[Deleted. Let's not call her a name based on misogynistic attitudes. You only diminish yourself-Sitemonitor]
She's history, say, BY, BY Hillary !!

This is about two days too late. Should have happened last night.

So, it's Obama vs. McCain.

The question is, how will Americans see them?

IMO, the vote will be close.

But also IMO, the real question is, who do the deep money guys want to be president.

I believe the deep money guys will take either candidate.

The first comment says it all about this cycle.

You don't have the Clintons to hate anymore .

Good luck getting those 18 million you lost due to your hate.

She should run as an Independent because both parties and both candidates suck.

I'm a resolute Obama supporter and not particularly fond of Hillary, but let's give her some credit here for finally doing the right thing. And it ain't easy running for the presidency.

Its about time....

But you know its not even close to over. This talk about the VP is going to really back Obama into a corner if Clinton behaves the same way she did during the primary.. If Obama picks anyone but Clinton, her supporters are going to be screaming about how unfair he is. If he picks a man, they'll scream sexism.. If he picks someone established or wealthy they'll accuse him of being an elitist...

Clinton will have to make it absolutely perfectly clear that shes ok with his pick, whoever that ends up behind.. any behind the scenes talk about how she got pushed out and her people will be whining and starting a fuss all the way up to November

Because Bill Clinton will not let his library be vetted, Hillary will not be asked to be VP. The Clinton's are done!!!

watching countdown right now, and apparantly this was not hillary's decision on her own. apparantly according to howard fineman, it was CLINTON strategists who called on her senate backers to strongly convince her to back out. she was also called upon by her backers to release them from their committments to her so that they all could move forward. there is something absolutely scary in that. hillary clinton was aparantly actually going to take this all the way to denver. very sad.

reuters is now reporting the story and including that she will indeed endorce obama.

Give her credit? Uh, it was inevitable; just glad she finally came to grips with reality -- or did she make her $11 million back from donations?

Kent Weed @ 9:

I'm a resolute Obama supporter and not particularly fond of Hillary, but let's give her some credit here for finally doing the right thing. And it ain't easy running for the presidency.

Okay, I'm no fan of the Clintons either but do references to witches really help? Get real folks. There's still a Republican in the White House, and they have control of Homeland Security. They can change those color codes at will and scare the sh*t out of the American people right up to election day. I suspect we'll be at "Code Red" by November 1.

Anybody who thinks this is going to be a cake-walk is hallucinating. Stop the name-calling.

Hopefully I can see, and hear, much less of this person from now on.

Her concession speech must be a barn burner.
She must COMPLETELY convey her full support of Obama.

Then she must apoligize for her support of McCain.

I came into this election with no pre-conceived idea
of who she was...I left my mind open.
Then she "shrewdly" used the TIRED OLD POLITICAL CHICANERY
to which we have become so accustomed (and grown so sick of).

Her legacy (not to mention her soul) is on the line.

scott @ 23:

Her concession speech must be a barn burner.
She must COMPLETELY convey her full support of Obama.

Then she must apoligize for her support of McCain.

I came into this election with no pre-conceived idea
of who she was...I left my mind open.
Then she "shrewdly" used the TIRED OLD POLITICAL CHICANERY
to which we have become so accustomed (and grown so sick of).

Her legacy (not to mention her soul) is on the line.

You're joking, right? She'll make a speech, throw her support to Obama. End of story. Let it go.

getalife @ 7:

The first comment says it all about this cycle.

You don't have the Clintons to hate anymore .

Good luck getting those 18 million you lost due to your hate.

She should run as an Independent because both parties and both candidates suck.

If she's the better, smarter, more savvy and qualified candidate - then why the heck did she lose? If she has such a superior character - then why didn't she bow out gracefully before now... rather than continue to use and manipulate her support?

Why go independent now, why didn't she do that earlier???

Spare me... and ask her to spare us the horror that is to come

Man, what I coulda done with the $300,000,000 she blew! And to think she spent $40mil that she doesn't even HAVE!

Hate should be reserved for the worst of humanity: G.W.Bush, D.Cheney, and Hitler.

Do either Clinton or Obama deserve to be lumped with the above group of war criminals and murderers?

I would like to hear the worst of the worst that both candidates have done (provide proof) and if those actions are not worthy of the hatred that you keep crusading for, you people need to STFU and get with the program. Come on, Damnit!!! We need to come together and win this thing!!!

I hope that now we can move forward and keep McBush from getting into the Whitehouse....and that we can end 8 long years of Darkness...we are one step closer to Unity...thanks for posting this...

more breaking quotes on countdown... sounds good...
sounds reasonable and logical and beneficial, to all...

thank you, hillary... thank you!

we need EVERYbody's help to clean up this MESS!

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getalife @ 7:

The first comment says it all about this cycle.

You don't have the Clintons to hate anymore .

Good luck getting those 18 million you lost due to your hate.

She should run as an Independent because both parties and both candidates suck.

Why do I picture a child with hards crossed, foot tapping and sulky look on there face.

I am so tired of the drama queens. Give them a nap.

TZ @ 10:

BTW to all bitter Hillary backers (assuming you are not in fact Rush's dittoheads) the Supreme Court is also unfortunately part of elections, since politicizing the court is also a fact of life.

Yo! Birdbrain who's clever vote on cloture allowed 'Machine Gun' Sammy Alito onto the Court?

Don't know?

Typical Oamacan low-info chump.

Now Let's Take back this Country!!!

ya...lets do it when no one is watching

wonder if that crazy lady from manhattan will be there

Karen @ 38:

At the risk of sounding entirely self aggrandizing, I warned in 2004 that picking Kerry's "war hero" status did not make him immune to Republican smears, that Dean's campaigning style was less complacent and more strategic than Kerry's, and that Kerry could very easily lose. Long before Edwards dropped out this year, I noted that I didn't like the way the election was headed -- that I foresaw the media propelling, aggravating and exaggerating nothing but a prolonged war between Obama and Clinton, while simultaneously trying to resurrect the image of Maverick McCain. I also forecast that because neither Obama nor Clinton would have an outright majority of pledged delegates after all the primary contests were finished, Sen. Clinton would then make one last appeal to the superdelegates no matter what the count, and concede only later if she could not convince them to side with her at the convention.

Not that I'm always right or anything (I'm most certainly not), but let me offer one little bit of advice from someone who's played the professional political operative game a bit.........

Gary @ 4:

Ding Dong the witch is gone.

Chuck @ 1:

[Deleted. Let's not call her a name based on misogynistic attitudes. You only diminish yourself-Sitemonitor]
She's history, say, BY, BY Hillary !!

Obama supporters: Please stop this. Now that Sen. Obama has clinched the nomination, you have a very important and very difficult responsibility -- not to gloat. Whatever your feelings about Sen. Clinton and her legion of supporters, you must sacrifice your bragging rights for the sake of beating Republicans in November. Don't mention anymore how you feel Sen. Clinton had behaved. Act like all is forgiven, or never even happened. Take the high road, even if painful. Even if Sen. Clinton's supporters continue to offend you, turn the other cheek, and simply welcome them wholeheartedly into your efforts to oust the GOP from the White House. Nothing good can come from prolonging this fight past Clinton's concession.

I realize I'm being condescending. I realize you might find my words annoying and frustrating. You might even consider them unfair to you. Perhaps they are. But you must follow the very admonition you offer Sen. Clinton, to subordinate your own sense of righteousness for the good of the party. This election is one we must win.

Thank you for putting up with me.

Watch the response to this pragmatic and well thought comment.

It will be ugly.

Peter Hollman @ 24:

so let me see if i have this straight....

many fanatical Hillary supporters would rather vote for McCain than Obama...

never mind the fact that most objectve observers would say that Obama ran his campaign on the higher road...

but i have just a few questions...

would you really vote to overturn Roe v Wade???

would you really vote for an all Republican supreme court???

do you know that FOUR justices will likely be placed by the next president???

and lastly...

are you people out of your mind ????

you should be praying for an Obama presidency....

honestly, if you want a female president someday....then pray that roe is overturned

nothing will bring women out to vote more than the fact that state legislatures and the congress could move to make abortion illegal

and trust me, the repugs dont want roe overturned....takes a huge cut out of their talking points

even with bush and the repugs in power, there wasnt move one to overturn roe

ashton @ 49:

Chris Gamble @ 47:

Is it me or are there a ton of Obamaniacs who are overly sensitive to anything Clinton does?

She could of done anything yesterday and there would still be people bashing. She unlike the haters will actually work hard to get a Obama in office.

Again with the haters. When things don't work out for you, everyone hates you.

will she and hubby support obama the way they supported kerry?

if so, i hope they both stay home

sharkcellar @ 51:

You vituperative Clinton haters need to give it a rest. Get a girl/boyfriend or something. I'm voting for Obama but the disgusting juvenile comments by some of you make all of us look bad. But then again, maybe this is intentional. Perhaps you fools are simply repug trolls who are simply doing it on purpose, I don't know. Either way, say something relevant or just STFU.

Now,
David Gregory sure looks like an ape doesn't he?

It is good to see that you rose above the "disgusting juvenile comments."

I predict a long, hot summer...

I was NEVER a Hillary hater.
Until she said that McCain would be a better president than Obama.
She lost me there.

Anyway, it's over.
No hard feelings (not very much).

All of you haters don't realized that this was a win-win situation. They are both extraordinary people; they would both be many, many times over better president that McCain. Why continue with the hate?

You know...I just wanna apologize to every Obama supporter here if anything I've said has given offense. I started out behind Edwards and was not happy when he did the El Foldo. But...

We are were we are and.....

Well, in the spirit of 'reaching out...'

Here's an Obama supporter, quiet an enthusiastic one I might add, to speak to us.

Now...

Who here, is willing to join his posse? Any takers?

Now, Now. I'm an Obama supporter, but the days of taking shots at the person in the Democratic Primary you don't support are over. Let's get it together. We have to. Only one could be the nominee, and that is set. No sniping at Hillary. A snipe at Hillary is a vote for McBush. No one wants that. If Clinton or Obama did something you didn't like, it's water under the bridge. It does not matter now. Those differences and slights are so small compared to what damage the repubes could do in the next four years if McBush is elected. If those two didn't play hardball then they would not be able to stand up to the swiftboating and character attacks that Rove & Co are going to aim at our nominee.

Let's get on with defeating McBush and Rove.

SR @ 64:

I'm an Obama backer and I was really getting PO'd at Hillary the last couple months, but this announcement gives me hope that she might turn around and do the right thing. You just never know how stuff like this will play out.

Er..."right thing" = backing Obama whole-heartedly from now until the GE.

I support Obama, but it is not all that difficult to understand why Hillary was unwilling to give up. She came very close and she has a lot of supporters. Campaigns can get ugly. Let's get together, forgive the mistakes and drive the Republicans out of public office. They belong in the corporate boardrooms coniving to steal our money instead of government chambers coniving to steal our money.

A.Citizen @ 61:

You know...I just wanna apologize to every Obama supporter here if anything I've said has given offense. I started out behind Edwards and was not happy when he did the El Foldo. But...

We are were we are and.....

Well, in the spirit of 'reaching out...'

Here's an Obama supporter, quiet an enthusiastic one I might add, to speak to us.

But you can find that exact same thing on the Clinton side. People need to take a deep breath and accept one fact, you can find a lot of morons on the internet and highlighted on youtube. They don't represent anyone but themselves. To think that they represent any but themselves is just silly.

Just because one idiot calls Clinton the b-word or whatever their limited vocabulary allows, does not mean that all those who supported Obama hate Clinton. The idiot is just speaking for himself/herself/itself and usually not very well. Preferring one over the other does not indicate hate. I don't recall anyone in the Pepsi Challenge of the 90's being overly dramatic and referring to people as the Coke or Pepsi haters.

I am an Independent and I watch all of this in utter amazement. Lots of drama, lots of anecdotes and little else.

uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 45:

ya...lets do it when no one is watching

wonder if that crazy lady from manhattan will be there

sometimes i think maybe h-a-r-r-i-e-t c-h-r-i-s-t-i-a-n helped to show hillary the light...

if so, thank you, harriet... and please get help...

Karen @ 38:

At the risk of sounding entirely self aggrandizing, I warned in 2004 that picking Kerry's "war hero" status did not make him immune to Republican smears, that Dean's campaigning style was less complacent and more strategic than Kerry's, and that Kerry could very easily lose. Long before Edwards dropped out this year, I noted that I didn't like the way the election was headed -- that I foresaw the media propelling, aggravating and exaggerating nothing but a prolonged war between Obama and Clinton, while simultaneously trying to resurrect the image of Maverick McCain. I also forecast that because neither Obama nor Clinton would have an outright majority of pledged delegates after all the primary contests were finished, Sen. Clinton would then make one last appeal to the superdelegates no matter what the count, and concede only later if she could not convince them to side with her at the convention.

Not that I'm always right or anything (I'm most certainly not), but let me offer one little bit of advice from someone who's played the professional political operative game a bit.........

Gary @ 4:

Ding Dong the witch is gone.

Chuck @ 1:

[Deleted. Let's not call her a name based on misogynistic attitudes. You only diminish yourself-Sitemonitor]
She's history, say, BY, BY Hillary !!

Obama supporters: Please stop this. Now that Sen. Obama has clinched the nomination, you have a very important and very difficult responsibility -- not to gloat. Whatever your feelings about Sen. Clinton and her legion of supporters, you must sacrifice your bragging rights for the sake of beating Republicans in November. Don't mention anymore how you feel Sen. Clinton had behaved. Act like all is forgiven, or never even happened. Take the high road, even if painful. Even if Sen. Clinton's supporters continue to offend you, turn the other cheek, and simply welcome them wholeheartedly into your efforts to oust the GOP from the White House. Nothing good can come from prolonging this fight past Clinton's concession.

I realize I'm being condescending. I realize you might find my words annoying and frustrating. You might even consider them unfair to you. Perhaps they are. But you must follow the very admonition you offer Sen. Clinton, to subordinate your own sense of righteousness for the good of the party. This election is one we must win.

Thank you for putting up with me.

Karen I completely agree with you. We democrats need Hillary and her supporters to win the big prize. I say to Obama supporters; Act like Obama in this. Show respect and reach out. It has been a difficult race. I, like you, wanted Obama to win. We got what we wanted but at this time there is need to not rub any noses in it. Nothing good can come from it. Hold on to your venom until November and we can cut loose on McAsshole and not have to stop for years. Do the right…er… correct thing here. Really!

In other news: Pink Ponies to Fly out of Obama's Ass on "Meet the Press" Sunday... stay tuned!

$10 American says her "concession" will be that she has no objection, in principle, to Barack Obama running for president.

Welcome back x. I saw your post the other day but you were gone by the time I got to the thread. Honeymoon was a blast I hope.

Mike @ 75:

In other news: Pink Ponies to Fly out of Obama's Ass on "Meet the Press" Sunday... stay tuned!

Spoken like a true anal orifice.

xoites defends Constitution @ 80:

JasonS @ 77:

$10 American says her "concession" will be that she has no objection, in principle, to Barack Obama running for president.

Clinton just sent out a press release that both she and Obama will have a unity celebration in DC on Saturday.

Wake me when the words "I hereby endorse Barack Obama for the presidency of the United States, release my delegates and urge all my supporters to vote for him in the general election and offer him the same passionate support they have offered me" come out of her mouth.