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Obama-Backing Senator Calls for Clinton to Drop Out
March 28, 2008 9:46 AM
Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vermont, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a high-profile supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, has called for Obama's opponent to drop out of the race.
In an interview on Vermont Public Radio, said "There is no way that Senator Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination. She ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama. Now, obviously that's a decision that only she can make frankly I feel that she would have a tremendous career in the Senate."
Listen to a clip from the interview HERE.
Leahy said he was fretting about the impact of the protracted Democratic race.
"I am very concerned," he said. "John McCain, who has been making one gaffe after another, is getting a free ride on it because Senator Obama and Senator Clinton have to fight with each other. I think that her criticism is hurting him more than anything John McCain has said. I think that's unfortunate."
Campaigning in Mishawaka, Indiana Friday, Clinton didn't specifically address Leahy's comments, reports ABC News' Eloise Harper.
But Clinton did say, "There are some people who are saying, you know, we really ought to end this primary, we ought to shut it down."
"No!" the crowd shouted.
"There was a poll the other day that said 22 percent of democrats want me to drop out and 22 percent want Senator Obama to drop out and 62 percent said let people vote," Clinton said. "One thing you know about me when I tell you I will fight for you I will get up every day and that's exactly what I will do."
Watch the VIDEO HERE.
Clinton also suggested working for the American people is her calling.
"I believe going to work for you is what I am called to do," she said.
- jpt
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These men want her to quit because they know she will win,and they are scared. They keep running to CNN TO run another false poll saying she can't be trusted. CNN was shown up to make false poll against Clinton by the PA voters. They said we trust her. CNN wipes Obama's nose every time he stumbles, but Americans are smart, and use their common sense, you don't get programed for 20 years with your Pastors ranting hate for white people that Obama thinks the same way, and he did admit he would not give up his Pastor Wright. Obama lovers you should know "Y0U CAN FOOL SOME PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME, BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME' Therfore Clinton will be elected President in 2008.
Posted by: Madelyn Ryder | May 2, 2008 5:03:00 PM
I am in Oregon. To say stop the vote and drop out is totally undemocratic. Our vote out west has never count, this is our chance. The same with Indiana and NC. Just shows you where Obama stands, he is far from being a Democrat.
Also why does he constantly lie and never mention that as a child he lived and went to school in Indonesia from six to ten years of age?
How come the Blackwell scandel has not made the news today?
Posted by: Tony B. | Apr 28, 2008 11:36:26 AM
I think McCain needs to drop out he just isn't a powerful enough speaker.Obama is from Illinois and people from Illinois really aren't that smart. Clinton knows the Whitehoue like the back of her hand.when she was in the Whitehouse she was called the second president.
Posted by: Trey | Apr 26, 2008 4:47:09 PM
I think McCain needs to drop out he just isn't a powerful enough speaker.Obama is from Illinois and people from Illinois really aren't that smart. Clinton knows the Whitehoue like the back of her hand.when she was in the Whitehouse she was called the second president.
Posted by: Trey | Apr 26, 2008 4:44:23 PM
Somebody making an opinion of what he views is Right does not make the person as our enemy.
As such you lots stop bombarding Lehy for his thought. I know deep down if Obama is in such situation, peolpe will always have their opinion about a way forward.
Hillary supporters seemed to me they all would have graduated from the same School of Thought, different from we others. As such, if only the Hillary supporters shall stop draging the Democrats and Obama and his supporters in to Political Gutter.
I hope at this juncture Hillary will stop henceforth not to continuosly damaging Democratic party or think of causing Caeos among supporters by not Restricting herself from usin Gutter Politics to stain Democratic Presidential Rules and Process.
She can therefore stay as long as she wants, that is what Obama wants so that a winninig contender can come up in time whilst the Remaining Super Delegates decide who they are endorsing as quickly as possible so as to save our time to ganner energy and strategy for the General Election against Mc Cain.
Posted by: Roy | Apr 7, 2008 9:27:41 AM
Obama will get the nomination even without Florida and Michigan. And he will have a landslide win over McCain in November.
Posted by: Sebastian 11 | Apr 1, 2008 2:45:35 AM
Senator Leahy affects a condescending attitude, especially with that little word "frankly." We already know Leahy is being frank, the use of that word apparently is just to highlight the fact he is trying to act like somebody's daddy, a trick right out of Reagan's playbook. Why should anyone pay any attention to what this tired old representative of the New England hoity toity liberal elite, bereft of new ideas, has to say?
Posted by: homes1 | Mar 30, 2008 1:07:51 PM
I have no respect for Hillary. I understand it is her right to stay in the race even if there is no way she can mathmatically overtake Obama's lead. No one should make that decision for her. What I don't like is her bitterness. She IS NOT staying in the race because she expects to win. She's staying in because she wants to put her message out there..."I may not win, but neither will Obama." She'd rather McCain win than Obama, despite the fact she and Obama agree on almost every single issue. That's why she said she and McCain have experience and Obama has a speech. Her own bitterness is getting in the way of the objectives of the democratic party. And now the media is afraid to criticize her because she complained that she's been treated unfairly.
Posted by: Mary | Mar 30, 2008 2:08:35 AM
That was poetic Jacksmith..
Posted by: JoJo1967 | Mar 29, 2008 7:21:49 PM
If for some reason Clinton does not win the nomination becasue florida and michigan were not seated I will simply sue the DNC florida and michigan for every single penny that I have contributed to Hillary clintons campaign. I didn't contribute money to her campaign so they could screw up the election and give my candidate an unfair result.
Posted by: JoJo1967 | Mar 29, 2008 6:58:21 PM
If the most offensive thing about Obama is his old pastor then he will have my vote
Posted by: PDC | Mar 29, 2008 6:09:16 PM
Yes, drop out. We need 4 more years of Bush.
Posted by: drwfll | Mar 29, 2008 6:08:06 PM
Jacksmith; I love it!!!!
Posted by: irma | Mar 29, 2008 6:02:31 PM
YOU MIGHT BE AN IDIOT:-)
If you think Barack Obama with little or no experience would be better than Hillary Clinton with 35 years experience.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience can fix an economy on the verge of collapse better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) led the greatest economic expansion, and prosperity in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience fighting for universal health care can get it for you better than Hillary Clinton. Who anticipated this current health care crisis back in 1993, and fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds to get universal health care for all the American people.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience can manage, and get us out of two wars better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) went to war only when he was convinced that he absolutely had to. Then completed the mission in record time against a nuclear power. AND DID NOT LOSE THE LIFE OF A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NOT ONE!
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience saving the environment is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) left office with the greatest amount of environmental cleanup, and protections in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with little or no education experience is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) made higher education affordable for every American. And created higher job demand and starting salary's than they had ever been before or since.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience will be better than Hillary Clinton who spent 8 years at the right hand of President Bill Clinton. Who is already on record as one of the greatest Presidents in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that you can change the way Washington works with pretty speeches from Obama, rather than with the experience, and political expertise of two master politicians ON YOUR SIDE like Hillary and Bill Clinton..
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton. :-)
Best regards
jacksmith...
Posted by: jacksmith | Mar 29, 2008 5:43:24 PM
Mr Leahy i hope you are doing this on your free time, which i doubt. You are an elected official so you should know how it feels to be running for something and being very close to winning. The process is still on going and millions of voters are waiting to vote for one or the other candidate, don't try to squash that chance for voters. It's their given right when they turn 18 or become a citizen of this great nation. Stop acting irresponsible by talking nonsense, neither candidate have what it takes to grab the nomination. We all know you are talking because you are a Obama supporter, but please stop talking and don't take momentum away from the voting process.
Posted by: Persio | Mar 29, 2008 5:32:49 PM
Oh sure, Obama's momentum is gone! Why don't you all go back to your little church and hate all the people who WON"T VOTE 4 YOU! Get out Obama! We can't stand ya! The can't stand ya numbers are growing. You can't make the qualified person step aside for your "whatever" it is you're selling.
Posted by: irma | Mar 29, 2008 4:17:56 PM
Ken Blackwell is a black man too.
Posted by: mark101 | Mar 29, 2008 2:29:11 PM
Ken Blackwell - Columnist for the New York Sun
It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first frontrunning freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first.
We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender. Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.
The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at him.
Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He's not. He's the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts.
Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton. Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost.
Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he's not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant. Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let's look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this superficial "beauty."
Start with national security, since the President's most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists - something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.
Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on "the rich." How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.
Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, "All praise and glory to God!" but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have "hijacked" - hijacked - Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban - ban - on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francis co values, not Middle America values.
The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of "bringing America together" means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs.
But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and - yes - they're talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama's radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton.
It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let's first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war.
Kind of scary, wouldn't you think Remember--God is good, and is in time, on time--every time.
According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ is: The anti-christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything. Is it OBAMA??
I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to repost this as many times as you can! Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet...do it!
If you think I am crazy..I'm sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the "unknown" candidate.
Posted by: lewis | Mar 29, 2008 2:22:43 PM
Superdelegates should pay attention to the Clinton supporters too. Senator Bayh said in an interview on CNN, "Who carries the states with the most Electoral College votes is an important factor to consider because ultimately, that's how we choose the president of the United States,". So if Clinton wins PA and Indiana, she's ahead in the votes that count in November. Obama can count all the red states he wants, but those Republicans and Independents only voted for him because they know he will be easier to beat in November.
Posted by: Tim | Mar 29, 2008 2:12:12 PM
When Bill Clinton left office in 2001 his job approval rating was over 60%. Right now that 60% is greater than the combined job approval ratings of both George Bush and Congress. So maybe Dodd and Pelosi and Kerry and Kennedy should just go back to Congress and do the jobs they were elected to do and let the voters decide who they want for their nominee. Democracy - what a novel idea!!
Posted by: Grammy Barb | Mar 29, 2008 1:58:20 PM
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