This is a good move, make her look silly for staying on the field when she should really leave the game. Clinton just became Huckabee:
When the election returns filter in Tuesday from West Virginia, Sen. Barack Obama won’t be there. Nor will he leapfrog ahead to a later primary state, as he usually does on election nights.
Exercising his new-found role as the likely Democratic nominee, Obama will instead travel to Missouri, a general election swing state, to begin laying the groundwork for November. He will do the same next week in Florida, raising money and setting out on what aides describe as a fence-mending bid in the orphaned state.
The travel schedule is just one mark of a candidate eager to shift from primary to general election mode.
Obama and his aides repeatedly told reporters this weekend that the primary is not yet over. But the signs of change were everywhere during the senator’s first campaign trip after a big win in North Carolina and a narrow loss in Indiana nudged him closer than ever to the Democratic nomination.
In a two-day swing through Oregon, Obama purged Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton from his stump speeches, addressing his Democratic rival only when asked by voters. Obama instead focused solely on Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.
posted May 12, 2008 at 12:26 pm
So he’s just going to write off the whole state of WV. Classy. This is just the kind of thing we’ll see in his presidencey. Too fancy to give time to any rednecks who he considers beneath his status
posted May 12, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Gee, ZZ, I never would’ve expected you to feel offended on behalf on the rednecks since you seem to spend most of your posting energy defending the plutocrats. Mighty big of you.
posted May 12, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Strange, ZZ, I never heard you complain when GOP candidates wrote off Iowa in the early primary season.
Tell me, ZZ…how much manure are you willing to scoop for McCain this year?
posted May 12, 2008 at 4:32 pm
No scooping necessary. He’ll take Obama apart in the debates. Even if he doesn’t, the first time Obama tries any of his wacky socialist ideas, the voters will just hand a supermajority of congress back to Republicans, neutering his ability to conduct his little experiments.
posted May 12, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Considering that Hillary is not likely to be nominated, that makes perfect sense for Obama. Besides, who wants to campaign in a coal mine anyway?
posted May 13, 2008 at 8:10 am
“who wants to campaign in a coal mine anyway”
Gee, who’s the classist now?
posted May 13, 2008 at 8:42 am
Gee, who’s the classist now?
That’s still you, dear.
posted May 13, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Oh, that’s right, I remember.
College educated with decent job = Classist
Barista with an english degree = destitute proletariat