Breaking: Hillary Clinton To Suspend Campaign, Endorse Obama Friday
By Logan Murphy Tuesday Jun 03, 2008 7:00pm
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MSNBC is reporting that Senator Hillary Clinton will be suspending her campaign and plans to endorse the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, Senator Barack Obama, on Friday. More from the New York Times:
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is moving to suspend her campaign and endorse Senator Barack Obama on Friday after Democratic members of Congress urged her Wednesday to leave the race and allow the party to coalesce around Mr. Obama, according to a senior adviser to Mrs. Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton is likely to make the announcement in New York City, an aide said, though no final venue has been chosen.
Her decision came after a day of telephone conversations with supporters on Capitol Hill about what she should do now that Mr. Obama had claimed enough delegates to be able to clinch the nomination. Mrs. Clinton had initially said she wanted to wait before making any decision, but her aides said that in conversations, some of her closest supporters said it was urgent that she step aside. Read on...
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[Deleted. Let's not call her a name based on misogynistic attitudes. You only diminish yourself-Sitemonitor]
She's history, say, BY, BY Hillary !!
Good, maybe we can finally move on and concentrate on beating McSame!
This is about two days too late. Should have happened last night.
Ding Dong the witch is gone.
So, it's Obama vs. McCain.
The question is, how will Americans see them?
IMO, the vote will be close.
But also IMO, the real question is, who do the deep money guys want to be president.
I believe the deep money guys will take either candidate.
YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
One down, one to go.
The first comment says it all about this cycle.
You don't have the Clintons to hate anymore .
Good luck getting those 18 million you lost due to your hate.
She should run as an Independent because both parties and both candidates suck.
Please Hillary, put us out of our misery, get it over with! It's over, thanks for showing us your true colors the past few months!
I'm a resolute Obama supporter and not particularly fond of Hillary, but let's give her some credit here for finally doing the right thing. And it ain't easy running for the presidency.
BTW to all bitter Hillary backers (assuming you are not in fact Rush's dittoheads) the Supreme Court is also unfortunately part of elections, since politicizing the court is also a fact of life.
Its about time....
But you know its not even close to over. This talk about the VP is going to really back Obama into a corner if Clinton behaves the same way she did during the primary.. If Obama picks anyone but Clinton, her supporters are going to be screaming about how unfair he is. If he picks a man, they'll scream sexism.. If he picks someone established or wealthy they'll accuse him of being an elitist...
Clinton will have to make it absolutely perfectly clear that shes ok with his pick, whoever that ends up behind.. any behind the scenes talk about how she got pushed out and her people will be whining and starting a fuss all the way up to November
It's time for the party to unify.
Because Bill Clinton will not let his library be vetted, Hillary will not be asked to be VP. The Clinton's are done!!!
TZ @ 10:
Speaking of the Supreme Court, all those bitter female Billary backers must really hate the idea of controlling their own bodies. Go right ahead and vote for McSame in November...then enjoy Roe v. Wade being overturned.
watching countdown right now, and apparantly this was not hillary's decision on her own. apparantly according to howard fineman, it was CLINTON strategists who called on her senate backers to strongly convince her to back out. she was also called upon by her backers to release them from their committments to her so that they all could move forward. there is something absolutely scary in that. hillary clinton was aparantly actually going to take this all the way to denver. very sad.
reuters is now reporting the story and including that she will indeed endorce obama.
Kent Weed @ 9:
i'm with you weed..........she put up a hell of a fight.....she is a lot smarter than people give her credit. she is carrying mucho baggage in some sense. i still believe she will be important to the dems winning. i somewhat understand peoples loyalties but voting for mccain because you lost that's not thinking.........wow the gop loves this stuff
Give her credit? Uh, it was inevitable; just glad she finally came to grips with reality -- or did she make her $11 million back from donations?
Kent Weed @ 9:
If she doesn't work her ass off to help Obama, her political career is toast. If she does work her ass off to help, then I see a Supreme Court appointment on the horizon.
Okay, I'm no fan of the Clintons either but do references to witches really help? Get real folks. There's still a Republican in the White House, and they have control of Homeland Security. They can change those color codes at will and scare the sh*t out of the American people right up to election day. I suspect we'll be at "Code Red" by November 1.
Anybody who thinks this is going to be a cake-walk is hallucinating. Stop the name-calling.
[deleted - flamebaiting. sitemonitor]We have more important fish to fry.
Hopefully I can see, and hear, much less of this person from now on.
Did she really think the party elders would tell her to stay and take this to the convention floor ? she has been in politics long enough to know they wanted this over last night at the very latest. Hopefully the democratic party is not so fractured that we cannot pull together. I am hoping to hear a great endorsement speech from her for Barack on Friday.
Her concession speech must be a barn burner.
She must COMPLETELY convey her full support of Obama.
Then she must apoligize for her support of McCain.
I came into this election with no pre-conceived idea
of who she was...I left my mind open.
Then she "shrewdly" used the TIRED OLD POLITICAL CHICANERY
to which we have become so accustomed (and grown so sick of).
Her legacy (not to mention her soul) is on the line.
so let me see if i have this straight....
many fanatical Hillary supporters would rather vote for McCain than Obama...
never mind the fact that most objectve observers would say that Obama ran his campaign on the higher road...
but i have just a few questions...
would you really vote to overturn Roe v Wade???
would you really vote for an all Republican supreme court???
do you know that FOUR justices will likely be placed by the next president???
and lastly...
are you people out of your mind ????
you should be praying for an Obama presidency....
scott @ 23:
You're joking, right? She'll make a speech, throw her support to Obama. End of story. Let it go.
MR./Ms theWalrus . . . . She is not out of the race just yet. I thought that too many times already, only to have her carry on. I want to hear it from the horse's mouth. And I am using that figure of speech as it is meant to be. I am in no way disrespectfully labeling Mrs Clinton a horse.
getalife @ 7:
If she's the better, smarter, more savvy and qualified candidate - then why the heck did she lose? If she has such a superior character - then why didn't she bow out gracefully before now... rather than continue to use and manipulate her support?
Why go independent now, why didn't she do that earlier???
Spare me... and ask her to spare us the horror that is to come
It's about time!
Man, what I coulda done with the $300,000,000 she blew! And to think she spent $40mil that she doesn't even HAVE!
Sorry to see her have to go, but it is indeed time. I hope people will be able to support Sen Obama as the candidate and come together to beat the GOP.
Hate should be reserved for the worst of humanity: G.W.Bush, D.Cheney, and Hitler.
Do either Clinton or Obama deserve to be lumped with the above group of war criminals and murderers?
I would like to hear the worst of the worst that both candidates have done (provide proof) and if those actions are not worthy of the hatred that you keep crusading for, you people need to STFU and get with the program. Come on, Damnit!!! We need to come together and win this thing!!!
now you can start pissing out the window again , what a relief, im sure the hate hillay gangs out getting souced!
I hope that now we can move forward and keep McBush from getting into the Whitehouse....and that we can end 8 long years of Darkness...we are one step closer to Unity...thanks for posting this...
theWalrus @ 25:
Whoa!!! Hey, sorry pal! Consider it let go of.
Wow! Feel better now? Sorry your candidate lost.
more breaking quotes on countdown... sounds good...
sounds reasonable and logical and beneficial, to all...
thank you, hillary... thank you!
we need EVERYbody's help to clean up this MESS!
Hill can be mighty graceful when she needs to be, and she knows damn well a McCain presidency would be a disaster for the country. The game's up now, and she's going to do the right thing.
And besides, there's a fair amount of historical noteworthiness she's going to get, going from the first black President's bitterest competitor to campaigning her ass off for him, becoming arguably the woman who made the first black President. It'll make a great story and the Clintons will come out looking like heroes.
[Deleted. Off topic-Sitemonitor]
At the risk of sounding entirely self aggrandizing, I warned in 2004 that picking Kerry's "war hero" status did not make him immune to Republican smears, that Dean's campaigning style was less complacent and more strategic than Kerry's, and that Kerry could very easily lose. Long before Edwards dropped out this year, I noted that I didn't like the way the election was headed -- that I foresaw the media propelling, aggravating and exaggerating nothing but a prolonged war between Obama and Clinton, while simultaneously trying to resurrect the image of Maverick McCain. I also forecast that because neither Obama nor Clinton would have an outright majority of pledged delegates after all the primary contests were finished, Sen. Clinton would then make one last appeal to the superdelegates no matter what the count, and concede only later if she could not convince them to side with her at the convention.
Not that I'm always right or anything (I'm most certainly not), but let me offer one little bit of advice from someone who's played the professional political operative game a bit.........
Gary @ 4:
Chuck @ 1:
Obama supporters: Please stop this. Now that Sen. Obama has clinched the nomination, you have a very important and very difficult responsibility -- not to gloat. Whatever your feelings about Sen. Clinton and her legion of supporters, you must sacrifice your bragging rights for the sake of beating Republicans in November. Don't mention anymore how you feel Sen. Clinton had behaved. Act like all is forgiven, or never even happened. Take the high road, even if painful. Even if Sen. Clinton's supporters continue to offend you, turn the other cheek, and simply welcome them wholeheartedly into your efforts to oust the GOP from the White House. Nothing good can come from prolonging this fight past Clinton's concession.
I realize I'm being condescending. I realize you might find my words annoying and frustrating. You might even consider them unfair to you. Perhaps they are. But you must follow the very admonition you offer Sen. Clinton, to subordinate your own sense of righteousness for the good of the party. This election is one we must win.
Thank you for putting up with me.
getalife @ 7:
Why do I picture a child with hards crossed, foot tapping and sulky look on there face.
I am so tired of the drama queens. Give them a nap.
Bill Richardson for VP.
TZ @ 10:
Yo! Birdbrain who's clever vote on cloture allowed 'Machine Gun' Sammy Alito onto the Court?
Don't know?
Typical Oamacan low-info chump.
no wait, she needs to raise some more money before she quits the primary race. She still owes herself a few million, and if she gets some suckers to give her donations, then she can pay herself back with interest (*snark*).
What a putz she is.
Now Let's Take back this Country!!!
A.Citizen
OK please enlighten me. Not that the basic point of a Rep or a Dem POYUS making SCOTUS appointments point I made still stands.
ya...lets do it when no one is watching
wonder if that crazy lady from manhattan will be there
A.Citizen @ 41:
What an excellent way to make a point. Are the Clinton supporters trying to make the Bush supporters appear mature?
I understand that they feel strongly about Clinton; however it is not to be. This one has a conversation with themself and then calls names based on the answer that they imagined that the other person didn't give, during the conversation with themself.
Control your crazy, please.
Karen @ 38:
Watch the response to this pragmatic and well thought comment.
It will be ugly.
Is it me or are there a ton of Obamaniacs who are overly sensitive to anything Clinton does?
She could of done anything yesterday and there would still be people bashing. She unlike the haters will actually work hard to get a Obama in office.
Peter Hollman @ 24:
honestly, if you want a female president someday....then pray that roe is overturned
nothing will bring women out to vote more than the fact that state legislatures and the congress could move to make abortion illegal
and trust me, the repugs dont want roe overturned....takes a huge cut out of their talking points
even with bush and the repugs in power, there wasnt move one to overturn roe
Chris Gamble @ 47:
Again with the haters. When things don't work out for you, everyone hates you.
ashton @ 49:
will she and hubby support obama the way they supported kerry?
if so, i hope they both stay home
You vituperative Clinton haters need to give it a rest. Get a girl/boyfriend or something. I'm voting for Obama but the disgusting juvenile comments by some of you make all of us look bad. But then again, maybe this is intentional. Perhaps you fools are simply repug trolls who are simply doing it on purpose, I don't know. Either way, say something relevant or just STFU.
Now,
David Gregory sure looks like an ape doesn't he?
sharkcellar @ 51:
It is good to see that you rose above the "disgusting juvenile comments."
I voted for Cliton in the PA primary, but it was a toss up. If in noveember I was voting based on the Clinton Hatters here and else where I would stay home. Remember the real election is not about swiching votered between parties, but discouging people of the opsite party to stay home.
Fourtunatly I have listent to Obman, I saw him speak at WCU and I will vote for him in NOV.
Keep up the withch comments and you are all falling for the FOX plan to demonize all decrots and elect Mcsame.
In other words shut the hell up before you cost BO the election and we get 4 (8) more yease of McBush.
I predict a long, hot summer...
TZ @ 44:
I was NEVER a Hillary hater.
Until she said that McCain would be a better president than Obama.
She lost me there.
Anyway, it's over.
No hard feelings (not very much).
I was not for either candidate. I supported kucinich first, then Edwards.
All I can say is that you Hillary / Obama haters make me ashamed to be an American, right now. You people are psychotic! Just let it go.
All of you haters don't realized that this was a win-win situation. They are both extraordinary people; they would both be many, many times over better president that McCain. Why continue with the hate?
Clinton just sent out a press release that both she and Obama will have a unity celebration in DC on Saturday.
Personally i think it is about time for McCain to concede, don't you?
You know...I just wanna apologize to every Obama supporter here if anything I've said has given offense. I started out behind Edwards and was not happy when he did the El Foldo. But...
We are were we are and.....
Well, in the spirit of 'reaching out...'
Here's an Obama supporter, quiet an enthusiastic one I might add, to speak to us.
Now...
Who here, is willing to join his posse? Any takers?
If the majority of posts on this thread are any indication reuniting the Democratic party will be a long and arduous task. Mostly they represent pure mean spirited childishness. This isn't grade six in the schoolyard and no one here won anything. Senator Obama won his nomination by not behaving the way you are. You better get this crap out of your system and fast. If you persist you will do our candidate nothing but harm. Every person you drive away with this abysmally stupid behavior represents two votes: one Obama loses and one McCain gets. Karen has it dead to rights, but I doubt that a voice of moderation can penetrate the adamantine skulls more dim witted of you. Try thinking with the big head for a change.
Now, Now. I'm an Obama supporter, but the days of taking shots at the person in the Democratic Primary you don't support are over. Let's get it together. We have to. Only one could be the nominee, and that is set. No sniping at Hillary. A snipe at Hillary is a vote for McBush. No one wants that. If Clinton or Obama did something you didn't like, it's water under the bridge. It does not matter now. Those differences and slights are so small compared to what damage the repubes could do in the next four years if McBush is elected. If those two didn't play hardball then they would not be able to stand up to the swiftboating and character attacks that Rove & Co are going to aim at our nominee.
Let's get on with defeating McBush and Rove.
I'm an Obama backer and I was really getting PO'd at Hillary the last couple months, but this announcement gives me hope that she might turn around and do the right thing. You just never know how stuff like this will play out.
SR @ 64:
Er..."right thing" = backing Obama whole-heartedly from now until the GE.
getalife @ 7:
Even without those 18 million, you or I could run against any Republican this election and still win. The majority of the country wants change....almost at any cost. And I don't understand why, if one wants Obama over Hillary, it has to be a case of "hate" in selecting him over her. I think that type of thinking makes little sense in the general context I read it.
I support Obama, but it is not all that difficult to understand why Hillary was unwilling to give up. She came very close and she has a lot of supporters. Campaigns can get ugly. Let's get together, forgive the mistakes and drive the Republicans out of public office. They belong in the corporate boardrooms coniving to steal our money instead of government chambers coniving to steal our money.
A.Citizen @ 61:
Sorry, but all I got from that video was hate begets more hate.
A.Citizen @ 61:
"...after Democratic members of Congress urged her Wednesday to leave the race and allow the party to coalesce ..."
My god. Here is something I haven't seen much in years: Democratic Leadership. Maybe not since Chris Dodd's filibuster. Wonder if Dodd was one of the members?
uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 45:
sometimes i think maybe h-a-r-r-i-e-t c-h-r-i-s-t-i-a-n helped to show hillary the light...
if so, thank you, harriet... and please get help...
The world can and will go on quite nicely without a Bush or a Clinton there to lead us. She should become majority leader, as she'd be a hell of a lot better than Reid, and the supreme court judge talk is ridiculous, as there are MANY more qualified than her to sit on the bench.
Karen @ 38:
Karen I completely agree with you. We democrats need Hillary and her supporters to win the big prize. I say to Obama supporters; Act like Obama in this. Show respect and reach out. It has been a difficult race. I, like you, wanted Obama to win. We got what we wanted but at this time there is need to not rub any noses in it. Nothing good can come from it. Hold on to your venom until November and we can cut loose on McAsshole and not have to stop for years. Do the right…er… correct thing here. Really!
ScoopMag @ 70:
MSNBC reported that her campaign staff went to the members of Congress and asked them to urge her to quit the race.
In other news: Pink Ponies to Fly out of Obama's Ass on "Meet the Press" Sunday... stay tuned!
A.Citizen @ 47:
You'r welcome, Karen! Let's prepare to wipe out the Repubs in a Progressive way.
$10 American says her "concession" will be that she has no objection, in principle, to Barack Obama running for president.
Mike @ 75:
I am afraid i don't have the necessary steel plate in my head required to do so.
Welcome back x. I saw your post the other day but you were gone by the time I got to the thread. Honeymoon was a blast I hope.
JasonS @ 77:
Clinton just sent out a press release that both she and Obama will have a unity celebration in DC on Saturday.
Mike @ 75:
Spoken like a true anal orifice.
Peter G @ 79:
Hi :)
No, no Honeymoon yet, the marriage will be next spring.
xoites defends Constitution @ 80:
Wake me when the words "I hereby endorse Barack Obama for the presidency of the United States, release my delegates and urge all my supporters to vote for him in the general election and offer him the same passionate support they have offered me" come out of her mouth.
ashton @ 53:
Whatever man, I'm not dehumanizing a possible candidate for the POTUS. Besides what are you talking about? You got a thing for Gregory or something?
54 monkey Says: I voted for Cliton in the PA primary, but it was a toss up.
Friends don't let friends vote drunk.
Well thank God the calvary has arrived. Keep it up chicano2nd, Captain and x,of course. The war is over or should be.
xoites defends Constitution @ 82:
I was asking about you and someone told me that's what you were up to. In any event glad to have you back.
The fact that people, even after it has been announced Hillary is suspending her campaign, is a true testament to weakness of the Democratic Party. Honestly, both candidates—and even candidates that dropped out months ago—are better than John McCain. I have been truly apathetic about the Democratic Nomination because I know both candidates will be a good president, and the only way that candidate will lose is if we alienate a group within our party. This is something we should have done months ago: Find out who was winning and throw all of our support around him/her. Instead, here we are, arguing about who should be the nominee after it is over.
clinton supporters have long memmories good luck in november!
John Edwards for VP.
I think an oponent will respect you more and may even become a powerful ally if you reach your hand out in friendship after you win, rather than gloat. If Obama does this and Clinton accepts, then I think his and her supporters should do the same.
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Disgruntled Hillary supporters need to stop saying you are going to vote for McSame, that is just plane insanity! That's like saying, "I'll show you, I'll shoot myself in the face because I am such a poor loser!"
Disgruntled Obama supporters need to stop rubbing it in! You are just asking for more hate, is that what you want? Two separate Democrat parties? We can't win that way!!
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We need to win the General Election and you people aren't helping!!!
I think unity won't be hard to achieve, because most people are not as charged about primaries as generals. So ding frickin dong.
tyree @ 89:
Spoken like a true Republican.
tyree @ 89:
Come now tyree. The campaign is over. You took some shots but gave some too. Time to put it in the past. If you can't forget at least forgive. Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot. You'd want all those Obama supporters and Obama himself on side wouldn't you?
'bout fuckin' time
scott @ 57:
That's a good place to lose her. As a former Edwards supporter I lost her when she tried cheating like a Republican by being for Michigan and Florida being counted before she was against it.
She's out now. On to the big prize.
Has anyone noticed that there's not a single even mildly unsupportive post on blog.hillaryclinton.com? At her urging last night, I went on, registered, and posted a suggestion that she concede. I wasn't rude or mean, but the post never appeared. Is this common on candidate blogs? I can see wanting to block out abusive or off-topic comments, but only allowing posts that either heap glowing praise or express disappointment at the prospect of her dropping out seems a bit much.
Adios, gonna be a Green, unless Hillary starts a third party. This has been a truly horrific experience. Honestly, I am not a liberal, I am a lefty and all the pathologies of liberalism have played out like a Grand Opera. A competent leader, with commitment gets demonized and an empty vessel of platitudes, propped up by the plutocrats is hoisted into the stratosphere, the whole world buys it cause of some narrative created by an advertising company.
I read people who have no class consciousness or no historical context creating some idiocy they now call;"Progressive Politics" which is some libertarian feel good meritocrat universe. A party that is embedded in a patriarchy that was fueled by the likes of Ted Kennedy, Kerry etc, to pass the torch to the next generation of males. Women who willingly fall for the blather of this construct.
Once again the issues of poverty, economic and social justice side swiped for some feel good language. The academics falling in line along with all the "left" institutions out of some banal fear of being marked a racist.
It was great while it lasted but if they don't want to acknowledge Hillary's alliance and if they want to take women for granted, I hand it to them on a platter.
So, Obama, Pelosi, Reid and company, enjoy yourselves when the Chicago gang comes around to take what the Texans leave behind.
By the way, Rezko got it today, and Mr. Judgement had no clue.
xoites defends Constitution @ 93:
Spoken like someone who's ready to sleep with the enemy, McBush. With Dems like these...
No matter what Obama does, he should know this:
Having BILLARY Clinton as vice president would be the equivalent of having a spitting Cobra as a room mate. You CANNOT control its NATURAL HABIT of spitting and biting. Either way, you get POISON in your blood circulatory system!
xoites defends Constitution @ 93:
samats xo the girlfried wise up and shit can yah!
tyree @ 89:
The run-of-the-mill Repub has not brain and thus no memory. You on the other hand are delusional in your self-aggrandizement.
KYJurisDoctor @ 100:
Is that the fifth or sixth time you've posted the same comment. Try something original for a change. Next time shoot for sane.
Stellaa @ 98:
Yeah, i was a green party member. I got all their information on who was running for office in Maryland in the 2004 election in March of 2005.
Good luck with that.
chicano2nd @ 102:
back to your hovel amigo
tyree @ 101:
No I didn't. xoites is the best thing to ever happen to me.
Peter G @ 94:
Exactly. When my guy lost like most Edwards supporters I didn't kick the game board across the room. I'm supporting the democratic nominee over McBush and even though I supported Obama after Edwards bowed out (gracefully I might ad)..ah hum) I would have supported Hillary if it were her. Hill supporters need to take their thumbs out of their mouths.
tyree @ 101:
Now that's just nasty. Better take an extended time out. Go somewhere, get drunk and get it out of your system.
Janet @ 106:
hope you get the hanfcuffs off in time,
tyree @ 105:
What did I say about brainless
[This tiff is in off topic territory. Let's drop it. EVERYONE-Sitemonitor]
Tyree, i did not beat Hillary. Find someone or better yet some thing else to take your frustrations out on.
Peter G @ 94:
not interested in fantasys peter these obameranians will whineand bitch till the day they lose the election!
Suspend Campaign? What is that supposed to mean? Is she still not giving up? Is she going to fight to win via legal means? Does she think something is going to happen to Obama? Is she waiting for some sort of smear against Obama that he will be forced to quit?
xoites defends Constitution @ 111:
find some one else to call a republican,
Suspend? @ 113:
No, she has announced that she and Obama will have a unity celebration on Saturday in DC. The Party is just getting started. :)
tyree @ 114:
Ok, Tyree. I appologize.
xoites defends Constitution @ 116:
accepted
:)
Suspend? @ 113:
No it means the same thing it meant when Edwards suspended his campaign. It's over.
Ham @ 58:
Ham... would that be a location? ... just curious
It is time to take the high road. Clinton supporters are definitely feeling the disappointment just like many of the Obama supporters would feel if he lost the primary. Kicking the Clinton supporters while they are down only will increase the chances for McCain in November. Give them time to come to grips with the end of the primary, they will come around.
If most people have enough faith to trust Obama to make decisions as the president, then we should at least respect who he chooses to be his vice president.
McCain's showing in November is going to make Walter Mondale look victorious.
katy @ 120:
Could you elaborate on the question? Location? My nickname is not representative of a location, if that is what you mean.
Cheers!
I do believe that sanity is returning at last. Good one moonsha.
By the way, I am in no way advocating who he should choose. It just seems he has earned the right to choose who HE thinks will be best for him.
moonsha @ 125:
I don't think Hillary wants to be VP, but if he chooses her and she accepts i am fine with that. Either way we need to get back the White House, the Senate and the House with as large a majority as possible.
moonsha @ 125:
The right of every nominee to be sure. While I have my thoughts on that subject, as we all do, he has shown himself to be a very astute politician. I am sure he will make an excellent choice.The Democrats have a rich field of prospects to choose from, as rich as the original field of candidates and then some.
I'm happy she has reluctantly came to her senses. But I'm still disappointed that she chose this method because this was a historic moment for Obama and for this nation, but the last 24 hours has been about Hillary and "What does she want?"
Well it's over. It's been a long primary season with lots of twists and turns. Now it's on to victory over John McFeeble and the long awaited return of a Democratic administration in '09.
Peter G @ 119:
Suspends means that she will stop actively campaigning against Obama for the nomination. But she reserves the right to come back at any time between now and the convention and fight for it.
ysbaddaden @ 85:
How old are you?? I take this seriously and like many Pennsylvania I could have gone Ether way. I respect BHO and his message. You and you kind are either republicans or little petulant children. Grow up and get some perspective. This is not name calling on the playground.
I know HRC was harsh with BHO, sometimes unfairly, but he is a grown man and a serious politician. He can handle it, you cannot.
She was under heavy pressure to quit,from Congress and Senate.
If she didn't, she would have alienated herself and lost the party support,the staff support,and the financial support...
She had no choice...I still have to see it to believe it. Because I thought that's what she was going to do on Tuesday evening.
But when he manager addressed her on Tuesday night as next president of the United States...things began to look different.
If she corrects herself and supports Obama, the party can move forward and focus on the real issues and the most inportant election in a long time coming next November.
Mister Anderson @ 130:
And end her political career.
I don't think so.
Randy @ 132:
Her staff went to those members of congress and urged them to talk her into stepping down.
Mister Anderson @ 130:
No. I believe it has more to do with campaign finance laws. There are different rules for suspending a campaign versus ending it officially. I'm not pretending to have this right but I believe Karen would know. Surely you're not expecting Edwards to jump back into the fray?
Ham @ 123:
that's what i mean... wondered if you were in central illinois... it is a nickname of my town...
xoites defends Constitution @ 126:
Whatever VP Obama chooses, we need to fix the raping of our constitution and restore our rights, rescind the Bush writing statements, stop the spying on Americans without warrant or probable cause, fix the failing economy and economic disparity, repeal the tax cuts that only help the richest of the rich Americans, work toward a green enconomy, work toward a solution to Global Warming, get off foreign oil, work toward restoring the United States world reputation, stop the war profiteering, stop the unfair trade agreements, stop the corporate stangle-hold on our nation, and fix every other catastrophic F*#$-ups that Bush imposed on our country!!!! I am sure I left out a few thousand other things that need to be fixed, but you get the idea.
We got bigger fish to fry, so you Hillary/Obama haters need to grow up! If we lose in November, all of us sane people are going to blame YOU for our death sentence!!!!
If true this is an easy non-tin-hat explanation for the suspension.
From http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/05/america/05campaign.php
Clinton's decision to suspend her campaign, which was first reported by ABC News, was a bow to the emerging political reality. No one in her campaign — including by all reports Clinton herself — saw a viable road to the nomination. A suspension of the campaign allows her to continue raising money and pay off her millions of dollars in debt.
@ moonsha @ 125:
My last sentence (@137)was not meant for you, sorry. Hehe
Hillary! Don't let the Sexist Haters get you down. I'll always be a Clinton Democrat-
xoites defends Constitution @ 126:
My last sentence (@137) was not meant for you either, I should have provided a heading to that effect. Sorry.
Peter G @ 135:
"We pledged to support her to the end," Representative Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat who has been a patron of Mrs. Clinton since she first ran for the Senate, said in an interview. "Our problem is not being able to determine when the hell the end is."
HillarySupporter @ 140:
Is that like a Lieberman Democrat or a Zell Miller Democrat? Starting to sound like it.
Mister Anderson @ 128:
It's always been about the Clintons and what they want. It's never been about supporting the nominee...unless it was a Clinton.
getalife @ 7:
The only people Obama "possibly" lost to McCain are the rabid fanatics. Maddow said it best on the primary coverage last night, "There is no such thing as 18 million fanatics."
Hardcore Hillary supporter here, but Obama has won the nomination and I am now behind him all the way. I just hope the other Hillary supporters out there will place their bitterness in the past and move toward winning a most pertinent election. This is not a time to cast a vote of protest, this is the time to vote for which path we will take as a nation in the future. Personally, I cannot and will not stand by for another 4 years of cronyism, corruption and overall disregard for The Constitution, which McCain will bring if elected. It is because of this and many other critical issues that I shall work my hardest to elect the next President of these United States, Barack Obama.
Obama 08!
I wouldn't be totally surprised on Friday if her announcement is a McCain/Clinton 2008 ticket.
I really wish we were all united, but that won't be the case. I simply decided not to vote against my own best interest. that's what I'll be doing in November.
getalife @ 7:
why do you care, you're a repug?
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