Clinton's Superdelegate Endgame Gambit

We occasionally do a post on politics. Today is one of those days: I just finished reading one of the most astounding pieces of political insanity I ever encountered on the New York Times Op-Ed page. Former Mondale VP candidate and Clinton advocate, Geraldine Ferraro, justifies how Hillary Clinton will try to steal the nomination and invalidate the popular delegate vote for Barak Obama. How the Times can even publish such tone-deaf nonsense is beyond me.

Posted by Casey Kazan. Image credit: NY Times, Carl Wien.

Op Ed Piece

Meanwhile, at Washington's St. Regis Hotel, the Christian Science Monitor assembled the eminences grises of the Washington press corps -- among them David Broder of The Post, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times and columnist Mark Shields -- for what turned out to be a fascinating tour of an alternate universe. Clinton advisor, Harold Ickes, gave a presentation about Hillary Rodham Clinton's prospects that severed all ties with reality.

"We think we are on the verge of our next up cycle," he reported, even suggesting the apparent impossibility that Clinton "may be running even" with Obama when all the contests are over. "This race is very close," he judged. "This is tight as a tick. We're on the way to locking this nomination down," he said of a candidate who appears, if anything, headed in the opposite direction.

Comments

[Steve Mann]

You have a bad link to the op-ed piece (http://http//www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/opinion/25ferraro.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

[jer35_mx]

Hey be the US for the USers (Je, it's a jock I don't even know if that's gramatically correct), well what I can say is let be Obama president, we in México have had for decades persons that promise the Virgin's pearls and we have survived, Haven't we?. What the heck it's time for the US be a regular nation, of course with nuclears.

[Sirina Love]

Kassey: you misspelled Barack Obama's first name in your post.