Sen. [and superdelegate] Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today called on Hillary Rodham Clinton to drop out of the presidential race, saying there is no way the New York senator can wrest the nomination from her rival Barack Obama."There is no way that Sen. Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination," Leahy, an Obama supporter, said in an interview with Vermont Public Radio this morning. "She ought to withdraw, and she ought to be backing Sen. Obama."
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With the two senators battling for support from voters and superdelegates in the coming primaries, Obama picked up a new endorsement today from an unexpected source: Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), who had earlier said he would stay neutral until Pennsylvania's April 22 primary.
Well, she's not going to drop out. At least not yet. And I don't quite understand what the sense of a nominating convention is if there's only one person available to nominate. Seems like a collosal waste of money to me.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Convention, hell. I wonder why they even bother holding the election.
ReplyDeletei wonder myself sometimes. but i think it's to give us the illusion that we still have a democracy. also, people seem to relish in tradition and gala events. banana republics are big on pomp and circumstance.
ReplyDeleteand that could be the same reason they still hold conventions. lots of money flows, and people think something's actually happening. and that they're part of it.
are we too jaded?
No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
ReplyDelete- Jane Wagner (for Lily Tomlin), The Search for Signs of Inteligent Life in the Universe, 1985