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"The time has come for Hillary Clinton to make a historic announcement, certain to dismay her friends and confound her enemies, demonstrating her undeniable strengths – intelligence, ambition and resolve. Following on her massive Wisconsin primary defeat, she ought to surprise the nation and the world by announcing her decision not to contest Texas, Ohio or Pennsylvania, accepting Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee in opposition to John McCain.
Though she has been intermittently hostile in her comments on Mr Obama, it should be possible for her to say that she will do whatever she can to prevent a Republican victory in November...
By leaving the field voluntarily, recognising that it is in neither her interest nor the party’s to prolong the contest until the convention, she gains inf¬luence with Mr Obama, putting herself in a position to advise him on his running mate. More importantly, once out of the race, she is free to return to the Senate, adding to her enviable record as an effective member, which no Democrat questions. Given her undeniable gifts, it is possible for her to become the most powerful Democratic party figure in the Senate, resembling but exceeding Lyndon Johnson’s remarkable record in the pre-John Kennedy presidential years.
If Mr Obama is elected in November, she could do for him what Senator Robert Wagner of New York did for Franklin Roosevelt. On healthcare, the environment, minority rights and the economy, she could create a record as memorable as the one Wagner achieved by enacting major social security and old-age pension legislation and being the author of the Labour Act that to this day bears his name. Mrs Clinton, emerging as President Obama’s principal ally in the Senate, could add immeasurably to her stature, guaranteeing a second run for the presidential nomination in 2016 or indeed in 2012 were Mr Obama to lose the 2008 election to McCain, always a possibility. While Wagner, because of his Catholic religion, could never aspire to the presidency in his lifetime, Mrs Clinton could still expect to become America’s first woman president."
- That ain't going to happen.TheBlueOne
- she's blowing itRandd
- Could go down in history along with the Pats losing the SuperBowl in great fuckups...TheBlueOne
- Randd, where did you plagiarize that from? LOLmg33
- it's a QUOTE from my campaign adviser, Daily KozRandd