news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/ap_on_el_pr/obama_bill_clinton

I’ll bet Bill was honest with him, lol.

Those establishment Dems kept wringing their hands that the long primary season was hurting our chances to win in November. Bullshit. Hillary being in the race was a huge blessing they never came close to appreciating; they acted as if only Waffles inspired anyone. With all the PUMAs out there, they damn well know now that wasn’t the case.

Also, wbboei is right about Hillary being charismatic. She ended this primary season a helluva lot better campaigner than when she started. Waffles is only “charismatic” when he reads Axelrod’s words. Notice how poorly he did when he tried to win over Hillary’s donors. He’s like the Wizard of Oz, exposed as a small man behind the curtain, when he has to stand on his own. Hillary, on the other hand, is unfailingly impressive in person.

I also read that Obama is trying to get more blacks in the south. Well, this black Georgia female definitely isn’t going to vote Obama! I just don’t get it with the urgency. They will definitely send the Clintons to gear up blacks in the south. I still don’t understand why the Clintons are doing this and am very disappointed with them. Next thing you know, Hillary will be Obama’s vice-president because the party wants to gain morevotes. I will work even harder to defeat that ticket.
Now it just seems more and more that this is more about regaining power than about the will of the people. So sad!!

By the way things are going, Obama just may win this sham of an election. By a long shot, he may be in for a surprise November defeat. A girl can wish, can’t she?

On June 4th Clinton acquiesced to pressure from Democratic Party leaders and announced she would both supsend her campaign and endorse Obama. The concession came 40 years to the day of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, after he won the California primary. Clinton supporters angrily denounced the strong-arm tactics, claiming the DNC was conspiring with the Obama campaign to subvert the nominating process. Like RFK, Clinton had surged towards the end of the primary season, winning six of nine states, and looked to have a real chance of victory at the party’s August gathering in Denver. By contrast, Obama’s support was teetering in the wake of revelations about his long relationship with Pastor Jeremiah Wright of Trinity Church in Chicago, as well as his connection to Chicago political fixer Tony Rezko.

Citing the need for party unity, the DNC’s chairman, Howard Dean, declared Obama the official nominee on June 3rd based on the input of superdelegates, a group of nearly 800 elected leaders and party officials who normally don’t vote until the convention. (That’s why they’re called delegates.) Regardless, the Obama campaign immediately assumed control over the party apparatus and treasury, and much to the chagrin of Clinton activists and donors, immediately began contacting her donors for contributions and other support.
That a winning candidate would be forced out of a presidential campaign by a means other than a bullet to the head is unprecedented in U.S. history
http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html
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Here is my take: the current polls are completely untrustworthy. I cannot say whether Hillary should have suspended her campaign or not because I do not know the nature and the extent of the pressure she was under. I so know however as much as any outsider can know that it would be a big mistake for her to accept the vice presidency. I think the same people who cheated her out of the presidency will try to force her to accept the vice presidency if his numbers slide. They will say it is for the good of the party, when in fact it is to save them from the consequences of their own improvident decision. Bill Clinton posed that very choice to the party a couple months ago and they made a bad decision. Let them live with it. For Hillary there are two choices: the presidency or the senate. Never the oblivion of the vice presidency. Let the cockroach from Missouri have it.

I agree with you 100% on what Bill Clinton should say. He is no way obligated to endorse or support Obama if he doesn’t want to. He isn’t even in poliltics anymore. It would be sickening indeed to watch Bill embrace Obama. I have read that Bill is off “licking his wounds because he thought that it was pretty much a done deal of Hillary winning because of his legacy” and he is having a hard time of it than Hillary is. Bull! Bill is upset because of the attacks on his wife, being labeled as a racist and an attack on his presidency and rightfully so!

1. jbstonesfan Says:
June 30th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
The ironic thing is that AA’s are going to be least served by BO….he is not “one of them”, but rather an elitist who played the race card very well. Clyburn was right there with him all the way.

I agree with you that the black people will be the least served by BO. He hasn’t attended hardly any of the the black functions. The Clinton’s have attended many of these functions, probably more than BO. She even attened the event with Tavis Smiley and Bo didn’t bother to appear. Hillary appeared even after the state didn’t vote for her and she was a minority in a room full of black people. I thought that she was courageous for doing that. I do feel that BO isn’t one of us and just an elist. He has placed the race card himself and/or allowed it to be played with no disnouncing it or apologizing for the behavior.

I am a black female. Sadly black people think that Obama will have their best interests in mind. But I just don’t see it.
I think that it is more of the black people’s fault that they support Obama. Many wanted to vote for Obama from the very beginng but only held back until after the Iowa caucuses when they realized that he was a “viable” candidate and that whites had voted for him. Before then they don’t the country wouldn’t embrace him. So it was very easy for them to turn on the Clintons when he became “viable”. So I blame them more for drinking the kool-aid Obama offered them instead of turning it down!

I miss Hillary.