Clinton Says She’s ‘Staying in This Race’

That’s the kind of fighter we need.

Before people start bashing her, please realize that she has to say this – even if it is over. The classy thing to do will be to let her choose the moment to concede. I know some on here don’t want her to concede ever, but it is political suicide for her at a certain point if she continues. They are not doing her a favor by letting her jump off that cliff.

I can’t wait to see the Clintons Campaigning around the country for Obama.
They and Ed Rendell better deliver Penna.
hahahahahaha

@Emily: You are of course welcome to your opinion, and McCain is a decent guy, but seriously if the Supreme Court is something you are thinking about then please realize that both Senators Clinton and Obama would likely choose from the same pool of candidates. Senator McCain will choose a much more conservative justice, in all likelihood.
You also speak about Senator Obama having no “integrity, experience, and honor”. That’s pretty tough and more than I think Senator Clinton would ever say.

@Emily: you are joking right. Have you ever checked up on HIllary and her background. The media has been extremely gracious to her. If she ran against McCain you would see her best side, or should I say worst. It is probably good that Obama is our choice because I do not think you want to hear or see the truth.

Ted Kennedy said to day, I pay tribute to Senator Clinton. She has been making her case and doing it effectively, but the outcome is very clear as to what’s for the Democratic nomination. It’s effectively Barack Obama’s nomination. It’s pretty effectively sewed up and I don’t see any possibility of altering or changing that inevitable fact,” Kennedy said. So says Ted Kennedy today, but he didn’t say this when HIS brother came from no where to sew up the convention in the early 60’s. That is because the democratic people in charge could see that Kennedy could win in all states and the nominee could not. This is clearly not the case with Obama. Just his recent lopsided victory win in North Carolina just goes to prove he can never win the general election. Obama’s victory there was tempered by the fact that Clinton beat him handily among white voters. Obama took only the black vote and this state was not a factor in any decision making as this is the state with the most registered black democrats. If Obama had won the “sister” state of Indiana where he was ahead up until the Primary, this might have been a different story. Obama will take the Democratic Party down with him. Ted Kennedy knows this

It’s all over except for Hillary’s crying. She’s finished.

She loans herself money… that means actually buying herself into the White House. Scary.

No what is going on is the DNC feel that people are so dumb especially white people that no matter what they will sell their soul, hold their nose and vote Obama in Nov for the love of the party.
Right wait and see !!!

Don’t count on money from those college kids. Wait until their parent’s credit card statements come in.

Dont count on money for the DNC from the AA for Obama either, they will send money to Obama yes but sending money to the DNC is another story.

Obama won NC with big margin because 91% AA voted for him.
This not the real election.
Why don’t we have 2 presidents.
One for AA and the other one for the whole nation.

I am with Hillary all the way. Her speech last night was amazing. What a woman, what a fighter!! We need Hillary in the White House. Go Hillary Go!!!!

@Emily: Not trying to antagonize you, but you seem to feel otherwise. And I’m not speaking for Senator Clinton; I’m only going by what she has consistently said herself, including her speech last night.

How many of these new rush of voters that Dean keeps speaking about, these young kids that signed up to the party just to vote for Obama, and all others who never even cared one hoot about any election before, are they now going to work for the DNC?
Are the young ones going to take their time and effort to push the DNC on college campuses, are they going to work night and day to keep the party going after the election?
A party is just not made viable for a presidential election and then toss aside until the next one comes around, it will need activist, workers, able bodies to keep the thing going.
All these new found interest in the DNC because of Obama what will happen if he does not win, will they keep fighting working, building for the next round?
I will bet anything when this is over the majority of them will not have the time, that is why so many that have spent years working for this party and now feel slighted will never accept Obama and what is being done to this party, that is why there is a major split now, so who wants to think its trivial and will blow over once Obama is chosen better think again.

If Hillary is forced out and this is a close race how do you think it makes her supporters feel or is that you really don’t think you need white blue collar workers.take this to the bank Tim ,Chris, Andrea, Keith and are all for McCain that is a fact do you really think life time republicans have changed there minds.

Stick a fork in Hillary, shes done. Theres no chance now for her, she should just be a good person and quit. She can always run next time, if she gets out now, with some dignity!

Turner must be one of those that just signed up and became a democrat just to vote for Obama, bet he has never sent one penny to the DNC in his life and will never if Obama does not win.

Obama won the nomination fair and square. He deserves it. Hillary trusted her idiot team and they let her down. She is ultimately to blame for it. But lets not forget how GREAT a campaign Axelrod and Burton ran for Obama.
Why did this take so long ? Because Obama is a flawed candidate. He very well ran a better campaign, but he is NOT the better candidate.
Hillary clinton is the better candidate.
So you had a situation where one is the better candidate, and the other has more charisma and ran a superior campaign.
So one is saying Hillary should be the nominee because she is the better leader for America.
The other is saying Obama is winning the nomination process so he should.
In the end, the way you choose the nominee is the campaign process, which Obama won.
So lets not rain on his parade.
Lets rally around Obama.

Emily, Please try to understand. You say you can live with Mccain, but you are worried about what kind of person Obama would put on the Supreme Court? Well I can tell you this..whomever it is will be a liberal and will protect womens rights, and whomever Mccain appoints will be a conservative and will take your rights away, but you decide for yourself who you “trust”.

A fighter: The fact that Obama won more caucus elections than Clinton is very important. In primaries, voters just fill in the blank, or circle a candidate. In caucuses, people give speeches, debate, and have discussions (like in a town hall meeting) decide who the best candidate is. Everytime people get together to actually talk and discuss the issues and which candidate would be best-they choose Obama.

I would rather trust McCain if Hillary’s gone.

Again , there are 2 valid arguments.
The Obama supporters keep looking at the math.
The Clinton supporters keep looking at who the better nominee is.
They are both right.
The bottom line is that Obama ran a better campaign, and he should be the nominee.
If they want the best person for the white house, they should build that into the rules. They dont.
The rules clearly state that the guy who runs the best campaign and gets the most delegates wins.
Obama did that.
Lets move on and rally around Obama.

awwww blue irish, I’m sorry you’re feeling kinda blue.
So let me get this straight….African Americans have been voting for white men all their lives….and the first time an African American candidate comes along that inspires people with a positive message (because we have had African American candidates before), voting for him somehow makes them racist? Hmmmmmm…..that statement just jumped out there with no real thought behind it huh?!

Obama is the weaker candidate. However, the dems feel that the election is so tilted in their favor in this cycle that Obama will win anyways.
If Mc Cain simply ditches the republican platform and creates a NEW republican party of new ideas and change, he can minimize many of Obama’s talking points.
If the election is about issues and Mc Cain stands on the normal Republican platform, Obama will win.
If Mc Cain simply copies most of Obamas platform, and makes it about character, obama will get CRUSHED.

How many Clinton supporters out there would vote for her in November if she ran as an independent? If you would, let her know. I’d much rather do that than vote for McCain. Of course, I’ll vote for McCain if my only other choice is the beast Obama.

Did someone say Gore? He got some of my dough in 2000 and then the nut lost the election by walking across the stage, in a big debate, toward Bush like he was about to attack. Poor GW actually looked up with a startled look. I want my money back. Gore is intelligent but spaced out.

hmm…walking across the stage toward Bush caused him to lose the election? Where were you when the Supreme Court broke the Constitution by crowning Bush? Gore won the popular vote, remember?
Anyway, Gore is smart, experienced, concerned, broadly knowledgeable, innovative, and has an “unimpeachable character.” Gee, what a relief that would be in a President. Now, his campaign managers did not do a good job in 2000. Coming in fresh in the summer or fall with the facts and message he can command…that would breathe some major league life into the Dems…and leave John McCain standing in the dust. I could go with that…easily…it’s about time he won! Finally…

blue irish, how would the dnc be abandoning Hillary.

Bruce,
Good comment. Make me want to cry either.

Here is my big problem with Hillary still in the race. She’s acting like President Bush. The Bush administration takes huge hits constantly (and rightly so) for always changing the measurement that defines success. Hillary has tried to re-define what winning or being ahead is in this primary as often as President Bush has re-defined success in Iraq. I’m not interested in that type of behavior from our President and certainly don’t want it from a nominee of my party

“The DNC takes a deaf ear b/c they know as I know, every Hillary supporter knows come November… their voting Obama.”
It ain’t happening. Dream on. Come November, we will be at home laughing watching Tim Russert explain how the Republicans wrested victory from certain defeat by helping the Democrats destroy themselves in an election they said they couldn’t lose.

I don’t think anyone should be telling Hillary to get out.I think people should be respectful that Hillary is staying in.

blue irish,
Don’t be stupid. We democrats need to unite. I have kicked and screamed for Hillary but now it’s time for us to hold hands and sing “Kum-ba-ya” and stand behind Obama. Is everyone with me? Very important you get this message.

GEEEEE imagine trying to buy the White House..This woman does not have aclue the people have spoken

Yes.
I have always argued this.
Nobody in election history has won the nomination by LOSING every major primary.
Nobody has ever lost the California , Ohio, Pennysvannia , New Jersey, Mass, and Florida primaries and WON the nomination.
But obama had a SUPERIOR campaign.
No major analyst says Obama is the better general election candidate.
It doesnt matter. Obama has the delegate lead, and the super delegates wont take it away from him.
Sure its dissapointing, but its also not fair to set out the rules where its all about delegates, then take it away from Obama.
So lets get over it, stop the whining and rally around Obama.

As to Hillary’s comment about if we had the same rules as the Republicans she would be the nominee– if we had the same rules as the Republicans we would be Republicans and sometimes Hillary gives a pretty good impression of being one– the 11 and one half million dollar “loan” rating at least half a Romney for self-help.

Two words:
pipe dream

No can do. He doesn’t deserve to be President. I don’t care about making history by voting for the first black president, or woman president for that matter. We need a real candidate, not an empty suit thats been coddled and propped up by the MSM. He is the least qualified of the remaining candidates, including Nader. If this is the direction that the Democratic party is taking, you can count me out of it.

DCVoter,
If you are the same DCVoter I know, I’m very disappointed of you.
Anyway, I’m already decided not to vote for Obama. That’s my choice.
It’s not our problem, that’s his problem he can’t unite this country.

If she takes it all the way to the convention. A convention fight would not only damage the party. It would do irreparable damage to Hillary herself. If she ever had any hope of running again in 2012 it would be gone. She would be branded as the one who divided the party and lost the election. She would be shunned by most top democrats.

@Lisa,Mack,Jack,
That DCVoter has responded to us is not the same DCVoter we know.
Don’t believe him.
Thanks

Oh before my cold one let me say that I agree with Mack.

DCVoter, I am an Obama supporter but if Hillary wants to stay in the race then she should. And if she is the nominee I will vote for her. I’m not the type to stomp my feet and take my toys and go home just because the person I supported did get the nomination. We can’t afford to have the republicans in the white house. I can’t imagine how the economy could get much worse but everyone needs to understand that it will.

Once the general happens …
and all of you who say “i am okay with voting for McCain”
Really?=
Have you even seen him on the stump? Do you know his second talking point consistently is Right to Life. Do you know he wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade and we need one more appointee and that will be done…have you seen the “liberal” justices lately and how old they are looking?
Do you realize almost all of his policies are similar to Bush with regard to the economy?
Do you realize that he can never put us back in a good light with the rest of the world with his foreign policy stance?
and the list goes on…
but you know what be mad and say “I can’t vote my conscience for Obama” but you can tell your nieces and nephews and your sons and daughters when they are sitting in the mess that this country is and may even more so become as you leave them with debt upon debt and beholden to China and saudi Arabia….
You can say when they ask you when everything went so wrong… that you voted for McCain.

Nicholas,
Good list.

Have you even seen him on the stump? Do you know his second talking point consistently is Right to Life. Do you know he wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade and we need one more appointee and that will be done…have you seen the “liberal” justices lately and how old they are looking?
Do you realize almost all of his policies are similar to Bush with regard to the economy?
Do you realize that he can never put us back in a good light with the rest of the world with his foreign policy stance?
and the list goes on…
DL, If that is a problem to you then contact our superdelegates and tell them to vote for Clinton at the Convention. IF McCain is President that only Obama supporters have themselves to blame. YOu have be warned tha Obama is unelectable

The truth is McCain doesn’t have to do anything about Roe v. Wade. Don’t you know that physicians have been taking themselves out of the abortion business?
McCain won’t touch the abortion issue with a ten foot pole.

If the Democrats tell Hillary she’s out of the running, I hope she runs independent. Then she can show the DNC that she was right and let them know where they stuff it!!!!

Yes Yes Yes CAROLYN!

Hillary is right again! Kerry knows, how could he forget? Oh, if only the Republican Party had these contrived rules to prove “fairness”! If we had theirs, life would be simple again. Alas, we don’t. We will just have to let this stupid process do what it was intended to do. Right, DNC and Superdelegates? Obama does not need any extra time to prepare for McCain and the GE. Oh, maybe he does, but Hillary doesn’t. She is tough and she is ready now! VOTE FOR MAMA, NOT OBAMA!

DCVoter, I respectfully disagree with you. We have had plenty of floor fights in the past. That is what Conventions do. They chose John Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Adlai Stevenson. The negatives this year were largely created by the Party. No state should have their votes destroyed. The Superdelegate process needs to be fixed. The skewed caucuses need to be eliminated. The Superdelegates should not try to force any candidate to get out until the Convention. The Party created this mess. Of course, the biased media is a major industry trying to pick our candidates for us in this rapid anti-fair spin they call journalism. We need to fight them.
Furthermore, if any nominee is not ready to face the opposition in November, he or she should not enter the race. Shouldn’t they currently be prepared to debate, think, and stand on their own two feet?
I am not kicking and screaming. I am still thinking of our future and the kind of leader we need. Instead of worrying about someone’s political chances in 2012, I am thinking of the knowledge, experience, and readiness of the leader we need now. I did not vote for George Bush either time, but, I did vote for Gore and Kerry. Here we are, the time is now. I wish Gore had won, because I knew he had the most knowledge, experience, and great characteristics on day one. We do not need the inexperience of Obama. We need a ready leader and qualified Senators and Representatives to fight for the good of the people.
I understand your worry, but I do not believe that Obama has enough knowledge of the issues or enough experience. We could have a big discussion on how he arrived in the delegate count, but he does not have enough, and all of the voters have not voted. Let’s let the Party hold OUR Convention after all the voters have voted. Otherwise, get rid of the stupid process. I probably agree with you on everything else.

Oketola,
I’m with you.
Thanks

DCvoter
I have a long way to go before I will support BO Hillary has to be on the ticket and even then I think thats an insult she is far more reasonable and qualfied speakign of qualifiers perhaps if BO runs and wins and pledges to serve only one term and let Hillary have it because she shouldnt have to wait 8 years to run again!

Obama is going to get CRUSHED…..
…I cant wait for Nov…. :)

Okay WE are another day closer to November and I heard more good news today than for the past four months. The energy crisis will be over by March 2009. (Gasoline will go back down to $3.50 a gallon after peaking at $4.75 a gallon in Florida) As soon as the election is over the extra profits by the oil industry will be fully invested in our new government. (Republican’s get the oil drilling in Alaska) Globe warming concerns will be greatly reduced because significant USA reduction in large vehicles. President Bush’s war will be over and the majority of troops will home. Americans in those small towns of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan will again be using natural gas rather than oil for heating. Children will be moving back into parents homes paying down credit cards. The America dollar will be back even with Euro. President McCain will be working with middle east countries to allow oil to flow more freely to China but the demand in China will also be dropping. Oil from Citgo will be flowing again because the unique approach of John McCain will be using to quickly put Bush views on the back porch. The 2008 oil and natural gas finds in Pennsylvania coupled with a mild winter will end our deep 2 year recession. Property values will stablize in Florida and investors from Great Britian will be buying properties in Florida, the rush to buy America will simply end the Bush oil profit recession. Thanks President John McCain …YOU saved America!! Hillary and Bill will be enjoying retirement they will go to St. Thomas for at least the winter months. (Megans Bay)(Bill loves to play golf there). Richard Paul Dembinsky (google me)