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<p>A disaster for whom?</p>
<p>For Obama, obviously. Was that even a remotely necessary question?</p>
<p>Depends what you mean by HRC “calling it quits”. The <em>most</em> she will do this week is suspend her campaign. She will not endorse Obama. Her goal is to weaken Obama further.</p>
<p>John McCain is one lucky man to have Hillary working on his behalf.</p>
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<p>Spare us the huffing and puffing, will you? It was a sarcastic comment. </p>
<p>Fwiw, some of us might think that the worst disaster for our country would be one that brings HRH Clinton back in the contest. As far as the tape surfacing after the nomination is wrapped up for Obama, that will probably be business as usual for a candidate who will be a target from Republicans and Clinton’s Democrats.</p>
<p>"Depends what you mean by HRC “calling it quits”. The <em>most</em> she will do this week is suspend her campaign. She will not endorse Obama. Her goal is to weaken Obama further.</p>
<p>John McCain is one lucky man to have Hillary working on his behalf."</p>
<p>Since her campaign started going south, she appeared to be a closet Republican.</p>
<p>“some of us might think that the worst disaster would be one that brings HRH Clinton back in the contest.”</p>
<p>Holy Batman! It would be the worst disaster. If anything should prevent Obama from moving forward, it would be best to draft Al Gore.</p>
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<p>First of all, it will be put to rest once it’s played and people hear the inflection in her voice that indicates it’s a question, not a statement.</p>
<p>And people who use it to dismiss Obama are those who would have never voted for him anyway. Anyone who chooses to believe she was saying whitey only wants to hear it that way and won’t give any credence to the inflection in her voice.</p>
<p>Added - I hope you guys realize I cut and paste my original post referring to the ‘tape’; those aren’t my words. I failed to use quotes or a quote block.</p>
<p>Sen. Claire McCaskill has been quoted as saying, today, that she has spoken to enough uncommitted superdelegates around the country to determine that Obama will reach the threshold necessary to claim the Democratic nomination by the end of Tuesday evening.</p>
<p>The magic number has “been shrinking so quickly,” McCaskill said.</p>
<p>Eight superdelegates announced their choices today— six for Obama and two for Clinton. In addition, House Majority Whip James Clyburn confirmed that he will endorse Obama on Tuesday.</p>
<p>So, I’m sticking with my “bet” that Obama has it tomorrow nite and Wednesday or Thursday Clinton will “suspend” her campaign (and, again, she ain’t quitting ever, certainly not till 2016 at the earliest)</p>
<p>Yahoo reported this earlier -“I want to say also that this may be the last day I’m ever involved in a campaign of this kind,” former President Clinton said.</p>
<p>In addition- "In a rare departure from the campaign trail, the New York senator and former first lady planned to hold an end-of-primary rally in New York Tuesday night, inviting donors and offering to fly field staffers from around the country to attend. She had no other events scheduled for Tuesday and aides said she planned to be on the telephone calling superdelegates in a last-ditch effort to undercut Barack Obama’s lead.</p>
<p>Clinton field hands who worked in key battlegrounds said they were told to stand down, without pay, and await instructions. Speaking not for attribution because they didn’t want to jeopardize their jobs searches, many said they were peddling resumes, returning to their hometowns or seeking out former employers."
It’s over.</p>
<p>This Michelle Obama tape story- I can’t believe that even Fox News would give it a second of airtime. Come on guys, who ever says “whitey”? How desperately are these people grasping? </p>
<p>Sad thing is some people will actually believe this, or at least use this to justify their voting against the black prospective first lady.</p>
<p>According to a friend, Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea have flown back to NY and she will make a speech there tomorrow night to many of her team and workers from across the country, many of whom will arrive tomorrow.</p>
<p>I don’t see Obama as being a ‘target of Clinton democrats’. All of the many Hillary supporters I know will be working very hard to ensure that the next president is a Democrat. I expect that Hillary will be doing the same.</p>
<p>OK, Thursday at 10 a.m. is still a possibility</p>