Clinton Backer: Obama Will Probably Win
Well, this is quite blunt: ‘”If I had to make a prediction right now, I’d say Barack Obama is going to be the next president,” Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver said in a Canadian public radio interview this weekend.’
Perhaps someone should have informed him that this isn’t exactly what Hillary Clinton needs right now.
He made matters even worse by adding: “I will be stunned if he’s not the next president of the United States.”
You’re not helllping.
And about a possible fight at the Democratic convention Cleaver had the following to say: “If I do the party line, I’m supposed to say — and maybe I’ll say, just so if anybody hears it they can say well, ‘Cleaver did the party line before he told the truth’ — we believe that a contest going all the way to the convention is good for America.”
Adding that ‘an actual convention fight would be a “tragedy of tragedies.”’
But he’s honest, and that’s refreshing. It’s clear that Obama is the favorite; basically the only way for Clinton to win is to continue to win the big states and to damage Obama so much that the Democratic Party’s superdelegates think that he won’t be able to beat John McCain in November.
Clinton still has a chance, but Cleaver is right when he points out that it’s basically in Obama’s hands now. He’s now a household name, he’s leading delegate-wise… he’s leading in the polls.
He should be able to close this deal.
But: Clinton is right to hang in there. It’s so close that a mistake by Obama could cost him the nomination.
As an aside, I think that Cleaver is right about Obama vs. Clinton, but he may be wrong about Obama vs. McCain. All polls have McCain leading Obama these days. It won’t be a walkover for the latter.
Where we all ‘knew’ a year ago that a Democrat would become America’s next president, we all now realize that a Republican could very well win it; especially if national security is made an issue again.
While his honesty may be refreshing, as you say, I think there has to be motive behind it. I find it hard to believe he just blew it and spoke his mind without realizing that an interview for a national Canadian radio broadcast wouldn’t get back to the campaign. And he’s speaking as a Clinton campaign Missouri co-chair and Clinton pledged super-delegate.So I think his reasoning could likely be that he is seeking to help put an end to the Clinton campaign, and also to attempt to explain his continued support for Clinton even though she is losing.
I agree with realcampaign, there is a motive behind his words. I think he is an ass who plays both sides of the fence. If I were Hillary, I wouldn’t want him. I’d tell him to go to Obama and publically state so. Cleaver is a joke. He wants to be with Obama because he is Black. He didn’t know a Black man would be running one day. But go Cleaver, cling to your brother and leave us true Clintonians alone, jeeez!! Enough already!
Right, this is the first time a Black Man has run for President.
You exist? WOW! I heard that a couple of families saw bright lights in the sky, a neck poke up out of a lake and a big hairy creature in the woods - but WOW!