Deal: Clinton's Name Will Be Placed in Nomination at Dems Convention

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Deal: Clinton's Name Will Be Placed in Nomination at Dems Convention

August 14, 2008 11:09 AM

ABC News' Kate Snow reports: A deal has been brokered between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that will allow Clinton's name to be placed in nomination at next week's Democratic nominating convention, sources close to the Clinton camp told ABC News.

"Both sides agree that it is in the best interest of party unity and making sure that everyone's voice and vote is honored to make sure her name is put into nomination," a person close the negotiations said. "It's to honor everyone who worked so hard on both sides."

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Gonna have to load up on the popcorn....

[Red Badger]

But NO ROLL CALL VOTE?...................ACCLAMATION ONLY?...............

[GitmoSailor]

I told you !!!!!!!!!!......

[WakeUpAndVote]

What does that mean?

[MarineBrat]

[eureka!]

Yep. We really are in for a show. Inside and outside. This will really embolden the PUMA activists and I bet e-mails and phone lines are burning up right now...

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Don Corleone]

The “smartest woman in the world” against the biggest uninformed idiot on the planet. Odds???

[Bratch]

[davidlachnicht]

Hillary’s To Do List:
> get placed into nomination
> torpedo Obama campaign
> try not to smile like bug-eatin’ lizard when I get the nomination

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

This wasn't something she was itching for, looking for. But so many of her supporters said it was important to them. And the Obama people got how important it was to smooth over any tensions and that it was the right thing to do

I wonder if the Obama people will still think that when the convention is over...

[right wing]

It means, watch out for a barage of negative and damaging stuff about Obama to come either trickling or gushing out. Hillary is still not out of the game....

[stylin19a]

From the article:

... What has been settled, however, is that after both Clinton and Obama names are placed into nomination there will be a roll call vote.

I wonde why Obama would even take that chance ?

[PGalt]

Interesting. Barack better stay away parks, airplanes and fork-tongued friends.

Run Hillaryous Run!

[IrishMike]

If bad blood between the Clinton and Obama camps persists, it’s highly unlikely that an Obama defeat this fall would lead inexorably to a Clinton nomination the next time. Obama’s shrewd announcement Wednesday of former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner as the convention keynote speaker has a bearing on this. It not only gives a central role to a moderate Democrat from a swing state, it also points to a future that transcends the Clinton-Obama feud.

Clinton must know that she could have won the Democratic nomination with a more coherent strategy. And her own campaigning for Obama suggests she understands that the actual nominee should not have to inherit her campaign’s circular firing squads.

Much depends upon whether she can now persuade her followers to grant Obama’s nomination a legitimacy that her own campaign worked so hard to deny him.

E J Dionne (Wash Compost)

[HereInTheHeartland]

Barry Sortero shouldn’t let Hillary do this.

[Dixie Yooper]

"It's to honor everyone who worked so hard on both sides."

Then they should include John Edwards name as well...

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

It's not over until "the fat lady sings"! Uh, never mind............

[Schnucki]

Any vote that isn't binding will only be a sour grapes vote that will damage obama without helping hillary get the nomination.

If that's what they've agreed to, I guess obama only had two choices: a real vote that he'd lose or a non-binding vote that he'd win at great expense.

[rockabyebaby]

from the comments section...LOL

I'm not so proud of my country now... Can my husband please get the nomination and be handed the presidency by the media so that my proud-o-meter can go up for the first time in my adult life?

Posted by: Michelle | Aug 14, 2008 11:38:16 AM