Clinton rejects calls to quit Democratic race (Obama said Clinton should remain in race)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CNN

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton on Saturday rejected calls by supporters of rival candidate Barack Obama to quit the Democratic presidential race, and Obama said Clinton should remain in race "as long as she wants."

"The more people get a chance to vote, the better it is for our democracy," the New York senator and former first lady told supporters at a rally in Indiana, which holds a May 6 primary.

"There are some folks saying we ought to stop these elections," she said.

"I didn't think we believed that in America. I thought we of all people knew how important it was to give everyone a chance to have their voices heard and their votes counted."



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/29/clinton.obama/?iref=mpstoryview

[Mike03]

1. Obama is such a class act. He is smarter than many of his supporters, including myself. NT

[Voltaire99]

8. Debasing yourself before politicians: unbecoming of a free citizen.

Try to remember who's the public servant and who's the served. It'll help you to be less malleable in plutocrats' hands.

[PSPS]

13. Indeed!

Well put!

[The Stranger]

21. Admiring the leading candidate's gravitas and humility is "debasing oneself."

:wtf:

[PSPS]

24. Admiration is one thing. Adoration is quite another.

[Demeter]

2. She'll Probably Quit to Show Her Independence and 3rd Way, then

Nice way to do a head fake!

[napi21]

3. I think she should stay until the lst of the primary voting is done.

I understand that will be June 3rd. I lived in 4 different States, and my vote NEVER MATTERED until this year! It was always too late in the election season, and the candidate had already been chosen. I HATED YHAT! Even if my candidate won, I felt left out. That's only 2 months from now, and the voters in those states deserve to be heard from, and in many cases for the FIRST TIME in their lives in a primary. I know some of my relatives in Pgh. Pa. are all excited because even though they are in their 50's, this is the FIRST TIME Pa. primary votes will maybe matter!

[Freedom Train]

22. I hear ya!

Good on Obama, and Hillary too! Now that Obama has stated that Hillary should stay in, will the calls to the contrary from his most rabid supporters cease? I'd hope so, but I wouldn't count on it. Let's not have the most rabid supporters of either candidate decide this for us. Let the primaries run their course and let everybody have a say. Let Pennsylvania matter for one single f*cking time! My parents are even older than your relatives, and the last time their primary votes mattered at all was in '76. Except it really didn't matter then either since they both voted for Udall... ;)

Nice avatar btw!

[susankh4]

4. I am happy to see our two candidates

both defending the right of the people to vote!

Brava to Sens. Clinton & Obama!!

[Clear Blue Sky]

5. She won't quit. Not in the nature of the Clintons to quit.

[jpertello]

6. I wonder if the shoe were on the other foot

if Hillary would have been so gracious to Obama. Something tells me no.

[Voltaire99]

7. Bill Clinton on the race: "We just need to relax and let this happen."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/us/politics/30obama.html?ref=politics

Sure, sure, Big Dawg.

Funny, there is a string of women who could swear he said the same thing to them.

[Zhade]

9. It's already happened. She cannot win. She's done.

Time for her to give up her pointless quest - it's not happening for her.

[PSPS]

14. "What" has already happened? Obama can't "win" either. Is he also "done?"

It's somewhat disturbing to see wild-eyed Obama zealots (or wild-eyed zealots of any candidate for that matter) jumping up and down, demanding that the race be ended early when neither candidate can win an outright majority of delegates and many contests remain.

Let's talk again in May.

[EFerrari]

16. Sure. Make note of McCain's number today and get back to me in May

after Clinton has dragged this party through her endless ego.

[Zhade]

18. Not a supporter, so you're already wrong off the bat.

It's a simple fact that clinton cannot win - and, being a bald-faced liar (see Tuzla), I am very happy to point this out at every opportunity. I don't have to support Obama to oppose her.

[PSPS]

25. It's also a "simple fact" that Obama "cannot win."

It's a simple fact that clinton cannot win

Again, the same can be said for Obama. So what's the point?

and, being a bald-faced liar (see Tuzla), I am very happy to point this out at every opportunity.

I'm sure Hannity, Limbaugh, Rove and McCain appreciate your efforts to propagate this smear.

I don't have to support Obama to oppose her.

You've got that right! I can think of only one category of person who would oppose a democrat, so this helps clarifies things.

[Zhade]

27. She lied. That's undeniable. Your denial is delusional.

Video PROVES SHE LIED. Get the fuck over it.

[IndianaGreen]

10. Clinton Vows To Stay in Race To Convention (WaPo)

To what level is Hillary prepared to turn the Denver Convention into a rerun of the 1968 Chicago Convention, which would lead to McCain winning in November?

Clinton Vows To Stay in Race To Convention

She Stresses Finding Solution On Michigan, Florida Votes

By Perry Bacon Jr. and Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, March 30, 2008; Page A01

NEW ALBANY, Ind., March 29 -- In her most definitive comments to date on the subject, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sought Saturday to put to rest any notion that she will drop out of the presidential race, pledging in an interview to not only compete in all the remaining primaries but also continue until there is a resolution of the disqualified results in Florida and Michigan.

A day after Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean urged the candidates to end the race by July 1, Clinton defied that call by declaring that she will take her campaign all the way to the Aug. 25-28 convention if necessary, potentially setting up the prolonged and divisive contest that party leaders are increasingly anxious to avoid.

"I know there are some people who want to shut this down and I think they are wrong," Clinton said in an interview during a campaign stop here Saturday. "I have no intention of stopping until we finish what we started and until we see what happens in the next 10 contests and until we resolve Florida and Michigan. And if we don't resolve it, we'll resolve it at the convention -- that's what credentials committees are for.

"We cannot go forward until Florida and Michigan are taken care of, otherwise the eventual nominee will not have the legitimacy that I think will haunt us," said the senator from New York.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/29/AR2008032901909.html?hpid=topnews

I will point out that a federal judge ruled this week that the Michigan primary was unconstitutional!

[AdHocSolver]

19. The only logic to Clinton's pushing for a convention fight is to enable McCain to win in the GE.

She plans to make the convention so divisive that the voters will be turned off and the Republicans will be able to steal another election.

Hillary Clinton has provided America with enough evidence that she doesn't give a damn about the Democratic Party or the country. So far, a majority of Americans have already voted against Clinton, and it appears that this is going to be the case by the time of the convention. Yet the quote above implies that she is going to ignore the will of the people to get the nomination.

Clinton's message to America: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...and you ain't seen nothing yet"

If the party leaders cannot rein in her scorched earth campaign, then this is the end of the Democratic Party.

Her campaign is no longer merely an attempt to win the nomination. It has become a campaign of vindictiveness. She thinks the country owes her the presidency. She is delusional. She is going to cost the party the presidency and Congress.

This country will not survive another four years of Republican rule. It may already be too late to prevent the U.S. from becoming a "banana republic".

[JeanGrey]

11. We don't want to stop the elections Hllary we just want to get rid

of YOU.

[nankerphelge]

12. Not impressed.

Quit now and save some shred of credibility.

[bemildred]

15. Gluttons for punishment. nt

[Fearless]

17. Hillary Clinton: Please quit. It's over. Go be governor of NY next. Try again in 8 years.

[snot]

20. Where has she been on investigation into electronic election fraud?

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[olandug]

26. Obama’s Bible Study Class

James Meeks – an Illinois state senator, pastor of one of the largest churches in the state and a declared Spiritual Adviser for Obama – came under fire for comments rebroadcast last week calling white American mayors "slave masters" and referring to black preachers and politicians who "protect" the "white man" as "house n-ggers."

"We don't have slave masters, we got mayors," Meeks said in an August 2006 sermon broadcast on a Chicago community television channel.
Aside from his senatorial duties, Meeks is an Illinois Superdelegate pledged to Obama and also presides over Salem Baptist Church, described as the largest church in Illinois.


In 2006, Meeks informed his church during a sermon he may run for Illinois governor. He was recorded telling the mostly black congregation any "white Christian" who doesn't vote for him is a "racist."

Meeks is also notorious for his strong anti-homosexual platform, although Obama is campaigning for the "gay" vote. Meeks has routinely voted against pro-homosexual legislation and has been quoted during sermons referring to same-sex attraction "an evil sickness."

Obama told the Sun-Times that he attends Meeks' Salem Baptist Church for Wednesday night Bible study.

According to Illinois State Board of Elections records, Rezko's businesses, Rezmar Corp. and Rezko Concession, contributed to Meeks' campaign funds.