Hillary to 'Suspend' Not Concede?

Too bad you didn't beat them when the math didn't add up.

I hope for her sake and the sake of the party this is true. I heard an interesting snippet of Bill Clinton at an event today saying "This might be the last campaign appearance I ever make."

ENOUGH!!!!!!

Some of you want to lose in November, don't you? Keep digging.

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It was only a matter of time. Now it's up to Obama. How is he going to unite the party? Who will his running mate be? It's now his to lose.

Chuck Hagel??? Are you crazy?

Here are some of his positions:
* Voted YES on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 200
* Voted YES on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion. (Mar 200
* Voted YES on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions. (Oct 2007)
* Voted NO on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
* Voted YES on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)
* Voted NO on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
* Voted YES on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime. (Mar 2004)
* Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions except for maternal life. (Mar 2003)
* Voted YES on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
* Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
* Voted YES on banning human cloning. (Feb 199
* Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
* Rated 100% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-life stance (190 members). (Dec 2006)
* Voted YES on recommending Constitutional ban on flag desecration. (Jun 2006)
* Voted NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (Jun 2002)
* Voted YES on loosening restrictions on cell phone wiretapping. (Oct 2001)
* Voted NO on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. (Jun 2000)
* Voted NO on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities & women. (Mar 199
* Voted YES on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business. (Oct 1997)
* Supports anti-flag desecration amendment. (Mar 2001)
* Rated 60% by the ACLU, indicating a mixed civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)
* Rated 0% by the HRC, indicating an anti-gay-rights stance. (Dec 2006)
* Rated 11% by the NAACP, indicating an anti-affirmative-action stance. (Dec 2006)

Updated On: 6/2/08 at 06:32 PM

I was going to start another thread, but I'll post here.

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"On today's This Week, Donna Brazile, fresh from yesterday's DNC Rules and Bylaws Tango at the Marriott Wardman Park, broke a little bit of a bombshell whilst paneling. According to Brazile, the Obama campaign had enough votes to get a fifty-fifty split of the Michigan delegation, a result that would have greatly advantaged the Obama campaign and minimized the delegate gains Clinton garnered from Florida. However, the Obama camp passed on pulling the trigger on that deal in favor of the less favorable 69-59 split that the Michigan delegation was proposing.

Brazile, who was taken aback at the lack of effort made by the Clinton campaign to "cut a deal" or otherwise "come to the uncommitted superdelegates" in the room, said: "He also could have won on a crucial vote on this Michigan proposal to split the delegation 50-50. And rather than cause a ruckus they gave in. He had the votes. and the Clinton campaign never took the olive branch."

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Actually, I can't really figure out what olive branch the Obama camp was offering, but it says something about Obama that he didn't push the vote when he would have won. Well, it also meant that he prevented further outrage from Clinton supporters...


Huffington Post - Clinton Camp Refused Obama Camp's Olive Branch

Updated On: 6/2/08 at 06:57 PM

At this point, Hillary supporters say it has to be Hillary and Obama supporters say it has to be anybody BUT Hillary.

I'll refrain from saying anything until we see what she says tomorrow evening and what he says when he reaches 2118--which may very well be tomorrow evening as well--just in time to preempt her speech!

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I think the offer must be made. It's an unprecedented primary season, with a neck and neck race. The rancor will subside. And they'd stand to achieve a landslide with record voter turnout, investment of every part of the Democratic base. I'm gooey enough at the center to want to see the two of them up there, all of us cheering a black man and a woman uniting their coalitions and everyone. Though it's a sentimental fantasy thru rose colored glasses, it still moves me to think of them running and winning, and I still believe Obama knows it's an almost immediate rancor-ender. People can be bitter she's not at the top of the ticket, or disappointed that Obama opted to chose her under duress. But that will pass if they take off together. They are both brilliant, and rumor has it, liked one another alot before the competition. Yes, the dream ticket is a sentimental, maybe naive concept, but it's a thrilling image now as it was 4 or 5 months ago. Nothing that's happened on the trail has killed the fantasy -- for me anyway.

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Updated On: 6/2/08 at 07:37 PM

Hillary's speech tomorrow night:
Hillary's speech

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Obama will LOSE in November without Hillary.

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If he can beat her, he can take the general.

Not true. In a primary, you only have to get the votes of fellow Democrats, all in some way liberal and progressive. In the General, you have to win Democrats AND Republicans, which means you must run on what Europeans refer to as a "center-right coalition."

Obama will be positioned by McCain as a radical leftist.

Hillary couldn't use the opposition research against Obama--it would have backfired on her. The Republican 527s, however, are waiting to air their commercials and they're going to be crude, vulgar, ugly and bloody.

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ENOUGH!!!!!!

Some of you want to lose in November, don't you? Keep digging.

Why are you yelling at us when Hillary is the one doing everything she can to damage not only the party, but the country's future.