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Clinton Says Goodbye to Campaign Staffers
June 04, 2008 4:30 PM
ABC News' Kate Snow Reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton visited staff at her headquarters in Arlington, Virginia Wednesday just after most of them had been told they would no longer have to report to work after Friday.
A staffer who was in the room said she invited all of her campaign staff to come to her home on Friday.
Before Clinton arrived, the staff was told that they would be paid through June 15th. But the bulk of the staff was told their last day of work would be Friday.
Junior staffers were emotional and some were crying and as Clinton left her headquarters, she waved to cameras outside.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., claimed victory in their the tightly contested Democratic nomination battle on Tuesday, after the votes from South Dakota and Montana were counted.
ABC News' Eloise Harper and Eileen Murphy contributed to this report.
June 4, 2008 in Bush, George W., Kucinich, Dennis, Tancredo, Tom, Veepstakes | Permalink | User Comments (83)
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Well I am with you Debra!
I can NOT stand Obama and there is no amount of b.s. that his supporters can spew to get me to even consider him.
Hillary '08 or anybody but obama
Posted by: Krissy K | Jun 4, 2008 4:56:48 PM
I'm an Obama supporter but I am sympathetic to Hillary and her supporters. They have worked their hearts out and it has to be painful at the end. They should be commended for their effort.
Posted by: Laura | Jun 4, 2008 4:57:37 PM
It won't be goodbye for long, Hillary.
As if we needed another reason to distrust Obama, his pal and fundraiser, Tony Rezko was just found guilty on several of the counts for which he was indicted. It's only a matter of time before Obama's Chicago corruption moves to the forefront.
Posted by: Emily | Jun 4, 2008 5:00:19 PM
It won't be goodbye for long, Hillary.
As if we needed another reason to distrust Obama, his pal and fundraiser, Tony Rezko was just found guilty on several of the counts for which he was indicted. It's only a matter of time before Obama's Chicago corruption moves to the forefront.
Really old Emily. Grow up.
Posted by: chelle | Jun 4, 2008 5:08:33 PM
Hillary Clinton is done. After her divisive behavior she will never get the Democratic leaders she needed just to stay in the race this time to support her for President ever again.
Not only will she not be elected President in 2008 she has no chance in 2012 or 2016 or as far forward as you want.
She better get good at being a Senator-in-waiting-for-seniority.
With supporters as out-of-touch and unequal to the bruising of political reality as Debra and Emily are, how could she ever have won? Answer: she couldn't and didn't, and the Democratic Party has been saved from an ugly, ugly Fall election.
Posted by: RD | Jun 4, 2008 5:09:34 PM
Hillary's 18 million supporters? Of course some of them will go to Obama, and some of them will go to McCain. There is not a 18-million VOID at the general election. Get real.
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Hillary is as much a loser, as I am an idiot.
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Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | Jun 4, 2008 5:11:00 PM
Obama is incompetent. He has 50 different mouths he talks out of. He will say or do anything to get what he wants.He looks and sounds like he never really has a clue what he is talking about, or where he is.
McCain 08!
Posted by: Vickie | Jun 4, 2008 5:11:09 PM
Had Rev. Wright, William Ayers and the rest of Obama closeted nutcase associates come out before Super Tuesday we would not have to deal with this ultra - Liberal fraud and fake leading our party to a November disaster.
It is a disgrace my party has been hijacked by the far left of our party - Dean, Pelosi and Obama.
Dems for McCain
Posted by: oldspice | Jun 4, 2008 5:13:42 PM
Caroline Kennedy will salvage Obama's dilema on avoiding putting Clinton on the ticket.
After Obama gets elected, Caroline Kennedy gets a cabinet post. Next thing you know, Caroline Kennedy runs for President. Truth is stranger than fiction. In the back of my mind for many years, I have always thought that it will actually be Caroline Kennedy who resurrects the JFK legacy by being elected the first woman President of the United States. Hold on to this email for posterity!
Posted by: Edith Meyers | Jun 4, 2008 5:14:07 PM
I am still supporting Hillary Clinton. Who is to say that she is not going to run as an Independent? She can do this. I just made another contribution to her campaign - her website is totally full of supporters urging her to go on! If she doesn't, well just maybe she'll team with McCain - She doesn't need the DNC - The DNC and its leaders dumped on her big time with their favoritism of obama - no one needs the DNC any longer. Why should Hillary Clinton bow to their wishes? She is and always has been her own woman and is the type of person that will make things happen in the White House.
Obama is historic? You gotta be kidding. What is historic about a race driven, dividing candidate that uses being black when it suits his black followers and then trying to use his white side when he thinks that he can placate the whites? This guy is creepy. How long before the reverend wright is back with him? How long before the Catholic priest is back at the pulpit screeching hate about McCain? Sure hope and change.
I hope that obama can just once stay with the same policies that he started out with and not change them when he feels its time to have his followers think what he is telling them to think. American does not need someone historic.
Posted by: Lou | Jun 4, 2008 5:14:47 PM
HILLARY MUST SAY NO TO VP POSITION.
IT'S AGAIST HER OWN INTERESTS.
HILLARY NEEDS TO RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT
WITH A VP OF HER CHOICE.
SHE NEEDS TO GET AWAY FROM THE
BLACK PARTY.
Posted by: Nicholas | Jun 4, 2008 5:15:22 PM
PLEASE I wish the media would stop speculating about what Hillary Clinton wants and might do. Speculation is not news! Stop stirring up the frenzy and giving her all of the attention that should rightly be given to Sen Obama at this historic moment in time.
Posted by: Beth | Jun 4, 2008 5:16:51 PM
When it's all said and done, if Obama loses, it's her fault.
Imagine, just imagine what these very same Hillary fanatics would be saying about Obama if the tables were turned.
Fanaticism is a losing game, you guys need to start accepting that it's over for her. Not only that, you need to start accepting that it's nearly impossible to support Hillary policies and hate Obama ones, because they're basically the same things.
I'm not asking you to just switch your support over to him right away, but at least start with a blank slate. You'll be surprised how much you can learn about somebody when you wash the prejudices out of your head.
Politics isn't professional sports, it's getting what's best for your country. If you really care about Hillary's platform, you'd at least give him a chance to change your mind.
Posted by: Carlos D | Jun 4, 2008 5:20:00 PM
The phony hypocrite is playing flip flop on iran now. A good learner from losers or Wright, often self-claiming honeheaded.
Iran is not a threat because it has smaller size than his USSR.
Posted by: fat cat | Jun 4, 2008 5:20:38 PM
There is no other way to do this. I will never vote for Hillary who will do and say anything to get elected. I will never vote for Obama whose ambition overwhelms his own ability and judgement. This Democrat is voting for McCain, and has to vote for McCain, a Vietnam War hero who was POW for this country for 5 1/2 years. Neither Hillary or Obama can compare to that experience or credit, not to mention they don't have the integrity.
Posted by: J | Jun 4, 2008 5:20:40 PM
Carlos D -
We are flipping support alright, not for Bho though.
He will be fried in Nov.
Posted by: fat cat | Jun 4, 2008 5:23:38 PM
obama will be the next president, otherwise god help us
Posted by: bhrandon | Jun 4, 2008 5:27:18 PM
CARLOS.
We will vote for McCain.
McCain is a war hero,leader with experience to be a commander in chief
and maistream politician.
Case is closed.
Posted by: Nicholas | Jun 4, 2008 5:29:38 PM
Rezko and Ayers made Obama, single handedly financed him to the Illinois senate. Obama crruption continues by allocating IL public money to the church of his good friend the P-guy in exchange for his campaign contributions.
Posted by: fat cat | Jun 4, 2008 5:39:50 PM
Of course Rezko was convicted. Everyone knew he would be; it's just a matter of how much time he gets.
The trial is a big problem for IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich. I'm guessing he won't be running for re-election in 2010.
Obama, though? The government announced - at the start of the trial - that they'd found nothing linking Obama to any criminal activity. This is after a six-year investigation into Rezko.
(For those of you conspiracy theorists who have trouble with arithmetic, the investigation was going three years BEFORE Obama bought his current house.)
Bottom line: It's news because of Rezko's political connections. But the story has no repercussions for Obama, because he was never accused of any wrongdoing, or even remotely connected with any illegalities during the trial.
Posted by: BMR, Pittsburgh PA | Jun 4, 2008 5:40:01 PM
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