Hillary Clinton's obviously the more popular choice in West Virginia, but their senior senator is lining up behind Obama part of a recent flood of superdelegate endorsements that's made it more inevitable than ever that he'll be the nominee.
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Byrd Endorses Obama
19 May 2008 12:47 pm
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I think it would add something if Robert Byrd wore his old Ku Klux Klan uniform when he made the announcement. With the hood on.
What are the gradations of "inevitable"?
I think it would add something if Robert Byrd wore his old Ku Klux Klan uniform when he made the announcement
Now that might have actually helped. He could have said we're havin' a lynchin' contest - whoever gets the most votes gets the highest limb.
I think it would add something if Robert Byrd wore his old Ku Klux Klan uniform when he made the announcement. With the hood on.
I don't think it would fit. Dude's like four feet tall now.
Endorsements at this point are meaningless, or are at best worth "1" regardless of the name attached. Even the Edwards endorsement was too little, too late. There's a reason that they don't let you bet on a horse in the last 5 seconds of the race.
Never let go of that "Byrd was in the Klan" line. I hear his mother wore combat boots, too.
Unlike the Klan affiliation Byrd has yet to issue multiple apologies and otherwise act in opposition to the interests of mothers-who-wear-combat-boots.
There are rules for the DNC & Obama.
When it comes to counting out MI and FL, Obama and the DNC are all for it.
Guess what! There are rules for superdelegates too. These are projections and not actual vote counts. The "rules" state that the superdelegates cannot vote until the first delegate votes are tallied at the convention.
This is all spin by the pundits and Obama.
Oh come on, when you were a Klansman you are going to be made fun about that the rest of your life. You can't be a psychorapist, get medication and treatment and not expect people to still talk about you behind your back.
This has to be the most ironic endorsement yet. I wonder what would happen to young Byrd's brain if someone went back in time and showed him a video of him endorsing Obama now.
made it more inevitable than ever that he'll be the nominee.
I admit I'm not sure he can lose at this point, but if Matthew Yglesias says he's inevitable, I'm not sure how he can win either.
I just hope this doesn't mean Obama's going to be assassinated before the convention or something to resolve the spatio-temporal paradox of both having enough delegate support to win and being doomed by MY's prediction of his inevitable victory.
"Guess what! There are rules for superdelegates too. These are projections and not actual vote counts. The "rules" state that the superdelegates cannot vote until the first delegate votes are tallied at the convention.
This is all spin by the pundits and Obama.
Posted by EWard | May 19, 2008 1:36 PM"
So you're holding out that the superdelegates will decide at the convention to overturn the leader in pledged delegates and the majority vote and risk a massive internal backlash? How delusional are you? At this point you're confusing real life for a game of Candyland.
that's made it more inevitable than ever that he'll be the nominee.
Indeed, he will be the most unique nominee the country has ever seen.
Also EWard, no one is arguing that the superdelegates should brake the rules and vote right when Obama gets his next 16 pledged delegates, so you're just propping up a strawman because you're not smart enough to argue with someone else's actual argument. However, part of being good at politics is recognizing reality. What do you plan for Obama and Clinton to be doing between the last ballot being counted in PR and the convention? Still going at each other to get superdelegates to switch sides while there were no more voters left to campaign to? That's just being silly. Superdelegates are meek and are really scared of facing the wrath that would emerge if the candidate with more votes and delegates still lost. The only way this goes to Clinton between now and August is if Obama dies or he is discovered to be a serial killer terrorist child molester rapist. At some point you have to bring yourself back to reality. If Clinton is still pounding away after losing after the last vote is cast, she will just be proving to the majority of Democrats that she cares more about herself than the party. There will be quite a few Clinton supporters who will turn against her at that point for the good of the party. When you're digging yourself into a hole, digging even more is the Homer Simpson approach and digging up isn't going to work either.
The "rules" state that the superdelegates cannot vote until the first delegate votes are tallied at the convention.
The rules also state that the elected delegates can't vote until the convention, so the count of elected delegates is just as much of a projection.
Which is an equally-meaningless point.
Political Savage, maybe the Obama campaign figured Byrd's support would have more effect on superdelegates than it would have had on voters in West Virginia.
"maybe the Obama campaign figured Byrd's support would have more effect on superdelegates than it would have had on voters in West Virginia."
Maybe so, but it certainly couldn't have hurt for the WV voters to see their beloved institution siding with this strange new fellow, especially given Byrd's background as a segregationist.
Not to mention the fact that Ward can't tell the difference between a superdelegate ENDORSING a candidate prior to the convention and a superdelegate VOTING for a candidate at the actual convention.
A true Clinton ketamine addict.
Barack Obama will win the nomination, but before the Clinton’s began their end-run around the 22-Amendment, both knew there was a fatal flaw. The Clintons knew their role in bringing about CSUMB (the Clinton College). They appointed the corrupt Vermont Congressman who would run it, and even helped select who would graduate from it. The Clintons in fact orchestrated the entire process. “Bill and Hillary Clinton have always believed that they’re very different than the rest of us … they’ve learned one important and consistent lesson: that rules don’t matter. Rules don’t apply to them. Rules are for other people,” writes Dick Morris. Chances are you’ve heard nothing of CSUMB. Which begs the question: why? http://theseedsof9-11.com
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Uh, why didn't he do this before the West Virginia primary? Maybe he would have helped Obama close the gap some. It's clear he was going to lose that state but it seems like it is a week late.
Posted by Political Savage | May 19, 2008 12:54 PM