Since Obama has not delivered in retiring her campaign debt there is no reason for Evita to cooperate .
There is still the Credentials Committee meeting coming up where she can challenge some of BO's deligates . There is already dissention and defections in the ranks of the delegates
JS Online: McCain-backing Clinton delegate responds to convention challenge
And don't forget that he is counting on 100 % of the Super Deligates who unoffically pledged to him for his nomination.
The way he has flipped in his rush to the middle must be giving some of them second thoughts. After alll ;if he is no different than Evita ,then why not go with the candidate who has proven her ability to actually win the important Democrat States ?
Talkleft sums up the dangers of Obama being a paper thin panderer ;and the consequences of his postioning
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How does anyone know what Obama really believes or, even more problematic, what beliefs he’ll decide are worth expending political capital on once he’s elected?
We don’t. I think that’s a direct consequence of his having campaigned on generalities like change. People who are unhappy with the current state of affairs just assumed he is on the same side of issues as they are. Since Obama wants change and they want change, they assumed they are all on the same page — like one big happy progressive family. There’s just no way to know that. …
....It’s the bait and switch we hate and it makes Obama a tougher sell now. He wasn’t honest with us. He promised reform and a new kind of politics and is relying on the same old Washington play book that’s been in use for decades.
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Obama's Disgruntled Liberal Supporters - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime
This is a huge problem for the Dems. If he stays true to his primary positions then he is a fringe candidate who cannot win the general election . IF he shifts to the middle he upsets the party base This is already having consequences in his campaign funding .Maybe he was a little premature in rejecting public funding ??? The Dems might say ;if we are running a centrist candidate then why not go with an authetic one?
However ;unlike Talkleft ;I don't think this is a "bait and Switch " Like most meglomaniacs he warned us what he would do.
From 'Audacity of Hope' :
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I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them. Which perhaps indicates a second, more intimate theme to this book ,namely, how I, or anybody in public office, can avoid the pitfalls of fame, the hunger to please, the fear of loss, and thereby retain that kernel of truth, that singular voice within each of us that reminds us of our deepest commitments.
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According to him ,he can't be blamed for the expectations of others ....even if it was he who's rhetoric raised them.
Don’t you love farce? My fault I fear.I thought that you’d want what I want.
Sorry, my dear.
Finally ; Evita has such a huge ego it is impossible for her to admit defeat. Even if he makes it through the Credentials Committee challenge ;she can still force a roll-call vote on the floor and hope that last minute Clintoniod pressure on the delegates can persuade enough of them to switch.
There will be plenty of pressure exerted on the streets from the "recreate 68 ";the Kossaks ;the code Pinko's who have become increasingly frustrated with BO's softening of his radical positions.
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