Bill Clinton: I Thought I Told Ya That We Won't Stop
Sigh.
When he says "big," I hope he means as in "My wife needs, like, 85% of the vote to stay relevant and make a case to the remaining superdelegates" and not "winning by 10% will do." If he means the former he's in deep trouble.
I also hope that he isn't trying to play the "Obama's black and we all know white people won't vote for him in the primary" card, because this sure looks like he's going down that road:
As I've been telling people in the blogging world: I don't think the couple is racist, but I don't think that they realize that racist people vote. And as I've been telling people in the non-blogging world: with the exception of the 1980 Gubernatorial Election, the Clintons haven't lost an election since the mid-1970's (Bill won Attorney General, Arkansas Governor, President and re-election for President; Hillary is a twice-elected Senator of New York). Losing to a newcomer has got to be stinging them because they've never experienced it before.
Maybe they can ask George H. W. Bush for advice; after all, they were the "young bucks" who knocked off the "experienced candidate" Bush 41 back in the 1990's. Talk about full circle.
Former President Clinton traveled much of the state Thursday and Friday, hoping to inspire voters in out-of-the-way places like Sutton and Fayetteville to turn out in large enough numbers to silence some of the national speculation that his wife's bid for the Democratic nomination is essentially finished.
"The surveys show she's ahead, but we want a big vote," he told a huge crowd at Concord University that waited more than 90 minutes to see him Thursday night. "Don't you believe all those commentators telling you this race is over."
When he says "big," I hope he means as in "My wife needs, like, 85% of the vote to stay relevant and make a case to the remaining superdelegates" and not "winning by 10% will do." If he means the former he's in deep trouble.
I also hope that he isn't trying to play the "Obama's black and we all know white people won't vote for him in the primary" card, because this sure looks like he's going down that road:
The Clinton campaign is hoping that West Virginia — a state rich in the white, older, working class voters who have doggedly supported her — will provide a lift after the damaging results of Tuesday's primaries, in which she lost North Carolina and won Indiana by too small a margin to derail rival Barack Obama's bid for the nomination.
Speaking in gymnasiums and fairgrounds in rural towns, Bill Clinton returned repeatedly to the words "people like you and places like this" as the keys that could help his wife stop Obama's momentum.
As I've been telling people in the blogging world: I don't think the couple is racist, but I don't think that they realize that racist people vote. And as I've been telling people in the non-blogging world: with the exception of the 1980 Gubernatorial Election, the Clintons haven't lost an election since the mid-1970's (Bill won Attorney General, Arkansas Governor, President and re-election for President; Hillary is a twice-elected Senator of New York). Losing to a newcomer has got to be stinging them because they've never experienced it before.
Maybe they can ask George H. W. Bush for advice; after all, they were the "young bucks" who knocked off the "experienced candidate" Bush 41 back in the 1990's. Talk about full circle.
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