2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJUNE 8, 2008 - HRC Ends Campaign with Clear Call to Elect Obama. NYT
Clinton Ends Campaign With Clear Call to Elect Obama
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and MARK LEIBOVICHJUNE 8, 2008
WASHINGTON Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton brought her campaign for the White House to an end on Saturday with a rousing farewell to thousands of supporters here and an emotional and unequivocal call for her voters to get behind Senator Barack Obama, the man who defeated her for the Democratic nomination.
For 28 minutes, standing alone on a stage in the historic National Building Museum, Mrs. Clinton spoke not only about the importance of electing Mr. Obama, but also about the extent to which her campaign was a milestone for women. She urged women who had supported her who had turned out at her headquarters, flocked to her rallies and poured into the polls to vote for her not to take the wrong lesson from her loss.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/us/politics/08dems.html
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)moriah
(8,311 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)The legal mess she is in is going to stink the place up and only republicans will be happy.
Do us a favor Hillary and do what you did 8 years ago!
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)The 2008 California Democratic primary took place on February 5, 2008
California was one of the first - this time they are one of the last. Gee, I wonder why that happened?
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aikoaiko
(34,183 posts)moriah
(8,311 posts)... in "Hard Choices", or do you have another source that her statements there were lies?
aikoaiko
(34,183 posts)But reporters were talking about the debt = dropping out - endorsement quid pro quo as early as may 2008.
US elections: Hillary Clinton 'about to drop out'
By Alex Spillius in Washington
6:14PM BST 12 May 2008
Howard Wolfson, Mrs Clintons chief of communications, meanwhile admitted to debts of $21 million, but insisted the show would go on. The candidate has already lent her campaign $11.6 million, and there are suggestions that Mr Obama may help her out with a fundraising event if she quits soon and works for the good of the party.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1949789/US-elections-Hillary-Clinton-about-to-drop-out.html
moriah
(8,311 posts)You might be able to get a sneak preview through one of the booksellers free that will contain that section if you're really impatient.
Another cool thing is OpenLibrary and the libraries that have Overdrive e-book borrowing. I understand not wanting to pay her for the book just to hear the claims.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)At the end of the contest, Hillary sent an 11-page memo to superdelegates asking them to give her the nomination instead of Obama arguing that she was the stronger candidate, and Bill Clinton personally called the superdelegates arguing that America would not elect a black man. That strategy failed, and she conceded five days later.
Clinton's Closing Argument To Superdelegates
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/clintons-closing-argument-to-superdelegates/53314/
Hillary's Refusal to Concede in 2008 Haunts her in 2016.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-delegate-quit-222503
Hillary Refuses to Concede the Nomination
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24953561/ns/politics-decision_08/t/clinton-refuses-concede-nomination/
Hillary Refuses to Concede Despite Obama's Delegate Victory
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/democrats/2071811/Hillary-Clinton-refuses-to-concede-despite-Barack-Obama-delegate-victory.html
Obama OKs Donors To Help Clinton with Campaign Debt.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-oks-donors-to-help-clinton-with-campaign-debt/
WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)& pay it off.
Also said she'd accept the VP nod but ONLY if he didn't vet her. Things that make you go hmmm....