New York Times columnist David Brooks looks at Hillary Clinton’s ongoing campaign despite her slim (5% by some accounts) chance of winning the Democratic nomination for president, and comes away with some observations and questions:
When you step back and think about it, she is amazing. She possesses the audacity of hopelessness.
Why does she go on like this? Does Clinton privately believe that Obama is so incompetent that only she can deliver the policies they both support? Is she simply selfish, and willing to put her party through agony for the sake of her slender chance?
In other words, give it up, Hillary. Everyone can see that you’re putting personal ambition ahead of the party’s, let alone the country’s, best interests. You’re not wanted as the Democratic nominee. Go away.
Why should she throw in the towel when she still conceivably has a chance? I was very annoyed with Mitt Romney when he threw in the towel, having felt that he did it prematurely – and in my opinion disappointed a lot of people.
She still has a lot of support among women and the old Democratic base and she owes it to them to give it her best shot. After all, there are hundreds of “come from behind” stories in politics…Obama himself being one of them.
She should not allow herself to be bullied into quitting the race prematurely. Everyone should just behave themselves and let it play out.
Not to start stirring the pot….but reports are the Clinton camp is calling the superdelegates telling them that they will be committing “political suicide” if they go with Obama and that they will “either be on the President’s list or off it” depending on what they do.
Mazr…i think that was the same line he used on the interns to get them to “play along”.
But seriously, if true, I’ll have a lot more respect for some of the politicians if they are able to stand up to the Clinton pressure and vote for Obama. It’s time for a little backbone and independence from the establishment for many of them.
Maybe the Dems should worry about this fact… a demographic cohort that Democratic presidential candidates have lost in every election since 1964 – white males. From the PJ Star under G Will column 17 mar 2008
Isn’t the nomination of a candidate a part of the convention? I think it is great that there are two candidates who are still duking it out. Let the process decide the nominee!
Yours truly comes from a very political background and is one female that will not vote for Hillary Clinton if she was the only candidate in the race.
The Clinton’s are stinky smelly turds that need to be flushed out of the political system. Proof of what I say is that Ms. Clinton is willing to destroy whatever chance the Dems have of winning in order to continue her stupid fight and to dirty however she can her opponent. I want the Clintons and the Bushes to go away. Enough is enough.
First, she has as much right as anyone to try to win her party’s nomination as anyone else.
Second, I’d rather vote for Willie York.
She has lost the majority of states, PLEDGED delegates and votes. She has virtually no chance of winning by any of these standards and if anointed otherwise will simply destroy any reason for the party to use the word “Democratic”. Any candidate with integrity would have dropped out by now. This latest and pathetic story about sniper fire and deadly foreign duty has ruined any chance she might have had at faking integrity.
Ms. Clinton should bow out because she is beaten and has no chance of being elected President; if ever there was a chance for the Democratic Party to take the White House, this is the year, but not with her. People are seeing thru her and her Clinton machinery and want a clean break. If she were to get the nomination by pressurng super delegates ( and it will all come out), she will be soundly defeated and you will have at least four more years of Republicanism, and look where that has gotten us.
wacko, you just hit on the real problem. There is no such thing as “Republicanism”. McCain represents the views of some Republicans, but far from all. When will people wake up and start voting candidates and issues, instead of political partise?