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Some kids went through hell at Camp Crystal Lake in the summer of 1979. By “hell,” I mean a crazy person named Pamela Sue Voorhees murdered them. Pamela was still smarting from the death of her son, Jason, in 1957. The kid supposedly drowned in the lake while the camp counselors were having a cabin party, enjoying pot, alcohol and each other’s genitals. Pamela then murdered a couple of the counselors and the place was shut down.

For years, she lived near the camp, watching to make sure it would never open again. See, Pamela was trying to save any innocent children from meeting the same death as her precious Jason. (He was a lunatic, by the way.) In 1979, when it appeared the camp would open again, Pamela killed seven people. She did this to save others. It’s what good people do. But eventually, Alice Hardy cut her head off with a machete. As far as the Democratic Primary is concerned, Hillary has been trying to save Democrats from the doom of nominating Obama. Thankfully, we have finally reached the point where Hillary Clinton meets her demise on the lake beach. All horrible monsters meet their doom, just ask Ghidorah.

It’s been obvious, for months, to anything with a brain in its head (including rabbits) that Hillary was finished. She lost the race some time ago, but decided to continue on in a Voorhees charge for the nomination. Now signals are coming from her campaign that the end is nigh. On Sunday night, after a small island a couple hundred miles from Florida, which is not allowed to vote in the general election and is not even a state, voted, the two candidates exchanged a phone call. Nobody knows what was said. The Obama camp claims he called to congratulate her. Right. He called to congratulate her on Puerto Rico after over 45 primary elections without a call exchanged. Uh huh.

Now, a phone call from an opponent is not much. Trust me, I’ve gotten quite a few in my life that don’t mean shit. (I'm looking at you, Ron Jeremy.) But there are other signs, like a fateful email went out on Monday night to all Clinton advance staffers.


There are strong signs the Clinton campaign may be preparing for the end.

Late last night an email went out to advance staffers -- the folks who usually prepare sites for future Clinton campaign events. The memo indicated that there was nothing on Sen. Hillary Clinton's schedule beyond a speech scheduled for the AIPAC conference on Wed morning in Washington.

The email told staffers this was not goodbye but there were no plans and therefore no locations where their services would be needed for now.


Certainly one could say there are no more primaries, so why would she plan any events? But anyone who would say that is a dipshit. If Hillary were to continue on, she would need to make her case day after day, hour after hour, until the convention. It appears she has no plan to do so. Good.

Oh, and Hillary has asked her staffers to get the books in order.


Clinton Campaign staffers and former campaign staffers are being urged by the Clinton campaign's finance department to turn in their outstanding expense receipts by the end of the week. That's a sign, to them, that the campaign wants to get its affairs in order soon. If Clinton were staying in the race, there'd be no real reason to collect these receipts now; she'd still be raising and spending money from the same primary campaign account. The campaign is in arrears to the tune of about $11 million.


That’s what you do when you’re wrapping it up. Next, Bill Clinton also made an interesting statement yesterday in South Dakota.


I want to say also that this may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind. I thought I was out of politics, 'til Hillary decided to run. But it has been, one of the greatest honors of my life to go around and campaign for her for president.


That’s a “good bye” speech. Thanks for ruining your legacy, Bill, and don’t let anything smash your asshole on the way out, or whatever that cliché is. Go back to your life on the "Fuck Jet."

Hillary has also planned an event for Tuesday night in New York. It will be the first night since the primary began that she has not held an event in a state that is voting, or will be voting. Invitations have been sent out to staffers to come to New York.


They can use a plane ticket to fly to NY for a party on Tuesday night where Clinton will address supporters.


All of her top donors and fundraisers have also been invited to the event, yet her campaign continues to say it’s just a final primary party. Too bad all the donors aren't on board with that explanation.


"This has never happened before," one donor said, referring to the personalized request by email to attend the event in New York Tuesday night.


Of course Hillary and her people continue to state that they are going to fight on until there is a nominee, just as Pamela Voorhees probably would have said she was going to keep killing – until her head was removed from her body. If Hillary doesn’t pull out on her own, the Democratic Party is sharpening the machete.


The remaining Democratic senators who have yet to pick a side in the party's presidential nomination fight will meet this afternoon at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's headquarters on Capitol Hill to plot strategy for the coming days, according to Democratic sources.


And her big political peeps are telling her to take a walk. One of her campaign’s national co-chairs, former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, laid it out.


It does appear to be pretty clear that Senator Obama is going to be the nominee. After Tuesday's contests, she needs to acknowledge that he's going to be the nominee and quickly get behind him.


And superdelegates are coming out and telling Lady Voorhees to back her shit down.


"It would be most beneficial if we resolved this nomination sooner rather than later," said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, a high-profile superdelegate who backs Clinton. "The more time we have to get through a general-election period and the more time we have to prepare in advance of the convention, the better."


"She'll do the right thing for America, and I don't think we're going to fight this at the convention," said Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell, a top Clinton supporter and party superdelegate, speaking on CBS. "Because even were we to win it, unless it's going to change enough delegates for Sen. Clinton to get the nomination, then it would be a fight that would have no purpose."


Alice Huffman, a member of the rules panel and a superdelegate committed to Clinton, said she would not support an appeal if Obama had clearly won the delegate fight.

"What's the point for a challenge, if a challenge doesn't change the status of anything?" asked Huffman.


Hillary may not bail on Tuesday night, but she will be gone by the end of the week. Her last chance to grab the nomination was dashed when the Democratic Party decided this weekend to give Obama more than zero Michigan delegates. Everyone knows it’s over now. That’s why her supporters are losing their fucking minds.



The most telling piece of information came yesterday morning on a conference call with the Clinton campaign and her top fundraisers.


Clinton strategist Harold Ickes spoke in very conciliatory terms about Obama, in contrast to his tougher rhetoric in public and on television, according to sources. He told the participants that Clinton wants to "significantly" help Obama, but he did not go so far as saying that she will announce withdrawal -- that is the prerogative of the candidate.

Ickes told the group to "take a deep breath" and let Clinton proceed in her own fashion.


Um. Done that.

If you live in California, go vote today. No on 98. It's very important. Very, very important. - FTR

 

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LostLucy

LostLucy

USA
December 2006

JUN 05, 2008 12:06 PM

They were friends when Obama came to the Senate in 2004.

The divisiveness is primarily between supporters, not the candidates, and it will die down.

Look to see her lead the Senate and congress on health care reform. SHe can do more in the Senate than she can as VP.

cthulhu

cthulhu

Miami Beach, FL
April 2008

JUN 05, 2008 02:21 PM

coyotemike said:

cthulhu said:
If the american people choose to elect McCain over Obama, then they deserve what they get! Another 4 years of policies which mirror Bush policy will further weaken our country. Obama is the way to go. Pissed off femi-nazis can cry all they want about how their Fuhrer has been vanquished, but that devil bitch needs to come around and do what is best for the party and ultimately what is best for the country! She actually requested for Obama to offer her the VP spot in public so she can refuse it and also asked them to not offer it to another woman at all. How is that empowering to women? She's going for her own personal power hunger. She does not give a fuuuuuuck about women and their struggles in this chauvinist society. Don't believe the hype.

-Cthulhu



It's over. Time to lose the anger.



Surprisingly, there wasn't any anger in that statement. I guess it's all in how you read it. I feel great, marvelous even.

-Cthulhu

gfvella

gfvella

Australia
November 2004

JUN 05, 2008 07:54 PM

Nolan_Void said:
It's easy to say shit like that when you get caught up in matters that have grown to feel personal to you.



No worries mate, I'm not actually really fussed, but we so often see really interesting debates degenerate. I find the passions that people like yourself and LostLucy being to this debate interesting, which is why I was pushing the topic.

I suppose one reason for this is that Australians generally find the American Kennedy complex somewhat hard to believe. The old joke is what do you call an honest politician? One who hasn't been caught lying yet. We have the lowest view of our political leaders of any democratic nation so the sort of adulation and hope being placed on Obama is a bit weird. Alternately all the, admittedly true, things being said about Clinton draw a yawn and the response: well yes she is a nasty, lying and conniving bitch; but she's a politician mate, what do you expect? wink

gfvella

gfvella

Australia
November 2004

JUN 05, 2008 08:02 PM

LostLucy said:
I swear most of this misunderstanding is because one of you in Australia has not had the chance to observe in great detail, as we have, the scandalous personal attacks (How about those TV ads in Pennsylvania that said "Obama... Osama..." put out by the Clinton campaign.

I PLEA with you gfvella to comprehend that we've seen things you haven't. There is not a great left wing conspiracy against HRC.

p.s. we don't mean to be rude.



I'm really not that soft, really I'm not biggrin Thank you for the consideration however.

I suppose at the bottom of it I am concerned that the passions roused in the Obama-Clinton primary will be impossible to overcome. I realise the Clinton's ran a vitriolic campaign as the going got tough, but it is also true that a lot of Hilliary's supporters have real issues with Obama and they have to be taken seriously. Like this:


Pissed off femi-nazis can cry all they want about how their Fuhrer has been vanquished, but that devil bitch needs to come around and do what is best for the party and ultimately what is best for the country!



This is the way to loose the next election, so passions have to be cooled like bean says or McCain wins.

LostLucy

LostLucy

USA
December 2006

JUN 05, 2008 08:05 PM

When she drops out and endorses him, Obama supporters will also be generous and patient.

Some people may go for McCain for a number of reasons, but they just said on MSNBC that 63% of her voters will go for Obama already, and the rest are undecided or McCain.

It is June. There are 5 months to go until the General Election.

gfvella

gfvella

Australia
November 2004

JUN 05, 2008 08:06 PM

LostLucy said:
Look to see her lead the Senate and congress on health care reform. SHe can do more in the Senate than she can as VP.
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Very much agree. They are professional politicians and know how the game is played. This is a good article on the VP selection issues and why Hilliary would be a bad choice:
Don't choose Clinton: Carter

LostLucy

LostLucy

USA
December 2006

JUN 05, 2008 08:17 PM

gfvella said:

LostLucy said:
Look to see her lead the Senate and congress on health care reform. SHe can do more in the Senate than she can as VP.
]



Very much agree. They are professional politicians and know how the game is played. This is a good article on the VP selection issues and why Hilliary would be a bad choice:
Don't choose Clinton: Carter



I love that Carter had the nerve to come out and say it.

FearTheReaper

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

JUN 05, 2008 10:47 PM

alaric said:
Its not about real (swift boaters real?) its about what people believe and how many times they hear it and who says it. That is the sad truth so the important variable become who covers it, how much and in what way.

If its MSNBC, the wall st. journal (who already mentioned it), ABC, CNN then Obama is in trouble. Obama is in trouble. We are in trouble.

And it is important because non affiliated independents constitute a large voting block in most states. McCain has a very strong standing with this block already. Obama's position, in the polls i read, has been slipping. Moderate fiscal republicans are also an issue, they are up for grabs.

And then there is the issue of women, hillary voters, and hispanics. Barack supporters, especially the ones in the main stream media, have done a very good job of alienating these people.

Now take some perspective and ask youself this: would the GOP start with their heaviest guns on the very first day of obama's nomination? One generally saves these things until september or october. That this was leaked so early suggests the GOP has a lot of ammunition.



Good to see you Democrats are still running with the victim/fear torch.

FearTheReaper

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

JUN 06, 2008 09:54 AM

Surprise.


Superdelegate says Clinton campaign used 'divisive tactics'

Rep. Rob Andrews, who supported Hillary Clinton throughout the primary season, disclosed he received a phone call shortly before the April 22 Pennsylvania primary from a top member of Clinton's organization and that the caller explicitly discussed a strategy of winning Jewish voters by exploiting tensions between Jews and African-Americans.

"There have been signals coming out of the Clinton campaign that have racial overtones that indeed disturb me," Andrews said at his campaign headquarters in Cherry Hill Tuesday night after he lost his bid for the U.S. Senate nomination. "Frankly, I had a private conversation with a high-ranking person in the campaign ... that used a racial line of argument that I found very disconcerting. It was extremely disconcerting given the rank of this person. It was very disturbing."



Link

Mr_Matt_

Mr_Matt_

Hollywood, FL
July 2005

JUN 06, 2008 10:53 AM

He should have written a book.

Nolan_Void

Nolan_Void

Salisbury, NC
July 2004

JUN 06, 2008 01:03 PM

Mr_Matt_ said:
He should have written a book.



Give it time.

Alfaduetto

Alfaduetto

Greeneville, TN
May 2004

JUN 07, 2008 01:00 PM

Folks she only suspended. That means that whatever demise Barrack meets before the convention, she only has to flip the switch. The timetable is more more aggressive than I ever suspected. Watcha back O, she's not supporting you at all, just buying time! puke

ckdexterhaven

ckdexterhaven

Redding, CA
December 2005

JUN 07, 2008 01:19 PM

Alfaduetto said:
Folks she only suspended. That means that whatever demise Barrack meets before the convention, she only has to flip the switch. The timetable is more more aggressive than I ever suspected. Watcha back O, she's not supporting you at all, just buying time! puke


Ugh. Give it a rest, please. Obama is going to be the nominee, he's going to be on the ballot in November, and he's probably going to be the next President. If you want to get technical about it, John Edwards never officially ended his campaign. He suspended his just like Hillary has suspended hers. Is he planning to take out Obama as well?

LostLucy

LostLucy

USA
December 2006

JUN 07, 2008 07:42 PM

^^^There are many people who say never count a Clinton out. I think she will play this wisely bc she wants to keep and enhance the power she does have, but I believe this is also a valid perspective that should be allowed, if said respectfully.

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