Bill Clinton, former president, has announced that he is willing to campaign for White House hopeful Senator Barack Obama, who defeated his wife Hillary Clinton in the Democratic nomination race.
“He said he wanted me to campaign with him and I said I was eager to do so,” Clinton told reporters, “But he is busier than I am on politics anyway so I just told him whenever he wanted to do it I was ready. So it is basically on their timetable. He’s got a lot of things to do between now and the convention of which this is simply one. So I will do whatever I’m asked to do whenever I can do it.”
Obama and Clinton had a private meeting on June 30, but Mr. Clinton has not yet spoken publicly about it.
Clinton’s support has been branded as more of a liability than an asset for Obama, by Democratic strategists and a former fund-raiser for Senator Clinton’s campaign.
When asked to comment on the Jesse Jackson episode. Bill Clinton replied “He’s a good man. You know, if all of us lived on live mics, then 100% of us in this room would be embarrassed from time to time.”
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Hillary Rodham Clinton admited defeat and endorsed Barack Obama on Saturday. She urged her supporters to start campaigning on behalf of her former rival Barack Obama.
“I congratulate him on the victory he has won and the extraordinary race he has run. I endorse him, and throw my full support behind him. And I ask all of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me,” Mrs. Clinton said, after announcing that she had suspended her campaign.
She called on her supporters to “take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama the next president of the United States.”
With Clinton endorsing Obama as the Democratic Nominee, the question is:
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Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first African-American to run for the nation’s highest office as the standard bearer of a major political party.
“This is our moment … our time to turn the page on the policies of the past,” Obama declared
“Because of you, tonight I can stand here and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for the president of the United States of America,” he said.
On the other hand, Hillary Clinton, speaking in New York City Tuesday evening, did not concede the race. “This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no decision tonight,” she said to cheering supporters.
With some Montana and South Dakota pledged delegates still outstanding, the AP reported that Obama has 2,144 delegates, and Clinton has 1,919.5.
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Refusing to concede defeat despite the certainty of Obama’s nomination, Hillary Clinton told supporters, in a speech in New York, that: “This has been a long campaign and I will be making no decisions tonight.”
I thought she is going to concede defeat but she ended the speech with “no decisions tonight”. On the other hand, Barack Obama has claimed victory.
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An article, “The Comeback Id” in the July issue of Vanity Fair has made claims that former president Bill Clinton has had an affair with American film and television actress Gina Gershon.
“Recent high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip that Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California.” Todd Purdum says in his article on former president Bill Clinton.
Todd Purdum, who is married to former president Bill Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers, writes in his story “The Comeback Id” that President Clinton is “seeing a lot of women on the road” and that according to “recent high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip … Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California.”
“I reject the notion that I’m making an insinuation,” said Purdum on CNN. “But I’m very comfortable quoting the people I quote because I know who they are, and I know that they are very senior people who have known President Clinton for a very long time and work for him at very high levels.”
Bill Clinton’s office has denied the report, calling it “a tawdry, anonymous quote-filled attack piece” and “journalism of personal destruction at its worst.”
Bill Clinton was exposed for having an affair with Monica Lewinsky while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996.
Gershon’s representative has informed ET: “Todd Purdum’s insinuation is a lie and it is irresponsible journalism. We are demanding a retraction.”
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Is the race over for Hillary Clinton?
Hillary Clinton has refused to drop out of a race and hint that Obama could be assassinated.
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing calls to drop out.” Hillary Clinton said.
Will Obama be assassinated before the race is over for Hillary Clinton? Well It seems that the race is not over till it’s over for Hillary Clinton.
Would a young Hillary Clinton be any different?
Well, check out this young Hillary Clinton video:
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Oregon Election Results. Barack Obama win the Oregon primary.
Barack Obama is now within 100 delegates of the total he needs to become the Democratic candidate for the US presidency.
“You have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination,” he told cheering supporters in Iowa.
“You are Democrats who are tired of being divided, Republicans who no longer recognize the party that runs Washington, independents who are hungry for change,” he said.
Clinton, vowed to remain in the race, said, “I’m more than determined than ever to see that every vote is cast and every ballot is counted.”
He had 1,949 delegates overall, out of 2026 needed for the nomination. Clinton had 1,769 according the latest tally.
Here is the video of Obama in Iowa.
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75,000 people turned out to hear Obama rally in Portland this afternoon. This is his largest crowd to date according to the campaign.
Here are some of the things he said during the rally:
“I don’t give up on things, we’ve gotta make choices and we can’t be everywhere at once,”
“We will have the majority of pledged delegates at that point and obviously are going to make the argument to any superdelegates remaining that we should be the nominee,”
“I just want everybody to understand, that Senator Clinton and I have had a terrific contest, she has been a formidable candidate, she has been smart and tough and determined and she has worked as hard as she can. And she has run an extraordinary campaign, it has been an extraordinary campaign,”
“And look, we have real differences on certain issues, but whatever differences exist between myself and Senator Clinton pale in comparison to the differences with the other side.”
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Ted Kennedy, 76 years old US Senator, aka Edward M. Kennedy, was flown by helicopter to Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital on Saturday after suffering a seizure but was recovering well enough by afternoon to watch a Red Sox game from his hospital room.
Ted Kennedy did not suffer a stroke, as was first feared, and doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital said he is not in any immediate danger.
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For the first time this campaign season, Barack Obama has surpassed Hillary Clinton’s support among superdelegates yesterday when he added more endorsements from the group of Democrats who will decide the party’s nomination for president.
Obama added superdelegates from Utah, Ohio, and Arizona, as well as two from the Virgin Islands who had previously backed Clinton. The additions enabled Obama to surpass Clinton’s total for the first time in the campaign. He gained nine endorsements Friday.
A sad day for Hillary Clinton.
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