O'Donnell: Senior Clinton campaign official says Clinton out by June 15

[featherman]

From my personal prospective, all credit to Senator Clinton for seeing this through to the end. I am one of those who believes this tough fight between two heavyweights has been good for the party (now 41-42% of the electorate compared to 27% GOP) and has been a good "toughening" process for our nominee to be, Senator Obama.

That being said this is from an article by Lawrence O'Donnell who claims to have inside knowledge from the Clinton campaign. Take it for what it's worth.


"Political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell reported before the West Virginia primary that a senior Clinton campaign official had told him Hillary Clinton would be dropping out of the president race by June 15.

Now, even following Clinton's solid victory in West Virginia, O'Donnell says he has no reason to change what he said. "Listen to Hillary Clinton's speech last night," he told CNN's Kyra Phillips. "It was a victory speech, but if you read the right lines, you can see that it was actually her concession speech about where this is going. Lines that you never heard before May in Clinton's speeches."

O'Donnell pointed to phrases like "I deeply admire Senator Obama" and "I will work my heart out for the nominee."

"This campaign understands reality," he emphasized "They know where it's going. She will be supporting Senator Obama by June 15."

More at the link:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Lawrence_ODonnell_Clinton_victory_speech_actually_0514.html

[99th_Monkey]

1. I think Edwards praise of HIllary before endorsing Obama was beating the "Dem UNITY" drum

for all to hear ... I expect (or at least fervently hope) to see much more of this in the coming weeks.

It was interesting though, that Edward's voice cracked several times during his HIllary praising, which
I took to mean the words didn't come out all that easily. They were politically necessary words to be
spoken, and most seemed to understand that. I was embarrassed to hear the "boo"s in the background
though, and hope Obama supporters can get over their peevishness ASAP as Obama wraps up the nomination.

[Cha]

2. Brwawawawawawawaaaaaaa

Now we get to hear how much hilary undertands reality..

"This campaign understands reality," he emphasized "They know where it's going. She will be supporting Senator Obama by June 15."

[wileedog]

3. Waste of a month and millions of dollars

Stupid

[jsmirman]

5. Did it break anyone else's heart to hear about the kid selling his stuff?

I mean, what's that for? To help pay off a multi-multi millionaire's debt that she ran up running her campaign on a long trip to nowhere?

The Clintons will be fine financially after this. Will that kid see another bike?

[Window]

8. I would like to believe that the campaign gave the money back to his parents,

and he will get a new and better bike and some games.

[mystieus]

4. O'Donnell is a fool, he said sources told him after NC she would drop out before WV.

He has been saying that after every primary since Texas/Ohio.

[VolcanoJen]

6. Ummm, O'Donnell? That's not exactly a scoop.

In fact, it's kind of a "no duh."

[dailykoff]

7. What year?

Anybody catch it?

[hendo]

9. I would bet she doesn't leave until she gets forced out at the convention n/t