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Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:20 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli
... But we in the Hillary Clinton traveling press corps were just alerted that the sign-up page for transportation and hotel rooms was updated for the coming week. Interestingly, it allows us to sign up for travel after June 3, the final primary day -- right up through June 6.

A sign of optimism? A sign she's not giving up anytime soon? "Sign up and see," was all Clinton spokesman Jay Carson said.

Carson later added, "There are a lot of places to go between now and November 4."

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If it wasn’t crystal clear before, it now is –unless they want a bloodbath in August and a defeat in November, THE SUPERDELEGATES MUST ACT NOW TO END THIS THING.
People are fools if they believe the Clintons are going to go away quietly.  This race is going to go to the convention and it's too bad, really...I can't stand her either, but she's the better candidate, people.  There is simply no substance to Obama.  
If Pelosi and Gore step in and say, "No," Hillary's toast, and her career in the Senate will be spent catching up, if New Yorkers even bother re-electing her at all. If she DOES go to the convention, she will go from being the most powerful first lady in history and the first woman to make a credible run for the White House to being a self-important, self-involved, self-serving hack of a politician who let ambition squander a brilliant and promising Senate career.
If I wake up in November to a republican in the white house, because this woman won't accept defeat when the final score card is in, I am going to be livid.  

Its one thing to stay on the playing field and finish the game....no problem.  Its another to demand to play in the Superbowl when you lost the playoffs.
There is no reason for Hillary to give the nom to obama- unless she wants Dems to lose in Nov.
What a nut case she is.  
Just proves the Clintons are still inhabiting that alternate universe they found an enterance into...
Our long national nightmare continues.  Sigh.
Sheri Wilson, Ft. Worth Texas: '...There are going to be some angry feminists (this one included), blue collar, middle class workers because of the way Hillary has been treated by Obama, his campaign people, and by his supporters....'

How do you feel about the way Hillary was treated by her HUSBAND ?

HE HUMILIATED HE with a never-ending series of adulterous sexual affairs....
How do you feel about that, Sheri ?

How do you feel about Hillary staying with Bill after the continual infidelities ?

Bill clinton has mistreated Hillary more than anyone else ever has....

Do you have a blind eye to that ?

How much of a feminist is Hillary if she rides on her (adulterous) husband's coat tails ?

What about all her ethical lapses ?
How you ever noticed them ?
Whitewater ? Filegate ? Travelgate ? Norman Hsu ? Peter Paul ? Sniper fire ? SCHIP creation ? Refugees in Macedonia ?

... If thine eye offends thee, pluck it out
This is her little way of trying to keep in the news...No one else talks about her....IT'S OVER
Obama 08

Here's a GREAT parody from Politico

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG1LLTYkn4I&eurl=http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
I guess you guys won't be taking a vacation anytime soon. Even though the primary season is over.

Mid season (election) MVP awards to ---

Chuck Todd
Keith Olbermann
Rachel Maddow
Domenico, Mark & everyone @ First Read for allowing a mature intelligent blog site for those of us who know full well what is at stake this November.

And for keeping us in the loop.
Oh, God help us! Would somebody please stop her before she hands the election to the Republicans??

No more Billary drama! Give us Barack Obama!
Does the sign up sheet have a place where it asks how much you are chipping in for expenses?
"We appear to have a lot of Obama supporters here.  As a Republican looking in, I have to ask:  What happens if Hillary somehow manages to get the nomination and convinces the Super Delegates to change sides and vote for her due to the electility argument?  I would have to assume that this scenario would be a total nightmare for the Democrats in November.  Will you all support Clinton if she becomes the nominee?"

Dear Curious:

For myself, I would have to answer "no".  I have never liked Hillary, from the first time that I saw her on "60 Minutes" when Bill was running for president.  

I dismissed Obama originally because I figured, like a lot of others, that Hillary had this locked up and it was all a show.  Only when Obama won Iowa did I take notice, and even then I didn't figure he'd get this far against the Clinton machine.

As a Michigander, I hate all of this...stuff.  I don't know how Hillary's supporters making idiots of themselves on international television solves anything.  However, she's run a p**s-poor campaign so far, so I am not surprised at this tactic.

As for voters being ignored - I stayed home because I did not want to vote in the Repub primary (although I thought about it) and because I knew (well, I thought I did) it didn't matter.  So, I am already being disenfranchised.  

I wish the SDs had the balls to end this, but they won't.  They won't impeach Bush, they certainly won't end this.
A little dose of reality here, please.  No matter which metric you use 2026 or higher, HRC still needs over 86% of ALL of the remaining delegates to secure the nomination.  

It's time to join together to work towards electing a Democratic President with a workable Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate.  

This time do something smart and vote for your wallet, vote for the economy, vote for the environment, vote for jobs.  

Vote for the smartest candidate in the race, a real leader (and no that's not McCain -- not by a long shot)

Vote Democratic 2008 -- don't let the corporations and their Republican stooges win again.  
You can bet that IF Hillary drops out on Wednesday (or Tuesday night) that by week's end she will be on a stage somewhere embracing Obama and calling him the next president.  So, travel is in the cards no matter what the next week brings....
I am shocked that the sign up sheet does not go all the way up to February 2009

The crazy train is leaving the station
Next stop DENVER  "all aboard"
Since her nasty comments(Robert Kennedy was assinated in JUne) I am sure she will stay on. That statement tells us all who she is. Oh do you all remember the blogger who named 35 people that the Clinton's probably had killed. I have read over 10 books written by people claiming the Clinton's killed anyone who got in their way. I have no illusions who they are and they are evil. Just call me a right winger but it is the truth. Go Obama and I pray they leave you alone.
Curious - I have been trying to post an answer to your query...not getting through.

Diane from IL - I'm with you - I am SO tired of this woman as well.

This could just be a ruse to keep us guessing, but I hope the MSM stops covering here after next week.  I'm sure they're ready to go home, even if she's not.
What is the clinical name for the condition that someone has, that makes them incapable of feeling embarrassment, humiliation, unwanted, and rejected? Cursed.
Too bad Clinton is an idiot.  Can't even work a coffee machine, or pump gas. She propably would push the wrong button or hang up the wrong phone.

Inept, and completely untrustworthy.  The worst possible presidential candidate ever to run for the presidency is Hillary Clinton.

Alas, she continues to prove the above statements on a daily bases.  Look at her broke campaign, her lies to get attention, her bi-polar personality, and you Clinton supporters, especially the racist idiots, should be ashamed of yourself.

Go ahead and protest Clinonites.  I'll be laughing at you all the way to the convention.

Oopps, time for Hillary to cry--again.

"Waaa,  Waaa,, I lost!"  sounds like her supporters.

You all should be stumping for Obama by now. Oh yeah, I forgot.  You have trouble adding.
The only place she needs to travel to after June 3rd is the loony bin.
Carson later added, "There are a lot of places to go between now and November 4."

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In Hillary's case, the "place to go" that should be first on the list is a psychiatrist's office, to see where these delusions are coming from, the list of which include:

1.Imaginary bullets flying by while she was in Bosnia.
2.Count-them-only-when-I-need-them-itis. (See: MI and FL syndrome)
3. The percieved notion that somehow it is not the DNC, but she who sets the rules on how a democratic nominee is selected: "it's by the delegates. Wait, he has more than me? Well, then it's by the number of states won. What? He has more of those too? Well, then it must be the popular vote in the legitimate primaries and caucuses. He has more of those too? Well, in that case caucuses don't count. And even though I initially agreed that FL and MI wouldn't count, they do now. Just because I'm Hillary and I say it is so. So, when you do it that way, I'm ahead. See?"
She is just dragging this out to pay for her debt so she gets her $11million back.  Otherwise she would have quit a long time ago.

There is no way she can win, even with MI & FL
Why would a reporter follow the Clinton-clown sideshow?  Sign up and find out!

It will be tough for her to keep her message in the media all the way through to the convention.  Can she hire media?
Give me a break.

Hillary Clinton will single-handedly GIVE the presidency to John McCain.

I hope that you will be happy with that Hillary.  Four more years of war and economic turmoil.

http://thepajamapundit.com/
Did anyone really believe that Hillary would drop out???  Of course not....she will destroy the Democratic party before she will admit she will not win!  She is so deep in denial that she will take anyone and anything down to WIN!!!  Yet the American people continue to support her and vote for her...it will be their loss, not hers.  She will have to be forced out and unfortunately Tucker Carlson's depiction of putting a cat in the box is how she will be long remembered.
It's going to the convention folks.  She's appealing the ruling Saturday - and this will go all summer.  Guaranteed.
Good grief!  
Dirk, Brunswick, Georgia: '... Barak Obama. The man has no knowledge of the Iraqi situation on the ground, and doesn't seem to care. Obama sounds too sarcastic when talking about Iraq...'

FYI, Dirk:

OBAMA OPPOSED THE IRAQ WAR !
Obama was against it from the beginning
And he opposes the (coming ?) Iran War !


Unlike John McCain and Hillary Clinton
Those two bozos 'enabled' Bush's disaster

Barack Obama OPPOSED the greatest foreign policy disaster of the last 30 years !!

How you like THEM APPLES ?

John McCain, more of the same

John McCain, Endless War

If you like George Bush (and I think you do, Dirk)..
       ....... You'll LOVE John McCain

PS
How do you feel about the McClellan revelations, Dirk ?
The fact that ANOTHER Bush Insider says BUSH LIED ABOUT WMDs ?

How's that for arrogant and disgusting ?
She can make all the plans she wish's to right up into 2009 but the super delegates by June 3rd will have shown her the door.Interesting when you look at Hillary's list of doners they are the Washington insiders,lobbest and the wall street fat cats,she's not even a small part of the solution but a very large part of the problems in this country.Want change vote Obama want the same sorry ole mess vote for Hillary and forget the gender nonsense..
She has absolutely gone too far now. Her narcissism now has ballooned to the point where her personal ambition and sense of self-entitlement has totally eclipsed the good of the party, the good of the country, the good of every citizen. Please super-delegates - act now or be complicit in the destruction of the Democratic Party. Foolish independent that I am, I hitched my wagon to the Democratic star this year, since it appeared change was desired and imminent. Now it is dawning on me that she is determined to sabotage any forward progress - I guess it is back to writing in my dog's name or voting libertarian. And the Party leadership  - by their inaction - are complicit in the travesty. If they take no action to quell this insanity at the meeting on the 31st, I give up.
Yeah, like back to NY and then into small details in the storyline of how Barack Obama defeated her and rose to the highest office in America.
She is trying to split the party . She is going to go until the convention.
If she were a tick you could not burn her off. I'm speechless.
 Hopefully it will be for press to follow her as she campaigns tirelessly for the presumptive Democratic nominee....
you've got to be kidding
In an act of kindness to put this poor sick woman out of her misery, the super D's and party leaders need to act en masse and put an exclamation point on Obama's nomination.
Hillary is Stalking the Democratic Party!!!!!!!
Yeah that lobbyist money came in...oil is dropping.
I'm starting to wonder how much does she make an hour...Chelsea is back on Wall Street. Wheeler Dealers...

Fight to floor makes it a bloody war not a convention.
I'm  also wondering if Howard Dean is going to wimp or knuckle down now...
'...Bush Personally Authorized Leak Of CIA Agent's Identity...'

BUSH DID IT !!
Personally !!
Scum Bag George !!
Where are all you Republicans ?
Explain this one ...



From Huff Post:

'...McClellan's Biggest Revelation?
Bush Personally Authorized Leak Of CIA Agent's Identity

May 29, 2008 11:24 AM



Perhaps the biggest revelation from Scott McClellan's bombshell book about his time at the White House is that President Bush directly authorized the leak of Valerie Plame's identity:

During the interview, Scottie revealed the two things that really pissed him off with the Bush Administration. First, being set up to lie by Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. And second, learning that Bush had--himself--authorized the selective leaking of the NIE.

Scottie McC: But the other defining moment was in early April 2006, when I learned that the President had secretly declassified the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq for the Vice President and Scooter Libby to anonymously disclose to reporters. And we had been out there talking about how seriously the President took the selective leaking of classified information. And here we were, learning that the President had authorized the very same thing we had criticized.

Viera: Did you talk to the President and say why are you doing this?

Scottie McC: Actually, I did. I talked about the conversation we had. I walked onto Air Force One, it was right after an event we had, it was down in the south, I believe it was North Carolina. And I walk onto Air Force One and a reporter had yelled a question to the President trying to ask him a question about this revelation that had come out during the legal proceedings. The revelation was that it was the President who had authorized, or, enable Scooter Libby to go out there and talk about this information. And I told the President that that's what the reporter was asking. He was saying that you, yourself, was the one that authorized the leaking of this information. And he said "yeah, I did." And I was kinda taken aback...'

John McCain = Bush's 3rd term

Hillary Clinton = Clinton's 3rd term

TURN THE PAGE ON THESE SCUMBAGS

Go Home Hillbilly
OMG - she's still going to be campaigning when we're all at the polls with Obama / McCain ballots.  What is she thinking??  She needs to realize that she is not and will not be the nominee.
This Saturday and next Tuesday will be the true signs.  August is a grave mistake and I can't see this carrying on through August.  3 months of what?  Her lawsuit in Florida failed, so what's next?  I am sure her camp will try though.  

Primaries end June 3rd, unlike other primaries carrying on later in the past.

There will be no more primaries, so what will her purpose be in this race after Tuesday?  

The DNC also needs funds to run against the republicans this fall. This needs to end, but we will see what next Wednesday brings.  

She is only ahead, because she is not counting caucuses.  I don't understand her planning to win these states in the fall and she has said, they do not count?  Her strategy team sucks!
Memo to the DNC: Go to defcon 4
May be she'll be flying to MARS.  The Red Planet is still to be conquered.
Was he at least smiling or laughing when he said that? (maybe he was joking?)
Boobie From Eau Claire . You fail to realize that the AA's have been one of the most loyal democratic base. Stop sounding so hateful sweetie.   Hillary is not a Goddess. Bill is Not a God.  They had been my favorites but the way they have lied and pandered to a specific demographic has changed my views of them forever.They have been pandering to bigots for some time now, if the shoe fit's you wear it well.
Face the Facts - any chance you'd like to back "there is simply no substance to Obama" with some facts?  Shall I go into legislative record listing mode for you or do you know where Google is?
Is she going to give out autographed baseballs like her fellow New Yorker, Rudy?


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