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Posted on Jun 4, 2008
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Hillary Clinton will end her race for the presidency on Saturday, ABC News reports. After Barack Obama essentially clinched the nomination Tuesday, Clinton congratulated him but did not concede and asked supporters to visit her Web site to “share [their] thoughts” on the direction of her campaign.

Update from the BBC: “Earlier, it had been announced that the event would be held on Friday, but Mr Wolfson said it had been delayed a day ‘to accommodate more of Senator Clinton’s supporters who want to attend’.”


ABC News:

Sen. Hillary Clinton will hold an event with supporters by Friday, likely ending her historic bid for the White House and ceding the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama, ABC News has learned.

Clinton’s decision to leave the race ends a long, often bitter battle for the right to challenge Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the general election.

Obama, D-Ill., who claimed victory after clinching the necessary delegates on Tuesday, will be the nation’s first African American running with the nomination of one of the country’s two major political parties.

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By cyrena, June 5, 2008 at 10:24 am Link to this comment

Seriously. I don’t know how she does it. I USED to be able to do that, but then I USED to be able to consume copious amounts of alcohol as well. But gee..those days are WAYYYY long gone!

It’s all I can do now to pull the occasional 24 hour stint before a deadline, and not without the help of pots of coffee and a supply of Super Crusade Senior Vitamins! And if it wasn’t for the Internetand this artifical brain of a hard drive, I wouldn’t even TRY! I mean, all that jettin’ around would wipe me out. Maybe she goes through a canister or two of the airplane oxygen. (I had former co-workers who used to do that…they claimed it cured their hangovers..I never tried it).

Or, maybe she DOES rely on supplements of the more prescriptive nature. That would help explain the crazy.

Remember that woman Ms. Harris, that was the long time paramour of that weight doctor? I can’t remember her first name right now, though it will come to me. Anyway, in addition to do a whole bunch of HIS work, (Dr. Stillman) she was also a head mistress at that fancy school. And, come to find out, he’d been giving her some sort of ‘energy’ shots for years, which is how I guess she was able to be such a powerhouse.

But then eventually, she just shot him dead. Poor woman.

It’s just not worth it.

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By Gmonst, June 5, 2008 at 10:03 am Link to this comment

I will believe it when I see it.  There has been too much misinformation out of the Clinton camp for me to believe this story.  Why wait?  Usually people concede on the night they loose or at least the next day.  Why wait 5 days and make a preplanned concession speech?  Why the need for a big rally to concede?  I think she is up to something.  My fear is that she is going to pull a Lieberman move and announce her run as an independent.  I wouldn’t put it past her, she certainly has enough ego and self-regard to think she could win, and we know she feels entitled.  Hillary is starting to seem like the villain from a horror movie, she just won’t go away, and their is always one last frightening lurch.

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By Robert, June 5, 2008 at 9:07 am Link to this comment
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For months the message has been hammered into our heads that Hillary is the most professional, the most experienced, and the most capable and Obama is just the opposite.  However, time and time again Clinton has demonstrated that she is devious, mean spirited, and ungracious. 
Hillary’s Tuesday night speech confirms this opinion right from the initial announcement by Terry McAuliffe’s that she will be the next President to her
self centered non-concession concession speech.  How could a person be President who demonstrated in front of millions of people that she can’t concede, she can’t tolerate losing, and she can’t suppress her own ambitions for the betterment of the party and the country. 
In my opinion, she has not only wreaked her future political capital, she has
ruined the political legacy that she and her husband worked so hard to establish.

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By Louise, June 5, 2008 at 6:52 am Link to this comment

I heard an interesting comment on BBC last night,

“One generally concedes victory to the opponent before one tells the opponent they want to be their running mate.”

Schizoid.

The happy go lucky attitude of we are WE, therefore there is no other anything, makes me wonder ...
When Hillary belted down that shot followed by the beer chaser, was that indicative of behavior on the campaign trail in general. I mean, not being a steady drinker, had I tried that for PR reasons I probably would have thrown up!

Or become instantly and obviously drunk.

Steady drinking, like steady drug use, even legal drugs can make people a little weird. Maybe that habit goes a long way to explaining a lot of the weirdness we see in our politico leaders.

[Not to mention mainstreammedia]

Too many cocktail parties? smile

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By Sang Ze, June 5, 2008 at 6:48 am Link to this comment
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Want to know what Clinton is like? On her website, where you are asked to comment on her failed candidacy, the message has already been written for you, stating that you still support her. Shades of “1984.”

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By cyrena, June 5, 2008 at 3:16 am Link to this comment

This is good Aegrus..it’s important to be wrong first. smile

I see something possibly more sinister to it, but it’s probably because I need a break from trying to understand the mentality of these things.

I’ve come to decide that they’ve done MOST of their damage by putting out unverified information, and/or by twisting non-information into something that it isn’t.

The obvious outcome is some measure of chaos, and certain operations thrive as a result. So, it makes me wonder if this chaos and drama isn’t intentional.

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By jackpine savage, June 4, 2008 at 9:30 pm Link to this comment

Is it finally over?  It can’t really be over; it’s only June and everyone was having so much fun wasting time, energy and money on this nonsensical, bitter end bullshit.

And what about “taking it to Denver”?  Does this mean we’ll be deprived of angry Clinton supporters throwing bottles at cops and burning cars?  I think that would be far more cathartic than voting for McCain…

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By Aegrus, June 4, 2008 at 6:55 pm Link to this comment

I’m so tired of the drama! She’s exiting - no she’s not, she’s going to end it on Friday - WE don’t know!

Every time someone gets a piece of information, they run to the front of the line with it before verifying because it’s important to be wrong first!

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By i,Q, June 4, 2008 at 6:09 pm Link to this comment

But when are they going to put Terry McAuliffe out of his misery?

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