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UPDATE 1:  Kendrick Meek ‘absolutely not’ dropping out

“Absolutely not… it’s nothing further from the truth, Meek said on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown. ‘I’m in this race. I’m not trying to run for second, I’m running for first.”

Charlie Crist asked Clinton camp to suggest Meek drop out, source says

According to a source close to Clinton, the former president’s conversations with Meek were directly initiated by Crist. He called top Clinton lawyer Doug Band and asked him if Clinton would make the appeal directly to Meek, the source tells me.”

Oh yeah, not flipping likely.  Surely, the anointed one is not pleased tonight in spite of  Crist taking the fall like a good little puppet.  As for Meek, you do you and to hell with everybody else.

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POLITICO.COM

Bill Clinton sought to persuade Rep. Kendrick Meek to drop out of the race for Senate during a trip to Florida last week — and nearly succeeded.

Meek agreed — twice — to drop out and endorse Gov. Charlie Crist’s independent bid in a last-ditch effort to stop Marco Rubio, the Republican nominee who stands on the cusp of national stardom.

Meek, a staunch Clinton ally from Miami, has failed to broaden his appeal around the state and is mired in third place in most public polls, with a survey today showing him with just 15 percent of the vote. His withdrawal, polls suggest, would throw core Democratic voters to the moderate governor, rocking a complicated three-way contest and likely throwing the election to Crist.

The former president’s top aide, Doug Band, initially served as the intermediary between Meek and Crist, and Clinton became involved only when Meek signaled that he would seriously consider the option, Clinton spokesman Matt McKenna confirmed to POLITICO.

‘The argument was: ‘You can be a hero here. You can stop him, you can change this race in one swoop,’ said another Democrat familiar with the conversations, who said Clinton had bluntly told Meek that he couldn’t win the race.”

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Envision Barack Obama rallying Black Americans to go out and vote, dutiful Black Americans chanting before their messiah “Yes we can;” and Bill Clinton telling Kendrick Meek “No you can’t.”

Was it an act of racism?  HELL YES.  It was also an act of hypocrisy and retribution.  In addition, the legality of the act itself is questionable.

I will venture to say that while Barack Obama was traveling cross-country telling Black America to vote Democrat and Latino America to punish their enemies, or go back to the way things were, Bill Clinton was putting the heat on Kendrick Meek, a Black American to step down from the Florida race.

Let us also keep in mind that during the presidential campaign in 2008, Meek, who at that time was a superdelegate, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president not Barack Obama before Clinton conceded the race.

So you tell me, is it a coincidence that Obama never endorsed Meek?  Coincidence that Charlie Crist has been sucking up to his bff, Obama from day one?  Coincidence that Bill Clinton asked Meek to resign to clear a path for Crist?

Of course, the narrative they are going with is that although the White House had knowledge of the plan, they plan was not their creation. COME ONNNNNNNNN!!!!!

You can pull that one on dim-witted Progressives but this former Democrat (I only admit it so that others can learn from my mistake) knows better.  Said arrangement has Chicago style politics and vengeance written all over it.

So to all the Black and Latino Americans who have affirmed their allegiance to Progressives, wake up.  You are merely a pathway to Progressives acquiring power and wealth.  Their allegiance is to themselves not you.  WAKE UP!