Is this the way she wanted to go out?

[supernova]

Seriously.

24 hours later and I'm still trying to make sense out of that comment.

It didn't serve any purpose other than to shock and dismay. And I disagree that she didn't know that the "A" word would be such an emotionally loaded word. Regardless of what her motives were, it's out there in the political ether now. And funnily enough, it wasn't the GOP who said it. Sorry to say.

The only other thing I can see is that since Hillary is behind now, with no hope of catching up, she wanted to go out with a bang. No, not the way you might think. I think she really couldn't bring herself to say "I'm dropping out." That's too hard for her, maybe. So, instead she sabatoges herself by saying something so completely outrageous that we all ("we" the public) call for her to quit. We remove the responsibility for quitting from her by doing it for her.

Disclaimer: I'm an ex Kucinich/Edwards supporter and now Obama supporter. However I have never hated Hillary and certainly didn't begrudge her running. But this is beyond the pale for me.

[DJ13]

1. If she can force the SD's to push her out, she gets to claim victimhood

I think thats a part of her strategy at this point.

[slinkerwink]

3. exactly, the victimhood part is to make her supporters angry enough to stay home in Nov

[supernova]

4. MIght be the result

in the end of they don't get this worked out before the convention is over with.

But I wonder if she's really thinking about them here. If she's worked all her life for this moment, this run, and here comes a younger, talented charismatic guy to take it all away... sounding very much like a younger version of Bil and Hill, well, it's not hard to see the jealousy.

[WeDidIt]

2. She won't get out

ANYTHING could happen between now and the first vote at the convention <wink wink nudge nudge>.

[supernova]

5. That's just it

I think she's asking us to tell her to quit.

[Bluerthanblue]

6. I don't think "going out"

was anywhere in her thinking. I honestly don't- and I think that is a big part of what is happening with her.

This 'contest' means more to her than most people realize- (IMO)

I fear for her personal well being.

She's just as human as anyone is, and this is something she is not able to process-

(And I too am an Obama supporter- but beyond that- we are all just human beings )

peace~
blu

[eleny]

7. Kinder, gentler Hillary today

I just watched her on CNN speaking in Brookings, South Dakota. She's changed her tone. I'm listening to the most soft spoken Hillary of the campaign season. She found herself an attitude adjustment since yesterday.

[Yael]

9. She didn't have a choice

[Yael]

8. A candidate left hanging in the air that they are staying in the race

in case of assassination.

Not suspending their campaign, but aggressively keeping the party divisions alive in case of an assassination.

She isn't qualified to be prom queen much less the leader of this nation.

It goes to the core of her belief system and the core of her being.

It had been discussed within her inner circle -- it came off her lips too easily to have been a 'new thought'.

Rule nothing out. Anything to win.

[cbc5g]

10. Classic Clinton tactics..

Go on the offensive and attack and smear...then the next day appear innocent, kind , gentle and nice.