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Clinton to Endorse Obama on Friday
The New York Times ^ | June 4, 2008 | ADAM NAGOURNEY and MICHAEL LUO

Posted on 06/04/2008 5:23:05 PM PDT by abb

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will endorse Senator Barack Obama on Friday, bringing a close to her 17-month campaign for the White House, aides said. Her decision came after Democrats urged her on Wednesday to leave the race and allow the party to coalesce around Mr. Obama.

Mrs. Clinton’s aides said she would “express her support for Senator Obama and party unity” at an event in Washington that day. One adviser said that Mrs. Clinton would concede defeat, congratulate Mr. Obama and proclaim him the party’s nominee, while pledging to do what was needed to assure his victory.

Her decision came after a day of conversations with supporters on Capitol Hill about her future now that that Mr. Obama had clinched the nomination. Mrs. Clinton had, in a speech after Tuesday night’s primaries, suggested she wanted to wait before deciding about her future, but in conversations throughout the day on Wednesday, her aides said, she was urged to step aside.

“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.”

Mrs. Clinton’s decision came as some of her most prominent supporters — including former Vice President Walter F. Mondale — announced that they were now backing Mr. Obama.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; 2008electionbias; 2008endorsements; clinton; clintonconcession; demprimary; itsover; obama; obama2008; selectednotelected
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To: indylindy

Hell froze over, thawed out and the froze over again.


21 posted on 06/04/2008 6:02:26 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: txflake

Say what you want about Hillary....but I give her all the credit in the world. She went out there and gave her all, had to deal with the “BILL” questions and comments, she never gave up and she kept fighting. I like that in a leader....I may oppose her ideology, but damn if I don’t admire her determination. She was on the right side of the war when there was a vote....no matter what rhetoric she said...her vote is where it counted.


22 posted on 06/04/2008 6:03:16 PM PDT by Blue Turtle (I)
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To: Blue Turtle
Well, maybe she'll run independent in the GE and you can vote for her in Nov.

In the meantime.. time to use the Clintons to help take out Obama.

This is a devil I can dance with.

23 posted on 06/04/2008 6:08:02 PM PDT by txhurl (Hillary, we are going to take the nomination from you - for the common good.)
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To: Blue Turtle
You can give her credit for it, but I won't.

I'll just call her a selfish, greedy, power-monger.

Her actions are exactly what she condemns in CEOs and other business-types as greedy and selfish and a behavior that needs to be restricted by the government.

24 posted on 06/04/2008 6:08:35 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (If Hillary is elected, her legacy will be telling the American people: Better put some ice on that.)
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To: OPS4

I saw that post on Yahoo last week, it is great to save in our anti-Christ Obama arsenals.


25 posted on 06/04/2008 6:08:47 PM PDT by LegalEagle61 (If you are going to burn our flag, please make sure you are wearing it when you do!)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Somebody must have clued them into these comments...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2026128/replies?c=12


26 posted on 06/04/2008 6:09:55 PM PDT by LayoutGuru2 (Know the difference between honoring diversity and honoring perversity? No? You must be a liberal!)
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To: abb

changed to saturday.

at this rate, she’ll stay in until nov 1st

to see if she can win.


27 posted on 06/04/2008 6:13:13 PM PDT by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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To: LayoutGuru2

Something makes no sense, if she were REALLY endorsing Obama, she’d concede and not suspend, she’d give up those delegates but she won’t...she is hoping something more comes out on Hussein...because lets face it, there were MANY times during the campaign she actually praised McCain and criticized Obama, this is all a smokescreen, she either knows something is going to happen before the convention or hopes it.


28 posted on 06/04/2008 6:13:17 PM PDT by LegalEagle61 (If you are going to burn our flag, please make sure you are wearing it when you do!)
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To: Faith; Lijahsbubbe; aculeus; dighton
Say it isn’t so! I’m disappointed that the circus is ending.

It never ends with the Clintons. Think of it as you would a Palestinian cease fire. They're merely rearming. The Clintons 'don't take a dump without a plan'. Stay tuned and keep that popcorn machine running.

29 posted on 06/04/2008 6:19:17 PM PDT by Ezekiel
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To: Ezekiel
Plus the MSM may want them out of power, but not out of the headlines. She's a goldmine.
30 posted on 06/04/2008 6:26:33 PM PDT by txhurl (Hillary, we are going to take the nomination from you - for the common good.)
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To: abb

The ultimate irony...

And after all that fighting, she may be his VP. Sheesh. November’s gonna suck.


31 posted on 06/04/2008 6:32:10 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat
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To: G8 Diplomat

That has been my bet for an unsinkable socialist party ticket. McCain has a long way to go.


32 posted on 06/04/2008 6:34:00 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: abb

She will be speaking through clenched teeth?


33 posted on 06/04/2008 6:35:28 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: seekthetruth

Beckel’s Big Bomb. So drop it already.


34 posted on 06/04/2008 6:37:40 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: seekthetruth
I have a fabulous bridge in Brooklyn to sell to all you damning whitey tape believers.
35 posted on 06/04/2008 6:46:00 PM PDT by top 2 toe red ("Cackling hillary...makes her sound like she is mentally-illary." Jimmy Kimmel)
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To: abb

NYT wet dream.


36 posted on 06/04/2008 6:48:33 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Blue Turtle
She went out there and gave her all......to win the most powerful job in the world, something she has coveted her entire adult life. Yes, so admirable that hillary and her ambitions.
37 posted on 06/04/2008 6:49:32 PM PDT by top 2 toe red ("Cackling hillary...makes her sound like she is mentally-illary." Jimmy Kimmel)
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To: Blue Turtle

You are confusion determination with demonic obsession with power.


38 posted on 06/04/2008 6:51:24 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: abb

It’s from the New York Times, so ya know it’s true! /g


39 posted on 06/04/2008 6:51:29 PM PDT by Just Lori (There is nothing democrat"ic" about democrats.)
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To: top 2 toe red

Many people are confusing tenacity with demonic obsession with power. I do not think that there was ever a Presidential candidate who is so dangerously obsessed with power as does Hillary Clinton. It is really sad that some freepers admire this demonic vice in her.


40 posted on 06/04/2008 6:53:57 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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