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More Signs Hillary Clinton Will Soon Quit The Democratic Race?

June 2nd, 2008
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief

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Is this all overdosed-on-politics tea leaf reading, or are we now seeing accelerating indications that Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton will soon head for the exit door of the 2008 Democratic Presidential race racetrack?

ABC’s Political Radar has this:

Speaking to a crowd in Milbank, SD former President Bill Clinton admitted that today could be the last time he has such an active role in presidential politics.

“I want to say also that this may be the last day I’m ever involved in a campaign of this kind. I thought I was out of politics, ’til Hillary decided to run. But it has been, one of the greatest honors of my life to go around and campaign for her for president,” said Clinton as he began his speech.

As Political Radar notes, this kind of talk isn’t typical of Bill Clinton anticipating some kind of master move. Or the never-say-die Bill Clinton.

And the Los Angeles Times’ highly-lively blog connects some dots as it wonders if Hillary is getting ready to leave the political building:

First, Hillary Clinton announced this morning that she’ll spend Tuesday evening in New York, the city that never sleeps and that she represents in the U.S. Senate. Not in Montana or South Dakota, where people are voting, but New York City.

Second, Bill Clinton told folks in South Dakota this morning that “this may be the last day I’m ever involved in a campaign of this kind. I thought I was out of politics, till Hillary decided to run. But it has been one of the greatest honors of my life to go around and campaign for her for president.”

Third, the folks at Politico report that Mo Elleithee, a Clinton spokesman, tells them that “we just haven’t figured out our schedule past Tuesday,” so many members of the advance team are being sent home.

(UPDATE: A fourth factoid, Tom Edsall reports over on Huffington Post that Clinton has taken the “unusual move” of summoning “top donors and backers to attend her speech.”)

If you take all this together, it certainly sounds as if she is either going to get out totally or stay in the race in a pro forma way.

One observation. A lot of the speculation from angry Obama supporters has been that the Clintons were going to stay in this race to sandbag Obama so he lost and she could pick up the pieces in 2012.

If she gets out soon and truly works for the ticket she’d be in a good position in 2012 if he loses.

And if Obama wins? The once-again-flawed conventional wisdom seems to be that if Obama serves two terms she could be too old. Balderdash…

As Ronald Reagan, John McCain — and HOST of world leaders — have shown, being “too old” when someone is past 60 is usually in the eye of the beholder…and more likely than not that beholder is someone who opposes said person and is looking for an argument to halt a candidacy.

UPDATE: John Aravosis looks at the speculation and doesn’t quite buy the scenarios…



This entry was posted on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm and is filed under Primaries, Newsweek Blogitics, Conventions, Brokered Convention, Superdelegates, Democratic Party, Elections, 2008 Elections, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Politics. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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    NO as a VP Choice...
    1. She is exactly the kind of politics that Obama is trying to get
    away from.
    2. Republicans hate Clinton, so if you hope to bring some of that
    vote over, she is just not an option.
    3. Bill Clinton running around again in the White House.
    4. This is the same Woman who Claimed Sniper Fire and lies with a
    straight face like her husband...TRUST THEM? NOT!!!
    5. Back stabbers, as we have seen recently, especially to the black
    communities who have supported them.
    6. Anger issues...both Bill and Hillary need to attend anger
    management training and in the white house Obama needs someone who
    can gather all the fact first before OPENING their mouth and making
    dangerous moves/decisions before looking at the BIG PICTURE.
    7. Hillary has been whipping up resentment in her supporters by
    intimating that Obama's win is some how not legitimate and that the
    election is being stolen from her. HOW DO YOU WORK ONE CHANGE WITH
    THAT KIND OF PERSON!
    8. As a woman, I would LOVE to see another women in the white house,
    but she would act similar to how she chose to run her campaign, which
    caused me to lose respect.
    9. There is a coldness in her personality.
    10. Obama would have her and her husband in all the business. He
    can't possibly believe that she'll follow his lead.



    Just 10 off the top of my head...

    Please pass around and forward for feedback in a grassroots effort to
    keep this from happening...

    Rhonda Davis
 
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