From Rebecca Sinderbrand
CNN
(CNN) -- 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.
Bill Clinton did not explain who he was accusing of "covering up" Sen. Clinton's chances.
"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. Watch Clinton talk about the "cover up." »
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."
mmhh.....bull.shit!!.......have u smell it b4 (joke)
Hivi kuna ubaya gani mtu kusema/ kidai Obama hawezi kushinda uchaguzi mkuu? Yaani huyu Obama ni messiah ambaye hakosolewi, hapingwi, na ambaye hatakiwi kupewa changamoto yoyote ile na yoyotew yule.....man..this is bull.shit. I have never seen such in my life. It's above and beyond ridiculous!!!
Hivi kuna ubaya gani mtu kusema/ kidai Obama hawezi kushinda uchaguzi mkuu? Yaani huyu Obama ni messiah ambaye hakosolewi, hapingwi, na ambaye hatakiwi kupewa changamoto yoyote ile na yoyotew yule.....man..this is bull.shit. I have never seen such in my life. It's above and beyond ridiculous!!!
Na akipigwa chini itakuwaje humu JF mjadala utaendelea au ndio tutaufunga kabisa??
Hivi kuna ubaya gani mtu kusema/ kidai Obama hawezi kushinda uchaguzi mkuu? Yaani huyu Obama ni messiah ambaye hakosolewi, hapingwi, na ambaye hatakiwi kupewa changamoto yoyote ile na yoyotew yule.....man..this is bull.shit. I have never seen such in my life. It's above and beyond ridiculous!!!
...acha kulia lia wewe na tunaomba hizo vote zenu mumpelekee babu yenu Mccwar manaa zinaweza kumpunguzia landslide shame
babu mavita leo na mastory yake ya mavita vita kazomewa ile mbaya!
...hv babu Makopo (McCain) ana dili gani na hawa ma-lobbists ktk kampeni yake?
Scott McLean (ex-Bush advisor) katoa kitabu very damaging juu ya war na sera nyingine za Bush...ambazo babu anazikumbatia!! hapo ndipo watakapo pigwa gumba la washeli na Mr Change......yangu macho!!
Icadon,
..hoja ya Mzee Clinton ni kwamba Mama ndiye mwenye uwezo wa kushinda.
..anaongeza kwamba Obama peke yake hawezi kushinda, bila kumshirikisha Mama.
..anatoa msisitizo kwamba ushindi ni lazima kwa "dream ticket."
..kauli za namna hiyo zikitolewa wengi wanachukia kwasababu wanafikiri zimetolewa kwasababu Barack Obama is Black. hicho ndicho kinachowakwaza lakini hoja ya Mzee Clinton ni rahisi sana kuipangua.
Kitila Mkumbo,
..Mama amegeuzwa kituko huko kwenye networks kwasababu ameshindwa.
..sasa hivi watu lazima wampambe Obama wakitegemea kupata ulaji baadaye.
..naelewa kwamba some networks zimezidisha dhihaka na vituko dhidi ya Hillary, lakini kwa kiasi kikubwa maisha ndivyo yalivyo.
Ni kweli vyombo vya habari vimeanza kumdhihaki huyu mama, kama jana nilikuwa naangalia mahojiano ya Candy Crowley alisema "mwaka jana alikuwa inevitable nominee leo ni inevitable looser" kwa upande mwingine sidhani kama akina Clinton wanajua kudeal na defeats...hii kitu itakuwa imewashangaza sana..tusubiri weekend hii watakapotoa majibu kuhusu Florida na Michigan.
Umeona mambo aliyoandika The Matrix(Secret Service Code name ya McClellan)....? alafu juzi W kashow up kwenye fundraiser ya Mc naona wakaamua kuifanya private even though walikwua hawajauza ticket zote...nimesoma somewhere wanasema W anataka sana kuhit the trail lakini Mc anamkwepa..patamu hapo.
NN, kuhusu issue ya Obama na uncle wake, ni kuwa amechanganya sehemu tuu ila ni kweli uncle wake alishiriki kwenye mapigano...GOP walitaka kuikuza jana lakini baada ya kupewa maelezo naona wakacool off wakaja na ooh Obama na McCain waende Iraq pamoja.
Na vipi kuhusu comments zake za Memorial day?
Gaffe za Obama inakuwa kuchanganya sehemu za Mama au McCain inakuwa nongwa. Nakwambia ingekuwa ndio McCain ka-gaffe mngeanza kusema uzee...kama mlivyofanya alipochanganya Washia na Wasuni