So, is it over?

Oh please

please please please let this be over. Let us take aim at McCain.

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by: miss wild thing @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 14:42:02 PM CDT

fingers, toes, and eyes crossed....

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by: dcguy202 @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 14:56:08 PM CDT

Now is the chance

for Hillary to show a ton of class. If she endorses Obama and encourages her very energized and loyal supporters to do the same, it will ensure that history remembers this moment with a rosy glow.

If she is bitter and nasty, history will remember this with a glaring spotlight that shows every flaw, every line in her face, and every vein in Bill's bulbous red nose.

It is also the time for Obama to show some real class. He has conducted himself very well of late, not rising to the bait as HRC and her followers have become more and more shrill. He could go a long way toward healing the party if he thanks her for being a good competitor and an excellent sparring partner. He is a better candidate now than he was six months ago. He is a better debater. He has learned a great deal about how to handle himself under pressure, how to think on his feet and how to stand his ground without seeming stubborn or arrogant. And he has Hillary to thank for those lessons.

I have no idea what kind of back-room deals are being cut right now to smooth this thing out, but I hope they do not give too much of an appearance of a sell-out on either side. Hillary could be a huge asset to the Obama administration, but Bill could be a huge distraction. Perhaps they could offer her a cabinet seat and him an ambassadorship. Far away. But I digress.

Now is the time for both sides to come together, make nice and move forward. Please, oh please let them do it.

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by: Dawn in Maine @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 15:04:05 PM CDT

Suspending the campaign does not mean she will endorse

She may well just suspend (not concede) in hopes of having some "complication" occur that would drive the superdels away from Obama.

Even so, with a suspension of her campaign, if she is anything less than gracious AND conciliatory she may well find superdels pledged to her may reconsider and decide to back Obama.

Hillary has created a rift with decisive language against her fellow candidate.  The onus is on her to try to start healing that rift.

P.S.  I love that fact that Obama is holding his announcement tomorrow night at the very spot that McSameLame will receive the repug nod in a few months...

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by: bkmn @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 15:12:28 PM CDT

I've been holding off making a donation to Obama

until I'm positive that it won't be going towards paying off the Clinton campaign's debts. Call me cheap if you want, but I believe that people that rack up a campaign debt in the millions but have a personal value in the tens of millions shouldn't be looking for handouts to retire that debt. I want my money spent on defeating McSame and the repugs.

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by: dcguy202 @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 15:19:49 PM CDT

i will be FURIOUS

if a single dime of my contribution to obama goes towards paying off hillary's financial flippancy in her vile and mismanaged campaign.  she was broke a LOOOOONG time ago and made the foolish decision to continue to run on debt??  that debt was used to directly sabotage obama's chances in the fall.  bad enough, but the idea that she won't take personal accountability for the consequences is outrageous.  she should have dropped out, and this 20 mil in debt is no one's problem but hers.  i hope to god she does the noble thing by not demanding reimbursement to her vast wealth from small donors who intended that money to be used for better purposes, but i've come to expect nothing but selfishness and delusions from her.  

The gays stole my lunch money

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by: matt in mpls @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 15:35:29 PM CDT

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November

You know, I don't want to pay for her campaign either, but I'd say to you the same thing I say to the Hillary fanatics. We need to do whatever it is we need to do to get someone sane into office in November.  

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by: kathygnome @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 15:39:48 PM CDT

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No way, so don't worry!!!

Money contributed to the Obama campaign cannot, repeat, cannot be passed on to Clinton's campaign.  That's against the law and will not happen.

Helping her retire her debt can happen by Obama requesting money from his own donors to help her, but frankly, it seems like wasted money to me. I'd rather see more money go into the fight against McBush.

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 16:49:58 PM CDT

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Please see below

Your Obama contribution cannot be used for any other campaign.

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 16:51:11 PM CDT

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All I can say...

...is don't hold your breath.

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by: johnbinpt @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 15:20:27 PM CDT

Of course it is over...BUT

That doesn't mean that there is a concession speech coming Tuesday...

Unless we hear from say 40 of the SD's before 8 PM putting BA over the top by the time they speak this will just be a great big "Thank you"

Even then, given that HRC has been saying recently that SD's can 'change their minds anytime they want' I think we are stuck with her until Denver -

Unless she gets the VP slot and considers that enough to stop this insanity.

HRC as VP = victory in November  

Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.

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by: Snooky Ookums @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 15:30:23 PM CDT

She's like

the monster in a bad, cheap horror movie.  Every time you think it's over, she comes back from the dead one more time--only to die again, and rise from the grave again to commit some new outrage.  We haven't seen the last of the Freddy Kruger candidate yet; she will keep coming back till the last frame of film has run out of the projector onto the screening room floor, and has been carted off to be made into mandolin picks.

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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by: QScribe @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 16:55:14 PM CDT

This is getting ridiculous!

If she thinks people are going to admire her for being tenacious, she needs to think again.  I'm feeling downright embarrassed for her with all the rhetoric coming out of her campaign in the last couple of days.  If she doesn't get out TOTALLY this week, she's going to look as nutty as one of her unhinged supporters that were at the meeting on Saturday.

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by: Jon Michaels @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 18:09:50 PM CDT

did anyone receive this in their email inbox today?

From someone calling themselves "ANORACLESWORLD":

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by: Pam Spaulding @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 18:35:55 PM CDT

What really bugs me...

...is this meme that Hillary is "the last chance" to elect a woman president in our lifetimes. There are so many talented, principled women rising through the political ranks that it will happen soon. And I, for one, will be glad that it's someone other than Hillary blazing that trail.

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by: johnbinpt @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 19:20:03 PM CDT

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Yep. PELOSI for PRESIDENT!

Or Boxer, Or Feinstein.... anyone but Hillary.

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.

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by: Orion45 @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 22:13:28 PM CDT

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Boxer, now that's my kinda woman.

Barbara Boxer is 4 feet 11 inches of Hell on Wheels. One of the few people in this country (Robert Byrd included) that has guts to stick to her principles. Can't say that about Feinstein but Barbara, she's a scrapper. When I moved from Cali back to Texas, I wore my Boxer t-shirt till it ripped from wear.


I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S.

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by: txwhtboy @ Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 23:49:09 PM CDT

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