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.
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Hell froze over, thawed out and the froze over again.
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.
In the meantime.. time to use the Clintons to help take out Obama.
This is a devil I can dance with.
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.
I saw that post on Yahoo last week, it is great to save in our anti-Christ Obama arsenals.
Somebody must have clued them into these comments...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2026128/replies?c=12
changed to saturday.
at this rate, she’ll stay in until nov 1st
to see if she can win.
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.
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.
The ultimate irony...
And after all that fighting, she may be his VP. Sheesh. November’s gonna suck.
That has been my bet for an unsinkable socialist party ticket. McCain has a long way to go.
She will be speaking through clenched teeth?
Beckel’s Big Bomb. So drop it already.
NYT wet dream.
You are confusion determination with demonic obsession with power.
It’s from the New York Times, so ya know it’s true! /g
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.
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