Today Hillary Clinton is hosting a Celebrating Generations of Women fundraiser in Washington, DC. Her mother and her daughter will be with her. Clinton team leaders have an opportunity to attend and honor other women, whose stories will be included in the book commemorating the event. What better and classier occasion for Hillary Clinton to pass on the torch? For surely among a younger generation will come our first American woman president. In the best scenario, Senator Clinton would only begin the process of closure at the luncheon and so not overwhelm the honorary nature of the occasion. The following day, the Clintons have planned to campaign in Oregon--Ashland of all places. (A less likely source of votes for Clinton I can scarcely imagine.) It's going to take awhile to bring the campaign locomotive to a halt. But an event celebrating women would be a good time to start putting on the brake.
Not that Senator Clinton is going to take my advice, when she hasn't heeded the wise words of long-respected, well-known journalists. But she should. As many observers of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries have noted, Senator Clinton has been magnificent on the stump at the end of the road. But it is the end, and she has the opportunity to leave on a grace note.
Senator Clinton should take the first step to unite Democrats, and that move is going to require balletic grace, because the few remaining states (not to mention Puerto Rico) will want to raise their voices just as the other forty-five have done. Clinton's Indiana victory speech suggests that she is not ready to take the high road. To give her the benefit of the doubt, she probably hasn't the first idea at this moment how to step down. She's been racing too hard, too fast to find perspective quickly. Someone may have to grab her hand and help her down. In adversity, in campaign doldrums, Senator Obama stuck to a few things he knew to be true and prevailed. Prevailing will have a different outcome for her, but Hillary Clinton needs to find that compass, too.
Who did your "exclusive" beneift, besides you and the GOP? Who are you to advise Mrs. Clinton on preserving her dignity and taking the "high road"? Were you taking the high road" when you dropped a Demoratic candidate's words at a private fundraiser on a highly trafficed web site? Would not the "high road" have been a confrontation with the candidate on his choice of words which offeneded you, and given him a chance to either clarify or correct or confirm? Instead you saw an opportunity for an "exclusive", and literally stabbed the Democratic party in the back.
I hope you go away. More people will remember you with derision than you know. You owe all Democrats an apology for the damge you have done.
But never mind: Obama has made his comeback, Hillary is wallowing in a sea of her own racist commentary, and all shall be well.
One other thing: bear in mind that the wonderful blue-collar undereducated gun-toting vote Hillary claims to control is the vote that elected Hitler to office. Let McCain have it; there are plenty of other constituencies in the U.S.
Are you are talking about candidate(s) Bill and Hillary Clinton? Rose colored glasses?
They have NOT been magnificent.
A compulsive liar, who lies like a sieve, and call that candidate "magnificent"? Are you telling me that throwing the "nuke" word out there, when it behooved them to play the fear game to win is magnificient when she ignored the congress who she should be addressing about nukes and not recklessly throwing around the "nuke" as if it were her plaything? ---That her (and McCain's) gas tax break was a 'magnificent' , in spite of mostly all economists pointing out it was a terrible idea, and then call it "magnificent" when she tried to bully whip congress by putting forth the logically false proposition that you are either with me or against me, then, calling respected economists "elitist"?
I doubt very much if she, knowing what we know now and what we have seen of the three Clintons, if she would go with grace. She does not know the meaning of class, or grace, or humility. I think she is finished with her political career. She will serve out in the Senate, and I would guess is going to have a difficult time of it getting elected again to that seat.
The poster before me suggested we need people like you to unite the party, so the olive branch is extended.
As Obama supporters, we should try to reflect the values and demeanor of our candidate, and be gracious in victory.
Look, I've had many many issues with Ms. Fowler the last few weeks, and I was ROYALLY PISSED when I found out it was she who sold him out to the MSM over that "bitter" controversy.
However, now is not the time to settle scores. Ms. Fowler is obviously a vehement supporter of Senator Clinton and while I do not agree with her tactics, I can respect the passion she feels for her candidate. And most of us have way more in common with her than we do with those Right-wing nut jobs on FOX or Newsmax! We are going to need support from people like Ms. Fowler to pull this thing off in November, so now we have to begin the healing process.
I think in a strange way, all of this adversity Obama has had to face, however painful, has made him a better candidate for the fall.
So whaddya say, let's try to keep some sanity in this discourse and rejoice that our candidate, the guy with the big ears and the funny name, IS GOING TO BE THE NEXT POTUS!!!!
DEMOCRATS UNITE! Gobama '08
We're not Obama supporters attacking Clinton: we're Democrats, Independents, Republicans; blue-collar-workers, unemployed, and white-collar workers; men and women, minorities and caucasians; but most of all, we are Americans.
We attack her because we are outraged at her actions, her selfishness, and the damage she has inflicted to our chances to have a president who will effect change in a government rife with corruption, nepotism and stupidity of the sort she has displayed in droves during this race. We know Obama is above attacking her as we are. But it's our nation, and we have every right to call her out for sacrificing it--and us--us for blind ambition.
try to bring down a decent candidate.
The good news is that the day Hillary finally faces reality and withdraws, there will be a big party
for her -- with Richard Mellon Scaife, Pat Buchanan, Joe Scarborough, the entire FOX crew,
Charlie Gibson, George Stephanopolous, and YOU attending.
You have that to look forward to.
But first... there's a little matter of $11.4M in campaign debt owned to your primary backer.
Maybe just a few more fund raisers.
But she won't go where anyone thinks she should. She'll go where she wants to go.
Honestly, the main strategy of GWB was the ability to
ignore experts,
ignore polls,
ignore the fundamentals of economics,
ignore critics,
control the conversation
and do what he wanted to do: "the decider".
Hillary has the same DNA... she will go where she wants, when she wants and it will
take a determined Democratic Party to tell her otherwise.
But, it is nice to see you propose the idea of unifying the party... there is an enemy to
progressive values and it's name is greed.
Whether Obama can lead us out of the mess that the Republicans and the Clintons/DNC/DLC got us into is an open question, but we know damn well that the Clinton had their chance and did absolutely nothing with it...8 years worth. Do you people have no long term memory at all?
Even if Obama is lacking in experience, he, like the Republicans before him, will hire the right people to get their agenda accomplished. In the case of Bushco, it was to get us mired into a protracted war. With Obama it will be to heal the country and get back to becoming a nation that deserve the respect of the rest of the world.
Hillary is a great American and has announced that she plans to continue the race. Your advice does not define what it means to make a graceful exit. It would be gracious of you to allow Hillary to exercise her best judgement and continue the candidacy until all Democrats have exercised their primary votes.
Many Democrats won't forget the disservice of their arrogant and dissonant brothers and sisters.
Sorry Russ. She's done. Get over it.
the other half hopes he is.
I will take anyone without such 'qualifications'.
Actually Hillary is a female Lieberman . She should leave the democratic party and form a fence sitter party with Lieberman and go whichever way the wind blows.