"It remains astonishing to me that you see no possible goal other than the nomination."
That's pretty ridiculous. Why would you say that?
I posted that original post because I saw that the nomination contest was effectively over, but that fact was not being covered by the press much and most people I talked to didn't seem to know it. That is, a lot of people asked me my opinion on the primaries in context of clearly thinking it was still an open question. So I wanted to lay out the numbers to show people that it was no longer an open question at that point; that the nomination was effectively decided.
That you'd suggest this means that's all I care about is certainly an affront to something.
Now, you clearly have some opinions about the matter that are somewhat orthogonal to what I wrote. They do relate in some ways, and we probably disagree on some of them (for example, one of my goals is to ensure a Republican defeat in November, and I am firmly convinced that a convention fight would make that less likely, so while you seem to *want* a convention fight, I definitely want the convention to be planned with Obama's campaign in mind, and be the campaign kickoff, as normally happens these days). But most of that is beside the point, because my explanation of the fact that Obama has won is *not* an argument about whether he *should* have won. Any my earlier post actually explained why I thought it would be better for Clinton to continue running rather than drop out (for everyone but herself - she's damaging herself terribly, but I don't care about that anymore).
You seem to be blinded by some emotion I can't put my finger on. I don't know if you support Clinton or of it's something else. But whatever it is, you're not making any sense at all.
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Date: 2008-05-18 14:20 (UTC)That's pretty ridiculous. Why would you say that?
I posted that original post because I saw that the nomination contest was effectively over, but that fact was not being covered by the press much and most people I talked to didn't seem to know it. That is, a lot of people asked me my opinion on the primaries in context of clearly thinking it was still an open question. So I wanted to lay out the numbers to show people that it was no longer an open question at that point; that the nomination was effectively decided.
That you'd suggest this means that's all I care about is certainly an affront to something.
Now, you clearly have some opinions about the matter that are somewhat orthogonal to what I wrote. They do relate in some ways, and we probably disagree on some of them (for example, one of my goals is to ensure a Republican defeat in November, and I am firmly convinced that a convention fight would make that less likely, so while you seem to *want* a convention fight, I definitely want the convention to be planned with Obama's campaign in mind, and be the campaign kickoff, as normally happens these days). But most of that is beside the point, because my explanation of the fact that Obama has won is *not* an argument about whether he *should* have won. Any my earlier post actually explained why I thought it would be better for Clinton to continue running rather than drop out (for everyone but herself - she's damaging herself terribly, but I don't care about that anymore).
You seem to be blinded by some emotion I can't put my finger on. I don't know if you support Clinton or of it's something else. But whatever it is, you're not making any sense at all.