Hillary Clinton Deluged With Calls For Her Withdrawal

Washington Post:

In her most definitive comments to date on the subject, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sought Saturday to put to rest any notion that she will drop out of the presidential race, pledging in an interview to not only compete in all the remaining primaries but also continue until there is a resolution of the disqualified results in Florida and Michigan.

A day after Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean urged the candidates to end the race by July 1, Clinton defied that call by declaring that she will take her campaign all the way to the Aug. 25-28 convention if necessary, potentially setting up the prolonged and divisive contest that party leaders are increasingly anxious to avoid...

...Her remarks come as Clinton faces a mounting drumbeat, driven by the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and his backers, for her to bow out and avert a party crisis. Obama's supporters argue that he is too far ahead in pledged delegates for Clinton to catch up; Clinton counters by saying that neither of them has secured the 2,024 delegates needed for the nomination.

Read the whole story: Washington Post

Comments

[DuckofDeath]

Richard Mellon Scaife LOVES HIM SOME HILLARY!!

With friends like Scaife, Rupert Murdoch and all those looneys at the Fellowship like Sam Brownback, behind her, there's no way Hillary can be stopped....even sniper fire can't stop her! Go Hillary we love you!

[bogananda666]

You forgot the Coors gang.

[TLV]

I thought the Coors were Republicans. Didn't Cheney's daughter, Mary, work for them at one time?

By the way, they are war profiteers but not in such a way that I object. They make ceramic inserts for body armor.

[Xiexie]

I would like the headline-choosers to give us their definition of "deluge"

[lovethesinner]

They found it on the bottom of the second page of the Wapo story. Your point is well taken. In the headline department at Huffpo, the air compressor runs constantly.

[crl9]

Xiexie
I hate to go so far off topic but would you be a Browncoat by any chance? Done the Impossible?
Ever aim to misbehave?

[Kundera]

Florida and Michigan get punished for not following Dem rules. and YET rules also say Super Delegates can vote. BHO people say no, we don't like these rules. Rules say you need a specific number of delegates to win. BHO people say no, whoever has the most should win and super delegates shouldn't matter. BHO people say to hell with the rules, except the rules that help us. BHO, WHAT A UNITER.

[bluesnot]

Got any links, spinmeister?

[Kundera]

Links? What do you need clarification of? Florida and Michigan are being punished? Correct or not? The rules clearly state a needed amount of delegates for nomination? Correct or not? BHO people want Hillary to drop out because BHO has lead but not the needed amount of delegates for nomintion. Correct? Super Delegates are in the rules for Dems, right? But now BHO people only want them to vote for who is in the lead. Correct or not? This is not spin. These are the facts. Dems laid out these ridiculous rules. Only Dem rules would allow being able to lose popular vote in Texas but lose delegates. Blame the Dems. They are more interested in appealing to every special interest group that they lose sight of the big picture.

[in4success]

we say they "should" go with the will of the people . . . not that they MUST!

besides, if their case is to go with the most qualified, electable and best for the country then barack obama is the clear choice. -- hillary is insane. -- the right-wing "conspiracy" seems to be conspiring to get her into the WH.

she is a neo-con mole. just like leiberman -- period.

those supporting her are too foolish or to devious to be taken seriously . . . or evil republicans themselves.

a neo-con, leiberman-esque mole on marching orders to put mccain in the SH by taking down barack obama at any cost with the 2012 nomination as her prize.

[fantagor]

What part of Obama is ahead in:

1. Total delegates won.
2. Total states won.
3. Total popular vote won (700,000 more than Hillary)

don't you understand???

BTW, BHO never said SD do not count. If you mean he or his staffers or other Democrats said the SD shouldn't overturn the will of the people (the pledge delegates) then I agree with your assertion. That much is true.

But it was Hillary who complained that FL and MI are being disenfranchised while suggesting other pledge delegates need not vote in line with the results in the various state elections, which effectively disenfranchises ALL the states.

Hillary: a divisive divider.

Randy

[Kundera]

I understand that the rules DO NOT say that the candidate with the MOST delegates wins. You need a specific number of delegates and NEITHER one has that amount. and YET BHO people want Hillary to drop out. how arrogant.

[Sylmason]

NEW RULE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,YOU Sound like another idiotic hillary supporter. That's right, break the rules, afterall she wrote, stared in and produced her own Bosina war movie.

[JohnTalbutt]

Fellow Obama supporters please, please,please let her campaign as long as she wishes.

If we argue she can't win her waining supporters see her as being picked on.. The points have been made. The math is there. If people can't see it for themselves, they never will.

The race card has fizzled out, The campaigning for McCain at Obama's expense is obvious. Think about how much credibility she and Bill have lost in the last half of the campaign. If they want to blunder on, let them.

[pinkyboo]

NIce but it is not up to Obama supporters or anyone except HRC herself.

[NotBeatenYet]

Absolutely. She has every right to destroy the party if she chooses to.

[bluesnot]

As long as the Clintons stop jeopardizing the Democratic party's win in November, they should stay in the race as long as they want.

[debwarot]

Good points. I just wish her 'campaigning for McCain at Obama's expense' as you have put it so succinctly, didn't have the potential for such actual damage.

[LaFeminazi]

Some of this reminds me of:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yf2MUnFd6_8

[in4success]

you meant this, didn't you?: http://youtube.com/watch?v=G3AKmApdEr8

[BeeClone]

Drop out? No, I don’t care if Sen. Clinton stays in this campaign until the last primary in Puerto Rico but I do think she needs to stop praising Sen. McCain. Both Clintons seem to have decided the Republican candidate would be a better president then her Democratic opponent.

Obama, Clinton and their supporters need to keep their eyes on the prize.

[in4success]

the objective is to render obama unelectable then come back for 2012... marching oders from her neo-con, corporate masters.

why do you think FOXNEWS is pushing her so hard? or scarborough, buchannon and carlson?

even the dimwits are beginning to see through this madness.

[myname]

"You cannot as a Democrat win the White House without a very big women's vote. What I believe is that women will turn out for me."


Imagine if Obama said the same thing by replacing the word "women" with "blacks"

"You cannot as a Democrat win the White House without a very big BLACK vote. What I believe is that BLACKS will turn out for me." Everybody will say he played the race card and he will be in big trouble. And the Clintons think the media is tough on them?

[Kundera]

BHO: "typical white person"

Imagine Hillary saying a "typical black person". She would destroyed and you know it, so don't give me your double standard crap.

[buzz]

BHO does say that he counts on the Black vote. He refused to denounce the Hitler-like pastor there because, he said, by doing so, he would lose "the Black community." In fact, BHO belongs to that Church to establish his bona fides with the Black community, and therefore, he cannot renounce the racist views espoused by that Church.
BHO is a racist. His Church teaches that every action must be judged by how it affects Black people; and he and his wife and his pastor all show every sign of endorsing that view unequivocally.

[PensacolaTiger]

No, but what if she said 'typical woman'?

[ylpatriot]

Keep On Hillary Clinton !!!! We the voters are still with you !!!!! As for Huffington post well...we know how they feel but they DO NOT REPRESENT ALL OF US !!!

we prospered as a country under previous Clinton Presidency...no reason why we will not do so with Hillary Clinton!!!!!

[Xiexie]

Well, actually no one could win the White House without a big support from women as women vote in higher numbers than men and they had done such in every (general) election since 1964. Quite truly the women's vote trumps the Black vote.

Also, why make mountains out of molehills? Such has happened too many times in this primary race.

[Fabienne]

I don't know any women who voted for Hillary Clinton.

[bluesnot]

Does that remind you of anyone? Somebody who thinks the rules only apply to other people? I'm thinking of the current White House.

[in4success]

and they're always right....and damn WE THE PEOPLE... and the secrecy -- she's chency in a pantsuit.

[Kundera]

BHO WILL BE SHORT OF THE NEEDED AMOUNT OF DELEGATES. WHY MAKE RULES IF YOU DON'T ABIDE BY THEM? BHO PEOPLE TRYING TO SHORT CIRCUIT THE PROCESS, MAKING NEW RULES MIDSTREAM. If Dems simply wanted to nominate person in lead, then why wasn't that the rule?

[vulcan]

Kinda like wanting to change the rules and count the "elections" in Michigan and Florida?

[SCG]

Has anyone seen CNN cover any of Michelle Obama's speeches during their ballot bowl coverage? They claim to be bring coverage of the candidates, yet that encompasses Bill Clinton and Chelsea.

[lifeinfullcolor]

I don't think now is the time to ask her to quit, I do think after this string of primaries, if she doesn't hold her double digit lead against Obama, if he wins North Carolina and Indiana, then she should step down. I would hope that she leaves the race with a little bit more class, shows a little bit more of her savvy in regards to what's going on with the issues. Just repeating, ready on day one, 35 years of experience doesn't bode well in showing that a female can be as astute or more so, then her male counterpart. People say, she's a fighter, she doesn't know when to quit, well Bush is a fighter and doesn't know when to quit, so that necissarily isn't a plus, fighting a losing battle. I think the Clintons had their time in the White House, they, as well as the Bush's don't own the White House, we the people do.

[Siren]

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys,

The owner of Top Job Services Inc., a cleaning service in Des Moines, Iowa, was hired in November of last year, prior to the Iowa caucuses, to clean the Clinton campaign headquarters on a regular basis.

He said he has not seen one penny of the $7,561.70 he is owed.

A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community — and anyone else who will listen — to get their cash upfront when doing business with her.

• Word is the cash feeding into Hillary Clinton's campaign coffers has not only slowed down in a big way, undisclosed campaign debts that have yet to be made public could signal the end ..
"It won't necessarily be politics which may force her out of the race," said a top Dem source. "There is no hanky panky going on, but Hillary needs to raise money to stay alive . . . and word is she may not be able to climb out of the money hole."

"I think it's safe to say Hillary's not going to dip into her pocket again," the source added. "And if her employees start taking pay cuts while chasing the dream . . . it's usually the beginning of the body becoming totally cold."

[Kundera]

what a party of democracy: Nader shouldn't run, Hillary shouldn't run.......Wow what hypocrites!!

[Dap]

Senator McCain should not run either and Bush should resign, ASAP!

[BeeClone]

Nader is not a Democrat.

[BongWater]

That's right. He is far to honest and sincere in his desire to end the war. They have no room for people like him. If he was a Democrat, they would just crap all over him like they did to Kucinich. Sad.

[etc]

You just don't get it.

[Fabienne]

Nader IS running and Hillary RAN.

[jeersforfears]

Go, Hillary! You can do it if you play your cards right, and no one's better at that than you and Bubba and Carville and Begala and the whole wonderful crew! People thought Bill was dead meat when he was caught lying to the American people - eyeball to camera lens - about Monica Lewinski. He should have resigned. Did he? Hell no! You just bust your way into the convention in Denver and f up the whole friggin' party! It can be done.

Do it, baby, do it.

[degjack]

Eff the Lewinsky thing and everybody who is obsessed with it.

[Amminadab]

Smear and fear, and then more smear.

It seems to be the Obama way.

[bogananda666]

Well, as we all well know Clinton's penis, Bill's I mean, has resulted in the collapse of western civilization, which according to Ghandi, is a good idea for the west to implement civilization that is.

[frappe]

I'm beginning to wonder how many of the new posters on this site are offering "pro Clinton" support at the behest of Rush Limbaugh? After all, they were the margin of difference in the TX primary that gave Clinton a slight edge on the popular vote.

[Amminadab]

If you haven't noticed, Hillary has millions and millions of Democratic supporters.

[vulcan]

She has approximately 700,000 less supporters then Senator Obama. And if you haven't noticed George Bush somehow still has Millions of supporters so I guess some people will buy into anything.

[JohnKemp]

Hey, don't worry; the Scream is on "top of it."

Dem operatives are hard at work trying to stifle Operation Chaos.

Hell, Cayauga County in Ohio wants to reinstitute the Jim Crow laws by enforcing the provision that Dem voters have to swear allegiance to Dem principles, whatever they are.

[Ginko]

Not me and I imagine there are a lot like me. I am a lifetime Democrat but I can see a liar a mile away and that is why I am pro Clinton, I am pro real change not change you can only hope for, change that will actually HAPPEN

[LaFeminazi]

There is a third party, oh but but but.....

You will never win whinge whine, and you will allow McCain to win blah blah. Nader / Gore yak yak. Y A W N.

No wonder a third party never progresses because you lot buy into the corporate parties propaganda.

Go Greens.

http://www.gp.org/index.php