Comments on: Clinton to Bow Out, Endorse Obama

By: Fence

Fence — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:27:01 +0000

Does she have any notion at all how much less damage she would have done to herself and to Obama if she just had done it four days earlier instead?? I did some peeking at the Dem-lean blogs and there was real disgust with her that night. It isn't like that wasn't foreseeable, this result has been virtually certain for a couple months. This morning I ran into someone who had traveled out of state to do door to door for Kerry. She said there was no way she would vote for Obama and would stay home. It is a puzzle to me, Obama seems at worst a younger, less experienced John Kerry. My guess is that if Hillary hadn't run she's have a picture of Obama in her bedroom. But if this kind of reaction persists McCain will be in great shape.

By: Beldar

Beldar — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:10:18 +0000

She wants to be known to have been asked. She wants to turn it down gracefully, with a nominal different mission -- he's suggested already that she be the once and future healthcare legislative czar, but I'm thinking foreign affairs, where she can go centrist and actually relieve him of a problem (i.e., that we're winning). I don't see her taking any formal cabinet post, however: the arrangement will be ad hoc, "transformational."

By: Bithead

Bithead — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:30:03 +0000

I concur with the view Dave Schuler has expressed repeatedly on OTB Radio that this was her last shot at the presidency. If Obama wins, her next opportunity will be in 2016, a mighty long time after her husband’s presidency. If Obama loses, as previously noted, she’ll be viewed with all the love Democrats now have for Ralph Nader.

(Chuckle)
Yeah, that's about the size of it.
Also of consideration, an I think this case a little stronger... She's annoyed far too many of her own party to gain any momentum for a run in 2012, assuming Obama loses. She would likely get a lot of the blame, from both an emotional standpoint as well as the factual. And frankly, I think the emotional is the bigger worry, with Democrats.