Former President Bill Clinton Alleges Cover-Up and Sees Conspiracy
- From: Chim <ChimS1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 20:45:32 -0700 (PDT)
Bill Clinton Alleges Cover-Up
CNN
Posted: 2008-05-26 20:02:08
Filed Under: Elections News, Hillary Clinton
(May 26) - Former President Bill Clinton said that Democrats were more
likely to lose in November if Hillary Clinton is not the nominee, and
suggested some were trying to "push and pressure and bully"
superdelegates to make up their minds prematurely.
"I can't believe it. It is just frantic the way they are trying to
push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out,"
Clinton said at a South Dakota campaign stop Sunday, in remarks first
reported by "ABC News."
Clinton also suggested some were trying to "cover up" Sen. Clinton's
chances of winning in key states that Democrats will have to win in
the general election.
" 'Oh, this is so terrible: The people they want her. Oh, this is so
terrible: She is winning the general election, and he is not. Oh my
goodness, we have to cover this up.' "
Clinton did not expound on who he was accusing.
The former president added that his wife had not been given the
respect she deserved as a legitimate presidential candidate.
"She is winning the general election today and he is not, according to
all the evidence," Clinton said. "And I have never seen anything like
it. I have never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for
running."
"Her only position was, 'Look, if I lose I'll be a good team player.
We will all try to win, but let's let everybody vote, and count every
vote,' " he said.
The former president suggested that if the New York senator ended the
primary season with an edge in the popular vote, it would be a
significant development.
"If you vote for her and she does well in Montana and she does well in
Puerto Rico, when this is over she will be ahead in the popular vote,"
Clinton said.
"And they're trying to get her to cry uncle before the Democratic
Party has to decide what to do in Florida and Michigan," which Clinton
said the party would need to do "unless we want to lose the election."
The current requirement to claim the Democratic presidential
nomination is 2,026 delegates, a formula that does not take into
account delegates from Florida and Michigan, whose contests were not
sanctioned by the party because they moved them up earlier on the
primary calendar.
But if those votes were counted as cast, Hillary Clinton would still
trail rival Barack Obama in the overall delegate count.
The former president said Sunday that the media had unfairly attacked
his wife since the Iowa caucuses, repeating an often-used charge that
press coverage had made him feel as though he were living in a "fun
house."
"If you notice, there hasn't been a lot of publicity on these polls I
just told you about," he said. "It is the first time you've heard it?
Why do you think that is? Why do you think? Don't you think if the
polls were the reverse and he was winning the Electoral College
against Senator McCain and Hillary was losing it, it would be blasted
on every television station?"
He added, "You would know it wouldn't you? It wouldn't be a little
secret. And there is another Electoral College poll that I saw
yesterday had her over 300 electoral votes. ... She will win the
general election if you nominate her. They're just trying to make sure
you don't."
2008-05-26 15:53:56
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