietnamese tried to exploit his stature by offering him early release, and he didnt take the deal. Making fun of his temper, his wife and policies are fair, but please don’t disparage an American Hero who’s service and sacrifice was significant and should not be distorted with lies any more than the crackpot lies that are being told about Obama.
Hey JR, I know you admire Chelsea, but McCain’s dauther is smart and also a fun party girl. Check out Meagan McCain’s blog! And of course Cindy McCain’s husky dog eyes are remarkable, and while she doesnt wear pants suits she is attractive, if your into what a Barbie doll’s mother might look like.
McCain programmed, huh? The Conservatists don’t trust him. The Liberals don’t like him. He’s a man without a country.
He got shotdown hotdogging after he got called back to base. He’s not so much a hero as stupid.
Can we send him back for re-programming?
YAP (YEP as LB affectionately calls you) you are right about the China/Vietnam lack of connection. Clearly sadistic NV and Russian interogators worked him over pretty good. I’m not buying this Manchurian Candidate thing. He may be programmed by his handlers but not the VC.
George, I’m just getting warmed up on McCain. American war hero? Hardly. Just wait until the swiftboating starts on him. Did you also know he was given posh accommodations and access to Vietnamese and Russian prostitutes while he was in VC “captivity” and giving up troop positions? That he denounced God and called for God to damn America? There’s a 527 group set to run ads about that. And about how he got a Purple Heart from contracting the clap from one of them and had a kid with one of them? Of course, the programming enters into it, too. He’d obviously enter into a policy of appeasement towards communist governments. After all, he did already say he’d talk to Hamas before he said Obama shouldn’t. Etc.
Hey, get me! I’m Karl Rove!
Oksy Leo, these comments might be from an imposter, but if they are from you, I definatley mis-judged you, and am not interested in further debate with someone who has that extreme, and in my view, unbalanced crakpot opinion about actual facts- best regards!
LB, have you left the reservation? Where did you read that crap?
George, maybe that is Birdflewover impersonating Leo. Sounds like her conspiracy ramblings.
BTW, I’d like to take a quick poll. Is there anyone else alive (besides JR of course) who finds Hillary “hot”? She’s built like a rugby player.
Cindy McCain maybe a Stepford Wife but she is attractive for 50-something.
I agree McCain’s wife is attractive,but Hillary is very attractive too.
Sonny, remind me not to use me as my wingman.
You forgot a part for option three:
Hillary is taken out in a stretcher at the convention. She is nominated vice president.
Peter, you must be smoking a roach. Hillary will run for President and the Ren-dog for VP! Just ask Larry…
Larry, I may have to prosecute you for criminal neglect of this blog. You are leaving lame blogs out there for 3-5 days. Need to refresh blog topic daily and change the GD time, please.
the OOO Jim, I think sonny would be a perfect wingman, you would want him to take the wide hipped friend in a pants suit while you focused on the more attractive slimmer friend in a dress. Sonny is the ideal wingman!