Hillary Should Get Out Now

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  • Posted By: MONAP @ 02/25/2008 3:57:49 PM

    The usualy Saint Obama comments - why don't you supposed pundits just get a robe and a crown and annoint BO already! You GUYS are tripping all over yourself trying to declare him the King. I have never seen such biased reporting in my lifetime. What happened to the profession - you people in journalism should be ashamed of yourselves. Are you all SOOOOOO threatened by a woman -shame on you all.

    She is running - get over it and people are voting for her despite all the garbage you people have thrown at her. Sure she's getting older voters - we know the score - we were young once and idealistic and believed promises that were totally undoable - I just hope that should BO get the nomination and God forbid the Presidency America can withstand another 4 years of a know-nothing President - People wasn't the Bush eight enough for you?

    By the way, don't count on us Democrats who are supporting Senator Clinton to automatically fall in line for Obama - I for one, will not vote for inexperience - and I know I'm not alone.

    • Posted By: oscarp66 @ 02/25/2008 4:05:35 PM

      Great post. DOn't automatically count on Hillary supporters to vote for Obama, after all, it is what Michelle and others are saying if he omnipotent husband gets the nomination, like now or never?
      I'd rather vote for McCain, even if it is the first time that I vote Repubs.

      • Posted By: democrat4life @ 02/25/2008 4:46:48 PM

        Oh Oscar don't do that. That's what the republican want. We have to stay united no matter what!

    • Posted By: hilsup @ 02/25/2008 4:03:57 PM

      I TOTALLY AGREE... I will not vote for Obama

  • Posted By: dsc1964 @ 02/25/2008 4:46:19 PM

    Hillary can waste everyone's time and her money by staying in until the bitter end. It's painfully obvious that she has no chance to win the democratic nomination. Even if she were to win that with Obama somehow imploding, she has no chance to beat McCain. No one in the middle and certainly no one on the right would ever go that far left in the general election. Neither she nor Obama have any experience that qualifies them to be President. I can't believe that no one calls Hillary out when she claims Obama wouldn't be ready on day 1. She has no experience. Just because she was married to a governor and a former President doesn't qualify her to run. She has done nothing as the carpetbagging senator for NY. Let's get real here.

  • Posted By: andrearae @ 02/25/2008 4:45:28 PM

    It amazes me that everyone just expects the female candidate to be the one who should withdraw from the race. Why not tell Obama to drop out and volunteer to be a Vice-Presidential running mate in order for him to gain some much needed international experience. As a proud female Democrat, I want Hillary to stay in the fight until someone tells us that it is over for good. It will be a sad day for me in November when I obviously won't vote for John McCain and do not believe in Obama's ability to govern at this point in his young career. I pray that all of these Democrats that are caught in the wave of Barack "time for a change" Obama don't regret their decision down the road.

  • Posted By: sweetwhispers @ 02/25/2008 3:58:19 PM

    During elections words are free, it's only after that you know how much they cost. Obama has never been really consistent with himself, not really honest too...How will he finance all his promises ?
    Hillary Clinton is real, she's not a phenomenon created by medias...Honestly, I'm little bit disappointed by people like you said "educated", you are inside a cavern watching shadows on a wall...And you try to convice yourself and other people that they are true..

    • Posted By: TheBroker @ 02/25/2008 4:05:50 PM

      Sweet, he's stated very clearly and repeatedly that he will finance these policies by ending the war in Iraq (12 billion a month), repealing the tax cuts on people making over 200K annually and ending corporate tax cuts for companies that ship jobs overseas. What else do you need? Get your facts straight before coming on here and muddying up the waters.

      • Posted By: democrat4life @ 02/25/2008 4:44:58 PM

        Easier said than Done. He's making promises with out the support to back it up. Visions don't equal decisions. He is telling people what they want to hear. Instead he should realistically state what he will try and do and the different stragtegies to make these things happen.

  • Posted By: oscarp66 @ 02/25/2008 2:47:31 PM

    Quit? Would you have asked Obama so quit if he were in the same position? I don't think so, too afraid of being called a racist. Strong leaders stay onboard no matter how hard the adversities, and Hillary has proven to be a strong one, forget about claims that she will divide the Party, it has been divided long before this !!! Perhaps those who ask her to quit now are paving the way to Obama to be defeated in the general elections, and have 4 more years. So if that is what you want, there comes my slogan
    NO HILLARY 08
    VOTE MCCAIN 08

    • Posted By: cbernami @ 02/25/2008 2:59:33 PM

      I'm going to ask you one question. Why would you not vote for Obama if Hillary is defeated? His message is not that different from hers. I'd like to hear your reasoning.

      • Posted By: mdmom @ 02/25/2008 4:16:23 PM

        It's because we don't think he's competent. If the presidency tanks, it will be a long time before a democrat will be president again.

        • Posted By: debra1953 @ 02/25/2008 4:43:41 PM

          because he is not like Hillary he copys everything from her she says something he copys she dose something he copys who will he copy from if he wins no i wouldnt vote for him i had rather vote for Nader if it come to that

    • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/25/2008 3:49:09 PM


      Comment: Comment: Hillary Clinton Goofs Again
      A Commentary by Dick Morris

      Who was it that defined neurosis as repeating the same mistake again and again, and expecting a better outcome each time? That is really what the Clinton campaign is doing in its post-Chesapeake primary strategy. Now Hillary defines Obama as the candidate who makes speeches, while she is the one who provides answers and solutions.

      Why is Hillary embracing this new line? Its not that she has any great record of solutions or answers of which to boast, but rather that she wants to highlight Obama's lack of a legislative record. Once again, she and her campaign geniuses are making the same mistake they made when they decided to use the experience as their defining difference with Obama. Its not that she had much, but they sensed an opportunity to highlight that he had even less.
      Of course experience not only didn't work. It backfired massively. By co-opting the experience tag, Hillary bought into the status quo and left Obama to be the agent of change. A candidacy that could have excited tens of millions of women, the first serious prospect of a female president, became merely a boring part of the status quo, shorn of its novelty.

      Hillary's claim to be the solution-person won't work either for the same simple reason: She hasn't passed any...she hasn't walked the walk so now she cannot talk the talk.

      As a first lady, Hillary's sole important legislative involvement came during the first two years of her husband's presidency when she sought to pass her ill-conceived health care reform, an effort that failed so miserably that it cost her party control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Between 1995 to 1997, she was largely absent from the White House, traveling the world, promoting her best selling book and helping to raise funds. She never attended strategy meetings and her only intervention in the singular legislative achievements of Bill's administration welfare reform and the balanced budget deal was privately to urge a veto of the former and to oppose the latter because it provided for a cut in the capital gains tax. Hillary returned to the White House in 1998 to oversee the defense to the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment attempt, but the Clinton administration essentially folded its legislative efforts during those years and hung on for dear life. No portfolio of accomplishments there...

      Her only actual legislation included one bill to increase nurse recruitment, another to aid respite time for Alzheimer's care givers and another to expand veteran's health benefits, a paltry output for six years service.

      In her second term, she has spent full-time campaigning for president and has the worst attendance record of the three senators now still in the presidential race.

  • Posted By: JJJJJ @ 02/25/2008 4:43:10 PM

    Such much for the first woman president.................an unattractive woman, with a shrill voice, hard-edge, but with experience and a bedrock of ideas is going to lose because.......................a young, attractive man comes along with pretty words, sugar-coated speeches and woes all the ladies.

    Obama is smooth - tell the girls what they want to hear, it does not matter if it is the same, repacked "change" politicians have been promising forever.

    Mr. Tall, Dark and Handsome with a millionare dollar smile...............

    Women fall for it everytime................................................

  • Posted By: john boy @ 02/25/2008 4:42:43 PM

    "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better," he said. "This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."

    Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion's founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father.

    "A black man with a white mother became a savior to us," he told the crowd of mostly followers dressed in Nation of Islam attire including long white suits and matching head scarfs for women and navy-colored uniforms with caps for men. "A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall."
    Wake up OHIO and TEXAS. Please read this article that came out in the news today. The truth about Barack Hussein Obama will be made clear before the November election. If you don't want McCain to be President and 4 more years of Republicans in office, VOTE FOR HILLARY.

  • Posted By: bettym @ 02/25/2008 4:42:08 PM

    I know there is a rush by reporters saying Hillary should get out, but the press should not decide this. The voters should. Wait till everyone finds out Obama was "friends" with members of a domestic terrorist group. McCain will run over Obama in the general election with that since he is a war hero. Hillary is the best candidate for the Dems to face McCain.

  • Posted By: democrat4life @ 02/25/2008 3:40:20 PM

    It amazes me that so many american will vote for someone based on a vision. Barack Obama needs to tools to execute those visions and he does not have the experience to do that. He is a first year United States Senator and didn't even have enough respect to serve the full term to establish himself and become known. Hillary Clinton has proven herself to be an exceptional United States Senator, and she has gained the 1st hand political experience to Lead Our Country out of hte termoil the Bush Adminstration has put us in. What business Hires a CEO that has no experience. Why would America want a CEO that's wet behind the ears and still has so much to learn. Hillary voted for the war just like several other Sentators did. Her vote was not the deciding Factor. And millions of American Agreed with that decision at the time. If you recall the state she was sentator for was the most affected by 9/11(New York). There were several reasons for her to vote yes for the war and many New York residents backed that decision up. Obama needs something else to back up his ability to lead. Don't b;ame Clinton for Bush's disregard for American lives.

    • Posted By: truth31 @ 02/25/2008 3:48:34 PM

      CEO this.....The United States of America is better than electing Hillary. If she wins, it will be 20 years of two families controlling the white house. Enough of the Status Que, but maybe you like that because you think things are just fine. Maybe your the upper part of society and don't like change, but us younger and hard working Americans think we can do better. Just a thought.

      • Posted By: democrat4life @ 02/25/2008 4:05:41 PM

        Don't presume to think you know my age. I am far from old. Explain this Status Quo that you speak of. Those are Obama words not Hillary's. You know what happens when you make Assumptions. Using Barack Obama words don't make you sound smarter. Think for yourself. You can't walk into a job and expect everyone else to do the work for you. Barack Obama is a good candidate he's just not the best. He should have served a full term as United States Senator to gain the needed experience to become America'a Chief Executive Officer. You should research both candidates and stop listening to what the papers and the radio personalities are saying. In a dream world Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama would be on the same ticket one for President and the other Vice President. But I don't think either would except the invitation.

        • Posted By: RMLanden @ 02/25/2008 4:40:34 PM

          It does not suprise me that you are for Hillary given all your grammatical and spelling errors since the less educated populations are supporting her. I will say that I would vote for Obama in the November election if he were the Dem. nominee, but I would never vote for Hillary. She has no more experience to be president than Obama but if you think she does, then you should vote for her. If Hillary were to win the nomination, this would be a very easy election for the Republicans.

      • Posted By: hilsup @ 02/25/2008 3:58:27 PM

        Maybe you "younger" pepole should listen to the older folk here. Hillary Clinton isn't the be all end all, she is simply put the best candidate for this job. Barack Obama likes to say he didn't "vote" for the war..are you aware Sen. Obama DIDN'T HAVE A VOTE???? He wasn't a US Senator at the time of the vote. Since he has been a US Senator, however, he has voted lock step with everyone else. Great to be young, but part of that is to be naieve..which you are...good for Obama, he's banking on it...just like Jimmy Carter was when I was young and naieve and voted for him...Mr. Obama will be a one term failed President....for one reason alone...HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE...WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU GET????

        • Posted By: democrat4life @ 02/25/2008 4:12:32 PM

          Thank You, I couln't have said it better if I said it myself!!!!!!

  • Posted By: TheBroker @ 02/25/2008 4:37:15 PM

    First off, I would like to point out that Obama delivered a speech against going to war in Iraq on Wednesday, October 2nd 2002 at the Federal Plaza in Chicago at the same day and hour that President Bush and Congress (Hillary Clinton) announced their agreement on the joint resolution authorizing the war in Iraq, but over a week before it was passed by either body of Congress. So he may not have had a vote but I think it's pretty safe to say what his vote would have been. Secondly, Obama has been involved in politics at the local, state and federal level for well over 20 years. How does that equate to no experience? Third and finally... I hear a lot mentioned about how the younger people should listen to the "older folk" in regards to this election. Need I remind you that you're the reason we're in this predicament? Do you think we haven't noticed the national debt you've subjected us to? Do you think we haven't noticed that your social security benefits will be paid by us but we'll be left out to dry when it's our turn? These are only 2 examples of where listening to conventional wisdom has led us. I have to argue that if we listened to you, instead of forming our own opinions, based on our observations, education and experience, we truely would be naive.

  • Posted By: cougar1 @ 02/25/2008 4:34:54 PM

    Progressive Democrats are embarrassed by and disgusted with the chameleon, the psychotic Hillary Clinton. She and her husband are on the wrong side of history. If they have any decency at all, Hillary Clinton will announce her withdrawal at the debate tomorrow night???if not, maybe Al Gore will drive a stake through her heart.

  • Posted By: gsirod @ 02/25/2008 4:31:10 PM

    If Obama does trip up the media will cover up for him. This has been such a biased campaign it is sickening. Doesn't the media care who is president. They keep protecting a person that no one really knows what he is really about. If he is this real person of getting people to work together than why doesn't Illinois practiced this. Obama's actions of change and getting party's to work together is not evident there. Remember we are trying to select a person that will run the most powerful nation in the country, not a holleywood movie. Look at Obama's answer to the last debate regarding the commander in chief responsibilities. His knowledge is so lacking he did not even address the issues of other nations. The media needs to start focusinging on his weaknesses that will affect the security of this nation. There is no doubt that Hillary has the commanding knowledge of issues that affect our national security. If anything Hillary needs to keep challenging Obama on his knowledge and his past actions. The Americans need to know this infor not Obama's rhetoric. If Hillary does not bring this to the table with Obama you can bet the media never will.

  • Posted By: oscarp66 @ 02/25/2008 4:28:19 PM

    Mr. Alter: I am aware that there are places where you can get an excellent hair transplant, I just doubt that you would get a brain with the procedure. Newsweek should ban you from publishing non-sense , they can lose many faithful readers if you keep on writing here. !!

  • Posted By: jack t @ 02/25/2008 4:26:00 PM

    John A. needs to get a real job LOL, just because he is in with that bunch over at Hardball, (MSNBC) doesnt mean he needs to spew his garbage in print LOL He should be fired and do it today. I have been a lifelong reader of Newsweek and just to let you know as of today, you have lost a reader. HRC will be good for this country and as for B.Obama, well he needs to be around a lot longer then two years in Washington DC,(which he has used over one year to run for Pres.) Oh and there is no way OB can beat John Mc. R's will eat his lunch and send him back to his room crying like a little baby, saying that he was beat because he was Black. Men have had their chance to run this great country, lets see what a women can do. She couldnt do any worse then the men LOL and i am a retired 65 year old male. PS, FIRE JOHN A TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: abe4600 @ 02/25/2008 4:25:08 PM

    She has no grace on her soul. She would rather see the Dem party loose and McBush in the white house, then swallow her ego.

  • Posted By: Iowa Dem @ 02/25/2008 4:25:00 PM

    Good Article- Hillary is finished.

    This is about so much more than Senator Obama being the better candidate, it's about Senator Clinton's deficencies and her apparent inablity to lead- For crying out loud, she can't even run a responsible campaign.
    I believe that getting out now would be the best thing for the democratic process, the country and
    for her own state of mind- She truly appears to be losing it.

  • Posted By: oscarp66 @ 02/25/2008 4:24:54 PM

    Jonathan Alter is to Newsweek what
    President Bush is to our country

  • Posted By: oscarp66 @ 02/25/2008 4:22:44 PM

    Next article on NEWSWEEK:

    " JONATHAN ALTER SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN OUT LONG TIME AGO" What about that? With such a journalist, what else can we expect? Mr. Bush could have written a better article!!!

  • Posted By: crane @ 02/25/2008 4:20:02 PM

    Obama may preach his way to the Democratic Nomination for President, but it may not matter as Nader has given Americans a chance to vote against the Republicans and not vote Democrat. A lot of swing voters with latent racism in their minds, or fear of his lack of experience, get a protest vote without voting for McCain.

  • Posted By: crane @ 02/25/2008 4:19:12 PM

    Obama may preach his way to the Democratic Nomination for President, but it may not matter as Nader has given Americans a chance to vote against the Republicans and not vote Democrat. A lot of swing voters with latent racism in their minds, or fear of his lack of experience, get a protest vote without voting for McCain.

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