Obama will declare victory
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- May
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Tomorrow night at a rally in Iowa Barack Obama intends to declare that he’s reached a major milestone in winning the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
“When the votes are counted in Oregon and Kentucky, we could secure a majority of delegates elected by the voters,’’ David Plouffe, his campaign manager, wrote in a memo released this morning. “A clear majority of elected delegates will send an unmistakable message—the people have spoken, and they are ready for change.’’
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s communications director, Howard Wolfson, responded with a memo titled, “Mission accomplished? Not so fast.’’
“Senator Obama’s plan to declare himself the Democratic nominee tomorrow night in Iowa (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10184.html) is a slap in the face to the millions of voters in the remaining primary states and to Senator Clinton’s 17 million supporters,’’ Wolfson wrote. “There is no scenario under the rules of the Democratic National Committee by which Senator Obama will be able to claim the nomination tomorrow night. He will not have 2210 delegates, the number needed with Florida and Michigan included in the process, nor will he have 2025 delegates, the number needed to secure the nomination without Florida and Michigan.
“Premature victory laps and false declarations of victory are unwarranted. Declaring mission accomplished does not make it so.”
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WITH STATEMENTS LIKE THOSE HILLARY HAS ZERO CHANCE
OF BEING VP
She wouldn’t be picked, anyway. Obama is many things, but stupid isn’t one of them.
he had 75,000 people in oregan attending an outdoor ralley
for those “conservative republican” who think he can’t be
president..maybe they don’t remember the kennedy’s.//something is going on in this country and
conservatives need to recognize it…and deal with it
or they will be relegated to the junkheap of history