{"id":2226,"date":"2008-08-07T15:47:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T19:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2008-08-08T10:51:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T14:51:49","slug":"what-is-hillary-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2226","title":{"rendered":"What is Hillary Up To?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought Hillary had <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.foxnews.com\/2008\/08\/07\/clinton-leaves-option-open-for-convention-floor-vote\/\">slinked off the stage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hillary Clinton told a group of supporters recently that she has not yet decided whether she will put her name in for a roll-call vote at the Democratic convention in Denver later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The New York senator was filmed addressing the matter apparently at a California fundraiser last week. The video was posted on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI happen to believe that we will come out stronger if people feel that their voices were heard and their views respected. And I think that is a very big part of how we actually come out unified, because I know from just what I\u2019m hearing that there is just this incredible pent up desire,\u201d Clinton said in the video, after being asked by a supporter if she\u2019d consider putting her name in for the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think people want to feel like \u2018Okay, it\u2019s a catharsis, we\u2019re here, we did it,\u2019 and then everybody get behind Senator Obama. \u2026 No decisions have been made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton said she was trying to work out the issue with the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Such a vote would presumably allow her remaining delegates to throw their symbolic support behind Clinton on the convention floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could be wrong, but the best way I think is to have a strategy where my delegates feel that they have a role and that their legitimacy has been validated,\u201d Clinton said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What she\u2019s up to is a rhetorical question obviously.<\/p>\n<p>The Clinton machine is watching the polls carefully.  They know that Obama should be up 12 points right now and anticipating another 4-6 point bounce after the convention.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, Clinton realizes the likely \u201cBradley Effect\u201d that these polls are showing.  Bottom line; Obama needs at least an 8 point lead on election day to win in a squeaker and that\u2019s not looking very likely at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary needs to cut Obama off at the knees without being too obvious about it.<\/p>\n<p>This postures her for another run in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The real fun will be the Stalin-esqe Purge of the Democrat party that Clinton will lead.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the childish antics that Democrats are notorious for will be in full bloom in Denver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought Hillary had slinked off the stage: Hillary Clinton told a group of &hellip; <a title=\"What is Hillary Up To?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2226\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is Hillary Up To?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}