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A new ABC report sheds more light on the spirited exchange between Senator Hillary Clinton and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson when Richardson called Clinton to tell her that he was endorsing rival Senator Barack Obama: Clinton insisted Obama could not win the Presidency.

Sen. Hillary Clinton, and former President Bill Clinton are making very direct arguments to Democratic superdelegates, starkly insisting Sen. Barack Obama, cannot win a general election against presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain.

Sources with direct knowledge of the conversation between Sen. Clinton and Gov. Bill Richardson, prior to the Governor’s endorsement of Obama say she told him flatly, “He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win.”

Despite her appeal, Richardson ultimately endorsed Obama- which sent Bill Clinton into a purple rage last weekend during a private meeting with California superdelegates.

The Clinton campaign’s main focus now seems less on arguments for Hillary Clinton, her ideas and what she can do for the country than constant pounding on negative themes about Obama.
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19 comments // 'Obama can't win'

  • seeker561
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      seeker561  
    • "He has zero experience and we don't need another man."

      Experience is way over-rated. Cheney and Rumsfeld have been in and out of government at least since Ford was president. One thing the Bush administration is not lacking is experience.

      Good judgement on the other hand has been sorely lacking in Washington for a long time with the Bush administration leading the way.

    • 4 years ago
  • ScreamingDinosaur
  • krag2112
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      krag2112  
    • Thanks eldamon for posting that video. I wonder if we're going to hear from those Clinton supporters who were so outraged when Obama dared to evoke the name Gore yesterday (even though he was asked about it).

      Somehow I doubt it.

    • 4 years ago
  • stephenthomson
  • eldamon
  • 96thdayofrage
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      96thdayofrage  
    • "I am so tired of Hillary Clinton being the object of hateful comments."

      Then, you need to visit another blog! She's naked lunch around here.

      Incidently, we're not being hateful when we say that Hillary is not going to be the next President. She's not! That's not hateful. It's just the truth.

    • 4 years ago
  • 96thdayofrage
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      96thdayofrage  
    • "I do however, know Obama cannot beat John McCain. He has zero experience and we don't need another man."

      McCain, currently a bigoted old coot who still refers to Asians as Gooks, graduated fifth from the very bottom of his academy class. He abandoned his first wife in a fit of adultry with Aging Badly Barbie, to whom he's currently married, while the first Mrs. McCain was fighting for her life in the hospital after an auto accident. He was a gulity party in the biggest Savings and Loans scandal that ended the financial institution forever. Google Keating 5 for details. And, his Senate tenure, though lengthy, is frought and raging with infamy and scandals galore! While captured after ejecting behind enemy lines because of some feckless pilot's error, he denounced his country under the very same torture he now advocates. If elected, this demented old pinhead would find some reason to bomb Iran just as he's sung too many times, while invading Nam again just for revenge. After all, the only thing this guy is known for aside from being a prisoner of war and referring to everyone as 'Friend' is his abominably short fuse. That, and a vaccuous ignorance of the real issues voters deem relevant, like ending Iraq, and living in a house that is not cardboard, located under an overpass.

      Obama really doesn't need experience to defeat McCain. Actually, all Obama needs is a pulse and a body temperature roughly in the high 90s Fahrenheit. And, Obama's got that much licked!

    • 4 years ago
  • eldamon
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      eldamon  
    • Wow, where to start???

      Respectfully, didn't Sen. Clinton and her husband throw the first stones in this campaign? I know she's faced a lot of negative press in the past but she did declare herself the presumptive nominee before the 1st vote was cast. That alone made her a big target.

      As for Gov. Richardson, isn't he obligated to do what he feels is best for his constituent and the country as a whole? Clearly he knows the Clintons as well or better than most and decided Sen. Obama was a better choice.

      Lastly, how can you fault Sen. Obama for remaining loyal to his church and pastor while strongly disagreeing with the pastor's inflammatory statements and hate on Gov. Richardson so called lack of loyalty? That would seem to be a direct contradiction.

      Don't get caught up in the spin and hype. Senators Clinton, Obama and McCain are very patriotic and have served their country in their own respective ways. Try listening to what the candidates have to say about themselves as opposed to what they say about each other.

    • 4 years ago
  • RRH
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      RRH  
    • I am so tired of Hillary Clinton being the object of hateful comments. What has this generous woman ever do to be treated so unfairly?
      I think Richardson should have a deep sense of loyalty to the very people who handed him his career. Loyalty is valuable.
      As far as the justification I have read about The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, he IS a bigot. If Wright had been Hilary's preacher, he would still be all over the news. Obama has his supporters call day after day and beg for their support until he wears them down. I know the Clinton's call as well, but not with the vengeance of Obama. I do not trust a man who attends a church for twenty years and has his wife and children with him listening to sermons of anti-American, anti-White and blame us for 9/11/01. I think that answers the question as to why Obama won't pledge allegiance or wear a flag pin on his lapel.
      I do however, know Obama cannot beat John McCain. He has zero experience and we don't need another man. We need a woman for a good change and hopefully catch up with third world countries who have elected woman. Hillary is strong and no matter the chatter she continues her quest for the presidency. I would like those 90's back when disposable income was a given.

    • 4 years ago
  • eldamon
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      eldamon  
    • Someone needs to ask Bill & Hill point blank why Sen. Obama can't win - and then watch then hem & haw stumbling over their own tongues trying not to say because he's black flat out but insinuating it in every way possible.

      A little hint to the Clinton's - people are stupid but we're only SO stupid and Mr. Bush used up most of the stupid over the last 8 years. We have figured out Barack is black all by ourselves and it doesn't matter to the majority.

    • 4 years ago
  • crob80227
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      crob80227  
    • Oh Hillary.

      Note she did not argue that Obama shouldn't win because his policies were bad for America.

      She supports almost everything he has proposed.

      She just wants the crown for herself.

      I would be pissed to -- I mean the whole reason she didn't divorce Bill was because she knew she'd need his resources and political connections for her own Presidential campaign at some future date.

      And now it looks like she stayed with him for nothing?

      No wonder she's pissed.

    • 4 years ago
  • 96thdayofrage
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      96thdayofrage  
    • Yep, I know!

      God's Own Pinheaded RePunkniCons actually think Grandpa McCain has a chance against the once presumptuously inevitable One. As much as Hillary has gotten on my nerves of late, I still think she could beat Grandpa McCain. He's got a temper. And Her Shrikeness is nothing if not gifted at pushing all the right buttons to bring that bottle up UGLY right out of him. I can just hear her driving Gramps to scream BITCH! at her in the middle of a critical debate he's losing in a feebleminded way even as I type. They need to own the reality that Grampers is bad on the issues, making him nakedly vulnerable to either Dem running in November.

    • 4 years ago
  • smorrisey
  • 96thdayofrage
  • 96thdayofrage
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      96thdayofrage  
    • "Sources with direct knowledge of the conversation between Sen. Clinton and Gov. Bill Richardson, prior to the Governor’s endorsement of Obama say she told him flatly, “He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win.” "

      That took some nerve. She's in dead last place in this race, with little more than a snowball's chance in hell of ever catching up. She is not going to win - PERIOD!

      On what is Hillary basing Obama's inability to win, particularly since he's doing better than she is?

    • 4 years ago
  • smorrisey
  • 96thdayofrage
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      96thdayofrage  
    • "Yes, and they're telling the super delegates the same thing and that it's because of the Wright issue."

      The truth is that Hannity had been beating to death that most provocative 3 to 5 minutes of 30-plus minutes of a couple of Dr. Wright's sermons for months in his attempt to thrust black-fear down the American throat, with few paying him very much mind. Hillary is Rupert Murdoch's choice for President. Rupert Murdoch is Hannity's boss and owner. Rupert Murdoch has given Hillary cash and media support since this time last year. Thus, we get this blatant Hannity distraction that steers the nation from real issues that would prove conducive to making a reasonable decision in the voting booth in November through a Fox News dedication of hours of air time to instigating the nationalistic xenophibic attack on Pastor Wright for what is alleged to be anti-American, pro-Black treason against a Nation at war in Iraq. As a result, all anyone has heard was GOD DAMN AMERIKKKA!

      What all these detractors need to do is to go back and view the entire sermon in question in the true context of Dr. Wright's legitimate critique of the Nation attacked on 9/11 that subsequently unilaterally invaded and still illegally occupies a sovereign nation that was neither responsible for nor ever linked to the destruction and death occuring on American soil that fateful Tuesday in 2001. Most of the sermons in question were a collection of quotes delivered by white Christian patriots who share Wright's concern that American policies serve the ruling elite at the expense of the most vulnerable populations on the earth.

      I am certain that Dr. Jeremiah Wright loves his country, because, like his namesake the Prophet Jeremiah, he told his countrymen the truth they most definitely did not want to hear. Contemporary America, however, only wants to hear that we have resolved the issue of the socially engrained bigotry that benefits the majority of her citizens in complete oblivion of the suffering of people of color still seen socially as second class citizens. We want to throw up our progress as a demonstration of all being right with the world. We want people of color to stop singing We Shall Overcome and start singing We Have Oversome because, for the threatened majority, this is as many and as much as can be feasibly withstood if the current American 'heritage' is to be maintained in that manner that preserves the status quo intact. The status quo still beating Dr. Wright to death feel we can't possibly dare to have a true America if the current majority is displaced or any-what demographically altered. We must keep things 'right' to preserve our traditions and a coyly crafted history that blankets foundational crimes to perpetually glorify and annoint the intended beneficiaries of our Christian heritage of Manifest Destiny by mandate of Divine Providence, and other legendary wives' tales. All that notwithstanding, Dr. Wright loved America enough to make us uncomfortable, mad, cry, hurt, and aggitated with the reality that we are anything these days but Christ-like and Blessed.

      Dr. Wright has been working to eradicate prejudice and bigotry for years. He's also worked in the vineyard of his community faithfully and tirelessly for decades. He's still fighting for justice, peace, and equality for all Americans, hoping to finally legitimately validate that we as a single nation of people have resolved the unfinished business of affirming for all the world that all humanity is a single race of EQUALS. That a limited twit demographic of Fox News viewers and fearful wannabe progressive centrists can still only hear that Wright said GOD DAMN AMERICA bespeaks more about idiots who waste time swilling at Sean Hannity's crass tittivision infotaiment troughs than about Dr. Wright's life and works.

    • 4 years ago
  • psyche
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      psyche  
    • This is just one woman's opinion. There are no facts to back up her allegations. In any case, Hillary and Bill have not brought the Democrats unity by tearing our party into little pieces which will defeat her and possibly Obama if she and Bill don't stop putting themselves ahead of the Country. Bad behavior on the Campaign will not be rewarded with victory in November.
      Seems like I remember a bible story about the two women claiming a baby and going before King Soloman.
      One woman was willing to cut the child in half to get something (Hillary) while the other woman, obviously the mother, willing to give it up to save its life.. Soloman ruled that the woman willing to give up a child she loved merited the child and ruled in her favor...I think Hillary missed the point of this and will self destruct.

    • 4 years ago
  • Chique
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