It just dawned on me this morning as I was switching channels to get away from these talking heads on these Morning Shows. You do realize, they don't call them Morning News, because then they might acutally be expected to report NEWS as opposed to gracing us with their opinions and entertainment (if that's what you call it), however biased they may be. Even they have come to realize the truth, that Hillary can become the Democratic nominee.
The talking heads went with the Obama theme that we were hearing for so many weeks by the Obama surrogates, asking Hillary to drop out of the Presidential campaign to turn it over to Obama, instead of him having to campaign and fight for the nomination, the night Hillary won Indiana. A funny thing to do when someone wins a primary election and there are still so many more states yet to vote.
But it became pretty clear this morning why. With the remaining states yet to vote, the polling data with support for the candidates and the realization that it will be the Super Delegates that will have to choose who the nominee will be, they know Hillary stands a good chance at being the Democratic nominee and therefore the next President of the United States.
It becomes clear their intention, when they keep overlooking that little bit of fact when they continue their obvious messaging. In all their claims to support why THEY are trying to influence our elections by claiming Hillary should "drop out", they never mention the fact that as long as Hillary is a candidate, Obama cannot win the amount of pledged delegates needed to win the nomination either.
And despite all of their attacking and false claims, in reality, it seems Camp Obama are the only ones that were not prepared to go the distance and to have everyone's voice heard, trying to stop the election and not wanting to agree to a solution to count Michigan and Floridas votes.
The decision for the Democratic nominee will be for who is the best candidate, who has the best chance to uphold the principles and get passed the legislation and make policy, and who has the best chance at winning the election. That is the the decision the pledged and automatic (super) delegates have to decide, because the amount of pledged delegates won won't be enough to secure the nomination, AND even if one did, that doesn't necessarily determine the nominee, which is why we have automatic (super) delegates.
Now the simple reason the media has taken this path could simply be out of pure ego. That they chose to annoint Obama from the beginning, pushing him and protecting the news they actually reported on. Just like their quick rush to put under the rug the "Wright" issue when it first came up. FOX made them address it, looking bad that they weren't covering this outrageous piece of news. They've refused to cover the Rezko issue or the Ayers issue. The media brushed aside the entire secret assurances by Camp Obama to Canada on NAFTA that it is "just campaign rhetoric", as a Canada issue. They ignored all the contraversial statements by Mrs. Obama. They tried to quickly make Obama's views about small town citizens accross the country as a one word sound bite [bitter].
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration and the Bush Administration and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And its not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."-Obama
And then, they actually had to deal with the "Wright" contraversy, again. But they now see the obvious staring at them in the face. And only if they succeed to take out Hillary, with all this baggage Obama has and the fact that it will be the Automatic (Super) delegates that decide who best to win the Presidency, they know Hillary stands the best chance.
Surely they knew the moment an Obama surrogate and popular pundit, Donna Brazile, made the outrageous statement that Obama didn't need "white blue-collar voters" or the "Hispanic" voters to win the election, sealed his fate. It was symbolic of the events. Obama does not stand a chance at winning the presidency and therefore the nomination, unless it was only by default.
BRAZILE: Well, Lou, I have worked on a lot of Democratic campaigns, and I respect Paul. But, Paul, you're looking at the old coalition. A new Democratic coalition is younger. It is more urban, as well as suburban, and we don't have to just rely on white blue-collar voters and Hispanics. We need to look at the Democratic Party, expand the party, expand the base and not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
But isn't that exactly what she just did with that outrageous comment? Again, the same type of talk we were hearing from Obama early in the campaign that mature voters were from the "old generation", "generation past". (more of that UNIFYING talk).
Maybe too, Brazile was showing her bitterness that she knows Obama won't get the nomination, so she could take her last pot shot at the voters who are not supporting Obama, knowing he cannot win the presidency without this support.
But one thing is for sure and no doubt the reasons the media has put out their last ditch effort to get Hillary to "drop out", even reaching the desperate measure of using poor Robin Meade on Headline News to partake in this endeavor, considering the media onslaught against Hillary for these past many months. We can't forget their foaming mouths choking when Hillary won New Hampshire in early January. But Hillary has been winning all these elections, despite the media's and talking heads effort.
If it wasn't clear before this campaign that Hillary is a fighter and can win against what ever the opposition throws at her, it is now.
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