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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Don't we know it!!!!
Not unless he has a death wish.
I am not holding my breath on the rumored “Whitey” video, but maybe she’s seen it (she and Bill still have contacts high in the political food-chain) and knows the bomb is going to be dropped somtime before the GE. She just has to try and set things up so that there is no way it can be tied back to her if it does surface. Could backfire and lead to more anti-Clinton sentiment. Wow, what a Soap Opera this whole Democrat nominating process is turning out to be. Off to the store to get another 10-pack of Orville Redenbacher’s Microwave Popcorn.
I greatly doubt that he will make her his Vice President.
You mean Rush failed to get her into the White House so that he would have 4 years of material?
Hillary to drop out of Presidential race
(Will Suspend Campaign Friday Per FoxNews)
ABC.com | 6/4/08 | ABC
Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 06:44:18 PM by dragnet2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026099/posts
for what it is worth, on blogsformccain.com read this story about the “Whitey” tape:
http://blogsforjohnmccain.com/dem-blog-calls-alleged-michelle-obama-tape-stunning
It pretty much says the tape exists, and that it is in the hands of republicans, in fact a republican no longer in the race (Rudy?)....plus some interesting Rezko/Farrakhan stuff...
Read on:
The rumors that a tape exists in which Michelle Obama utters racist remarks have been floating around now for several weeks. But the last two days have brought signs that it may be far more than a rumor.
Yesterday on the Fox News Channel a Republican operative, Roger Stone, said he believes the tape exists and that a major network is in possession of the tape. Today, Larry Johnson at No Quarter - a pro-Hillary Democratic Blog - is giving shocking details of what he says five sources have confirmed about the tape:
I learned over the weekend why the Republicans who have seen the tape of Michelle Obama ranting about “whitey” describe it as “STUNNING.” I have not seen it but I have heard from five separate sources who have spoken directly with people who have seen the tape. It features Michelle Obama and Louis Farrakhan. They are sitting on a panel at Jeremiah Wright’s Church when Michelle makes her intemperate remarks. Whoops!! When that image comes out it will enter the politcal ads hall of fame. It will be right up there with the little girl plucking daisy petals in the famous 1964 ad LBJ used against Barry Goldwater.
Barack may have quit his church but his religious problems are not over. Barack Obama has a Nation of Islam problem that will receive more attention in the coming days. Before Barack came on the scene, THE MAN in his political district was Louis Farrakhan. No one could take Alice Palmer’s seat without Farrakhan’s blessing. No one. I do not fault Barack Obama for seeking out the blessing of Farrakhan, but the story of what was done behind the scenes to get rid of Barack’s predecessor—Alice Palmer—has not been told. A knowledgeable source tells me that Tony Rezko played a direct role in this feat. And Rezko has been tight with Farrakhan.
It also should come as no surprise that Barack hired two members of the Nation of Islam to work on his staff—Jennifer Mason and Cynthia K. Miller. (And no, I am not merely recycling info initially reported by Debbie Schlussel. I have two independent Chicago sources for this info.) If Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger had kept their yaps buttoned none of this would mean much. But the fact that both men have been—until scrubbed from the website in recent weeks—listed as spiritual advisors to Barack Obama and also are very close to Louis Farrakhan, forces the question about Barack’s faith and beliefs.
In probing those matters we begin to understand that the Nation of Islam has been a critical component of Barack Obama’s base of support. And, I am told, Louis Farrakhan has been careful to use Tony Rezko as the intermediary in his relationship with Barack. This is not guilt by association, this is guilt because of actual relationship. Farrakhan, Wright, and Pfleger are each on tape in various settings spewing the most vile racists garbage in the guise of preaching. Barack Obama, up to this point, has tried to pretend he had no idea that these men had these thoughts or said these things.
NONSENSE!! He knew and he knows. And the gig will be up when the Michelle tape hits the airwaves. One source described how this tape was acquired. Let’s just say that one of the republican candidates who is no longer in the race, but had a dandy oppo research capability, uncovered this gem. If Republican poohbahs have their way the tape will remain on ice until October. But when it comes out, Barack will be permanently branded with the Nation of Islam. That’s not a winning platform in November. And Barack’s bundlers understand this threat. I also have learned some major financial backers are asking the Barack team about the tape and are being stonewalled. It is a wild card in the political campaign that has not yet played out.
The level of detail coming out about this alleged tape is getting awfully specific. If there is a tape showing Michelle Obama uttering racist remarks while next to Louis Farrkhan, it will be beyond devastating. We’ll see how this plays out in the weeks/months to come.
sorry, made a typo, the site is blogsforjohnmccain.com
After a nine-course State Dinner, featuring Grilled Fillet of Beef medallions sided with imported cepes and mushrooms, drizzled with Vin Rouge and Balsamic reduction, and potato cakes and vermeil flatware, gold pintuck silk tablecloths, sprays of white phaeleanopsis orchids with camellia foliage in the historic White House vermeil candelabras in the East Room for visiting Korean President Lee Myung Bak, a chorus of singers from the US Military Forces, top name entertainment, and final speeches and toasts by the heads of state before finishing for the night, President and Mrs. Obama escort Vice President and Mr. Clinton to the North Portico door, seeing them off, and that pair have to leave the White House they once occupied, not able to go upstairs to the family quarters which they feel they so richly deserve, but back to the Naval Observatory quarters. Second Fiddle for a Sociopath.
Could this dysfunctional woman (and man) even go through with that public and private humiliation, event-after-event at the White House, for eight long years?
She would snap, I swear, a corpuscle in her brain would burst from jealousy and anger. I don't think she would be able to contain her envious rage, nor would Bill for that matter. A real "two-fer". It would be one of the most pitiful, but perhaps even dangerous things to view in American history.
This would be the most rocky President-Vice President relationship perhaps in US history.
Also, Freeper Constitutional experts out there: The Vice President is also selected by electors in the Electoral College. What constitutional provisions are there by his or her FIRING by the President? Could a constitutional battle be triggered if Obama tired of her, or worse yet, had been politically threatened by her or worse in her unsatiatable thirst to become Commander in Chief, and attempted to remove her?? Everyone knows she would fight tooth and nail. Probably she would just run against him again in 2012. One wonders.
For Obama's staff and the man himself, they better realllllly think this one through over the weekend.
MSM covered for him and foo fooed all his many and sundry faults into being nothing but the implied and twisted imaginations of the evil lying right wing machine.
The media still covers for both clintons...just not nearly as much as they once did, 'cause unfortunately for the clintons, they found a new love, Obama.
Oh, so very sad when love leaves you for a younger, fresher face!!!!! BAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
Plus...let's not forget, had there never been a man named Ross Perot, there would never have been a President clinton!
There is nothing to admire when left-wing, power-hungry, self-centered people give their all.
If she has the video, and it's really, really bad, she can release it anytime up to the convention – surreptitiously of course. Then the delegates (super and regular) can reconsider the electability question and vote accordingly. But of course, unless the video is unbelievably damaging, they won't dare take it away from the Bro after he has been seen to have won it fair and square. The loss of the black vote would destroy the party, both in the current election and going forward.
If, as is likely, the video is merely one more damaging illustration of Obama's racist milieu, she (or the GOP) can spring it to celebrate Halloween. Of course, if it's Clinton who releases it, it must be done deep cover, ideally in a way that casts the blame on the Republicans. She must be seen to have done everything possible as a loyal Democrat to elect Obama and now to stand ready to carry on in 2012.
America needed Hillary to distract the scumbags in the media a lot longer than this.
Now the MSM b@stards will focus all of their gun sights on McCain through November.
Everything from his age to his first marriage will be all over the headlines as Obama's profile is kept under a shield.
Exactly... That is EXACTLY what I’ve been thinking... If anyone here thinks the media is not going to do to McCain what they are doing to Hillary right now, IMHO, they are either extremely naive, disillusioned, or crazy! They are going to turn their sights on him the MINUTE after Hillary is gone, and honestly, with Obama in bed with the media, I don’t know that McCain can overcome it...
He’s already got enough problems with trying to excite his own party - against Obama? He’s just going to look slow and old, I’m afraid. As someone said the other day - this is the day and age of image and soundbite. On that factor, Obama has McCain beat hands-down.
LOL. Yep, you can bet the beast is plotting from the moment she wakes up. Probably in her sleep too.
How does the DNC bus feel when you are under it HRC? ROFL
Dear God, will I be glad when november is finally over, hopefully McCain beats Obama, and I can stop reading all the comments by Clinton lovers on all the conservative boards.
I don’t want to see or hear the word popcorn for months, either.
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