Friday, June 6, 2008

Clinton campaign death watch (nearly completed)

Note that they're still at it, spinning fictions about how it is supposedly a fact that Senator Clinton "won" the "popular vote" vs Barack Obama:

"In her description this morning of the Obama/Clinton meeting at her house, Dianne Feinstein dropped in something that caught our eye. Bearing in mind that she is a Clinton supporter, Ms. Feinstein said that a big reason why Mrs. Clinton is justified in trying to protect “the issues that she cares about” and to see to it that her views are represented at the convention is that she “has the popular vote.” We checked back with Real Clear Politics, the chief source for these numbers. Real Clear breaks down the vote according to six methods (with Michigan, without Michigan, with the four caucus states where the vote is only estimated, and without those states, and combinations thereof). In three of the six tallies, Mr. Obama won; in the other three, Mrs. Clinton won."

Years from now, however, Hillary and her minions will be claiming that her victory in the popular vote was a "fact."

There's also this today, from Peggy Noonan--who, as she often does, nails it:

"We will hear a lot of tasteful tributes this weekend to Hillary Clinton's grit and fortitude. The Washington-based media may go a little over the top, but only out of relief. They know her well and recoil at what she stands for. They also know they don't like her, so to balance it out they'll gush. But this I believe is the truth: America dodged a bullet. That was the other meaning of the culminating events of this week. Mrs. Clinton would have been a disaster as president. Mr. Obama may prove a disaster, and John McCain may, but she would be. Mr. Obama may lie, and Mr. McCain may lie, but she would lie. And she would have brought the whole rattling caravan of Clintonism with her—the scandal-making that is compulsive, the drama that is unending, the sheer, daily madness that is her, and him. We have been spared this. Those who did it deserve to be thanked. May I rise in a toast to the Democratic Party....they threw off Clintonism. They threw off the idea that corruption is part of the game, an acceptable fact...They threw off the idea of inevitability. Mrs. Clinton didn't lose because she had no money or organization, she didn't lose because she had no fame or name, she didn't lose because her policies were unusual or dramatically unpopular within her party. She lost because enough Democrats looked at her and thought: I don't like that, I don't like the way she does it, I'm not going there. Most candidates lose over things, not over their essential nature. But that is what happened here. For all her accomplishments and success, it was her sketchy character that in the end did her in."