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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC
I would say that he squeaked out a win over the Clinton powerhouse, barely, despite the collusion of party insiders and the press, manipulation of caucuses and every low down and dirty campaign tactic. He's the Forrest Gump candidate as far as I am concerned. To be fair, he really should have completely decimated Hillary with all of the cards in his deck, but instead he lost the popular vote and had to get the party to select him despite the will of the people. Pathetic.  |
It seemed to me that Hillary entered the primary season as pretty much the guaranteed nominee of the party as it was pointed out to me on this forum by Hillary supporters last fall when I voiced my support for Obama with such statements as 'it ain't never gonna happen " in regard to Obama becoming the nominee.Obama's use of the internet for fund raising and being astute enough to understand the importance of caucus states contributed to him getting the nomination as well as I'll admit it the cult of personality .I also think it is tragically Medean for people that consider themselves Democrats to take their marbles amd go over to the other side considering what is at stake in Iraqi and the Supreme Court and the wingnut that an over 70 year old candidate is likely to choose as his V.P.