Hillary Clinton To Suspend Campaign Saturday

***UPDATE***
The Clinton campaign issued a statement at around 9pm saying they will be hosting an event to announce her support for Sen. Obama on Saturday, as opposed to Friday:

Senator Clinton will be hosting an event in Washington, DC to thank her supporters and express her support for Senator Obama and party unity. This event will be held on Saturday to accommodate more of Senator Clinton's supporters who want to attend.

Multiple news organizations reported early Wednesday evening that Hillary Clinton is expected to officially suspend her campaign and drop out of the Democratic race on Friday.

The Times has more details on the ending of her campaign:

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is moving to suspend her campaign and endorse Senator Barack Obama on Friday after Democratic members of Congress urged her on Wednesday to leave the race and allow the party to unite around Mr. Obama, according to a senior adviser to Mrs. Clinton.

Mrs. Clinton is likely to make the announcement in New York City, an aide said, although no final venue has been chosen.

Her decision came after a day of telephone conversations with supporters on Capital Hill about what she should do now that Mr. Obama has claimed enough delegates to secure the nomination. Mrs. Clinton had initially said she wanted to wait before making any decision, but her aides said that in conversations, some of her closest supporters said it was urgent that she step aside.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the word from the Obama camp is that a joint ticket is unlikely:

Close supporters suggested she would like to be his running mate, on a unity ticket.

But close advisers to Sen. Obama signaled an Obama-Clinton ticket was highly unlikely. People in both camps cited what several called "a deal-breaker" -- Bill Clinton may balk at releasing records of his business dealings and big donors to his presidential library.

Comments

[NotWaldo]

Hey! Lady, wake up and smell the coffee will ya !

[macbeth]

Would you all please shut up and let me do it my way. Bill and I always do things OUR way.

sincerely,
Hillary Clinton

[schicklett3]

Hey, I got an idea! Hillary can sell her Easter Egg colored pantsuits on E-Bay! LOLOL

[Bill3rdterm]

What's really funny is you thinking your lame joke was funny.

[bleek]

I think HRC would make a fine Secretary for Pretentious Delusions of Grandeur.

[joefazio]

Bleek...a great name, sorta goes with the comment.

Hillare Clinton is anyting but ,Pretentious or Delusional.

Unless pretentious means giving your heart and soul to
a country she cares very much about. Delusional, perhaps,
in the hope that giveing her all to make this a better nation,
would be a sound enough reasn to run for President.

[KingGeorgetheTurd]

She not as delusional as GB or Cheney? Just listen to her closest advisors who said she didn't think she would be the nominee even on Tuesday. Is that not just like the bubble Bush was in on election night 2006?

Delusion is the most accurate statement that can describe someone with her character flaws.

[MizFlagPin]

That's not reality. She has failed to announce the end of her campaign. She has failed to fully endourse and support the Democrat Nominee. She has failed to show leadership from Day 1 of her lost.

[SanityClaus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL7L6GZosUg

[xargaw]

She is not releasing her delegates. She is still jockeying for power. I think as long as she continues to do this, she is not helping the Party and she is working against any hope of a VP slot. I think she knows that VP will not happen because Bill would have to release all his financial history regarding his library and they seem unwilling to do this. Also, we have not seen their '07 tax returns as they filed for an extension. The GOP would make hay over this. If the Clintons would release everything, her chances would be greatly enhanced. Obama cannot afford to choose anyone that has any unknowns the press can run with. Her supporters that are pressuring Obama should be pressuring her to release everything to make her a viable choice for VP if that is what they want. They can't expect special treatment for her. The media will not give her special treament.

[CatLadyforObama]

I was so utterly disappointed in Hillary Tuesday night. On one of the most defining historic moments in my adult lifetime, one that is bolstering our positive image around the world, and providing Hope for so many people of color, Hillary stopped and stooped to ask "What Does Hillary want?."

Again, it's all about her. Disgusting.

[riverhouse]

But her campaign is saying she's reserving the right to have her name placed in nomination at the convention.

[LegalCat]

In all fairness, doesn't EVERYBODY have that right? If the convention doesn't nominate a candidate on the first vote, they could nominate me, or you, or (far more likely, but still sadly not VERY likely) Al Gore. I'm not sure this reserves any right she wouldn't have had anyway, which actually makes me wonder what her point was in mentioning it.

[NerdyOleLady]

The point is she feels it is her right, that it belongs to her. This misguided person truly needs to find the good in her soul, and accept that she is out of the race, as you say the commitee has the right to nominate whomever..­you...me.J­ohn Edwards, etc I appreciated your post.

[AUNTIEDAWN415]

that could be because he has lost almost every state since Febuary by almost double digits after the Rev Wright problems and who knows what's coming down the pike.

[SeriousBlack]

Look - You either get behind the presumptive nominee or not, AUNTIE. Period. End of story. To not do so delegitimizes the nominee.

Why is that so hard for you people to get?

[MizFlagPin]

Another setup like the one she pulled in MI. Liars and flies I do despise.

[TheRealMacDaddy]

I find it quite disturbing that there is talk that she wants to hang onto her Ds and have a role call. Not because I fear she will try to 'steal' the nomination but that it will continue this two separate camps in the Party. She says she wants this for her daughter..­.well I say I don't give a care about Chelsey! I have two daughters Chelsey's age and a son also.

I want a better future for them and my grandchildren. If she continues this idea to the Convention the Clintonistas will just continue to scream she was robbed and she lost only due to sexism and all the other excuses they can come up with other than she ran a sorry campaign that underestimated her opponent.

The DNC RBC was just a hint of what would happen in Denver. Histrionic Hillary supporters screaming and threatening to vote for Bush3. It would be Chicago '68 all over again, except no one would baton the hell out of a 60 year old woman. This cannot be allowed to happen. If Hillary Clinton refuses to release her Ds and demands this role call, REAL Democrats should ostrisize her.

[Lerk4]

I would hope it's unlikely, given her irrational and ungracious behavior of late has proven her to be an unfit candidate for either position on the ticket.

[Veeve]

I'll believe it when I see it. She is the stranded Japanese pilot lost on some South Pacific island for decades after VJ Day fighting anyone who manages to stray too close.

[sf94127]

The Democratic party is irreversibly split. The MSM and the Dem leadership was made sure Obama was portrayed in a positive light as much as possible (given all his baggage) and anytime Hillary did what any normal competing candidate would do was labeled a racist and agent for party chaos/disunity.

Well boys and girls she got 18 million votes and a lot of people who voted for Barry would take it back if they had known about Wright and Pfleger and Rezko and Farrakhan. The Republicans atre experts at opposition research and it they will come up with a lot more videos that reflect Obama's character or lack there of. There is the highly rumored "Michelle White Rant" tape; I am skeptical but who knows. I do know the Republicans will pull out more skeletons.

VP position? Hillary shoud steet clear of this GE loser. He will lose by ~ 100 EV's. Hillary can't save him; she should lay back, 2011 is just around the corner.

[SanityClaus]

Explain, then, why in the final poll that Gallup bothered to take head-to-head between Obama and Clinton, among Democrats, Obama wins 52-43. She now loses CA to him by as much as she beat him in the primary.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/107662/Gallup-Daily-Obama-52-Clinton-43-Final-Primary-Votes-Cast.aspx

And they announced that this was the final time they will bother to do any polling using her name.

They get it, why don't you?

Are you a Republican operative attempting to sow discord among the Democrats?

You have no power here. Begone, before someone drops a house on you too.

[schicklett3]

HIllary is still waiting, and hoping, for the RFK moment?
This woman is a disgrace - she and Bill and their supporters have treated Obama like crap since day one. And Terry Mcauliffe.­... hr told Obama to kiss his a$$.
They have embarassed the Democratic Party to the max.
It's time to take off the gloves and put these people in their place.

[Spesabsquemetu]

Sen. Clinton: let your actions be magnanamous in unifying our party.

Release your delegates to Sen. Obama and let your actions speak louder than any words that summon us to unity.

ACTIONS THAT UNIFY!!!

[cougarrr15]

She is bowing out at the end of the weekly news cycle. Also, people know it is going to happen 4 days earlier so it will be "old news" by then. Respect is a two-way street.

[AurigaRa]

whatever she does I don't trust her.

And women of America who support her - WAKE UP! She's deceitful and you need to move on.

[AUNTIEDAWN415]

Spoken like gracious male lol

[mairs]

No, Obama is gracious. We don't have to be, Auntie.

[ITrustObama]

are you sure poster is a male? Could be a woman against HRC.