Panetta: Time for Clinton to Concede

It's funny how the media reports only on people who want to tell Hillary to quit now... when actually most of the people in the political circles are more respectful and won't ask her to bow out. They know she can have the next few weeks without hurting the Democratic party.

To answer your question, countallthevotes, the rush to announce she is finished comes before a primary where she is very likely to carry Kentucky, W Va, and Puerto Rico. On May 31st the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the DNC is also scheduled to decide if stripping the Fl and MI delegates was constitutional. It's because she still has a significant chance that she's being declared hopeless in the race. Orwellian isn't it?

gowestyoungman

Bill Clinton won from enthusiasm of a new fresh smart timely message...

not a stale establishment handed experience message. that is the difference...

Not to mention Obama is smart...

and carpenter nyc...it's not about "liberals"...that's a load of cr## ...who cares ...his policies make sense...
A healthcare package that can be passed that is focused on the priority problem...cost...but doesn't ignore that there is a problem that the "market" will fix ... and Americans need to practice preventative lifestyles...like Mccain's.

we need to raise our image in the world...and address the two biggest factors in the increase in terrorism... poverty in muslim or bordering muslim nations and our image as nuclear imperialistic satan...

that also has to be one of the top changes because we need the world to stop going down the path to "buying American is bad"...because that is the way they are heading.

This guy is SMART...with all capitals. Not elitist...not a snob...but smart.

Bill Clinton's message was about unifying ...not fighting. It was less about being a moderate as it was about bridging the two sides of issues about not dividing the country to go into a fight. Unfortunately what came to pass was an evolution of partisanship...which the carried over into the republicans taking over.

Bill did not run on "the other candidates can't get white votes"...

How tiresome. The same cynical, negative, dead enders are on here babbling the same doom and gloom, negative soundbites. I can see that Hillary and her supporters are going to win the state of DENIAL by a landslide. How many delegates will that state give her?

I like many others will vote McCain over Obama, and will work and donate to campaigns to assure we have a majority in the house and senate-which i believe will happen-that allows us to override any vetos president McCain issues-we can vote to defund the Iraq war, we can fillibuster and defeat any supreme court appointees that are extreme-lets not forget Sandra Day Oconnor was a republican appointee-A republican president who is a moderate, controlled by a demo congess and senate is actually the best case scenario. So vote McCain and put your time and money into your state elections-stop the destruction of our country by Obama

It ain't over, nor should it be! Hillary still has states she will win. Why suddenly with Obama's win in NC is the race over? Hillary was never predicted to win there. I never heard pundits state that if Obama wins NC, this thing is over. My understanding is that he was always predicted to take NC. NC is no kind of talisman for the GE. NC has gone red in the presidential GE since 1976!!!

Jake, what is this really all about?? Why the sudden rush?

Rezko is far from over. Rezko has unitil the verdict is rendered to enter into a plea deal. He also has the opportunity to cooperate prior to and after to sentencing. Recall, Rezko presented no defense whatsoever which means essentially the case was being tried for mitigation of sentence purposes.

Could it be as the bloggers elsewhere have presented that the Obama people want to send a clear message to Clinton supporters to save their money and not even vote since it won't matter; the race is over?

I blog on ABC often even though I know they are a large supporter of Hillary.

I support Obama

But Hillary Clinton endless meaningless effort to stay in the race to damage Obama..

To damage our Party has made me so dishearted.

The Dem THINK oh this is good for the party its not. Its dissappointing that the only reason Hillary is still in the race is because superdelegates some at least are afraid to say its over because she is Bill Clinton wife.

This has been an unfair process on Obama he came in as the underdog and Hillary is still treating this way.

IF we don't win with Obama I BLAME Hillary and Bill. The two top democrats who seem to can't let it go.

Even at the expense of our Party.

At this very moment I'm so sad.

Sad that our party is going down in a year where we had it all.

Hillary bringing up gender, bringing race bringing up any and everything she can to win.

And no one is saying anything.

I don't know if I'm going to vote this Nov

Even my main man Obama wins the Nominee Hillary Clinton has made so dishearted about how unfair this process has been

That my excitement about being a Democrat, About feeling like apart of something big is dying..

When they poll on the standings in college football the factor in the stregnth of the opponent in each game. In other words it is not just a count of victories but how important was each victory, how strong was the opponent. If the number of electoral votes that each state has were factored in to the primary formula.then Hillary would be ahead. If all about Obama had been out earlier Hillary would be ahead. Obama lost Indiana, a sister state to Illinois. The DNC has doomed us by sticking us with this jerk.

I remember... The Today show.

A quote

"Edwards said the value of endorsements is "greatly inflated" and acknowledged that Obama "has done pretty well without any endorsement from John Edwards."."

Why not say Obama and Clinton...

Edwards gave it up on both the Today Show and Morning Joe interviews

Today's Boston Globe, Kennedy threat to Clinton:

"At this point, her possibilities and her future in the party are very sound," says US Senator Ted Kennedy, an Obama supporter. "But the ending and the follow-up always make the difference."

I support Obama and I'm against Hillary pushing more damage on Dem Party, but I blame the party for letting the races continue.

This isn't good for the party its only dividing it

The superdelegants are making things worse..

I was a dye hard fan of the Dem winning because how could we lose in a year like this..

I don't believe that anymore..Hillary is making our chance to win in Nov almost impossible and the Head of the Dem Pary and Superdelegates are letting her.

Sign

Someone who has lost faith in this whole process.

"Hillary is still winning states! What does that mean about Obama?"

Simple, it means he doesn't have Rush Limbaugh out encouraging republicans to vote for him!!!

Give it up people! Hillary is old politics and old news! It's time for a change!

Obama 08

At the risk of upsetting Sen Clinton supporters, The nomination process is all but over. Saying that, Clinton should stay until all primaries are finished. She has run a historic and meaningful campaign.I don't think Democrats will not cross over to McCain. When the passions of the Democratic Nomination dies down, common sense will prevail and dems will unite to tackle the important issues of the Country. McCain = Installing 2 Supreme Court justices who are anti-abortion, Roe vs Wade will be repealed, Continuation of the Iraq war, No Healthcare plan and No Economic or Energy policy.

Common Sense will prevaile!!!

I've made a second contribution to Hillary's campaign; I hope she stays in the race! She is America's only hope between a continuation of Bush policies and moving the country so far to the left that it will be unrecognizable. The New Messiah's pedestal is crumbling (albeit slowly); by November, Americans MAY realize what a disaster Obama would be as our President. At his present rate, he will be a fallen idol by November. If Hillary quits, my wife and I will have to vote for McCain.

so its obvious bruce doesnt keep up todate

better go see what stance McCain has on immigration now....

Majority of Hispanics are Catholic and after what Pastor John Hagee said and McCain still accepting his endorsement...

McCain just lost two groups, hispanics and Catholics

dl: You must be a Obama supporter because you don't have your facts straight-The last Democratic win-came with a CENTRIST democrat-BILL CLINTON-Lefty LIBERALS are the CAN'T WIN segment of the party...tooo far left or tooo far right and you've lost the heart of the party-you need a political education--and you are about to get it....

Mr. Obama will be the nominee. The Fl and MI votes will not be counted, but will be recorded. The popular vote will be very close and may even favor Mrs. Clinton. Since neither candidate will have enough pledged delegates, the super delegates will have the final say. The other scenario is for Mrs. Clinton to concede, giving the party elite a way out. What a mess!

The large number of Hispanic Americans who voted Clinton in the primary will mostly switch to McCain. McCain is popilar with them as they favor his stance on immigration. Crossover will be high. Another crossover factor will be the fact that McCain has always been a darling of the independents. Another is the fact that McCain is the one Republican in the Senate that a few years back Democrats actually approached to join the Party. McCain is the rebel Republican and millions of Democrats will vote for him. Again the DNC has doomed us to four more years of Republican rule. Obama is not a debater nor is he really much of a politican. His speeches and script were lifted from Deval Patricks (another African American) who recently won the Governorship of Massachusetts. We are doomed thanks to the DNC. If the Florida and Michigan vote had been counted then the supers would have broke for Hillary.

Janice, your math is wrong! These are not winner-take-all states. According to several sources, there are only 217 pledged delegates remaining: WV (28), KY (51), OR (52), PR (55), MT (16) and SD (15). While there are differing pledged delegate counts, using your totals, Sen. Obama leads by 161 pledged delegates. Based on the complicated formulas in which the Democrats allocate their delegates, even if Sen. Clinton were to win all 6 primaries, she is not likely to receive more than a net gain of 60 delegates. That would still leave her about 100 delegates shy.

Now then EVEN IF you were to include FL and MI based on the original primary results, Sen. Clinton would have a net gain of only about 65 pledged delegates. That would still leave her about 35 pledged delegates BEHIND Sen. Obama.

No matter how you slice it, Sen. Clinton cannot pass Sen. Obama in the pledged delegate count. So the only way she can win the Democratic Party nomination is if the superdelegates hand her the nomination. THAT is why she will not quit. Sen. Clinton still believes that the superdelegates will go her way.