Harkin suggests Clinton campaign may be "running on fumes" (AUDIO)

[jefferson_dem]

Harkin suggests Clinton campaign may be "running on fumes"

Senator Tom Harkin talked with Iowa reporters by phone this morning. Here's the roughly two-and-a-half minute mp3/audio file of his commentary on the Clinton campaign.

Here Harkin is transcribed: "Well, I agree with our chairman Howard Dean. I sure hope this gets settled before we go to convention. That'd be very late. That'd be at the end of August. We've never had anything that late before we've had a candidate. So I don't know, I think, you know, looking at Super Tuesday, things came out pretty even. Now, again, I'm not a real expert in this but just listening to the pundits and sort of reading what I can on it it looks as though the calendar for this month favors Obama. The calendar next month may favor Clinton but I think the headline in the Washington Post this morning is very instructive. I thought I had it there. What did it say? It said, oh, 'Clinton lent her campaign $5 million' -- that's very interesting and that was before Super Tuesday. That was before Super Tuesday, so you wonder if their campaign is just running on fumes. You know, when staffs are working for no pay, you being to wonder about how much they have to continue, especially if you're talking about next month so I think there's some real dark clouds there on that. Again, I don't know if they can get out and raise the money. Someone pointed out to me this morning that's something on the wires or the blogs maybe that Obama has raised almost $7 million just since Tuesday --- $7 million on-line! So, boy, uh, that, so I don't know. I just think we're in for some, an interesting month in our party."

Harkin concludes with a brief discussion of the Republican race, then this sentence: "This could be an interesting year."

LINK and AUDIO ---> http://learfield.typepad.com/radioiowa/2008/02/harkin-suggests.html

[Dogmudgeon]

1. It's almost over

Now you know why we Hilbots are so desperate.

We really do hate The Future. And our plan to kill Hope failed utterly.

The resilient optimism and purity of the Nude Erection New Direction defeated us, utterly and completely.

None of us may ever even have jobs again, let alone careers. Nor will we partake in the Golden Era about to dawn.

It's all over but the prison sentences.

--p!

[Emillereid]

2. I think I'll just have to give Obama a hundred bucks on this news!

[dflprincess]

3. I don't like either candidate so I'm tempted to give Clinton money

I'd rather see a deadlocked convention than a coronation of either candidate. Maybe the delegates would have to draft a candidate I could feel good about voting for in November.