You May Say I'm A Dreamer…

by: Alegre

Mon Aug 11, 2008 at 21:50:25 PM EDT

Could Senator Clinton win the Democratic presidential nomination at the last minute...

Buyer's remorse?  It's possible.  Superdelegates have got to be paying close attention to BHO's performance since he declared Mission Accomplished, and they can't be happy with what they're seeing.  

The paper starts out by listing the many reasons BHO should be well ahead of McCain at this point.  But we all know that's not where things stand and when BHO faces off with McCain we'll see why he avoided one on one debates with Hillary after the other Dems dropped out.  Read on...

Hillary's Surprise

Is all this enough to prompt Democratic super-delegates to re-think their allegiance to Mr. Obama and hand the nomination to Senator Clinton? If you count Michigan, Mrs. Clinton won the reported popular vote in the Democratic primaries and caucuses, 17.8 million to 17.5 million, and won many of the hotly contested big battleground states that the Democrats need to win in November - Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, New York, New Jersey, Florida. She won Massachusetts even after Senators Kennedy and Kerry endorsed Mr. Obama.

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Take away the delegates Mr. Obama has by virtue of the endorsement of Senator Edwards, who has newly admitted deceiving the electorate about the adultery he committed while his wife lay stricken with cancer, and the delegate gap is even narrower. Even Mr. Obama doesn't have enough delegates to win the nomination without the super-delegates, so there wouldn't be anything terribly exceptional about the super-delegates putting her rather than him over the top.

Probably all this isn't enough - at least not yet. But what if, by the time the convention rolls around, Mr. Obama isn't just running neck and neck with Mr. McCain but is lagging by, say, five percentage points, or if Mr. Obama makes a big blunder with his choice of a running mate, or some other campaign stumble? Then expect the whispers already swirling among Clinton supporters to turn into a full-fledged roar.

Mrs. Clinton's Tuesday keynote address, scheduled for the Tuesday of the Convention, could then start to sound less like an endorsement speech and more like a final campaign plea. If it's a real hit, anything can happen. Expect, too, the well-timed release of some public poll showing Mrs. Clinton doing better than Mr. Obama in matchups against Mr. McCain in battleground states. Already the Clinton campaign is surfacing, through the forthcoming issue of the Atlantic Monthly, a memo portraying Mr. Obama as "not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values."

Ya know I haven't really been paying attention to those campaign emails.  Given all the challenges being faced by working folk all around this country (loss of jobs, lost benefits and healthcare, loss of homes to the bank, skyrocketing gas prices, rising food and prescription pricess...) I figured my time was better spent on other things.  Some of us would rather look forward and fight for the one candidate who can fix what Bush broke, rather than dwell on the petty BS of part of the campaign from months ago.

But this editorial raises a kick-@ss point that I never really considered - the Atlantic's yellow journalism (and all the gleeful chatter it's generated on the Net) has pushed Hillary and her historic run for the White House back on to the front pages.  And that's a good thing if you want the delegates and supers to pay attention.

The paper concludes with the following...

We have no illusions about the ultra-long-shot of Mrs. Clinton's chances of actually emerging as the Democratic nominee, but they are not technically impossible, as Mr. Obama is no doubt aware. ...  Mr. Obama may think the primary campaign is over, but Mrs. Clinton's die-hard supporters still itch for a last-minute surprise.

That last bit is the understatement of this election you guys.  And I'm guessing I'm not alone when I say that.  Only we're not just sitting around hoping for it.  We're working hard to make our dream a reality.

It seems BHO's former rivals are spending more time on the front pages than he is lately.  Last week it was Edwards, and that Atlantic article re Hillary's campaign emails just hit the net this afternoon.

The longer BHO stays in Hawaii, the longer others will take the spotlight away from him.  I hope he gets in a good long visit with his grandmother.  I'm sure they've got a lot of catching up to do.  It's probably been ages since they've spent any quality time together.