A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be a Democratic nominee by June 15. He could not bring himself to say the words "Hillary will drop out by June 15," but that is clearly what he meant. I kept saying, "So, Hillary will drop out by June 15," and he kept saying, "We will have a nominee by June 15." He stressed what a reasonable person Hillary is.
Everything about our conversation implied that he had already had this reality-based discussion with Hillary. He said the Clinton campaign plan is to collect as many votes and delegates as they can right through June 3, then take no more than a week or so to make their case to the superdelegates. Nothing he said indicated that he actually expected the superdelegates to move to Hillary in the week after the final election. The Clinton campaign has not lost its grip on reality. Yes, Clinton spokespersons publicly seem to be lost on gravity-free planet Clinton, but privately they know the end is near.
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BUT THERE IS A LOT OF THINKING TO BE DONE BEFORE NOVEMBER BECAUSE SOME MAY THINK THE GRASS IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE BUT THAT AIN'T ALWAYS TRUE.
Sen Clinton has given a good fight and that is what we need a fighter even if she did sink in her own money.
God Bless us all.
good.
She'll stay in the race until January 20th, and on inauguration day she and Bill will sneak back into the White House and steal the pieces they didn't get the first time..
And you people need to stop hating on Obama just because your poor little Hillary has lost.
Why hasn't anybody told her yet?
I watch the news all the time and everybody on TV knows that Obama has won. Excuse me, everybody but Hillary!
exactly my point.
You are buying the TV president again, beb, just like the last two times.
GWBush won because of TV, not because he was an excellent governor, nor was he a competent business man.
Turn off the TV, please and start reading: newspapers, magazine, books. It will open your eyes.
Television is corporate, it is about $$$ and so is their push for Obama,
All about ratings and the money they earn.
It's all a big joke now though.
Too Late!
anybody ever take history in school...
for being so smart Obama must have been sleeping through history class...
even the worst of the students when I went to school knew how many states are in this country...50
have a look and see how many Obama thinks there are...8(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
Oh well...maybe he will have enough states to get back in the lead...
after the thumping he's going to take in the next few states....8)
I haven't a doubt that Obama will incorporate some of Hillary's platforms into his, and I think Hillary will get a cabinet appointment, or perhaps the VP slot. But we have to face facts and move on to November. Do you really want thousands more of our service personnel to die? Do you really want untold more innocent civilians to die in Iraq? Do you really want to see Roe vs Wade overturned and our women forced into illegal abortions? That's what we face if we do not give our loyalty to the Party and Senator Obama. If you really believe in what Hillary was trying to accomplish for our country, PLEASE do what she's going to do, and support the Democratic nominee. We need to unite. Otherwise we will be destroying our country from within.
Get over yourself. If Obama is the nominee we must all support him. Even Hillary knows that. Because the alternative is not just worse, it's unthinkable.
All elections end June 3. Frankly she needs to drop out no later than June 5 but I'll live with this.
Since there's nowhere else to state it: I'll live with Governor Strickland of Ohio as Obama's V.P. Still think Webb or Sebelius would be better but if this is the cost, fine. I'll take one of Hillary's supporters from the apparently holy and anointed state of Ohio which we must kowtow to at all costs. Strickland it is.
First thing i'm doing on January 20, 2013 (after Obama's re-election) is immediately pushing to ignore Ohio from here on in. We've been held hostage long enough.
Too bad the press did cover Clinton fairly or the other candidates, excluding Edwards. We had a whole slew of people ready to do a better job. But wait until we see the skeletons in Obama's closet. We can thank the pundits and media/press for this fiasco.
My personal favorite was one he delivered on the McLaughlin show a few years ago - "John Kerry will be the next President of the US".
These 'infallible' statements are made without a shred of humility which makes them so much funnier.
The first 60 SDs to do so B4 may 12th will have me ;) blessing... lol... an eternal political career [their concubines and love child perpetually hidden] and a 3 bed apartment in the heavens above... :), ear to ear one...
The stuff I saw came right out of her own mouth.