Time for Clinton to call it a day?

The path to the nomination is getting increasingly steep for Hillary Clinton.

She has little chance of catching up to Barack Obama in pledged delegates, especially with Florida and Michigan ruling out new elections this week. And every time a superdelegate falls behind Obama -- especially a super superdelegate like Gov. Bill Richardson did on Friday --- it makes it less likely that she'll be able to corral that group of elected officials and party activists behind her at the convention.

But in a call with reporters Saturday, Clinton officials sounded upbeat about the remaining primaries, beginning with Pennsylvania on April 22 and ending with Puerto Rico on June 1. And of course, they gave their daily shout-out to Florida and Michigan.

"We do not believe in disenfranchising voters in upcoming states, just as we do not believe in disenfranchising voters in Michigan and Florida,'' said Phil Singer, Clinton's deputy communications director. "Sen. Obama claims to be for maximum participation, yet he has been actively involved in a systematic effort to disenfranchise voters in Florida and Michigan.''

Update: Here's the quippy quip from the Obama campaign today:

"Since the Clinton campaign had a news-less conference call, reiterating tired lines of attack with no basis in reality, instead of responding with a call of our own, we are going to give the press corps a break so that we can all enjoy this holiday weekend with our families and maybe even watch a little basketball," said campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

Amen.

Comments

[Contradiction]

Wow, that statement from Bill Burton and the following "Amen" was (hopefully) in shared sarcasm, because the religious overtones was like cruising down the streets of Vegas and seeing "Messiah" neons lights flashing all over Obama's picture on a billboard.

"reiterating tired lines of attack with no basis in reality"

Crap logic. Basis in reality? What reality is he living in? Every vote matters, and discounting people's votes in America is akin to SILENCING their voice. But I'm sure since this is a Religious holiday so let's have an armistice on the Democrat's "civil" war. Blah.

And also I'm going to bring up the "and maybe a little basketball" line.

Innocently said.

[Contradiction]

Wow, that statement from Bill Burton and the following "Amen" was (hopefully) in shared sarcasm, because the religious overtones was like cruising down the streets of Vegas and seeing "Messiah" neons lights flashing all over Obama's picture on a billboard.

"reiterating tired lines of attack with no basis in reality"

Crap logic. Basis in reality? What reality is he living in? Every vote matters, and discounting people's votes in America is akin to SILENCING their voice. But I'm sure since this is a Religious holiday so let's have an armistice on the Democrat's "civil" war. Blah.

And also I'm going to bring up the "and maybe a little basketball" line.

Innocently said.

[robin]

i think that we need to get pass this race. but if u want to be true to the matter hillary was the one that put the race card in their she was the one that showed pic of obama in his africian dress then when that didn/t work shen then tryed geardine ferrio and then when that didn't work she had some else talk radio obama didn.t have to say he's balck i think all of them mccain and hillary should address the race issue she broght she need to let the world know that oh u are about to elec a black and we may have are diffrent but we can't let any black run thw white hose but if hillay get it i will tell people to stay home and that is the grtowning feeling amoung the black people its time for a new day

[Washington Observer]

If Florida and Michigan were counted would you be asking if this race is over? Of course not.allowing the Obama camp to steal this election is an endorsement of John McCain for President. Truth be told if the votes are not counted It is over...but for the democratic party.

[Michelle]

When you consider her national security commonalities with John McCain's weaknesses on Iraq, it's hard to see how she gets through this. TPM and Acropolis Review have more on that:

http://acropolisreview.com/2008/03/john-mccains-iraq-war-five-year.html

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/184135.php