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She
is toast!
As we say here in the South, "Spit on the fire and call
in the dogs, for this hunt is over" [Ed. Note: We actually
use a much more descriptive word instead of "spit," but
that won't get past the SPAM blockers these days, so we've used "spit"
in its stead.]. We are talking here about the Presidential aspirations
of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. She is toast! We will, from some
point in history, be able to look back]and
note that her Presidential hopes tipped over the edge when her
husband took to the campaign trail and alienated black voters
two and three weeks ago in a manner few of us had thought possible.
William Jefferson Clinton lost this election for his wife, for
her aspirations always demanded that she hold to the black voters
during the primaries and then of course into the election itself
in November, and Bill lost them in a series of unqualified mistakes
made before a number of audiences.
The size of Barack Obama's victories yesterday in the Potomac
Primaries was shocking: In Virginia, Obama won 64% of the votes
cast; Ms. Clinton won 35%. In
Maryland, Obama won 60%; Ms. Clinton won 36%, and in the District
of Columbia, Obama won 75% and Ms. Clinton won 24%. No one...
and we mean NO ONE...
predicated a landslide of this proportion. Now, to be factual,
Sen. Obama has won, to date, 1078 delegates to the Democratic
Convention, and Sen. Clinton has won 969. They need 2025 to win
the nomination. Given the proportional delegation splits in most
of the Democratic primaries, unless Sen. Obama wins by more than
60%, he will not secure sufficient delegates to have the nomination
secured without the benefit of a large number of "super
delegates" that
will tend to lean toward Sen. Clinton. Sen. Clinton is now
pinning her hopes upon these "super delegates," and
relish the thought of this wing of the Democratic Party going
to the convention arguing that even though Obama "
won" the elections and defeated Sen. Clinton at every turn,
she deserves the nomination. We relish even more the legal wrangles
that may lie ahead as her staff argues that the delegates from
Florida and Georgia be seated and awarded to her even though
those states surrendered the delegates when they chose to move
their primaries ahead on the calendar. . The Clintonites will
try to spin the news from the Potomac Primaries yesterday in
some fashion to their advantage, but even they will not be able
to do so. These results are un-spinnable. This defeat is over-whelming;
Obama's victory is stunning in its finality. Stick a fork in
Ms. Clinton's presidential hopes; they are done! Bill killed them!
He left his stain once again.
-Dennis Garthman/The Gartman Letter/ 02 13 08
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