WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL HER SHE LOST!!!!!!

Really it’s over….No really this is not a dream and avoiding talking about is not going to make you the nominee! Clinton’s behavior is really crossing over to being ABSURD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HISTORY!!!! Obama Claims Nomination; First Black Candidate to Lead a Major Party Ticket!!

By JEFF ZELENY

Published: June 4, 2008

Senator Barack Obama claimed the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday night, prevailing through an epic battle with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in a primary campaign that inspired millions of voters from every corner of America to demand change in Washington.

A last-minute rush of Democratic superdelegates, as well as split results from the final primaries in Montana and South Dakota, pushed Mr. Obama over the threshold of 2,118 delegates needed to be nominated at the party’s convention in Denver in August. The victory for Mr. Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and white Kansan mother, broke racial barriers and represented a remarkable rise for a man who just four years ago served in the Illinois State Senate.

“You chose to listen not to your doubts or your fears, but to your greatest hopes and highest aspirations,” Mr. Obama told supporters at a rally in St. Paul. “Tonight, we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another — a journey that will bring a new and better day to America. Because of you, tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.”

Mrs. Clinton paid tribute to Mr. Obama, but she did not leave the race. “This has been a long campaign and I will be making no decisions tonight,” Mrs. Clinton told supporters in New York. She said she would be speaking with party officials about her next move.

In a combative speech, she again presented her case that she was the stronger candidate and argued that she had won the popular vote, a notion disputed by the Obama campaign.

“I want the 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected,” she said in New York to loud cheers.

But she paid homage to Mr. Obama’s accomplishments, saying, “It has been an honor to contest the primaries with him, just as it has been an honor to call him my friend.”

Mr. Obama’s victory moved the presidential campaign to a new phase as he tangled with Senator John McCain of Arizona in televised addresses Tuesday night over Mr. Obama’s assertion that Mr. McCain would continue President Bush’s policies. Mr. McCain vigorously rebuffed that criticism in a speech in Kenner, La., in which he distanced himself from the outgoing president while contrasting his own breadth of experience with Mr. Obama’s record.

“The American people didn’t get to know me yesterday, as they are just getting to know Senator Obama,” Mr. McCain told supporters. Mr. Obama’s victory capped a marathon nominating contest that broke records on several fronts: the number of voters who participated, the amount of money raised and spent, and the sheer length of a grueling battle. The campaign, infused by tensions over race and sex, provided unexpected twists to the bitter end as Mr. Obama ultimately prevailed over Mrs. Clinton, who just a year ago appeared headed toward becoming the first woman to be nominated by a major party. The last two contests reflected the party’s continuing divisions, as Mrs. Clinton won the South Dakota primary and Mr. Obama won Montana.

The race drew to its final hours with a burst of announcements — delegate-by-delegate — of Democrats stepping forward to declare their support for Mr. Obama. The Democratic establishment, from former President Jimmy Carter to rank-and-file local officials who make up the ranks of the party’s superdelegates, rallied behind Mr. Obama as the day wore on.

When the day began, Mr. Obama needed 41 delegates to effectively claim the nomination. Just as the polls began to close in Montana and South Dakota, Mr. Obama secured the delegates he needed to end his duel with Mrs. Clinton, which wound through every state and territory in an unprecedented 57 contests over five months.

Every time a new endorsement was announced at the Obama headquarters in Chicago, campaign workers interrupted with a booming round of applause. They are members of Mr. Obama’s team — a political start up — that is responsible for defeating one of the most tried and tested operations in Democratic politics.

While the Democratic race may have ended, a new chapter began in the complicated tensions that have defined the relationship with Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton.

On a conference call with members of the New York Congressional delegation on Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton was asked whether she would be open to joining a ticket with Mr. Obama. She replied that she would do whatever she could — including a vice presidential bid — to help Democrats win the White House.

In his speech on Tuesday evening, Mr. Obama paid respect to his rival.

“Our party and our country are better off because of her,” Mr. Obama said, “and I am a better candidate for having had the honor to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton.”

Before she arrived at her rally on Tuesday in New York City, Mrs. Clinton and a few close advisers huddled at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., to discuss the timing of her departure from the race. In the afternoon conference call she conducted with fellow New York lawmakers, she asked their patience as she decides upon her next move.

Representative Nydia M. Velásquez, Democrat of New York, asked Mrs. Clinton whether she would consider teaming up with Mr. Obama. “She said that if it’s offered, she would take it,” Ms. Velásquez said.

Mrs. Clinton said she would do “anything to make sure a Democrat would win,” according to several participants on the call. While her advisers played down the remark’s significance, the Democrats on the call said that by not demurring or saying she would simply think about it, they said they were left with the impression that it was an offer that she wanted to at least consider.

“If Senator Obama asked her to be the V.P., she certainly would accept that,” said Representative Carolyn McCarthy, Democrat of New York. “She has obviously given some thought to this.”

Neither Mr. Obama nor his associates commented on the speculation, and he made no reference to it in his speech on Tuesday evening in Minnesota, which was delivered at the same arena in which Mr. McCain is expected to accept the Republican nomination at the party’s convention in September.

“You can rest assured that when we finally win the battle for universal health care in this country, she will be central to that victory,” Mr. Obama said. “When we transform our energy policy and lift our children out of poverty, it will be because she worked to help make it happen.”

The competition between Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama has been sharpening for weeks, but the close of the Democratic primary formally raised the curtain to a five-month general election contest. The race, as their respective speeches foreshadowed on Tuesday evening, will unfold against a backdrop of an electorate that is restless about soaring gas prices, mortgage foreclosures and the Iraq war.

It is also a generational battle of personalities and contrasting styles. Mr. McCain staged an evening event in Louisiana, so he would be included in the evening’s television narrative that otherwise belonged to Democrats.

About two hours later, Mr. Obama responded in a speech before a thousands of supporters.

“There are many words to describe John McCain’s attempt to pass off his embrace of George Bush’s policies as bipartisan and new,” Mr. Obama said. “But change is not one of them.”

The Un-Apology!!!

The saddest thing about this entire situation is, Mrs. Clinton has yet to apologize to Sen. Obama. The disconnected and equally disturbing “explanation” that she gave for her statements first and foremost made no sense.

Secondly, it did not justify why she used RFK’s horrific assassination as the focus of her comment as opposed to referencing the month the campaign ended. Lastly she skipped over several years of primaries that ran into June before she got to 1968, therefore, one must wonder why she settled on that particular primary?

Mrs. Clinton is an intelligent and political-savvy candidate therefore each word that she speaks is carefully chosen and calculated. To try and obtain the nomination by instilling fear, fear of the worst kind, within voters is not only appalling, but it is despicable.

That is exactly the last thing that we need on our hands and in our White House….a President that gains power through our fear!

What Was She Thinking???????

Kennedy Comment Sends Clinton Into Damage Control

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Published: May 26, 2008

The Clinton campaign began a concerted effort over the weekend to try to “set the record straight” and contain the damage from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s comments Friday about Robert F. Kennedy.

In a letter to The Daily News, published Sunday, Mrs. Clinton said her remarks had been taken entirely out of context.

Her aides also said that the news media and the campaign of Senator Barack Obama were partly responsible for fanning the flames.

The Clinton campaign was knocked back on its heels by the swift and negative reaction to her comments that she should not be pushed out of the race, in part, she said, because other candidates had campaigned into June.

Speaking to The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, S.D., she added: “You know, my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”

Critics seized on the comments, with some accusing her of suggesting that she was staying in the race because tragedy might strike Mr. Obama.

In her letter to The News, Mrs. Clinton wrote: “I pointed out, as I have before, that both my husband’s primary campaign, and Senator Robert Kennedy’s, had continued into June. Almost immediately, some took my comments entirely out of context and interpreted them to mean something completely different — and completely unthinkable.”

Howard Wolfson, a Clinton spokesman, said the news media and the Obama campaign were among those stoking the fire.

Shortly after Mrs. Clinton spoke on Friday, the Obama campaign jumped on the story, sending an e-mail message to reporters saying her comment had no place in a presidential campaign. It linked to a online report in The New York Post that said Mrs. Clinton was “making an odd comparison between the dead candidate and Barack Obama” — a phrase the newspaper later dropped.

On “Face the Nation” Sunday on CBS, Mr. Wolfson said, “It was unfortunate and unnecessary, and in my opinion, inflammatory, for the Obama campaign to attack Senator Clinton on Friday for these remarks, without obviously knowing the full facts or context.”

The Obama campaign had also e-mailed to reporters a transcript of a harsh critique of Mrs. Clinton on “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” on MSNBC.

On Sunday, George Stephanopoulos, the host of “This Week” on ABC, asked David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s top strategist, about sending the transcript.

“You say you’re not trying to stir the issue up,” Mr. Stephanopoulos said. “But a member of your press staff yesterday was sending around to an entire press list — I have the e-mail here — Keith Olbermann’s searing commentary against Hillary Clinton. So that is stirring this up, isn’t it?”

Mr. Axelrod replied: “As far as we’re concerned, this issue is done. It was an unfortunate statement, as we said, as she’s acknowledged. She has apologized. The apology, you know, is accepted. Let’s move forward.”

In her letter to The News, Mrs. Clinton wrote: “I want to set the record straight: I was making the simple point that given our history, the length of this year’s primary contest is nothing unusual.”

The campaigns she cited, however, began much later than this one did, and, in 1992, Mr. Clinton unofficially locked up the nomination in March, when his last serious opponent dropped out.

Mrs. Clinton said she was “deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for — and everything I am fighting for in this election.”

She also noted that the editors of The Argus Leader issued a statement backing her, saying that she had been speaking about the timeline, not the assassination. And she cited a statement from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who supports her, saying “it is a mistake for people to take offense.”

Mrs. Clinton said her letter was also meant to “more fully answer” why she was continuing her campaign. She said she was “not unaware of the challenges or the odds of my securing the nomination — but this race remains extraordinarily close.”

She has been arguing that she leads in the overall popular vote, although her tally includes results from the disputed Florida and Michigan primaries. The nomination, however, is settled by delegates, not the popular vote, and Mr. Obama leads there.

The rules committee of the Democratic National Committee is to meet Saturday to decide what to do about delegates from Florida and Michigan. Her strategy rests on the committee’s allowing them to be seated at the convention, which, she hopes, could legitimize her inclusion of those states in her popular vote total and bolster her argument to superdelegates that she is more electable than Mr. Obama.

Bill Clinton, campaigning for his wife in Fort Thompson, S.D., argued Sunday that she had been treated unfairly in the race, according to ABC News. He said the news media had covered up polls that showed her leading in the general election against Senator John McCain and that superdelegates had been bullied to make up their minds.

Mr. Clinton denounced what he described as a “frantic effort to push her out of the race.”

While Mr. Obama gave the commencement address at Wesleyan University on Sunday, Mrs. Clinton campaigned in Puerto Rico, where the primary is Sunday. At the Pavilion of Victory, an evangelical church in Hormigueros, in the island’s southwest corner, Mrs. Clinton urged congregants not to be “deterred by the setbacks that often fall into every life.”

“Do not fear to go forward, do not give up,” she said, adding that if she had listened to naysayers, “we would not be having this campaign in Puerto Rico.”

Larry Rohter contributed reporting from Peñuelas, P.R.

Hillary…Give It Up and Turn It Loose!!!

As we all breathe a collective sigh of frustration watching Hillary Clinton continue her sorry campaign one has to wonder… why one of her ‘people,’ ‘supporters,’ or HUSBAND doesn’t just tell her the truth? It’s over! We all know that the only reason she pulled out her checkbook and wrote herself a check for over $6 million dollars instead of admitting defeat is because for her, for the Clintons, the idea of admitting defeat to a Black man is unheard of and downright NOT GONNA HAPPEN!

We’ve all heard the argument Hillary has made for forging down this dead end road. She appeals more to the, ‘hardworking Americans, White Americans!’ and how Barack Obama is an ‘Elitist!’ After I picked my JAW OFF OF THE FLOOR and WIPED THE TEARS OF LAUGHTER from my eyes, I shook my head in amazement! To say a Black man in this country an elitist has as much validity as me taking my broom outside, hopping on top of it, closing my eyes, and trying to visualize my destination in a hope I can fly there as a reasonable alternative to dealing with the airlines and their foolishness.

Furthermore, I’m not sure if Hillary realized this but…(probably not since she had the ability to whip out her check book and keep her campaign afloat with a 7 figure loan. While Barack Obama JUST PAID OFF HIS STUDENT LOANS!!!) The man’s name is Barack…now of course it has begun to work for him, but I am sure back in the day….that was the same thing as putting, “Quita” on a resume!!! No offense to any of my lovely sistas who have that name, but I know you know what I am talking about. There is a HUGE difference between Hillary and Barack! We haven’t even gotten to what happens when the man tries to catch a cab vs. the cabs lining up for her. LOL ok ok I’ll get serious….

Here is THA TRUTH, with the state that our country is in, Barack simply understands what America needs right now. With gas at $4.00/gallon or IOW costing as much as the car itself, families losing their homes on a daily basis, the options for financing education dwindling, more and more ‘HARD WORKING AMERICANS’ having to choose between food and gas, food and medicine, food and electricity etc. We cannot have a president that has no idea what any of the aforementioned means. Anytime someone can take out a checkbook and write a check for 7 figures for no other reason than her being a SORE LOSER…I really don’t want her having the ability to assist in doling out taxes, creating a budget, or working on the deficit. We’ve already seen what happens when you elect someone who thought education was optional and who instead said, ‘Down with hope up with Dope! Let’s not do that again!!!!!