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Clinton presses case for Obama

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor November 3, 2008 10:14 AM

While a few skeptics still suspect she secretly wants Barack Obama to lose Tuesday, Hillary Clinton publicly is going all out for the man who bested her for the Democratic nomination.

Today, she is scheduled to meet with Obama's volunteers and staffers in Pittsburgh, attend a rally in St. Charles, Mo., and go to Duluth, Minn., to stump for US Senate candidate Al Franken.

She also had op-ed pieces published today in newspapers in New York and Florida, meaning she has a presence in five states.

"On Tuesday, New Yorkers and Americans have a big decision to make. Do we continue to pursue the policies of the past eight years or do we chart a new course? I believe we can and we must chart a new course led by President Barack Obama," she wrote in the New York Daily News.

"How can it be any other way? We find ourselves in an economic crisis born and bred by the failed policies of Washington Republicans: gut regulations; cut taxes for billionaires and big corporations instead of the middle class; continue tax breaks for oil companies, drug companies, insurance companies, and companies that ship jobs overseas; deny the home mortgage crisis; ignore the energy crisis; and dismiss the health care crisis....And the fact is, President Bush has practiced what Sen. John McCain has preached. We know that Sen. McCain and the Republicans are only offering more of the same."

In the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Clinton's pitch is targeted to Jewish voters.

"As Americans head to the polls on Nov. 4, we have an important responsibility: to choose a president who will make the changes we need here at home and strengthen America's standing around the world," she wrote.

"I am enthusiastically supporting Sen. Barack Obama, because I know that he will be that president. He shares my commitment to changing our nation's course and addressing the economic crisis taking a toll on the financial markets, small businesses and middle class families. And Sen. Obama shares my view that the next president must say to the world that America's resolve is unyielding: The United States stands with Israel."

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Bill and Hillary have done what they have been asked and expected to do for their Democratic Party. Don't be fooled! Don't think for a minute that either really wants
Obama to win! Replay their speeches prior to teh Convention. Therin lies the TRUTH!

Posted by Mary Moore November 3, 08 11:39 AM
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The facts are that she has done EVERYTHING that has been asked of her for Obama. And millions like me who voted for her in the primary, will do as she asks - vote enthusiastically for Obama. Don't kid yourself - anyone who really believed in Hillary could NEVER vote for McCain. NEVER. If they do, then they do not have the faintest idea what she has always stood for.

Posted by Jane November 3, 08 12:09 PM
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How can the Clinton's be so hypocritical and praise and endorse Obama? I'd have more respect for them, especially Hillary, if they went beyond the Democratic party and stood by the people who voted for Hillary, and who definitely won't vote for Obama. She should have shown strength of character. She knows OB is not good for the country and is an empty suit with no experience. Wake up people. Stand up for your own convictions, especially since the leaders you looked up to won't be honest.

Posted by Lark November 3, 08 12:42 PM
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As Americans render what Catholics call temporal judgment on George Bush, are they aware of the radical course correction they are about to make? This center-right country is about to vastly strengthen a liberal Congress whose approval rating is 10 percent and implant in Washington a regime further to the left than any in U.S. history. Consider. As of today, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat, anticipates gains of 15-30 seats. Sen. Harry Reid, whose partisanship grates even on many in his own party, may see his caucus expand to a filibuster-proof majority where he can ignore Republican dissent. Headed for the White House is the most left-wing member of the Senate, according to the National Journal. To the vice president's mansion is headed Joe Biden, third-most liberal as ranked by the National Journal, ahead of No. 4, Vermont Socialist Bernie Sanders. What will this mean to America? An administration that is either at war with its base or at war with the nation. America may desperately desire to close the book on the Bush presidency. Yet there is, as of now, no hard evidence it has embraced Obama, his ideology, or agenda. Indeed, his campaign testifies, by its policy shifts, that it is fully aware the nation is still resisting the idea of an Obama presidency. In the later primaries, even as a panicked media were demanding that Hillary drop out of the race, she consistently routed Obama in Ohio and Pennsylvania and crushed him in West Virginia and Kentucky. By April and May, the Democratic Party was manifesting all the symptoms of buyer's remorse over how it had voted in January and February.Get the book that started it all – Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation," personally autographed – for only $4.95, available today, but only from WND!Obama's convention put him eight points up. But, as soon as America heard Sarah Palin in St. Paul, the Republicans shot up 10 points and seemed headed for victory. What brought about the Obama-Biden resurgence was nothing Obama and Biden did, but the mid-September crash of Fannie, Freddie, Lehman Brothers, AIG, the stock market, where $4 trillion was wiped out, the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street that enraged Middle America – and John McCain's classically inept handling of the crisis. In short, Obama has still not closed the sale. Every time America takes a second look at him, it has second thoughts, and backs away. Even after the media have mocked and pilloried Palin and ceded Obama and Biden victory in all four debates, the nation, according to Gallup, is slowly moving back toward the Republican ticket. Moreover, Obama knows Middle America harbors deep suspicions of him. Thus, he has jettisoned the rhetoric about the "fierce urgency of now," and "We are the people we've been waiting for," even as he has jettisoned position after position to make himself acceptable. His "flip-flops" testify most convincingly to the fact that Obama knows that where he comes from is far outside the American mainstream. For what are flip-flops other than concessions that a position is untenable and must be abandoned? Flip-flopping reveals the prime meridian of presidential politics. If an analyst will collate all the positions to which all the candidates move, he will find himself close to the true center of national politics. Thus, though he is the nominee of a party that is in thrall to the environmental movement, Obama has signaled conditional support for offshore drilling and pumping out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. While holding to his pledge for a pullout of combat brigades from Iraq in 16 months, he has talked of "refining" his position and of a residual U.S. force to train the Iraqi army and deal with al-Qaida. On Afghanistan, he has called for 10,000 more troops and U.S. strikes in Pakistan to kill bin Laden, even without prior notice or the permission of the Pakistani government. Since securing the nomination, Obama has adopted the Scalia position on the death penalty for child rape and the right to keep a handgun in the home. He voted to give the telecoms immunity from prosecution for colluding in Bush wiretaps. This onetime sympathizer of the Palestinians now does a passable imitation of Ariel Sharon. No Democrat has ever come out of the far left of his party to win the presidency. McGovern, the furthest left, stayed true to his convictions and lost 49 states. Obama has chosen another course. Though he comes out of the McGovern-Jesse Jackson left, he has shed past positions like support for partial-birth abortion as fast as he has shed past associations, from William Ayers to ACORN, from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to his fellow parishioners at Trinity United. One question remains: Will a President Obama, with his party in absolute control of both Houses, revert to the politics and policies of the left that brought him the nomination, or resist his ex-comrades' demands that he seize the hour and impose the agenda ACORN, Ayers, Jesse and Wright have long dreamed of? Whichever way he decides, he will be at war with them, or at war with us. If Barack wins, a backlash is coming.

Posted by bill November 3, 08 01:06 PM
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The primary ended a long time ago folks. If Hilary can get over it, then so can you.

Posted by Peter November 3, 08 01:34 PM
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My personal opinion is that Hillary had $20 million of campaign debts after she withdrew from the race so she has to help Obama and the DNC so they, in turn, would help her pay down the debt. She's got her own economic crisis.

Posted by denheels November 3, 08 02:20 PM
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Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her Father! - John McCain

Posted by Classy McCain November 3, 08 02:26 PM
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Have you seen any clips of Hillary stumping? I swear you can actually see Hillary throw up in her mouth every time she says a complimentary thing about the One.

Posted by Dem4Mcain November 3, 08 03:19 PM
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Why are the Clintons speaking for Obama? The answer is easy, he bought them. Although it was done with little fanfare it was reported in most newspapers, even the liberal left, that Obama was paying off Hillary's campaign debts, in the millions somewhere betweed six ant 8 million.

Posted by Jack November 3, 08 03:43 PM
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For Mary Moore...listen to the comments made about McCain by his opponents during the republican primary and you will see the same thing. They all tear down their opponent and then support them in the genreal election. Don' be so naive.

Posted by Steve November 3, 08 03:53 PM
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Bill..get a life. Look at the hypocricy coming from both McGrumpy and Caribou Barbie. She is against socialism? Then why is she taking oil profits and giving over $3,000 to every Alaskan..including those that do not work. She is for family values? Maybe she should have stayed closer to home with her unwed pregnant daughter. McCain the flip flopper makes Kerry look good. I was for George Bush before I was against him. It goes on and on......Christian values?..until they head to remote bathrooms at gas stations....How many wives has McCain had?

Posted by Steve November 3, 08 03:58 PM
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Hillary is a democrat. She does not want John McCain choosing the next 1 or 2 supreme court justices. She does not want John McCain in charge of the pathetic mess that is the Iraq War. She does not want John McCain's (or Sarah Palin's) finger on the button. I'm sure she's disappointed she lost the primaries, and I'm sure she thinks she would have defeated McCain (she probably would have) but life goes on.

Posted by lefty November 3, 08 04:06 PM
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OBAMA IS THE NEXT JIMMY JONES

Posted by peeled November 3, 08 04:13 PM
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#26 on the list of reasons to celebrate an Obama victory: never having to hear from PUMA's again.

Posted by Somerville for Obama November 3, 08 04:55 PM
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No amount of weird analysis of a great woman doing what she thinks is right is going to change the outcome of the election. She will be happy about it and so will hundreds of millions of Americans. Get used to it.

Posted by Jane November 3, 08 05:06 PM
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