Clinton: This Race Will Last Three More Months

Clinton: This Race Will Last Three More Months

The Huffington Post   |   March 26, 2008 09:37 AM


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From a new interview with Hillary Clinton by Time's Mark Halperin:

You said earlier today at your press conference that we'll wait to see what happens in "the next three months." Does that mean that your assumption is, however these remaining contests turn out, that the race will go at least for the next three months?


Well that certainly is what I anticipate. I think the elections that are yet to come deserve to be held because the people from Pennsylvania to Puerto Rico to all the others that are waiting in line deserve to be heard. And I think that's part of the good. You know, I remind a lot of people that my husband didn't formally wrap up the nomination until June and when he did he was behind both President Bush and Ross Perot. You know as well as anyone how dynamic elections are and how fluid they are and I think that we're going to win in November and once we get our nominee chosen we're going to have a very vigorous campaign to make sure that happens.

Clinton told Halperin that the strategy of the Obama campaign was to "try to shut this race down." Read the full interview here.


 
 

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The ONE clear issue that neither side nor the MEDIA pundits are considering:
VOTERS ARE STILL VOTING!

It's not Sen. Obama or Sen. Clinton who is responsible for this candidate process-
it's the VOTERS! Those who complain that 'Hillary should quit' are NOT giving any consideration to the true legacy of the American genius: the VOTE! Those who say 'Barack should get superdelegates to shutdown Sen. Clinton' are those who treat our VOTE as inconsequential and diversionary RATHER than the TRUE ISSUE of American democracy!

There is plenty of time for the Democratic Party to find their voice to 'flatten the tires' on the 'McBush Repress' (Express) candidacy- in fact, Bush and the Republican economy is doing their best to hand over the election to the Democratic Party through the horror and debacle that is this Republican economy and this Republican travesty called IRAQ!

Allow the Democratic voters to VOTE and that will increase the enthusiasm and expand the base for November! ONLY Republican 'sympathizers' in the MEDIA (especially on MSNBC) are saying that this VOTE will cause 'irreparable' damage- RIDICULOUS- families go through much worse issues than this and find heart and soul to right the wrongs and forgive the past if and when they seek TRUTH!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:25 PM on 03/26/2008

The nightmare continues.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:53 PM on 03/26/2008

HRC's comment: "I think the elections that are yet to come deserve to be held because the people from Pennsylvania to Puerto Rico to all the others that are waiting in line deserve to be heard." is absurd and deceptive.

As the Clintons well know, the elections will be held and votes counted, regardless of whether or not they suspend their campaign. The Repbulican primaries are stll being held, after all.

Obama is not trying to shut anything down -- he's trying to win 2025 delegate committments ASAP. Smart man.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:29 PM on 03/26/2008

If cheating is winning, then hil has a good support in you. Obama will be just fine. We're fired up and ready to go. We are just waiting for the spoiler to run out of steam. She said Bill didn't give up til June, so she will be in it til June, Jul, Aug, and someone will have to stop the bus, because she does not intend to get off. This is a very competitive losing candidate. She doesn't appear to understand, that she can't win. Hil is waiting for someone to give her the nominee. What? She's run out of race cards and slur cards, now she is using cheat cards... She writes down all she needs to know about the issues and then she slowly reads them on her stumps. This similar to teaching to the test.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:37 PM on 03/26/2008

I put up a website to support Clinton in Florida many months ago...long before the primaries. I have since put up one for Obama. I donated some money to Hillary, (not much, don't have much).

On the Hillary site today I officially changed my allegiance to Obama. I see the handwriting on the wall and although I like Hillary, America's first need is to elect a Democrat, either one. But the tide has turned and the debate is getting ugly and I am afraid that personal ambitions in the Clinton camp will be allowed to over rule what is best for America.

Don't get me wrong. I still like Hillary. And if Bill could run again I would jump up and down with joy! ( not really, I have a bad hip and can't afford health care to fix it ) But I am realistic and know that a Dem in the white house is needed.

I hope both candidates read this. Stop wasting campaign funds fighting each other. Stop handing fuel to the Republicans to use against the Dems come this fall.

I call on Hillary to end the situation now and concede so the party has time to heal and regroup for the far more important battle that lies ahead. Defeating as many Republicans as possible !

America has to come first...well ahead of pride or personal ambitions.

http://www.floridaforclinton.us - http://www.floridawantsobama.com/

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:23 PM on 03/26/2008


Pahleeees say it ain't so! Three more months of Hillary and team? Actually, I don't believe it. This contest is going to be wound up soon rather than later.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:14 PM on 03/26/2008

Is Obama going to quit? Wow!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:25 PM on 03/26/2008

If people think the continuing primary is a problem, why not try to end it?

Most supers are elected officials or other Dem bigwigs. If these people have not committed yet, write them an email or letter telling them to get off their asses and take a stand. I don't care for who.

The supers are the big X-factor here. If there were not so many uncommitted supers, the nomination would get locked down in someone's favor.

Both candidates are now known quantities. The math is not going to change dramatically.

The faster the supers commit, the faster this thing ends and Dems can get on with dealing with McCain.

Feel free to tell me why I'm wrong.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:07 PM on 03/26/2008

Write to DNC and DFA

Chair Dean,

Re: DFA solicitation for donations so" We can stop Joe Lieberman and his Republican friends from swiftboating Democrats..."

Right now the enemy is within. Clinton is swiftboating Obama. True, Senator Obama's campaign fights back. But when Clinton and her husband lauded McCain's commander-in-chief readiness as superior to Obama's, DFA should have issued a public rebuke.

Unchecked, Clinton's campaign descended into race and religion baiting, character assasination, repeated attempts to make a case for guilt by association.

It was horrifying when MSM and Republicans used Dr. Dean's victory shout to sink his candidacy, then went cast Kerry as a fake war hero, a traitor to his comrades in arms.

But nothing compares to the Clinton's framing a gifted uniter with a moral vision as un-patriotic, even racist.

As a college teacher, I can tell you: students voted for Kerry only to feel they didn't count. Seeing the kitchen sink lobbed at a candidate they respect will short-circuit their interest in our party and its values. You can't allow a leading figure in this party to betray those values while you keep silent.

Many youth share Obama's bi-racial and multi-cultural perspective, go to churches like Trinity, want to heal racial division, and are against the Iraq war. If you can't ensure that the candidate they identify with gets a fair run from his own party, you will lose their loyalty in the future.

Clean house

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:00 PM on 03/26/2008

I hope you did send this letter and not just posting it here. Great job.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:38 PM on 03/26/2008

What a great letter---did you send it? Or is that none of my business. I emailed Dean a moth ago, got a blanket message back, five paragraphs were asking for money, it was only six paragraphs.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:11 PM on 03/26/2008

The race is pretty much over and America has lost. McCain may as well be sworn in now. Let's pface reality for a second. Whichever Dem gets the nomination, they have not one but at least two campaigns to win to McCain's one. If Obama gets teh nom, he has to fight three campaigns; a general election campaign, a campaign to try and win back some of the tens of millions of moderate Clinton supporters (basically virtually every dem over the age of 22 who isn't african american); and a major campaign to undo the massive damage he has done in Florida and Michigan by so vehemently opposing their right to vote and belittling Florida voters as a beauty pagent. HRC has to fight two battles; one to win a general and another to sway the zealous Obama supporters who will see any failure to crown Obama as a racially motivated move.

Either way, they have to fight on several fronts whereas all McCain has to do is pick up 3-5% of moderate swing voters in the middle. This should have been an easy year for the Dems. Instead Dean and Brazile managed to hand it to the GOP with their 49 (can't count FL and MI) plan fiasco.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:44 PM on 03/26/2008

Republicans like you will try to continually say divisive things like that. Certainly you don't believe that the only supporters of Obama are those under 22 and African American. The kitchen sink will not work this time. Americans are waking up. Thank the Lord/

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:44 PM on 03/26/2008

If Gore had won Tennessee in 2000, we would not be in Iraq. Bin Laden would be dead. The air we breath wouldn't be so smoggy, New Orleans would be shining bright, the U.S. Prosecutors that were let go by gonzalez would still have their jobs, FEMA would be an effective agency along with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, we would not be in this forclosure mess, gas would be 2 dollars a gallon, I could go on and on. Every state counts - just ask Al

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:01 PM on 03/26/2008

The 50 state strategy is not a fiasco. The 50-state strategy is why we have the House and the Senate (albeit barely) today. You're thinking like the old guard Dems (and Hill herself). The reason Dems have lost nearly every presidential election since Johnson is because they've been stuck with their unimaginative, "we've already lost", big-states-only strategy. If the Dems ever want to get back on top, they must not cede a single vote. Florida and Michigan have no one to blame but their state parties. If Hillary really wanted to enfranchise the voters of FL and MI, why not have caucuses? The truth is Hillary "the states I'm not likely to win don't count" Clinton does not care one bit about those voters; she only cares for Hillary. If Hill would face reality and stop her slash and burn campaign tactics, there wouldn't be any lost voters for Obama to recover. There is no way she'll win if she manages to steal this nomination. A lot of Obama voters were disillusioned before he came along and would not vote Democratic without him.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:49 PM on 03/26/2008

A lot of Obama voters were disillusioned before he came along and would not vote Democratic without him.

Bingo! I can count dozens of people who are first time voters this year. They range in age from 40 to 20, and they're NOT all Obama voters. If we can bridge this divide and mend some fences, then the Dems won't lose these first-time voters. The new voters are not going to throw in with McCain, they're excited by the Dems. This is our election to lose, and it won't be because we nominate Hillary or Obama, it'll be because of this silliness and pettiness that we've seen for the last 6 weeks.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:02 PM on 03/26/2008

With all due respect E, this race is NOT over and America has NOT lost. McCain has NOT yet won. There is time for reconciliation between both factions of the Democratic party, even if this campaign goes into mid-June.

Large voter turnout will overwhelmingly favor the Democrats. Only if voting is suppressed or voters are disenfranchised will Republicans have a shot at this. We're seeing a groundswell of voter registration this year due to the historic nature of BOTH Democratic candidates. The sure way to defeat the Republicans is to vote in record numbers. to make the results soooo lopsided that the election can't be stolen with localized vote fraud/ballot tampering.

The key to a Dem victory is a unified Democratic Party. I believe both Clinton and Obama supporters are bitter about the salvos being launched by the candidates and their surrogates. I don't believe zealousness of Obama supporters or Clinton supporters will give truth to charges of racism or sexism.

The trolls and nattering nabobs of negativity want you to believe we're destined for 4 more years of BushCo.

Don't buy into it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:44 PM on 03/26/2008

Ein, You forgot about her third battle that she would have to fight. The uphill battle to convince people that she doesn't lie, or "misspeak" about her foreign policy experience and her actual duties as first lady. Which I'm sorry to tell you but, thats a pretty big situation she has created for herself by embellishing her so called accomplishments.

Also, Senator Obama's supporters are not only african-american or under the age of 22. A nominee gets to the position than he is in, you know, leading in delegates, winning the popular vote, and winning more states, because he has voters from all walks of life, all nationalities, and all ages voting for him.

Put down the kool-aid and take a little breather.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:36 PM on 03/26/2008

That's teh same uphill battle Obama has to convince voters he was asleep for 20 years, didn't lie or mispseak when he kept changing his story on Rezko, on Nafta, etc.

And Obama got where he is by using that small group of zealous followers to manipulate the caucus system.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:40 PM on 03/26/2008

Prove it ! Not only that ,how many Catholics stay in a church after the priests molest their children. Talk about twenty years, it's been going on longer than that. Obama doesn't have to manipulate, did you ever see how much money he gets donated to him by your everyday people ? You tell your lies here everyday, they get a little old, find something new to talk about. Better yet start to read and you would find out what you spew are lies.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:37 PM on 03/26/2008

Can you quote one example of Obama changing his story? Just one quote would be fine. Otherwise, your statement is ridiculous on its face.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:08 PM on 03/26/2008

"small group of zealous followers manipulating the caucus system" I'm sorry but that is little bit of a stretch. You dont remember the record turnout at the caucuses that have been held. If record turnouts mean a "small group of zealous followers" to you then I don't even know where to start to try and explain the real world situation that this nominating process finds itself in.

WOW "small group of zealous followers". Now that is classic.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:57 PM on 03/26/2008

3 more months for major things to pop out of Obama's closet he doesn't want to look at, like exposing his children to hate messages on the Lord's Day? What, he's up to about 1 surprise a month now, that's 3 more big barnacles for the barack boat? hillary just has to sit back. His inexperience shows just in the campaign. Hillary or McCain not another on-the-job-training president PLEEZE

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:36 PM on 03/26/2008

Who's this Lord that you speak of? And there were no hate messages. There were complaints about hate, for sure. As for the experience, yes, she does have that as recently revealed in her description of her Bosnia trip.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:11 PM on 03/26/2008

So far, every surprise has been false. Have you ever listened to a full sermon by Wright? If you had, you would know that there is no story there. There is a much bigger story here:

pastor James David Manning of New York's ATLAH World Missionary Church

Hillary gave this clown 1.5 million of tax money - earmarks

Manning: "Harlem must destroy itself."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:11 PM on 03/26/2008

Bucagogo
Please set the record straight once and for all. Do Hillary supporters really believe that McCain is preferable to Obama?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:46 PM on 03/26/2008

Absolutely. And I've never voted anything but Dem. But I'll vote McCain over Hussein.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:42 PM on 03/26/2008

Sure he is. I am not the only Independent who will vote McCain to Obama

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:28 PM on 03/26/2008

I'm an Independent with many Independent friends who hoped Obama could lead us out of the Washington establishment corruption. Under no circumstances would we support more Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton. Hillary is the corporate/special interest candidate we were trying to get away from. Now she has methodically and selfishly destroyed the Democrats. It's really sad.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:41 PM on 03/26/2008

Then you are not a democrat you are a repug that crossed over only to get McCain elected Go Ditto head. No really just go!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:34 PM on 03/26/2008

Hillary didn't express any concern at all for the voters of Pennsylvania etc when she repeatedly said the primary election would be 'over' by February 5.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:35 PM on 03/26/2008

Vote Clinton : more discombobulation!
Vote Obama : end the drama!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:32 PM on 03/26/2008

I hope Clinton's wife is right in this case. The two candidates have each done a creditable job of showing the country a few of the good reasons why the other is not a good choice for president, but there are many other reasons that they haven't thrown at each other so far. Eight years of playing hostess at White House functions is Hillary's main accomplishment; speechifying and Hillary-bashing are Obam's only two. Let's hope they have at it right up to the end of the convention.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:25 PM on 03/26/2008

It's not the GOP's strategy. It's the strategy of the Democratic Super Delegates.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:25 PM on 03/26/2008

I predict Hillary will lose this nomination and lose her re-election bid to the senate as well.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:18 PM on 03/26/2008

Why don't someone create a website called "HillaryLIES.com" and put all of her lies on the site.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:16 PM on 03/26/2008

The story is the liar Hillary Clinton. Serial liar. She claims she made the statement only once, out of fatigue. Liar, the media just produced a tape of the liar saying exactly the same thing in Texas. Not only a liar, but a stupid liar. You see Hillary, you're running for President, not the liar and chief. Liar.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:16 PM on 03/26/2008

hillary news is all over the tube today.

More lies about her role with schip, her lies about the family leave act, dodging bullets

This woman has become a national joke!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:56 PM on 03/26/2008

Operation CHAOS will keep this going as long as possible - thanks Rush.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:22 PM on 03/26/2008