Clinton Says She Stays in Race Because She's the Best Candidate

May 25 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton, criticized for a reference to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, said in a New York Daily News commentary she is still campaigning for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination because she believes she is the strongest candidate.

`I am running because I believe I'm the strongest candidate to stand toe-to-toe with Sen. McCain," the New York senator wrote in the op-ed piece. Senator John McCain of Arizona has wrapped up the Republican nomination.

"Delegate math might be complicated, but electoral math is not," she wrote. The campaign of her rival for the nomination, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, said May 22 that he is only 56 delegates short of the 2,026 needed to secure the nomination. Clinton said she has won in the crucial swing states needed to win the general election, such as Florida, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Clinton wrote that she can still win on the merits, and because "my parents did not raise me to be a quitter." She said that, while ``pundits and politicians'' have called on her to end her candidacy, recent victories in West Virginia and Kentucky show that Clinton is still winning votes from people despite being told the ``race is over."

"I am running because I believe staying in this race will help unite the Democratic Party," Clinton wrote. "I believe that if Sen. Obama and I both make our case, and all Democrats have the chance to make their voices heard, in the end everyone will be more likely to rally around the nominee."

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To unity!
:toast:

Or something.

:eyes: :sarcasm:

and then she again played the race card by saying she is the candidate of "hard working...hard working WHITE" VOTERS.

should be the one doing the counselling, eh? I hear they are experts are just about EVERYTHING!!! :sarcasm:

Usually the condition is self-limiting however.

change the fact that Hillary is finished.

LOL.....continue with that quest for hope and change.

if it was a company or country it would be bankrupt. Hope and change..lol..Hillary HOPES her supporters send her some more CHANGE!

You sad, bitter person.

I am counting on Hillary Clinton's actions after the last counting of the primary votes.

Except for the whole campaign.

Best 2nd place candidate in the whole campaign, she is.

it's helped make SNL funny (at times) again.

Therefore something must be wrong with the primary process.

:crazy:

She's *really* all about uniting the democratic party... since it is mathematically impossible for her to win based upon the rules set forth by the DNC at the beginning of this campaign that she also agreed to abide by... only not now that she's not winning.

She's all about uniting the party by siding with the republican opponent over the democratic party.

She's all about uniting the party by having her mouthpiece, Ferraro, talk about voting for the republican if she doesn't get her way.

Jesus, please, let this nightmare be over. All this "uniting" is tearing up the party.

Not that she gives a shit, obviously.

After that she needs to leave the stage take a vacation with Bill so she can get some sleep so she stops staying idiotic things.

I quote: "The campaign of her rival for the nomination, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, said May 22 that he is only 56 delegates short of the 2,026 needed to secure the nomination."

So this journalist needs to rely on campaigns to tell them how many more delegates a candidate needs? He can't get a count from independent sources like the NY Times or CNN and report that?

It's "divide and conquer," win by 51%, triangulate ...
The way she looks at it, if she's got unity among
Democrats, she's doing something wrong (i.e., it
means she must be losing ground with her beloved
Rethugs).

...every Hillary supporter I know is a supporter because they believe Obama can't win.

he WON the nomination (please don't answer that he did not, that not everybody has voted, or the popular vote argument, or, or, or...)!! As some pundit with a brain, forgot who, said the other day, the SDs are NOT going to go her way based on poll results (even of they were conclusive, which they most definitely are not) or ANY other argument, unless something happens that makes Obama UNELECTABLE, which is completely different than LESS ELECTABLE (which he is not, but it's the bottom line of the Clinton argument). This was the true meaning of her RFK comments, not that she wants him to be assassinated, of course she does not. It's just that last shred of irrational hope that SOMETHING is going to happen.

is the best? and then there is this debt issue. um, nah. not the best.

If you're looking for a role model who has a terribly run campaign, a tone-deaf approach to what's really going on in this country and what the voters want, and the inability to understand logic, reasoning, and plain common sense. Oh yes, and if you want one who vacilitates between victimhood and being the "strong woman". And the lying. Ah, don't forget the lying. Yep, she's a role model-on who I never want to be nor do I ever want anyone to be. THis is why she is a failure. And failures are never, ever role models.