Oh Sweet Jesus Inna Thong is everybody upset about THIS!
But Clinton will not concede the race to Obama if he wins a greater number of pledged delegates by the end of the primary season, and will count on the 796 elected officials and party bigwigs to put her over the top, if necessary, said Clinton's communications director, Howard Wolfson.
"I want to be clear about the fact that neither campaign is in a position to win this nomination without the support of the votes of the superdelegates,'' Wolfson told reporters in a conference call.
Can you feel it mounting? The anger! The dread? The boos? Think of the villains of professional wrestling!
"We don't make distinctions between delegates chosen by million of voters in a primary and those chosen between tens of thousands in caucuses,'' Wolfson said. "And we don't make distinctions when it comes to elected officials'' who vote as superdelegates at the convention.
"We are interested in acquiring delegates, period,'' he added.
Why did I mention professional wrestling? Because this is bullshit and it is meant to get money from the same crowd. HERE, for example
Folks! It's. Not. Real.
These statements from Team Clinton are modern theatre. They're about giving small, undiscerning donors something to cling to. And they don't even work on larger donors (those over $500 for the primary season). Larger donors see their donations as investments and like any investment, they do their own research. Larger donors (and bundlers of donors) see these claims by Team Clinton as bullshit. These statements are for the professional-wrestling-fan level of Democratic party donors -- those who, if you can get them worked up enough, will send $5 or $10 to Team Hillary.
Both the Clinton AND the Obama campaigns know this is all bullshit and that no one is going to try to overcome a pledged deficit with Superdelegates OR Michigan and Florida. It. Won't. Happen.
Follow the money and follow the Media.
The cable news networks and the newspapers LOVE brash, non-democratic, elitist statements like this. The media is helping prolong this. They're helping Hillary gather a little bit of money by constantly bringing "experts" on to discuss this like it is real. They give crucial (especially crucial to Clinton right now) hope to the small $5 and $10 donors like you find on Hillary is 44 dot com. Keeps them donating.... some.
It's not a big deal. The Clintons ARE NOT so desperate as to try to take the nomination, basically by force. THEY ARE desperate enough to float crap like this to give their small donors some shred of hope to cling to. They have to do this, and as ideas go, it's not a bad one. I think it's probably working, keeping them alive for a little while with the life-blood of politics, Money.
Now, down in the comments section, many of you (Clinton AND Obama supporters) are going to violently disagree with me. You're going to insist these statements from the Clinton campaign are REAL! The threat is REAL! The Clintons are SERIOUS about this! They'll DO ANYTHING to win! They'll dive from the rope pylon in a classic pile driver maneuver! They'll beat people over the head with folding chairs! They'll strangle people with the ring-mic cord! They'll come out into the crowd and yell at opposing fans!
Well I'm not going to argue with you. I don't argue with people who think professional wrestling is real. It's profitable. I'll agree with that.