Sen. Hillary is dying to see this newspaper article. Let's just run the article now so she can cut it out, frame it and hang it on her wall. Then the rest of us can move on in the Democratic process and get busy defeating John McCain. Snark after the jump...
To appease Hillary and get the Democrat's focused on winning the general election, I went in my Hillary-world time machine and copied this AP article:
Hillary Clinton Named Democratic Party Nominee
Denver, CO – Sen. Hillary Clinton capped an historic race last night as she was named the first woman Presidential nominee of either national party. The race was historic for multiple reasons, most starkly due the candidates’ race and gender, but also due to the unprecedented political machinations that led to Sen. Clinton’s nomination. It was the first time in history that the candidate who did not win the majority of pledged delegates was awarded the presidential nomination.
The remarkable turn of events were made possible because neither candidate achieved the 2,025 pledged delegates during the race, leaving unprecedented power in the hands of the party’s approximately 800 superdelegates. Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Denver with 1,995 pledged delegates, exceeding Sen. Clinton’s pledge-delegate count by 115. In an extraordinary move, however, Sen. Clinton swayed the majority of super-delegates to respect an entirely new approach to selecting a presidential nominee – a process that has become known as the "data-points" nomination strategy. Clinton argued that two key data points – the primary’s popular vote and her victories in large states – reflected a "greater national mandate" than Sen. Obama’s lead in pledged delegates and number of states won.
The data-points strategy was introduced after Sen. Clinton’s victory in Pennsylvania but string of subsequent losses in North Carolina, Indiana and Puerto Rico. It was initially met with skepticism but began earning respect when she introduced her second data-point, known as the "Primary Popular Vote." Sen. Clinton successfully argued that the popular vote should only be counted for states that held primaries, not caucuses because, "the race against Sen. McCain will be an election, not a caucus." Although this data point created unprecedented resentment among caucus states such as Iowa, Minnesota, Hawaii, and Washington, the remaining super-delegates she needed were swayed and Sen. Clinton was named the Democratic Party’s 2008 Presidential candidate. Her victory speech, postponed due to the near-riots both within and outside the Convention Hall, is scheduled to be telephoned into NPR from an undisclosed location Thursday evening.
Can we get started defeating John McCain now?