Did Bill Clinton just fill out an entrance application for the VRWC?
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Because he's certainly starting to talk the talk:
Pieced together from the former president’s public remarks at his wife’s campaign events and a private conversation last week with top donors to her campaign, the theory goes something like this: After Hillary recovered from a string of losses to rival Barack Obama with March 4 wins in Texas and Ohio, powerful forces conspired to pressure the superdelegates who will decide the nomination to back Obama by discouraging her supporters from voting and trying to hide evidence proving she would fare better than Obama against presumptive GOP nominee John McCain
While the former president has offered parts of this theory publicly, he fleshed it out more explicitly during a conference call last week with maxed-out donors to his wife’s campaign, a recording of which has been obtained by Politico.
After rattling off a series of poll numbers showing Hillary Clinton faring better than Obama against McCain, Bill Clinton told donors: “We are in the strongest conceivable position electorally and not in a good fix with the superdelegates, because they have felt all the pressure from the Obama side, from the media, from the MoveOn crowd — who they think is an automatic ATM machine for everybody for life. So, they’re reluctant to take on all that.”
Interesting how life goes, isn't it? The Left creates MoveOn.org to help President Clinton out of a jam that he richly deserved, and had nobody to blame but himself for. And now, ten years later, it's a vicious, "progressive" attack group dedicated to (among other things) wiping out all traces of the one foreign policy success that President Clinton could point to - the salvation of the Kurds*. Guess the lesson here was that H.P. Lovecraft was right: you shouldn't call up anything that you can't put down.
Moe Lane
I want to be there when the light dawns in Hillary's eyes. When does it occur to her that her most vocal and well funded opposition exists solely because her husband couldn't keep his pants zipped?
Fortuna Favet Fortibus
between the Democratic Party and Moveon.org develops after the election. Their positon will, of course, be strengthened should Obama win. The real question is what will their status be if Obama loses??
My take is that the 'elders' of the party will distance themselves but not enough to marginalize them. That will be tricky! Too much distance would splinter the party and give the Democrats a minority party status for a long time.
omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina