7 Reasons Why Clinton Should Quit, Now

from Ambinder

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/7_reasons_why_clinton_should_q.php


1. It's over. Forget the sideshows and the hypotheticals. Once the party has its nominee, and only then, can the process of healing begin. The longer Clinton stays in the race, the more she postpones the point at which the party comes together.

2. The reality principle. "Anything is possible," is what campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe said today. Well, no. Something things are impossible; many others are highly improbable.

3. Her legacy. In many quarters, it's been damaged by the presidential race. The sooner she exits, the more gracefully she exists, the better the chance is for her to shake off this presidential race and resume her Senate career.

4. Bill's legacy. In many quarters, it's been irrevocably (and perhaps unfairly) damaged by this presidential race.

5. Obama. Even if there are plausible, selfish reasons for her to stay in, her duty to her party should trump them. She should devote herself fully to the service of Obama.

6. Her staff. They are tired and many are demoralized, even as they love and lionize their boss. Give them a rest.

7. Florida and Michigan. The sooner she drops out, the sooner those states will find their delegations seated.

or so the line goes :eyes:

she has got to go.

she has definitely got to go.

And, she is really pushing FL/MI as a wedge issue. It won't win it, she is trying to be the champion and peg Obama the cause of the disenfranchisement of the FL and MI voters.

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Fucking ridiculous! :mad:

In a way, I feel she is now pulling money away from the GE effort by spending her personal funds.

That the DLC has a plan to unearth some "scandal" about Obama that will magically surface just before the convention, leading a lot of the supers to abandon him and vote for her. Of course, the "scandal" will be subsequently debunked, but the damage will have already been done.

anything can happen to Sen. Obama between now and then. Makes me wonder if they do, indeed, have something planned. Sad.

a move like that would lose the election for the Dems -- and the GOP would have the White House until 2020 at least.

is so I can win the Clinton Drop-Out Pool (for Obama gear).

I can feel it coming. :woohoo:

If HRC continues, it is LESS money for the DNC. They need it!