Candidate Clinton to Richardson: 'Barack Obama Can't Win'

[DixieBelle]

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton are making very direct arguments to Democratic superdelegates, starkly insisting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., cannot win a general election against presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

Sources with direct knowledge of the conversation between Sen. Clinton and Governer Bill Richardson, D-N.M., prior to the Governor's endorsement of Obama say she told him flatly, "He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win."

Richardson, who served in President Clinton's cabinet, disagreed.

At a rally in Oregon, standing next to Obama, Richardson insisted, "My great affection and admiration for Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton will never waver," but he added, "It is time, however, for Democrats to stop fighting among ourselves and to prepare for the tough fight we will face against John McCain in the fall."

A report in the San Francisco Chronicle detailed another explosive exchange in which the former President angrily objected to Richardson's endorsement.

"Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that," Clinton said, according to the Chronicle, before, the newspaper reports, he "went on a tirade that ran from the media's unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama. It ended with him asking delegates to imagine what the reaction would be if Obama was trailing by just 1 percent and people were telling him to drop out."

According to another, neutral superdelegate who was in the room for that meeting called the Chronicle's take "a bit exaggerated" but there is no question the Clintons are passionately arguing their case against Obama in what is fast becoming an intense race not just for the votes of the public but of the Democratic elite known as superdelegates.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/candidate-clint.html

It's going to just get uglier. 

[Wretched Excess]

"Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that," Clinton said, according to the Chronicle, before, the newspaper reports, he "went on a tirade that ran from the media's unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama. It ended with him asking delegates to imagine what the reaction would be if Obama was trailing by just 1 percent and people were telling him to drop out."

bill says bill is a disloyal wimp, and that the media is being mean to his wife, and . . . blah, blah, blah.

how cool is all of this? 

the clintons were always about themselves to begin with; no change there.  they may have been elected to the white house and reelected, but the dems lost both houses of congress and the majority of the state houses in the country.  and before it was over with, the dems had lost the white house, too.  it is totally unsurprising that they are willing to sacrifice the party for their personal benefit right now.  hell, it's sort of their hobby.

 

[Lacarnut]

Bubba screwed Ron Paul now it is the Clinton's turn to be the screwee.

[paladin0]

Hillary is right, Barak won't win if he gets the nomination, and it will be Clinton's handiwork that will bring him down. She can wait 4 or 8 years and try again if McCain wins, if Barak is President she's done for.

Paladin0

[USA4ME]

She could be right, but I sure as heck hope she doesn't win either.  Heck, if I wanted a crazy, loud-mouthed woman telling me what to do I'd get a job at the Waffle House.

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[Tess Anderson]

Yes, there's no way he can win - he's far too left, and I know of many Klinton supporters who'd vote for Juan in that scenario. Juan could beat BHO easily, and probably Hillary. She'd be tougher, though, this is one of her arguments she makes to the superdelegates.