How Will Hillary End Her Campaign?

Barack Obama is, by almost every measure and by almost every unmeasurable impression, on the precipice of being able to declare victory and have his declaration be accepted by the media and his party. Hillary Clinton needed to find a way to give superdelegates their "Holy Moly" moment, and she failed. Absent an extraordinary intervening event, the question for Hillary Clinton now is how she ends the race. Obama has made it clear that he will not pressure her. It's her decision.

OBAMA's MARGIN in North Carolina was three times that of Clinton's, even before the margin in Indiana narrowed. He earned more pledged delegates than she did. They're likely to see it as a vindication of their gut feeling that Obama could survive the roughest weeks of his candidacy. There is no evidence that Obama's supporters were any less enthusiastic than they were before -- and that metric, more than anything else, I think, will drive their calculations going forward. The uncommitted superdelegates are inclined to like Obama and dislike Clinton personally; they see more energy on his side than hers; they've given him the benefit of the doubt over and over again.

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[Smartey]

As is typical with mean, pathetic, dictatorial people, she'll end it with a shrill squawk.

[SaddieMcCall]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhlhE32SoXs

the way it will end for Hillary

[Tropiholic]

Hillary is like the kid at the birthday party who is still sitting and stuffing herself at the table long after all the others have gone to play.

[Vern58]

quote "Not till you pry it from my cold dead hands"
She will scheme, plan, whine, moan, lie,cheat and spin until she gets what she craves, regardless of what it costs her or us. The only thing that will stop her is if the Supers do it.

[KillTheMessenger]

She won't end it. If you can't accept losing, you have to keep playing, even if nobody wants to play with you any longer.

[MyGuyO]

Hillary....It's over. Now please bow out graciously so Obama can get on with his message to the people.. Thank you.

Obama's endorsement's since his big win last evening in North Carolina, 5/6/8

5/7/08: 1) Former Senator, George McGovern (Switched from H. Clinton"s camp)
2) North Carolina ¦ DNC, Jeanette Council, Super delegate
3) North Carolina ¦Dem Party Chaair, Jerry Meek, Super delegate
4) California ¦ DNC, Inola Henry, Super delegate

Please keep them coming.

[liberal1976]

She will finally admit after all this time that she's a Republican and then beg Insane McCain to be on his ticket. She loves Insane McCain after all. During the past couple of months when she knew she wasn't going to be the nominee she, Bill and some of her staff started praising McCain constantly. Nothing she and her campaign staff does surprises me.

[photochick]

You know, when you have to work this hard for something -- it's just not your time. Move on now and wait until it is your time.

[DinOhio]

She will end it badly. She feels entitled to the nomination and the Presidency. Even today she said she was the most qualified to be the President. She has gall and will feel no compunction at demanding everything. And I fear she will get away with it. Watch for things that impact her personally as a payoff. Not policy issues or DNC positions, but personal gains. She will not exhibit class in her exit.

[Danny]

Hillary and the Davos crowd need to give Obama his space. When he is President, she may just get to be a Supreme Court Justice, or a Cabinet Secretary. And there is nothing wrong with that. If she gives him space, now.

[KillTheMessenger]

That train has left the station. She is not qualified for a justice and nobody will ever ask her for a cabinet post which she is not qualified for, either. She had her shot. She blew it. It's over.

[going2ireland]

In regards to the proposal thrown on the table by the Clinton campaign for Obama to pay off her debts and she would "go away", there is just one hitch in the giddyup.

She just loaned herself $6.4 mil to be paid back with interest, to which I understand is 2.8%. She has just proposed something that will make a get rich quick scheme. QUICK loan myself $6.4 mil and then ask someone else to pay off my debts, which will include the 2.8%.

Lest anybody think Hillary is a dummy, this will prove that not only is she smart as a whip, but a sneaky, scheming individual.

OBAMA - DO NOT FALL FOR THE PROPOSAL. If he would like to pay off all the little people she owes (none of her campaign staff, no sirree, or Penn, etc.) just the little people, I won't have a problem with that. But no to Hillary's self loans and no to the campaign staff and their expenses - i.e. laptops, fancy hotel rooms, lobster dinners, car rentals, air fare, rental of the planes Hillary has used, you get the picture.

[LibsRway2funny]

With a bullet.

[VolvoBirkenstock]

Magda in "Downfall?"

[PennLawyer]

Evidently with extreme greed, extortion and blackmail, witness the multiple reports that she's willing to drop out if he'll assume her $20 million or more campaign debts. None of the people touting this have been able to cite a SINGLE instance of where the winning primary candidate has assumed the debts of his/her losing opponent. A true American hero, John Glen, too out personal bank loans (he didn't have the Clinton's substantial wealth to lend himself his own money) and has struggled for years to pay off those debts. All of Obama's funds remaining after HRC is dragged kicking and screaming out of the primary, NEED to go to defeating John McCain.

Add to those facts the fact that her campaign ended up in such deep debt due to her own incompetent management.

[Wanjiru]

...hopefully she'll jump off the Manhattan bridge...


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[Conservateur]

It`s been good while it lasted,but to be honest,she needs to drop out right now.Why don`t the Democrats just come out and stop her?I don`t see the need to keep dragging this any longer.She`s had a good run and she`s tough opponent,but this is just common sense.As for Howard Dean,this is the time to use your clout and end this.The superdelegates really need to come out now if they care about the General Election.You need to get behind your nominee.

If the Democrats want to win in November,Obama should start campaigning for the GE now.You can`t afford to waste anymore time having useless primaries.I would want Hilary to stay,but it is now impossible for her to win.There isn`t an argument that she can use now to justify all this.The superdelegates really need to push her out now if they want to win in November.This is getting ridiculous,Hilary drop out!!!!

I never thought I would ever be saying this,but nah,what the hell,

Obama '08!!!!!!Yes We Can!Go Obama!

[dadele]

This is going to end badly for Hillary. People dislike bad sportmanship. When you lose in anything, you say "congratulations" and move on.

[going2ireland]

And I have not once heard her congratulate Obama on any of his wins. Although, I don't recall, did she congratulate him after the N. Carolina win? Seems like she did. But it would be the first.

[Danny]

Yes. That's the way civilized people do it.

[Maifmart]

She's such a no compromises, no holds barred fighter that she has a plus 50% unfavorable, the highest untrustworthy, etc. Unfortunately for the first lady of the first black president, her eventual primary opponent is a young black man who raises grass roots cash faster than her lobbyist bundlers top out, so that she has had to kick in over $11 million of her and Bill's reported $110 million first six years after office loot. She's also had to pander to those white blue collar voters she's previously disparaged for their lack of support for Bill by saying screw em? She unlike working man's candidate Edwards, who said in debate that if people supported him because he was a white man didn't want their vote, has encouraged the subtle racism. Why she expects these so called Reagan democrats to prefer her over McCain in the general is the question for supers.

It's time to hope for some super delegate decisions, some party elder arm twisting to get her on board. Barack has been running a campaign of inclusion to change Washington, he should have coattails.

[DRaymond]

Unfortunately I think that it will go out not with a bang but with a whimper. She's vowed to stay in this but the money is really going to dry up at this point. How many millions will she keep lending herself? She may well win West Virginia and kentucky and try to use it to restart the 'electability' momentum, but Oregon will go solidly to Obama and likely South Dakota too. Then somewhere a superdelegate will declare and push Obama to the majority without MI and FL so Clinton will continue whining about FL and MI until a bunch of FL and MI superdelegates will all pledge to Obama in exchange for his allowing them to be seated at the convention.

Then Clinton will start pointing out that even pledged delegates and superdelegates who said they voted one way could still vote some other way. (She's already hinted as much.)

Finally when it becomes clear that isn't happening she will suddenly shout into a microphone at a thinly attended news conference "I can't believe that they are going to nominate that n***** boy instead of me!" and they will shut off the microphone, never to turn it back on again. The End.

[BatedBreath]

Some of these comments are really out of line. I though this blog was monitored.

[going2ireland]

Are you new to these boards? Or just here under a new name? These are pretty tame as compared to what I have seen on other threads. And it absolutely amazes me what gets through. And then you say something that was abiding all the rules and it not only make the threads, but for no reason, gets the poster banned.

Who is to say what gives with the moderators.

[alleykat]

She will stay in until she gets enough to pay herself back from donations. Then she will throw a fit trying to get the party to let her have Fl. and Mi. If that doesn't work she will start throwing the kitchen sink at everyone! Whoo Hoo!

[BatedBreath]

How will Hillary end it? Spinning, spinning, spinning.

[riverhouse]

She hasn't been able to raise money in many months. She surely can't raise money now as a loser. Without money coming in, she will have to get out.

[naschkatze]

SHE won't end it, ever. She will have to be shown the door.

[SouthFloridaDem]

Wrong -- she'll have to be physically dragged through it.

[speakingtruth2power]

"Absent and extraordinary intervening event", like the MSM discovering that

BHO is The Madrases Candidate, only pretending to be a good Christian?

Say it often enough and any blatant lie becomes truth enough for the MSM.

After all, we killed over a half a million human beings based on Bush's lies.

[going2ireland]

Would you mind providing us with a link to your 2nd line. That is not anything I have heard and read anywhere.