Clinton: Not going anywhere
If there were any doubt, Hillary Clinton is making clear in a series of national TV interviews to air today that she has no plans to give up.
"I'm not going anywhere," she said on CNN, "except to Kentucky and Oregon and Montana, South Dakota and Puerto Rico," rattling off the remaining Democratic contests.
Shown the cover of Time magazine, which all but declared Barack Obama the winner, she said. "This is the closest election we've ever had, that anyone can remember.....People have been trying to end it, but the voters just won't let it happen.
"There is no winner yet," she added, then repeating her call to seat the disputed delegates in Florida and Michigan. Including those in her count, that would require a candidate to get 2,210 delegates, though the media and the Democratic National Committee says the magic number is 2,026 delegates.
“Well, the delegate race is still very close," Clinton said in an interview on Fox News. "And people forget, superdelegates are not bound to do anything. They don't have to make a decision. They can wait and watch. They can wait until the convention. They can change their mind a dozen times between now and the convention....So are we in the last two minutes of a game that you don't think one or the other can win? You go to the buzzer, maybe it goes into overtime. We don't know."
Asked in the Fox News interview about her interest in vice president, she replied: “I’m not entertaining that either because I am so focused on getting up every morning, doing what I can to try to get the nomination. That’s what I believe I need to do and until the buzzer sounds and there is a nominee, that’s what I’m going to do every day.”
Clinton also agreed with one of her key supporters that her remark last week about her strong support among "hard-working Americans, white Americans" was the dumbest thing she could have said.
"Well, he's probably right," she said on CNN of Congressman Charlie Rangel of New York.
She said that she regrets that some are "exploiting" the racial gap in recent primaries -- with the overwhelming majority of black voters supporting Obama and a sizable majority of white voters backing her.
"I have worked very hard to get the votes of everyone," she said. "I think people vote for me because they think I'd be the better president."
She's lost it! Why can she be allowed to continue?
Clinton never gives up. Thanks God for her.
If Democrats really cared about winning White House, Hillary is the candidate. If they happen to decide what IOWA decided, and simply fall behind the queue, we are repeating the same mistakes we have made in the last two elections.
Opinion polls do matter only to some extent. Actual poll will be entirely different. By tarnishing Hillary, Democrats are digging a deeper ditch for themselves.
Obama is not going to win. period. Stop hurting Hillary - the only hope. Obama wave is more among smaller vocal lot. Are you imagining Republicans are just waiting on the sides to wait for their turn to vote for him?
All Democratic leaders have to do is prepare for acceptability of either candidate, without offending the other. The Super delegates, do not seem to care about this. May God Bless Democrats. Never blame Clintons if Obama happens to be the nominee and defeated in Novemeber.
I am sure that Hillary would love the chance to steal furniture from the White House when you leaves and to strip Air Force One on the trip home. If she does not make it , poor Bill will miss a chance at another incoming group on interns!
The thing I don't understand about the Obama camp and some Democrats is why are they screaming and calling for Hilliary Clinton to drop out of the race while it is still going on ? It is becoming a nuisance and ugly what they are planning we'll see if their belittle of Hilliary Clinton pays off or would it come back to bite them.With such attitude of Barrack Hussein Obama supporters one thing I know for sure Hilliary voters will go south to Mccain untill we meet again in 2012.
skmj,
I voted for Barack Hussein Obama. I'm not afraid of his middle name. Deal with it.
Also, I don't think Hillary Clinton needs to drop out. She's doing a lot more damager to her own reputation by staying in.
#5SJB
She's competing very well and I don't see any reason she should drop out you Obama supporters are putting a knife in our backs and cutting the Party in half.
These are classic Orwellian times. Republicans have set up Obama to beat Clinton who they are far more fearful of. How will it play out? It doesn't matter. It'll be just more bad news for the American people. If Obama manages to defeat McCain, what do we have? If McCain wins, where will he take us? And, who in their right mind would want the Clintons back in power. Don't have a reasonable choice. Do we?
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