Clinton's delegate strategy
As the fight for the Democratic Party's nomination continues, the Clinton camp is pushing a new strategy: pledged delegates are not really pledged.
Now, we've reported extensively on the so-called superdelegates: the party poo-bahs who can decide whom to endorse at a time of their choosing. But the Clinton campaign on Tuesday told reporters that the pledged delegates - the ones elected at the caucuses and primaries - are not legally bound to their candidate.
"No delegate is bound by party rules to vote for the candidate to whom they are pledged," said Harold Ickes, a senior political aide to Clinton.
If a lower level aide had said that pledges delegates don't have to vote for the candidate to whom they are pledged, that would be one thing. But it's Harold Ickes, a scion of the rough and tumble of New York politics, the manager of the presidential campaigns of Rev. Jesse Jackson, and a deputy chief of staff to President Clinton.
Ickes helped write the party's delegate selection rules in the 1980s.
After Ickes drops that bombshell, Phil Singer, Clinton's combative spokesman, said that, "We have said and continue to say that we are not seeking or asking pledge delegates for Sen. Obama to flip over. There is a rule, but we are not engaged in any effort."
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As First Lady to the present, every move of Hilary’s is documented.
Obama, on the other hand is not similarly documented of course. He, in fact, barely leaves a mark…..just study all his NV Not Voting in the Senate, and his “Present” in the ILL legislature.
How is it even possible to compare a record with a non-record???? How do you compare a factual candidate with a rhetorical one?
Obama’s failure to commit himself, over and over again, can this man really make a decision in the OPEN? Can he even make a decision? We know he can’t even Chair a Senate Committee, will he have a surrogate Chair Cabinet meetings?????
We know he lies about Wright, and that as a US Senator he has been sitting, doing nothing in a Hate America environment. Is he so willing to NOT stand up for American values that he would go around the world “winking” at non-friendly nations? That we have on record with Canada in the person of his surrogate staff member.
His pompousness and his non-documented circumstances are both PURPOSEFUL and, he hopes, POLITICALLY PROFITABLE.
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