Sen. Leahy to Sen. Clinton: Give Up
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Sen. Patrick Leahy is suggesting that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton abandon her White House run.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and six-term Vermont lawmaker said there is no way that Clinton is going to win enough pledged delegates to get the nomination. Leahy told Vermont Public Radio, in a show that aired Thursday, that Clinton ought to withdraw and should be backing Sen. Barack Obama. But Leahy said that’s obviously a decision only Clinton can make.
In a statement issued Friday, Leahy — who has endorsed Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination — said Obama’s lead appears to be insurmountable and that Obama’s endorsement by U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is the latest sign of how the race is going.
“Senator Clinton has every right, but not a very good reason, to remain a candidate for as long as she wants to. As far as the delegate count and the interests of a Democratic victory in November go, there is not a very good reason for drawing this out. But as I have said before, that is a decision that only she can make,” Leahy said in the statement.
A little math says that Obama leads Hillary by less than 4% of the delegates. That hardly seems like a done deal! The superdelegate system was concieved to avoid the choice of the wrong canidate in a tight race. As this progresses, Obama will certainly prove to be the wrong canidate for the Democratic party. Then we will all be glad that the superdelegate system was in place to prevent a certain loss to the Republicans.
Shut up Leahy! Shut up Dean! Let the process work as it was designed to do!
Fight on Hillary to the death. Its your turn and Obama will not win as America will not at this stage elect a black man for president. Half of the democratic party knows this and the other half is asleep at the wheel and is out to lunch i.e. Nancy “Puloser.” Fight girl! Missourian Ed
Dirty secret - Democrats invented superdelegates as a safety valve against the likes of ‘undesirable’ candidates (Jesse Jackson springs to mind) because ‘the common man’ - whom the Dems claim to champion - can’t be trusted to elect the right candidate during the primaries.
The Democratic Party needs blacks to win but the folks in power don’t necessarily want one as President, regardless of all the high-sounding pronouncements. Maybe blacks will finally wake up and realize what patsies they’ve been all these years, by trading their dignity for entitlement programs, set up by the very party that championed slavery and has suceeded in enslaving them to big government for the last 100+ years.
Sen. Leahy has made an outragous statement! He needs to step down he’s been there two long and is obviously having trouble with rationale decisions.
The DNC needs to seat the Florida delegates, they are hypocrites if they do not.
Hillary should keep going, she has won all the key states, no one will vote for Obama except for other people who have been raised to hate…
Jenna
When McCain was up by 1000 points over Huckabee you didn’t get all this hue and cry for him to get out. Obama is leading by only 100 points. Don’t the Dems want every vote to be counted?
As a Republican, I say GO HILLARY!!!. Love watching the Dems expose each other for the racist identity politics playing hypocrites they are.
Hillary, fight the good fight and never give up. Just think of all that money that your friends have spent on your bid. If you give up, you will never be president and you know that. Do not let Obama beat you…fight lady, fight to the end.
Hillary stay in the race. You are the one that this country needs. We all know who ran this nation when your husband was in the white house. Many good things came out of his two terms. STAY IN AND FIGHT!
Hillary is too caught up in her own self interests, ego and a quest for power to care about what is best for the democratic party. With her chances of gaining the nomination “going down the drain”, she’d rather see the democrat party destroyed than “give up” her political ambitions. Who support her? Know more at blackwhitekiss .. com where black and white meet and minglge online ..
In a sense, what it amounts to with clinton is simply “mind over matter - she doesn’t mind and no one else matters!”
I agree that the sponge and trough feeder Patrick Leahy ought to “go away”….tax payers have fed his fat butt long enough; ( six terms!!??) get a real job like the rest of us you sorry sack of hot air, and let Hillary does what she does best….fight to the finish!
While I was no Hillary supporter, she now seems a better choice than that closet racist who wants to pretend he isn’t a racist! I’d have had more repect for Obama ( who I was supporting) if he just came out an admitted he hated Whitey! What a race! What a time to be alive, …. unless of course Wright has his way, then Whitey goes under and all caucasian children pay for the crimes their ancestors commited.
Hey, Hillary; tell Leahy to mind his own business or end up like Vince Foster!