Clinton Camp Converging On NY Tuesday, Shedding Staff

Politico.com:

Members of Hillary Clinton's advance staff received calls and emails this evening from headquarters summoning them to New York City Tuesday night, and telling them their roles on the campaign are ending, two Clinton staffers tell my colleague Amie Parnes.

The advance staffers -- most of them now in Puerto Rico, South Dakota, and Montana -- are being given the options of going to New York for a final day Tuesday, or going home, the aides said. The move is a sign that the campaign is beginning to shed -- at least -- some of its staff. The advance staff is responsible for arranging the candidate's events around the country.

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Comments

[drzoon]

if she can clean up her act... then we are going to need her. if she can't... then we gotta go at this one alone.

its up to her... and her supporters

[PioneerKing]

THANKS GOODNESS!

It will be a good thing for America if Bill does not campaign for Sen. Obama.

[vsign]

Thank you Bill for being the leader of the American people all these years in whatever significant way you are able - beyond the call of duty in many cases. You have put your own reputation and legacy on the line for your wife's candidancy. You are truly a great man because of it. Some of us Americans know that you are the real thing.

In my opinion - the elites have taken the Democratic Party away. They still will not take any responsibility and ask for my vote in an honest way. They have ran a smear campaign against you and Hillary. Yet they do not know what winning is. I think winning is winning over the hearts and minds of people when you are running for leadership. The Obama people have not done that and yet, as during this entire campaign of censorship and propaganda, they insist and bully Hillary to drop her fight for me and my concerns.

The last day, another smear article appears about you Bill. I am truly sorry that the media has succumbed to this kind of smear journalism and groveled to Obama as the new leader. You and your wife are still the leaders of the moderate Democrats, the working white Democrats, the women and the seniors.

I will appeal to you. Please lead us in the direction that you are but do not grovel to Obama. He is a false prophet and a dangerous preacher man.

[mellene]

I'm sure as Edwards did, she will not declare her candidacy over but suspended in hope of regaining the superdelegates and other delegates at the convention. With her it's all about I and me.

[ObamaEdwards]

Here is why he wants to get out of the political spotlight, fast: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/07/clinton200807

[lefilmnoir]

The sun will rise in the west before he steps aside.

Unfortunately.

[Topfeeder]

Shedding skin is more like it.

[smark]

Hillary is probably going to announce that she is taking the fight all the way to the convention because she "won" the popular vote (by her fuzzy math).

[realityczech4u]

No doubt. And it will be accompanied by some crap such as:
"So great is my love for my country, (tears) that my consciense just will not allow me to stand idly by while my party puts forth the less-qualified candidate against the Republicans. AndI believe that given a breather from the frenzy of this primary season, the superdelegates, will, upon reflection, realize just how much is at stake here and realize that I am the one who can best assure victory in November. So in the meanwhile, I'm not going anywhere and I will be there when they call on me."

You can bet that she will spread it on even thicker than that so arm yourself with an oxygen mask, hip boots, and a shovel. Hillary is about to bare her soul. (again)

[IslandGyal]

I knew it; it was too good to be true. She will never go away. The speculation that she will be hiding in the WH after Jan. 20th, 2009 IS TRUE!

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/

[Cuneo]

I'll believe it when she says it. Anything is possible.

[Pupster]

Have people read the Todd Purdum piece on Bill Clinton in Vanity Fair? Good reading. Goes over a good portion of recent dirty laundry.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/07/clinton200807

[ibsteve2u]

Or maybe Hillary needs to lose those staffers who are more loyal to the Democratic Party and the American people than they are to her, in order to maintain secrecy about any planning to pull a Lieberman...

(Hey, this is fun.)

[TheRealMacDaddy]

Someone pinch me so I know I'm not dreaming!

[ibsteve2u]

Maybe Hillary just asked herself a question:

When you pay people to run your campaign, where do they get the motivation to advise you to quit paying them?

[Suthngal]

It would be nice if she was "quitting," but I do think it has to do with the ending of the primaries.

[heal57]

I still don't trust her.

[eej]

The Republicans were dying for Hillary to get the nomination, and it wasn't because they wish us well in November.

Clintons should disappear from this campaign, before Republicans open their baggage. They can only hurt Obama at this point.

All their public praise and support of Obama would not be believed, anyway.