Hillary Clinton Watch: Taking The HEAT for Staying Alive
Posted by Flap in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, President 2008
IN HARLEM: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton poses with well-wishers in 2006. The racial overtones of her presidential campaign have eroded some of her support among black New Yorkers. “She has a problem,†says the Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist .
The Money Quote:
Clinton spent more than six minutes calmly discussing what he called a “frantic effort to push her out” of this race, saying that no one asked Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson or Gary Hart to end their presidential campaigns early.Clinton also spoke against bullying superdelegates to make up their minds, saying, “I cant believe it. It is just frantic the way they are trying to push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out. ‘Oh, this is so terrible: The people they want her. Oh, this is so terrible: She is winning the general election, and he is not. Oh my goodness, we have to cover this up.’”
In the meantime, former President Jimmy Carter said the Superdelegates would soon pressure Hillary out of the race and Al Sharpton turned up the heat on Hillary in New York.
But, the pressure in New York is the most fascinating since it is driven by African-Americans who favor Barack Obama.
Even as she continues her longshot presidential bid, Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a political rift in New York, where black leaders say her standing has dropped due to racially charged comments by her and her husband during the campaign.
African American elected officials and clerics based in New York City say Clinton will need to defuse resentment over the campaign’s racial overtones if she returns to New York as U.S. senator.
What the black leaders in New York have to worry about is Hillary not the other way around. Nobody will be pushing Hillary out of the race until after the June 3rd primary elections and Michigan and Florida credentialing is decided. So, these black leaders, including Al Sharpton better take a “CHILL” pill.
Why?
Hillary’ term in the U.S. Senate is not over until 2013 and she has been rumored to be interested in running for Governor of New York in 2010 (she would have a “free ride”. And, who would Hillary be running against in 2010? Why the first black, blind Governor, David Paterson of New York who was the Lt. Governor until Governor Elliot Spitzer resigned under a sex call-girl scandal.
There is lttle doubt that Hillary would be easily nominated by the Democrat Party in New York should she choose to run for Governor. David Paterson would be no competition. Of course, Rudy Giuliani is said to be interested in this race – but this is another story.
As Flap has said before and before, Hillary is NOT going anywhere until SHE decides it is time.
Who knows? Lightening might strike and she finds a way to beat Barack Obama.
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