Obama Camp Arranging Endorsements From Top Clinton Officials

Wall Street Journal:

The awkward courtship has begun between supporters of presidential candidates Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama.

With the bitter, hard-fought primary season ending Tuesday, a behind-the-scenes drama is unfolding. Amid growing speculation that Sen. Clinton may pull out as soon as Tuesday night, top Obama strategists and supporters are wooing several of Sen. Clinton's key big-money donors, political operatives and policy advisers. A Clinton spokesman said Monday that her staff is focused on winning the nomination. (See related article.)

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Comments

[miriamac]

Harriet is very much like most of the Hillaryites I've encountered.
But as a middle aged "white" NY woman I beg you not to take her as typical of us.
However, many New Yorkers are angry w/ the regular party which first forced this outsider on us in 2000 & then suppressed all opposition to her in our primary.
McCain will not be the next President but a Republican will succeed Schumer & Paterson.

[jackstpaul]

It is completely disrespectful of Hilalry to engage in VP talk today. Esp. before she has even conceded let alone endorsed him.

This is further demonstration that she can't/won't be able to take the deferential spot as #2--VP.

No way should he pick her.

[lotuslike]

I agree completely! More evidence that she is not only ungracious but divisive. If the horrible assassination musings weren't a deal breaker, then this surely is.

Just say NO to VP!!!

[speakingtruth2power]

B&H hanging around like two drooling buzards.

[Marcospinelli]

She's not closing down her campaign, according to Lynn Sweet, she's not conceding, she's not quitting, even after he gets the number of delegates to win.

She'll stay in the race, fly below the radar, try to poach delegates (pledged and super) over the summer so that she can pull a surprise at the convention in August.

How is it to O'Bama's benefit to bring her people into his campaign?

Put aside for a minute how Hil'ry is known for putting her people into the tent of adversaries (Wolfson in Lamont's campaign) and how this would just place her well in undermining him for an August Surprise:

How does this comport with a campaign based on change?

[kee]

Not bashing Hillary. Just want her to stop bashing Obama, through her own mouth, surrogates and Bill. Want some unity. Want to see Hillary embrace Obama and the party. Want us all to unite.

[2cntswrth]

I sincerely hope this is the last time we see superdelegates being able to weigh in on deciding who our nominee is throughout the voting process. I am very much so an Obama supporter, but don't like the drama and the behind the scenes games that go with being superdelegates. In their attempts to not offend anyone, they can't really avoid it. The people who voted them into their own offices may not like the choices they have or will make. Therefore if they upset their constituencies, they may lose their own jobs next time around. Or if they don't pick the winner, they may have political problems in the future. And if they make some of the wrong people mad, then they mess up relationships. It just seems like too much control and pressure. We need to let voters in the states decide, and only use superdelegates if there is a legitimate tie in the number of delegates. Most of these superdelegates are acting like they are scared to death. And voters don't have a clue about what these people are thinking. The focus and attention certainly should not be on them, but the candidates and the states. It is entirely too much drama and puts to candidates in the position of having to kiss too many a**es.

[abby4ever]

Will he get all the delegates he needs by the end of the two primaries tonight? Or will some superdelegates STILL hold out until dawn?

[onelife1]

why does Obama have to walk gingerly around Hillary?
It was a contest.
He won!
Wo-Man -up Hillary......
Stop the whiney attitude...... maybe I'll get out, maybe I won't ... You are playing with our lives, McCain is waiting and we need every moment we can get to prove that we are the better party to run the country.
take a page from Edwards, and the others, get over it. Be like Gore and go on and do bigger and better things.
I am not angry with Hillary, I just think that Obama should have his moment without tip-toeing around Hillarys feelings.
Enough already!

[kisamija]

enough already Obama is the nominee now lets focus on the General elections... enough about Hillary this & that and who endorsed whom and who said what???? I really do not know what is wrong with the democratic party.. why are we so divisive... goood grief.....

[MaeScott]

Yes we can!

Enjoy!!


http://yeswecanhas.com/

[tds1273]

Obama/Sebelius 08!

Staunch Clinton loyalist Gen. Wesley Clark introduced Gov.Kathleen Sebelius as "the next Vice President of the United States"
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Wes_Clark_floats_ObamaSebelius.html

[BatedBreath]

Whether theclintons suspend their campaign or concede the race to Obama, she will continue to run as a candidate at least through the convention. She will continue pressing supers to change their minds until the last vote is counted at the convention.

[Rescisco]

There was never a doubt this moment would come. But let me suggest that Senator Obama did not win this nomination in a fashion that indicates strength at the finish. He stumbled his way over the finish line so to speak, and the Hillary victories do indicate that he as much as the Clinton folks has some unifying to do. The coalition that won the nomination is not a general election winner, and he and his supporters must expand on that base of support to have a chance. Bitching about Hillary and the Clinton campaign (which won a lot of votes and which won a whole lot more at the end than the presumptive nominee) is not a tactic that is helpful. He survived, but that is a far cry from triumph.

[ChescoRes]

It's one thing to have to listen to Hillary whine non-stop while insisting that her latest talking point is the REAL reason why she should win, it's another to have to listen to her supporters cry and moan non-stop, but to have one of them attempt to lecture the rest of us on not "Bitching about Hillary" !?!?

That takes the cake.

[Marcospinelli]

It's more than a triumph: It's a rev-o-lu-tion.

Putting her on the ticket nullfies all of it.

[laurinek]

Actually coming from as far behind as he did against the Clinton "machine", I call it a triumph.

[Marcospinelli]

More than a triumph: It's a revolution.

Putting her on the ticket nullifies it all.

[UpstateNY]

He didn't survice - he WON. He ran against the 'Clinton' machine - supposedly unbeatable whose own staff thought they were going to breeze to the nomination. Don't underestimate this campaign - President Bill Clinton, a 2-term Democratic President for whom people had great respect, his own political operatives who had experience, etc etc. It is a great victory - it would be a great triumph!

[KillTheMessenger]

Actually... Obama's finish was quite strong. He did not try to run after voters which he did not need for the primary but he began campaigning for the general election. He had the political wisdom to give up delegates from Florida and Michigan that he did not need to win, either, in exchange for a much broader political agenda.

Hillary Clinton and her noisiest voters are a sideshow. Should the Obama campaign have wasted resources to lure people away from the side show while they were needed to build the big tent? Hardly. That would not have been wise politics. It would not even have been good circus management.

On the other hand the Clintons are a hair away from destroying their political future and legacy. And for what? A delayed loss in a presidential primary which nobody will remember a year from now... unless, of course, if McCain wins. Then everyone will remember the Clinton Nader-Factor forever.

[lotuslike]

I'm pretty certain that Senator Clinton would love to have this kind of 'triumph' at this point. Wouldn't you agree?

[CookieWrites]

WSJ calls this journalism?????? Of course everyone is talking to each other. Where's the story here?

[Daisy1111]

Ah - the floo of SDs.

The flood that was supposed to happen weeks ago?

[olivia]

He is being so very polite and so very gracious to her.

[Dee123]

and she doesn't deserve it.

[Ibackobama]

As he should...

[ebanks84]

Yeah, but I hope he's not gracious enough to give her that VP spot she just said she wants.:(

[abby4ever]

I know. And never did a man have more cause NOT to be. He is just great.

[KillTheMessenger]

There was no need for a flood. The trickle has done its job. Call it Death by a thousand cuts or the Chinese water torture. :-)

[SanityClaus]

Just keep whistling past the graveyard, Daisy Duke.

[VSamuels]

Kinda like the way Hillary was suspose to be the inevitable one, 17 months ago?

[bygollymissmolly]

The flood didn't happen weeks ago because Obama has been holding them back trying to give Hillary the chance to withdraw gracefully. She hasn't taken what he was offering her so it's time to dump them all on her head. He also didn't want to give her the ability to say that "the nomination was stolen from me" by making it a done deal before the last primary. She will say it anyway, but there's nothing he can do about it.

[adzeman]

The top five SDs from Montana commit tonight to the winner of Montana. So those will take his likely haul to 21-23 from primaries.