Let the games begin!!!!!

Hillary who?

Well Thank God. Finally some one pays a little
attention to Hillary. I was worried that TPM seemed to have forgotten all about her.

Next time TPM, try not to make it so long between Hillary threads.

Can we please start talking about McCain?

I want to know where McCain gets his dehydrated babies? Was that why Republicans were so gungho to attack Iraq? Did Saddam Hussein stockpile illegal stores of dehydrated babies? I know that this is silly, but so is talking about Hillary Fuckin Clinton!

502 days? Amazing.

We're all going to have to go through withdrawal.

This obsession with all things Clinton is another solid reason why HRC isn't going to be the Veep.

In a week that should have been focused on Obama, HRC has been in the news continually. Same thing would happen if she were Veep.

Enough with the drama.

CT Voter,

Maybe that's the idea...don't forget that Terry, Wolfie and Attack Dog Ickes are still on the payroll...beyond Friday.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton met rival Barack Obama face-to-face with no one else present, hours before her campaign formally announced she would endorse him Saturday at an event in Washington.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Friday the two Democratic presidential candidates arrived separately at her home for their Thursday night meeting. Feinstein said she took them to her living room, where they sat "in two comfortable chairs facing one another" and then she left the room. No one else was present during the meeting and nothing was served except water.

"There was a desire on both sides, I think, to have private meeting," Feinstein said.

The two candidates emerged laughing from their hour-long meeting.

The California senator had gone up stairs to do her own work when the meeting began at 9 p.m. EDT.

"They called me when it was over," Feinstein said. "I came down and said, 'Good night everybody, I hope you had a good meeting.' They were laughing, and that was it."

On Friday, Clinton's campaign said she would deliver her formal endorsement of Obama at a noon gathering at the National Building Museum and urge Democrats to unite behind his candidacy. Obama clinched the nomination Tuesday after primaries in Montana and South Dakota.

Clinton and Obama went to great lengths to keep their meeting a secret from the media beforehand.

Feinstein, who had supported Clinton throughout the primaries, told reporters the former first lady called her Thursday afternoon and asked for the use of her house.

Obama "was very gracious," Feinstein said. "He said he would go wherever, whenever Sen. Clinton wanted."

"This is a deeply personal time, too, you know," Feinstein said. "Barack is trying to put things together for a major presidential campaign. There are a lot of decompression and nerve endings that need to come together."

One of Clinton's top supporters, fellow New York Sen. Charles Schumer, said Friday that Clinton would agree to be Obama's running mate if he offered the No. 2 spot to her.

"She has said if Sen. Obama should want her to be vice president and thinks it would be best for the ticket, she will serve, she will accept that. But on the other hand, if he chooses someone else she will work just as hard for the party in November," Schumer told ABC's "Good Morning America."

Schumer said the meeting between Clinton and Obama was not about the vice presidency.

His comments came a day after a Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson denied reports that Clinton was actively campaigning to be on the ticket.

"She is not seeking the vice presidency, and no one speaks for her but her," Wolfson said Thursday. "The choice here is Sen. Obama's and his alone."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who had remained uncommitted throughout the primaries, endorsed Obama Friday.

Obama is "a once-in-a-generation leader who connects with the hopes and dreams of the American people and will deliver the long-overdue change that our country desperately needs," the Nevada Democrat said in a statement.

What I want to hear from HRC, in addition to unconditional support for the nominee:

- FL and MI were seated fairly according to the rules committee.
- Obama did not cheat, nor did anyone push me out of the race (even though her party did have to push her to concede).
- There will be a woman president, just not me.
- Reiterate that they should support whoever Obama puts on the ticket, even if it's not her.
- Anything else to refute all the lies she told that still have her rabid, 'I'm voting for McCain' supporters still screaming for vengeance.

calling idiotic......
One last hillmentum ???

I'm actually feeling optimistic about Hillary's role in this campaign. She has a lot to be proud of, and I'm sure she has some regrets. But she is also one of the best politicians we have in our party. We need her. She has the connections to a 20 year old machine that can get Obama elected. Granted, he needs that machine much less than Kerry did, and we can all argue that Hillary could have done more to work for Kerry.

Anyway, I think she might surprise you with what she says tomorrow and how she conducts herself moving forward. But after the Tuesday speech, it's reasonable to expect the worst. I'm trying, with gritted teeth at times, to give her the benefit of the doubt. I'm hoping that she just wanted time to create the perfect concession/endorsment speech that gets us all fired up and ready to hand McCain's ass to him in November.

Todays posts on TPM (by subject matter):
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Edwards: 1 (12.5%)
Lieberman: 1 (12.5%)
McCain: 2 (25%)
Clinton: 4 (50%)
Obama: 0 (0%)
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With the addition of yet another inane article, Hillary Clinton has once again sewn up the important TPM coverage vote. Polling shows resistance to her success, but it simply was not enough to counteract the powerful head-up-his-ass denial of Greg Sargent.

I think it's safe to say that Obama will never be able to overtake her commanding lead in the remaining hours. Even with a strong evening showing, the numbers just can't add up. We've got to call this one for Hillary. TPM will be covering her acceptance speech later this evening.

She cannot lose any of her delegates unless she concedes, something she is NOT doing. She's only suspending the campaign....she keeps her delegates AND has the right to jump back into the race at anytime this summer.

Sowers of discord:

A Democratic superdelegate from New Jersey said he is worried that unifying the party behind Barack Obama may be difficult because the Clinton camp "has engaged in some very divisive tactics and rhetoric it should not have." Rep. Rob Andrews

Rep. Rob Andrews, who supported Hillary Clinton throughout the primary season, disclosed he received a phone call shortly before the April 22 Pennsylvania primary from a top member of Clinton's organization and that the caller explicitly discussed a strategy of winning Jewish voters by exploiting tensions between Jews and African-Americans.

"There have been signals coming out of the Clinton campaign that have racial overtones that indeed disturb me," Andrews said at his campaign headquarters in Cherry Hill Tuesday night after he lost his bid for the U.S. Senate nomination. "Frankly, I had a private conversation with a high-ranking person in the campaign ... that used a racial line of argument that I found very disconcerting. It was extremely

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/superdelegate_says_clinton_cam.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A majority of Democrats think Barack Obama should select Hillary Clinton as his running mate, according to a new national poll.

Fifty-four percent of registered Democrats questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll out Friday think Obama should name his rival as his running mate, with 43 percent saying no.

my goodness, it always has to be about her, doesn't it? it's a sickness.

Seriously, there were TWO calls today between McCain and Obama on the everglades and there isn't NARY a post on it here. WTF?

FYI: New Rasmussen W. Virginia Poll: M 45% ; O 37% (8 pt. difference after all's said and done. LOL.)

FYI: New Rasmussen W. Virginia Poll: M 45% ; O 37% (8 pt. difference after all's said and done. LOL.)

She's not defeated by Obama. She is defeated by the Democrat Party's screwed up system. In fact, she beat your love boy resoundingly in the second half of the game and has consistently shown in various polls that she would have been a better general election candidate than Nobama. It is mindbogging to see each time Hillary beat Obama in a State, Obama got more superdelegate support. Nobama has been arguing for ages that the superdelegates should reflect the wills of the people they represent. Oh, yea, he should ask Jay Rockfeller, Kennedy, Ben Chandler, Robert Byrd to revock their supports for him. How about Tom Daschle and Tim Johnson.

Starting from March 4, Hillary won TX, OH, RI, PA, IN, KY, WA, PR, and SD, that's 9 states. Your love boy won VT, WY, MS, NC, OR, and MT and that
s eight. Who's having a better 2nd half? If you have a brain, you should know. It is not about who you take to the dance. It is about who you take away from the dance. You know that?

If the Democrat Party is stupid enough to stick with a flawed candidate with his flaws revealed late in the game, it is their rights. I will not be caught in a sinking ship. Coming this November, I will be voting for McCain in Shanghai or Hongkong. Dear Hillary, we shall see you in 2012. Please keep fighting and we will be with you when you are up again!!!

Why would Congressman Andrews lie about this? He was a Clinton supporter after all.

Hillary is lucky he didn't come out with this sooner.

Don't you mean to say it took Hillary 502 days to give up on beating Obama? Obama couldn't have made her quit so it seems strange to put the active verb on him. And he had effectively won the election by the beginning of March. It's all been shades of windmill-tilting on Hillary's part since then.

DW - consider- If hillary's incredible political machine couldn't get her elected, why should it help get obama elected?

It will have taken Obama 502 days to defeat Hillary and her formidable political operation and get her concession.

Is this Fox News x Ken Burns x Beowulf ???

I welcome the return of actual professional, competent, high class, fact-based journalism from TPM aka the U.S. Attorney General scandal.

Leave telling us the obvious in histrionic, overblown language to Lord Tennyson, Bob Kostas and Larry King.

Why should the comments of a poster on a talk board affect your choice of presidential candidates?

There is a lot at stake for the country this election year. Why would anyone make their choice based on an anonymous snarky comment on a blog?