It's All About The Power

June 8th, 2008

Today on June 7th, 2008 Hilary Clinton gave her second concession speech, in which she did not concede.

On the last speech given a few days ago, when Sen. Clinton lost the nomination due to Sen. Obama going over the total amount of delegates needed to win the parties nomination. She did not throw in the towel. Everyone thought she would, she should have, and any other candidate with even a small amount of grace would have. Sen. Clinton was not among those people. The best she could do was to say, I will spend a few days thinking about what to do and, ask my supporters to e-mail my web site to give me your advise. Even after losing the nomination she is still trying to figure out how to retain the power.

Here is a woman that wanted to be the commander and chief of our military and she could not even decide when to bow out with grace.

Still hanging on to some fading hope, of the power of the oval office, she waits and calls around capital hill, and her supporters. After finding a cold reception even from ardent supporters like Charlie Rangel and others on capital hill, she finally decides to do what every one else knows she must.

Then in the typical Clinton style she shows up today 45 minuets late, for her non-concession speech. No thought to all her supporters that are waiting for her at 12:00 eastern time. In this speech she says all of the right things. I will give my support to Sen. Obama, she asked her supporters to give their support to Sen. Obama, but she did not concede. What Sen. Clinton did was suspend her campaign. There is a difference. When you suspend your campaign instead of ending or conceding it you retain your delegates, and your power over them. If she wanted to concede she would have ended her campaign she would have release her delegates to Sen. Obama. Now her pledged delegates are legally bound to vote for her at the convention on the first ballot.

At this speech Sen. Clinton spoke for 30 minuets. 25 of them she spoke of herself or her campaign and what she accomplished. Only five of them did she speak about Sen. Obama. When she spoke of herself she was all smiles, but when talk turned to Sen. Obama her face turned grim. Body language tells us more about what someone means rather than what they say. Speaking about herself Sen. Clinton kept eye contact with the crowd. Speaking about Sen. Obama and the support she would give him, she broke eye contact with the crowd and looked at her notes or off to the side. It was a clear sign of deception.

You can bet it’s all about the power of the white house not wanting to serve the people.


And that's what I think!

Phil Haikey