Hillary To Crop Out Of Race (for Real!)

[kujo]

So, according to CNN, Hillary Clinton will apparently "admit that Obama will have enough delegates to get the nomination" tonight. I don't really know what that means. Some think she's gonna drop out, others seem to think she's going to suspend her campaign while keeping her delegates, some think she's gonna contest the ruling by the DNC Rule Committee. I guess her argument going forward is that she has the popular vote which she'll use to try to get superdelegates. But if he has the majority of the delegates, pledged and unpledged, what's the point?


**UPDATE 11:20 a.m.-- Clinton Campaign Manager Terry McAuulife told CNN that the AP story reporting this is "absolutely, 100% untrue."

Edited June 3, 2008 by kujo

[Justin86]

I thought Obama had the popular vote. Did it switch? In either case, I don't think Hillary is going to drop out. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that woman will do anything to win. Anything. She has something up her grimy little sleeve that she at least wants to try at the convention.

The most I think she'll do tonight is contest the decision regarding the votes from Florida and Michigan. Other than that she'll stay in the race. I'm betting 10 tacos, so very tasty and good for you,, so very tasty and good for you, on that one. Any takers?

[Justin86]

[quote name='kujo' post='1555969' date='Jun 4 2008, 01:11 AM']**UPDATE 11:20 a.m.-- Clinton Campaign Manager Terry McAuulife told CNN that the AP story reporting this is "absolutely, 100% untrue."[/quote]
Oh [i]now[/i] you tell me. I was looking forward to my tacos, so very tasty and good for you,, so very tasty and good for you,.

[kujo]

[quote name='Justin86' post='1555977' date='Jun 3 2008, 12:25 PM']I thought Obama had the popular vote. Did it switch? In either case, I don't think Hillary is going to drop out. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that woman will do anything to win. Anything. She has something up her grimy little sleeve that she at least wants to try at the convention.

The most I think she'll do tonight is contest the decision regarding the votes from Florida and Michigan. Other than that she'll stay in the race. I'm betting 10 tacos, so very tasty and good for you,, so very tasty and good for you,, so very tasty and good for you, on that one. Any takers?[/quote]

I think she'll leave by the end of June.

[kenrockthefirst]

[url="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_el_pr/clinton"]Clinton set to concede delegate race to Obama[/url]
[i]
In a formal statement, the campaign made clear the limits of how far she would go in Tuesday night's speech. "Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination," the statement said.[/i]

At best, it looks like she's going to "informally" concede so that she can keep her options open.

[kenrockthefirst]

[quote name='Justin86' post='1555977' date='Jun 3 2008, 10:25 AM']The most I think she'll do tonight is contest the decision regarding the votes from Florida and Michigan. Other than that she'll stay in the race. I'm betting 10 tacos, so very tasty and good for you,, so very tasty and good for you,, so very tasty and good for you, on that one. Any takers?[/quote]
[i]Clinton officials have said they would not contest the seating of Michigan delegates at the convention in Denver this August. The campaign was angry this past weekend when a Democratic National Committee panel awarded Obama delegates it thought Clinton deserved.[/i]

[kujo]

[quote name='kenrockthefirst' post='1555988' date='Jun 3 2008, 12:42 PM'][url="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_el_pr/clinton"]Clinton set to concede delegate race to Obama[/url]
[i]
In a formal statement, the campaign made clear the limits of how far she would go in Tuesday night's speech. "Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination," the statement said.[/i]

At best, it looks like she's going to "informally" concede so that she can keep her options open.[/quote]

Her stubbornness and arrogance astounds me.

If he has the delegates, what the heck is she thinking?

Edited June 3, 2008 by kujo

[kenrockthefirst]

[quote name='kenrockthefirst' post='1555988' date='Jun 3 2008, 10:42 AM'][url="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_el_pr/clinton"]Clinton set to concede delegate race to Obama[/url]
[i]
In a formal statement, the campaign made clear the limits of how far she would go in Tuesday night's speech. "Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination," the statement said.[/i]

At best, it looks like she's going to "informally" concede so that she can keep her options open.[/quote]

[url="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080603/pl_nm/usa_politics_clinton_mcauliffe_dc"]Clinton campaign says she's not conceding[/url]
[i]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is "absolutely not" planning to concede the campaign to Barack Obama on Tuesday night, Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe told CNN on Tuesday.

"No one has the number to be the nominee of the Democratic party right now," he said.

McAuliffe, asked about an AP report that Clinton will acknowledge Tuesday night after the South Dakota and Montana primaries that Obama has the delegates to clinch the nomination for the November presidential election, replied: "They are 100 percent incorrect."[/i]

Let the damage continue.

[HisChildForever]

This is a crazy race.

[Lounge Daddy]

I caught a quote from Bill Clinton at a campaign stop for Hillary and he mentioned something about how that might very well be the last *day* he ever makes a stop on behalf of a campaign in that fashion again. It sounded pretty final.

[Lisieux Flower]

is she really accomplishing anything other than dividing the democratic party? not that that's a bad thing.

<---- who i'm voting for president...

[fides quarens intellectum]

The local coverage tonight - seriously - how many times can you fit the word "change" in?

It's time for CHANGE. Americans deserve CHANGE. Recently, I CHANGED my resolve about never wearing a flag lapel pin. I CHANGED my policy about never saluting the American flag. I even CHANGED my church. Today, I'm here to tell you I have CHANGED my mind about Hillary. These are not "just words." My former opponenet has CHANGED her mind about pursuing this race, making me believe that CHANGE is possible for this country. CHANGE is necessary. Yes, we can.

[CatholicCid]

[quote name='Lounge Daddy' post='1556244' date='Jun 3 2008, 03:23 PM']I caught a quote from Bill Clinton at a campaign stop for Hillary and he mentioned something about how that might very well be the last *day* he ever makes a stop on behalf of a campaign in that fashion again. It sounded pretty final.[/quote]

Well, I think that was the last primary, so it would be the last one for him.

Hey, I say, go all the way to get those delegates... Divide the party, please

[cappie]

Barack Obama has made history by seizing the Democratic nomination and becomes the first African-American to run for president of the United States.

In jubilant scenes at the Xcel Centre in Minneapolis-St Paul in the heart of America's Midwest, Senator Obama announced that he had won sufficient delegates and superdelegates to claim the nomination.

"Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another - a journey that will bring a new and better day to America. Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States," he said.

He thanked the Democratic Party and, in particular, his adversary on the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton.

"Senator Hillary Clinton has made history in this campaign not just because she's a woman who has done what no woman has done before, but because she's a leader who inspires millions of Americans with her strength, her courage, and her commitment to the causes that brought us here tonight," he said.

In a poignant moment he also thanked his grandmother, who was watching from Hawaii because she is too frail to travel.

"She poured everything into me and made me the man I am today," he said.

But then he turned his attention to the Republicans and John McCain, who will hold their convention in the same venue that Senator Obama chose for his victory speech.

"My differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign," he said.

But Senator Obama's victory was somewhat blunted by another loss in South Dakota, where Senator Clinton won, 56 per cent to 44 per cent with 35 per cent of the vote counted. He was expected to win Montana.

In New York, Senator Clinton told a rally of supporters she was making no decisions about her future.

"Now the question is: 'Where do we go from here?' I am making no decisions tonight."

She told her supporters she would be consulting advisers and party leaders about the next step.

The Democrats are hopeful of winning the White House in November after eight years of a Republican President whose popularity has plumbed new depths in the face of a sagging economy and rising petrol prices.

But the immediate challenge facing the party is uniting the party in time to campaign for the November presidential race.

The Clinton camp let it be known today that Senator Clinton would be open to the vice-presidential slot.

New York congressman Charlie Rangel, who is close to Senator Clinton said she had raised the idea herself during a meeting with New York legislators on Tuesday.

Other options include being part of an Obama cabinet, perhaps as Secretary of Health.

Senator Obama will be under enormous pressure to offer her a senior job in order to heal the party, and ensure that Clinton voters do not switch to the Republican Party or stay home on election day. But there are many doubters about whether the two could work together as president and vice-president after such a vigorous primary race.

Anne Davies is the Herald's Washington correspondent in Minneapolis-St Paul.

[Apotheoun]

Hillary Clinton is a sore loser!