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Bill Clinton: 'This May Be the Last Day I'm Ever Involved in a Campaign of This Kind'
June 02, 2008 12:48 PM
ABC News' Sarah Amos Reports: Speaking to a crowd in Milbank, SD former President Bill Clinton admitted that today could be the last time he has such an active role in presidential politics.
"I want to say also that this may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind. I thought I was out of politics, 'til Hillary decided to run. But it has been, one of the greatest honors of my life to go around and campaign for her for president," said Clinton as he began his speech.
Watch the VIDEO HERE.
It was certainly not a long thought - nor something he seemed to want to dwell on. But for a man who has rarely shown even an inkling of defeat in the past year, even uttering the words says a lot.
June 2, 2008 in Bush, George W., Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (528)
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It's sad to see how Howard Dean ruined this primary. Democratic party resembles communist party with super eliteS deciding the fate of the nation.
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Posted by: frieda | Jun 2, 2008 12:52:53 PM
Don't be Sad, Bill!
You could always Open Up a Hooters
Restaurant!
You could go back to making nasty
partisan speeches at radical colleges
and get paid millions for that acid
tongue of yours! Adios, Bill!
Posted by: reaganfan | Jun 2, 2008 12:54:25 PM
Makes people wonder how much longer it will take for them to realize that they LOST! Goodbye and good riddance to the WORST political couple on our planet! The rotten tactics used against an opponent of your own party will go down in history. The excuses they have had to make all during this campaign are disgusting and so many of us can't wait for them to leave - leave already!
Posted by: Disparaged | Jun 2, 2008 12:58:50 PM
Not so fast. I don't interpret it as you do. I think he is saying he will not campaign for Obama. Good for him. Hillary will win as an independent. Hillary supporters will not be maneuvered into the corrupt Democratic fold.
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Posted by: ladiesfirst | Jun 2, 2008 1:02:12 PM
Bravo, now let's get on with the general election and uniting the democratic party. This is very disturbing to most Americans. Your campaign has been very strong but to keep threatening to bring the results of the DNC to yet another process is NOT in the best interest of the American people. I think doing so will result in the complete destruction of the Clinton era.
This is campaign no longer a reasonable fight it has become nasty and older women are fighting a battle that is noble, but to keep suggesting that someone is stealing votes for the Clinton's is totally absurd, not to mention dividing the democratic party along gender, etchnicity and religious lines.
The current DNC committee was built by Bill Clinton. Time to end this nasty battle.
Super delegates please step up and vote one way or the other.
Like a race horse that breaks it's leg they have to put down as a humane thing to do??? Something has got to give TUESDAY June 3rd. I switched my vote from Clinton to support OBAMA 2008.
Posted by: Lou | Jun 2, 2008 1:02:15 PM
Typo corrected: Bravo, now let's get on with the general election and uniting the democratic party. This is very disturbing to most Americans. Your campaign has been very strong but to keep threatening to bring the results of the DNC to yet another process is NOT in the best interest of the American people. I think doing so will result in the complete destruction of the Clinton era.
This campaign is no longer a reasonable fight it has become nasty and older women are fighting a battle that is noble, but to keep suggesting that someone is stealing votes from Hillary Clinton is totally absurd, not to mention dividing the democratic party along gender, etchnic and religious lines.
The current DNC committee was built by Bill Clinton. Time to end this nasty battle.
Super delegates please step up and vote one way or the other.
Like a race horse that breaks it's leg they have to put down as a humane thing to do??? Something has got to give TUESDAY June 3rd. I switched my vote from Clinton to support OBAMA 2008.
Posted by: Lou | Jun 2, 2008 1:04:58 PM
Frieda,
Howard Dean did not make the rules of the Democratic primary race!
Where do you people get this stuff?
Posted by: Mary, MI | Jun 2, 2008 1:08:28 PM
Lou wrote: "Bravo, now let's get on with the general election and uniting the democratic party."
I'm not interested in unity with Obama and that Chicago southside mob he calls a church.
Or his Syrian Iraqi Muslim poltical godfathers Rezko and Auchi, who still own his mansion grounds.
Or unity with his flag stomping bombing Marxist buddy Ayers.
Or unity with his Black Panthers wife Michelle. Can't wait for that video to come out.
Or unity with his Excelon puppet master Axelrod.
Nope, just not interested in unity with that at all.
Hillary '08
Posted by: rd | Jun 2, 2008 1:09:04 PM
In every presidential election they have won, the Democrats have solidified their historic link to white workers, not dismissed them. Obama and the champions of a new party coalition appear to think that everything has suddenly changed, simply because of the force of their own desires. In any event, Obama had shown no ability thus far to attract the one constituency that has always spelled the difference between victory and defeat for the Democratic Party. The party must now decide whether to go along with Obama and renounce its own heritage -- and tempt the political fates.
Posted by: david from texas | Jun 2, 2008 1:10:51 PM
Obama will never win, too bad McCain will win.
Posted by: CHANGE MAN | Jun 2, 2008 1:10:55 PM
The Barack Obama campaign and its sympathizers have begun to articulate much more clearly what they mean by their vague slogan of "change" - nothing less than usurping the historic Democratic Party, dating back to the age of Andrew Jackson, by rejecting its historic electoral core: white workers and rural dwellers in the Middle Atlantic and border states.
Without a majority of those voters, the Democrats have, since the party's inception in the 1820s, been incapable of winning the presidency. The Obama advocates declare, though, that we have entered an entirely new political era. It is not only possible but also desirable, they say, for Democrats to win by turning away from those whom "progressive" pundits and bloggers disdain variously as "Nascar man," "uneducated," "low information" whites, "rubes, fools, and hate-mongers" who live in the nation's "shitholes."
Having attempted, with the aid of a complicit news media, to brand Hillary Clinton as a racist -- by flinging charges that, as the historian Michael Lind has shown, belong "in black helicopter/grassy knoll territory," Obama's supporters now fiercely claim that Clinton's white working class following is also essentially racist. Favoring the buzzword language of the academic left, tinged by persistent, discredited New Left and black nationalist theories about working-class "white skin privilege," a vote against Obama has become, according to his fervent followers, "a vote for whiteness."
Posted by: david from texas | Jun 2, 2008 1:11:27 PM
It has become increasingly apparent that it is too much to hope for that Clinton and her supporters would simply "get real."
Posted by: Justinteim | Jun 2, 2008 1:12:22 PM
Bill Clinton: 'This May Be the Last Day I'm Ever Involved in a Campaign of This Kind'
From your lips to God's ears, Bill!!!!!!
PLEASE!!
Posted by: Lindy | Jun 2, 2008 1:14:51 PM
I don't see Obama winning the GE. He will not have Clinton's supporters votes...17+million. His nomination will be short-lived. Sorry, Clinton controls this nomination...without her, Obama is toast!
Posted by: jack | Jun 2, 2008 1:14:55 PM
You Promise
Posted by: ESH | Jun 2, 2008 1:16:02 PM
Let me cry you a river Bill....
Posted by: Karen | Jun 2, 2008 1:18:33 PM
Angie, Hillary did not rip the party to pieces. The DNC, with Dean, Pelosi, Kerry, and Kennedy did, along with the "StupidDelegates". Quit drinking your Kool Aid now and face reality....Obama will NEVER win the GE!
Posted by: jack | Jun 2, 2008 1:18:42 PM
angie....You hit it right on the head...
Posted by: truthtell | Jun 2, 2008 1:19:32 PM
I am interested in the tone of the Clinton campaign right now. Some of the campaign are still making very bullish noises but then every now and again someone says something along these lines. I think the Clinton campaign does know its losing but wants to end strongly for whatever reason. Whether its to give her more leverage for the VP slot or to launch a future run I don't know.
I do wonder mind why she seems prepared to risk all for 2008. Does she have private polling that shows Obama winning '08 and therefore knows she isn't going to get to run until 2016, when she would be nearing on 70, so perhaps she realises this is her one shot?
Posted by: markymark | Jun 2, 2008 1:20:39 PM
It's time for Obama. Clinton era was great. But it's time for change. All the intelligent people (Warren Buffet, Rupert Murdoch ..) have realized it along with million of Americans. McCain has made too many compromises in senate. He is a great guy too. Hillary would have become a another good president with a lots of new ideas. Not sure if she could muster 60 votes in senate to get anything done. Obama will bring great things to America. I am convinced. God bless America.
Posted by: Al, San Francisco | Jun 2, 2008 1:20:51 PM
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