Fineman: Clinton Should Pack Up the Show
Howard Fineman’s written a piece for Newsweek in which he claims that, however the four primaries go tonight, Clinton will face pressure to bow out. He mentions that a friend of his, ‘calculator in hand,’ has showed him the math and Clinton will not be able to eek out a popular victory.
If Clinton stays, he says, the attacks are only going to get dirtier on both sides - though he only mentions what the Clinton camp might dredge up. (To be fair, he’s referencing a quote from Dean, which may have only been about the Clinton campaign; I can’t watch MSNBC, so I’m not sure. Either way, Obama hasn’t been a blushing violet.)
I’ll say this again, March 9, 2004 - the earliest we’d ever selected a Democratic nominee. I know we started the process a bit earlier this year, but as Clinton herself mentioned last night on The Daily Show, her husband didn’t lock up the nomination until June! If we don’t even make it that far this year, it’s going to be sad.
If Clinton has the audacity to stay in a race in which she’s receiving a great deal of popular support, maybe the two could discuss policies. You know, like education. Maybe Tim Russet could ask a question that wasn’t about whatever crap attack is going on this week.
I would love to see the two of them buy some airtime - maybe one hour. They could just sit and actually discuss topics without a moderator. We could rely on the two of them to be decent humans and have a talk about policies that are going to matter.
(I’m not in my kitchen anymore, so no jigging.)
Update: I got to watch some MSNBC via Wonkette. Yeah, Clinton’s getting a fair break in the media.
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March 7th, 2008 at 10:03 am
[...] Brie points out that the earliest the Democrats have EVER selected a candidate was March 9th. Bill Clinton didn’t have his nomination secured until June.But that’s not the point is it? If you’re the average American citizen informing yourself of the issues by reading the paper and watching the news, all you’ll see and here is Hillary’s contorted face and constant speculation that she’s losing so badly, she’ll never regain, and should just put us all out of our collective election-weariness and bow out. [...]