Rep. Lacy Clay (D-MO) confirms Obama has 50 New Superdelegates

[TeamJordan23]

Clay Confirms Obama Has 50 New Superdelegates

Rep. Lacy Clay (D-MO), Sen. Barack Obama’s Missouri co-chairman and pledged Obama superdelegate, said Obama will gain the support of 50 undecided Democratic superdelegates later this week, according to the Columbia Missourian.

Said Clay: “She (Sen. Clinton) will not make up those numbers. This race is over.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Obamas_secret_superdelegates.html

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/03/05/clay_confirms_obama_has_50_new_superdelegates.html

[anonymous171]

1. WTF!?!?!? HOW!?

:spray:

[JackORoses]

4. because Obama is playing Chess while Hillary plays Checkers

She hoots and hollers about a double jump,
all the while he lines up the Checkmate.

[jgraz]

13. Obama is playing Chess while Hillary fingerpaints with her own poo

[Danger Mouse]

29. Good god man!!!

:spray: :spray: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:

[mythyc]

32. wow, speechless, i mean, woah

that's quite an image....

quite an image :o !

=j

[Hawkowl]

40. Hillarious!

Poo! Indeed perhaps the most bitingly witty metaphor I've yet seen on this bastardized GDP!

[Window]

46. LMAO!

:toast:

[theboss]

2. If this is true, I wonder if a "Goldwater visits Nixon" moment is coming

Maybe the Supers are planning to ask Hillary to drop out.

[TeamJordan23]

5. I hope so. We need to prep up for the GE. nm

[anigbrowl]

9. That would be ironic

We'll see. There was word that the 50 SDs would be announced today and it didn't happen, so I'll believe it when I hear it.

[TeamJordan23]

14. It's strategy. They may even not announce all at one time in my opinion.

Or at least hold off the big names.

[HooptieWagon]

22. Who knows, maybe they're waiting until 3AM to drop the SD Bomb

[TeamJordan23]

23. LOL. nm

[dkf]

3. I hope this is right. I could have sworn somebody took it back the other day.

I'm getting dizzy.

[ExFreeper4Obama]

6. Superdelegate Bomb

:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:
:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:
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:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:

[TeamJordan23]

12. They should wait to announce it until Monday to get the headlines next week. nm

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

7. Obama has to get his game up for PA

NC, my state is supposed to come into play, but we're not till May.

Right now he is the favored candidate, and I hope to help keep it that way too.

Kicking and recommending this thread.

[woolldog]

15. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing for this to continue until PA

PA will be a vital state in the GE and it's important for Obama to introduce himself to the electorate and painstakingly build up an infrastructure over the next month that will penetrate deep into the state. That kind of organization and media exposure will serve him well in the GE.

Hopefully Clinton won't continue down the path she's on. If she does I think Obama has learned a lesson and will strike back hard.

[bluestateguy]

Good point

For both candidates--whoever the winner is--it can't hurt to start setting up the ground game for Pennslyvania now.

[Hawkowl]

41. Extremely important point!

Obama is using the primaries to build his grassroots organization and as a dry run for the general election. Hillary is simply finger painting in her own poo--to quote Elrond Hubbard in post above. It is important for people who usually don't vote to PRACTICE voting! I know it may sound absurd but it is true! The more you do something the easier it gets and the more likely you are to do it. I would like to see this continue at least thru PA--if and only if-- HRC stays out of the gutter. It has been suggested that she may try to fatally wound Obama so she can run again in 2012. I hope this is not the case.

[HooptieWagon]

8. LOL!!!

Its over.... no way the DNC lets Hellary's poison the well strategy harm the chances for Nov.

[TwilightGardener]

10. Well, I'm skeptical of the impact--who is this Clay person, and

how does she know so much? I'd believe it if it were coming from a Dem leader.

[Colobo]

21. We'll win, wiener. Believe it.

[TwilightGardener]

28. Hey, Katz. I was really bummed this morning, but I'm feeling more feisty tonight.

Hope you're right.

[anigbrowl]

24. It's a he, and he's a congressman. Get informed:

http://lacyclay.house.gov/

[Gore1FL]

30. He is the Congressman of the 1st District of MO (St. Louis)

He is my congressman. I take him at his word. He is top notch.

[Danger Mouse]

11. I hope this is true...

[LoZoccolo]

16. Time for apologies from Hillary and her supporters, her campaggin is over!

You can post the appologies here Hilary supporters!

[David Zephyr]

17. The Clintons' scorched earth tactics are turning the Democratic Establishment off.

It's all about to come to a screeching end.

Hillary has about 10 days to ask Obama to be his VP and then the shit is going to hit the fan.

She will wind up being a junior Senator from New York for the rest of her career and just a footnote in history.

[Zhade]

20. And that's going to be AWESOME.

One, because she's fucking unfit for office (no one who suggests they get to pick their presidential powers is), and two, I get to watch arrogant assholes who "knew" she was "due" to be "anointed" gnash their teeth and support Obama or finally leave DU.

Looking forward to it!

[HooptieWagon]

31. "screeching end"?

yea, it'll be all that... she won't go quietly and with dignity and class, that's for sure.

[mythyc]

18. she's gonna go fire and brimstone if that's so

which i'd love to see. one note: if this is really his strategy he better hit her with everything he's got all week. non-stop. put her under an avalanche of her entire past, in the quicksand of her own rhetoric and corruption charges. monkey wrench is he has to do it artfully. she's gonna cry foul if there's a that big of a move against her, and he'll have to put her under microscopic scrutiny to neutralize the hellfire she is definitely gonna raise....

the next two weeks are going to interesting no matter what the scenario :popcorn:

[LoZoccolo]

19. I believe that she will literally start destroying property, perhaps by setting it on fire.

Well OK maybe not, but there's no telling what will happen when she is cornered!

[HooptieWagon]

39. LOL, I've been saying,, since she's gone scorched earth

she's been acting like a spiteful spurned ex... sorry hillbots, that isn't being "tough", that's being irrationally unhinged.

[Tarheel_Dem]

26. i heard on Stephanie Miller this morning that Clinton's legal team

had sought to put a temporary freeze on SD's. Whatever the hell that means. Steph & the Mooks thought it meant that they wouldn't be allowed to announce support until the convention? Anybody know what the hell that was all about?

[JimGinPA]

38. Brokaw Let It Out Yesterday, They Probably Freaked...

I don't think there's anything lawyers can do about it.

[my3boyz]

43. Pathetic. They were all too happy to have the numbers out there

when she led in super delegates. However, this would allow Obama to take over the super delegate lead. I DO NOT think super delegates should decide who wins. That means I don't want them to overturn who has the lead but I would not mind them topping off the person who has the lead so that this thing could be over.

[Gore1FL]

25. Clay is My congressman

He always votes the right way. Everytime I write a letter asking him to support something, he always seesm to send me back a response saying he was a co sponsor.

I can't get a calendar out of the guy to save my soul, though...

[Ino]

49. You're so lucky!

I sent an email to Clay last summer asking him to talk to my spineless rep, Russ Carnahan, about how to be a Real Dem. Clay is always front & center, fearless. He's a treasure.

[usregimechange]

27. I still don't like superdelegates but that is a lot of them to come out

[TeamJordan23]

33. Well they are going with the will of the people: the winner of the pledged delegates. nm

[TeamJordan23]

34. delete: dupe.

[TeamJordan23]

35. Does anyone get the feeling the Obama people are bluffing and it will be a lot more than 50? nm

[TreasonousBastard]

36. We'll believe it when we see it, not when an Obama...

state chair sez so.

I gots nuttin' against this guy, and I do like Obama, but it sounds like he's blowin' smoke.

[my3boyz]

44. Why would he do that? It hurts them to make a claim like that and not

have it pan out. Then people would think they changed their mind because Hillary is winning now (according to lame media reports).

[EmilyAnne]

37. Wow! That is the best news I've heard, well, since Tuesday night! Awesome.

I hope its true. I wonder why its not being reported more widely.

[loveangelc]

42. did it depend on him winning texas?

he could have just been saying what the news guy said...

[ObamaWinsWH09]

45. Really??

Obama knows how to up the ante!

Thank you for posting this and the links, that was really interesting :)

Nice to meet you all.

[Window]

47. Welcome to DU.

Peace:thumbsup:

[BringBigDogBack]

48. fingers crossed.