Clinton Memo: Mission Accomplished? Not So Fast
By Albert N. Milliron, Iron Mill Interactive Media inc.
Politisite has obtained the latest Clinton campaign memo sent out by the Clinton Campaigns communications director, Howard Wolfson. Alluding to the, “Mission Accomplished” Banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln during a televised address by President Bush on May 1, 2003. Although the Banner was designed as a mission accomplished, for that particular mission, for that particular ship, it has been used as a symbol of President Bush’s failed policy’s in Iraq by claimiing victory prematurely. The Clinton camp strategically used this phase in their memo to relate the same meaning as Senator Barack Obama has not accomplished winning all the delegates needed to clinch the nomination for the Democratic party.
Of course if anyone keeps up with the political process, Clinton signed the agreement not to allow Michigan and Florida’s delegates to be seated. Following her losses in Iowa and South Carolina, she traveled to Florida after the voting was counted and said that Florida’s votes should count and that she will do everything she could to get the delegations seated. Following the Florida win, she began adding Michigan and Florida into her list of wins. Following Obama’s big win in North Carolina, Clinton began saying that the delegates need to clinch the nomination is not just over 2025 delegates but 2210 delegates which would include both Michigan and Florida. The Clinton’s have moved the finish line twice in the campaign and Obama is about to claim in Iowa Tuesday night that he has a commanding lead and his opponent, Clinton, cannot catch up with the remaining contests.
The two campaigns are meeting discussing the future of Senator Clinton in the race. The Clinton camp wants Obama to retire her existing debt nearing 20 million dollars prior to her exit. There are also talks about a Vice-president seat for Clinton to bring the party together.
MEMO: Mission Accomplished? Not so fast.
To: Interested Parties
From: Howard Wolfson, Communications Director
Date: Monday, May 19, 2008
Re: Mission Accomplished? Not so fast.
Senator Obama’s plan to declare himself the Democratic nominee tomorrow night in Iowa is a slap in the face to the millions of voters in the remaining primary states and to Senator Clinton’s 17 million supporters.
There is no scenario under the rules of the Democratic National Committee by which Senator Obama will be able to claim the nomination tomorrow night. He will not have 2210 delegates, the number needed with Florida and Michigan included in the process, nor will he have 2025 delegates, the number needed to secure the nomination without Florida and Michigan.
Premature victory laps and false declarations of victory are unwarranted. Declaring mission accomplished does not make it so.
While Senator Obama inaccurately declares himself the nominee, Senator Clinton will continue to work hard, campaigning for every vote in the upcoming states and making the case that she will be the best nominee to take on John McCain and be our next President.
Obama plans to declare victory May 20
Not long after the polls close in the May 20 Kentucky and Oregon primaries, Barack Obama plans to declare victory in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
And, until at least May 31 and perhaps longer, Hillary Clinton’s campaign plans to dispute it.
It’s a train wreck waiting to happen, with one candidate claiming to be the nominee while the other vigorously denies it, all predicated on an argument over what exactly constitutes the finish line of the primary race.
The Obama campaign agrees with the Democratic National Committee, which pegs a winning majority at 2,025 pledged delegates and superdelegates—a figure that excludes the penalized Florida and Michigan delegations. The Clinton campaign, on the other hand, insists the winner will need 2,209 to cinch the nomination—a tally that includes Florida and Michigan.
Source: politico.com via politisite
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