Letters to the Editor
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oblivion?
What's with the Obilvion headline? Even if Clinton suspends her presidential bid, she is still a US senator, and could make a bid for majority leader, or run for president again.
The Congress is supposed to be a co-equal branch, last time I read the constitution. Maybe under a democratic administration it might become so again.
She'll still be a big wheel.
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We have to move towards ending this thing, tonight's verdict is clear, Obama has won
Hillary Clinton has run as tough and tenacious of a campaign as anyone we've ever seen. She has many justified and heartfelt supporters. No one is trying to take anything away from her. She will continue to play an important part, not only in this election but in the Democratic Party for years to come. This will begin almost immediately as she will effectively control the Democratic legislative agenda as the Senate Majority Leader.
But it is time to at least consider coming together around the Party's eventual nominee: Barack Obama.
Any thoughts on how to helpfully do this I'm sure would be welcome. Perhaps a prominent Clinton supporter, such as Rendell, Strickland or Bayh, can be put on the ticket as Vice President.
But it's time to (begin) coalescing around our nominee, Barack Obama and focusing on beating the Republican agenda and John McCain. The issues are too important this time around. I need not remind anyone of this disasterous war in Iraq, growing tensions with Iran, a teetering economy, health care and a broken political system. We must begin to get Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, elected.
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Holding out for VP?
Suspicions have been raised that Hillary is holding out for a VP position with Barack. I am curious what Salon and its readers have to say about that.
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"Even more baffling is why 27 percent of these Wright-sensitive voters still chose Obama as their candidate."
Maybe because they feel sympathetic toward Obama for the beating he's taken in the press over this made-up scandal? I remember how during the 90's, some of Bill Clinton's more authoritarian tendencies were driving me toward the Libertarians ... and then he got crucified over a blow job, and I swung back to being a more committed Democrat than ever before. The more coverage of Obama's campaign is "all Wright all the time," the more favorably inclined a lot of voters probably feel toward the guy.
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Hillary, it's been real fun..
..but I'm afraid it's just not happenin' hon.
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Speaking of Wright
Forgive me for posting a quick link here but it is irresistable and i think hits the nail on the head of how Wright is backfiring. It's a quick hand-drawn cartoon.
http://www.zcommunications.org/zgraphics/2666
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closer to oblivion ?
this has been a tough race. Obama nuts kept chanting for her to drop out ......while whining like little girls they would vote for McCain if she won. While most who backed Clinton have stated they would back whom ever took the nomination.
Obama might appear to be fresh , but he's just as much a player as any other. That's the difference between Clinton supporters and Obama.
We knew her flaws . we didn't have blinders on.
Obama may become president. hopefully he doesn't hem and haw his way through it like he does on face to face questions . it isn't a speech he can memorize.
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Hillary for VP? I dunno...
Maybe he'll make her Attorney General, like she wanted way back when. I find it hard to see them working together in any meaningful way.
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Mr. or Mrs. Pounce...
Every poll I've seen has indicated that a far greater percentage of Clinton supporters vow to vote for McCain if Clinton is denied the nomination (as they would no doubt see it). And it is the Clinton supporters who continue to use Obamaniacs and Obamanauts and all those other pejorative epithets to describe his supporters. The blinders are yours, my friend, in a style matching that of your deluded, mendacious, and now blessedly fading candidate.
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Bleh...
Just go away already. We dont need your hawkish policies reminiscent of the last 8 years. We dont need your .17 cent a gallon worth of summer gas savings. We dont need a person who is banking on the racial prejudices of rural voters to gain last minute momentum over someone who has sealed this deal weeks ago. I dont want someone who's only true measure of victory in these last several states can be accredited directly to the unlikely aid of a sworn enemy only seeking to defile the Democratic process by sending his minions out in droves to tip the scales. As with Texas, Limbaugh will be celebrating Indiana tomorrow... but not for long. North Carolina didnt fall victim as he had hoped.
The end game of these last never ending months, finally upon us, is that the overwhelming evidence suggests that HRC is out of touch with the best of her base. That time and time again, she cannot be successful without a powerful media storm behind her to level the playing field and even then it comes down to the underhanded work of saboteurs. Despite the desperate notion she has clutched onto in regards to Florida and Michigan, Obama has again tonight stripped away the popular and electoral vote should there be the smallest possibility they were.
Game over. Drop out.
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Kudos to the Dem Party for not waffling about the rules. Hillary ought to call it quits.
I for one see her being the good democrat that she is and asking her supporters to back Obama now that her odds of winning have risen from slim to none. She won't quit tonight or tomorrow but she will nonetheless and when she does she needs to play the role of healer. It would kill her to know her supporters went republican over the nominee process.
Let's praise Hillary for fighting the good fight and showing how democracy can function beautifully. She has earned such praise.
It's time for a strategy to win college electoral votes. McCain and the repubs have a distinct advantage in this field. Congress needs to go to the Democrats as well if proper action is to be taken in righting the country.
GO DEMOCRATS!!
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Hillary VP
I'd be glad to have Hillary on the ticket. I don't know if they trust each other, but I think they'd be a dynamite duo. Sometimes arranged marriages work out.
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Mr. or Mrs. Pounce...
I was just watching MSNBC, who just aired statistical information from the exit polls results conducted yesterday and confirming exactly the opposite of what you just said.
The question read: Should your candidate lose -
HRC supporters would vote for McCain - 54%
Obama Supporters would vote for McCain - 38%
Anecdotally speaking, I was reading an article on Salon last night no less where some idiot HRC supporter actually had the nerve to call Obama supporters "Arugela eating, wheatgrass drinking elitists."
Now that is rich.