Bill Clinton: 'Cover up' hiding Hillary Clinton's chances
This shit is beginning to become really tiresome.
Former President Bill Clinton said that Democrats were more likely to lose in November if Hillary Clinton is not the nominee, and suggested some were trying to "push and pressure and bully" superdelegates to make up their minds prematurely.The simple truth is that the Democratic party has shown great patience with Hillary when she claimed that she and McCain were ready be Commander in Chief and that Obama was not. When she personally said that Florida and Michigan should not be counted and then compared not seating the Florida and Michigan delegates to the Florida recount, Zimbabwe's brutal "elections," the fight for women's suffrage, and the civil rights movement.
"I can't believe it. It is just frantic the way they are trying to push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out," Clinton said at a South Dakota campaign stop Sunday, in remarks first reported by ABC News.
Clinton also suggested some were trying to "cover up" Sen. Clinton's chances of winning in key states that Democrats will have to win in the general election.
" 'Oh, this is so terrible: The people they want her. Oh, this is so terrible: She is winning the general election, and he is not. Oh my goodness, we have to cover this up.' "
Clinton did not expound on who he was accusing.
Enough of this bullshit. No-one is now trying to force her from the race. It is so near the end that she should, of course, complete the election cycle.
But, when that is done, the super delegates will be asked to come off of that fence they have nailed themselves to, and give their vote to one of the candidates. And we all know what way that is going to go.
However, Bill is setting us up to see it as manifestly unfair if the super delegates do not choose Hillary for reasons that border on laughable.
Just what evidence points to the fact that Hillary is winning and Barack is not, Clinton chooses not to elaborate upon. She's certainly not winning the only measurement that counts, which is the delegate count.The former president added that his wife had not been given the respect she deserved as a legitimate presidential candidate.
"She is winning the general election today and he is not, according to all the evidence," Clinton said. "And I have never seen anything like it. I have never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running."
Most of us are simply tired of this now, we are willing to watch Hillary slog it out for another three weeks, although very few people can any longer see the point. But, if that's what she wants to do then that is what she must do.
However, Bill is also repeating the myth that Florida and Michigan must be seated or the Democrats will lose in November.
"And they're trying to get her to cry uncle before the Democratic Party has to decide what to do in Florida and Michigan," which Clinton said the party would need to do "unless we want to lose the election."The people of Florida and Michigan knew that their votes were not going to count before they even cast them, so why they should now feel disenfranchised is simply beyond me. And, as including them will not give Hillary a lead in the delegate count, one has to wonder why they are making such a big deal out of this.
However, Bill is now claiming that Hillary is winning "according to all the evidence", which simply means that the Clinton camp have left planet Earth. I can't find a simple way to make that statement true. She's losing the delegate count and the popular vote, so quite what measurement Bill is using to make that astonishing statement is simply beyond me.
He's claiming that certain polls say that Hillary would do better against McCain than Obama, and this might be true, but it doesn't change the way this election should be decided. However, Bll sees a cover-up at play here.
"If you notice, there hasn't been a lot of publicity on these polls I just told you about," he said. "It is the first time you've heard it? Why do you think that is? Why do you think? Don't you think if the polls were the reverse and he was winning the Electoral College against Senator McCain and Hillary was losing it, it would be blasted on every television station?"He's missing the fact that the election isn't decided on whether or not polls predict that Hillary will do better or worse against McCain than Obama, it is decided by who the people vote for.
The Clinton's have been trying to change the way this election is decided ever since she failed to win outright on Super Tuesday. But to claim there is a cover up, to stop her winning an election which she has long ago lost, is simply being fantastical.
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