Neverending story coming to an end?

The national media is finally catching on to the fact that winning the nomination is an nearly impossible task for Clinton.

AP says:

Time is running out on Hillary Rodham Clinton, the long-ago front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination who now trails Barack Obama in delegates, states won and popular votes.

If current trends continue Obama will have enough delegates to be only 80-100 superdelegates away from the nomination, meaning that he will have to sway very few.

In order to catch up to him, Clinton has to score 65% of the vote in remaining primaries to catch up to him.


She's managed a total that high in only one state so far: Arkansas. She didn't even reach that level in her home state of New York.

In other words, the only way she wins is taking it to convention and convincing nearly all the superdelegates to vote her way. A highly unlikely outcome.

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Meanwhile in another example of public vs. private statements, Clinton today attacked the activist base of the Democratic Party, focusing specifically on Moveon.org.

Her comments caught at the private event, via HuffPo:

I don't agree with them. They know I don't agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me."

Her sentiment is odd, considering she courted the group back in the days of supposed inevitability.

Her words then:

"You've been refusing to back down when any of us who are in political leadership are not living up to the standards that we should set for ourselves... I think you have helped to change the face of American politics for the better... both online, and in the corridors of power."

And now she's making things up about the group's positions.

"MoveOn didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with."

Moveon's Eli Pariser:

"Senator Clinton has her facts wrong again. MoveOn never opposed the war in Afghanistan, and we set the record straight years ago when Karl Rove made the same claim.

Clinton could have gracefully bowed out of this race on a high note, but at this point one has to wonder if she'll have a shred of dignity left. Between this and the Colombian trade flap, she has zero credibility.

And by echoing false claims Karl Rove has made, she's showing her true colors and blatantly trying to kill Democratic chances for the fall to set herself up for 2012.

It's no surprise. The Clintons have always been the candidates of the right-leaning DLC.

Her overnight adoption of liberal positions was a bit hard to believe, given her vote for the Iraq war and years of backing corporate trade deals.

It's only expected that as her campaign crumbles, she's going to lash out at the activist base that rejected the DLC way and ended her coronation.