The Magnanimous End of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential Campaign

Senator Barack Obama received the most important endorsement of his presidential campaign from his archrival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton when she conceded the highly coveted presidential nomination of the United States Democratic Party to him on Saturday June 7, 2008. Then she called on her estimated 18 million voters and donors to support and vote for him in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election in November.
“I endorse him and throw my full support behind him, and I ask of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me," Senator Hillary Clinton said.

Hillary Clinton said this was not the kind of finale she had hoped for when she began her presidential campaign in 2007, but she certainly loved the company of the mammoth crowd of her enthusiastic supporters and well-wishers who thronged the National Building Museum in Washington D.C, .to witness the suspension of her historic presidential campaign. She has proved that she is a formidable presidential candidate after the grueling six months of primaries and caucuses in 50 U.S. states and in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Democrats Abroad..

Senator Hillary Clinton definitely would have been the inevitable presidential nominee of the Democratic Party if the political phenomenon of Obamania never erupted. She was overwhelmed by the sudden popularity of Senator Barack Obama who became the new poster boy of American Democracy since former President Bill Clinton. The Clintons could not checkmate the Black Knight in shining armor and all the pawns they threw at Barack Obama failed to stop him. They thought he would not do better than Rev. Jesse Jackson who was the most ambitious African-American presidential candidate before Senator Barack Obama, but he became the irresistible superstar of the American Dream.

The so-called inevitability or invincibility of the presidential candidacy of Senator Hillary Clinton was a myth created by the American mainstream news media until they were dazzled and fazed by the superlative sensationalism of the presidential candidacy of Senator Barack Obama and his big budget. He attained rock star status and won the hearts of millions of American youths with his flowery speeches and suave mannerisms and off the hook political correctness and practical understanding of political rhetoric.

Millions of his fans and the detractors of the Clintons who preferred the new kid on the block of American politics flooded the most popular American online social networks of the new generation, such as MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. He beat Hillary Clinton in the first presidential contest when he won the Iowa Democratic caucuses on January 3, 2008 and made one of the best political speeches in American political history. America has never had such a charismatic presidential candidate since President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) and the media dubbed Barack Obama the new JFK and even Caroline Bouvier Kennedy endorsed him as a President like her father. But the undaunted Hillary Clinton stopped the momentum of Barack Obama’s victory in Iowa when she defeated him in the next contest in the New Hampshire Democratic primary on January 8. She defeated him again at the Nevada Democratic precinct caucuses until he routed her in the South Carolina primary after using his campaign and news media to rubbish and tarnish the public image of the Clintons over their inappropriate remarks at their political campaign rallies.

The Super Tuesday Democratic primaries and caucuses were keenly contested, but Hillary Clinton won the most populous states and became the frontrunner until he overtook her after his winning streak in ten states. She miscalculated the projections of her presidential campaign after the Super Tuesday and she could not stop his insurmountable lead to clinch the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party and became the first African-American to become the presidential nominee of a major political party in the history of the United States of America.

It was the great Aristotle, who called magnanimity "the crowning virtue" and that is what I saw in the honorable personality of Senator Hillary Clinton as she acknowledged the best qualities of Senator Barack Obama and became his strongest ally when she honorably endorsed him as being worthy to be elected as the next President of the United States of America in November, 2008.

By her remarkable and laudable exemplary leadership, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has defined the dignity, integrity, nobility, tenacity, and magnanimity of the heroic American woman in the political history of America.


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima
One of Hillary Clinton’s HillRaisers.

Barack Obama Wins Oregon Primary and Wins Majority of Pledged Delegations For Presidential Nomination

Barack Obama is inches away from making history as the first African American to win the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. His victory in the Oregon Democratic Primary Tuesday gave him the majority of the pledged delegates for presidential nomination.


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The Only Way The Democratic Party Can Win The Presidential Election in 2008

Most readers of the Huffington Post in support of Barack Obama are ignorant of the present realities.
Most of the Republicans and Independents who were voting for him are now wiser and they are now returning to the GOP. The polls have shown that John McCain is now the most popular of the three presidential candidates.

If Hillary Clinton is not the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, the GOP will retain the presidency.

The only way to defeat the GOP is the united front of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Hillary Clinton should be the President and Barack Obama, the Vice President.

Barack Obama boasting about his lead in pledged delegates, states and popular votes is schoolboy logic.
That kind of political rationale cannot win the presidential election.

Most of the supporters of Hillary Clinton will vote for John McCain if she is not the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.

John McCain knows that he would be favoured by the instability in the Democratic Party, because Hillary Clinton will not step down for Barack Obama and Barack Obama is too proud to step down for her.
Whoever loses the Democratic nomination will be John McCain's gain.

Hillary Clinton still has more supporters among the Latinos, Roman Catholics, White Protestants, Gays, White Baby Boomers, blue collar workers and never-say-die Democrats and their population is more than the total population of the African American voters.
Most of them are going to vote for John McCain if Hillary Clinton is not the presidential nominee.

The wound that the racist and terrorist outbursts of Rev. Jeremiah Wright inflicted on the presidential campaign of Barack Obama is deeper than what the ignorant supporters of Barack Obama think. John McCain has gained from the crisis.

Barack Obama's rhetoric is not what the Democratic Party needs to win the presidential election, but the logic of political ratiocination.

Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright (left), pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
(January 17, 2008)
Credit: Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune


I have actually ignored the uproar over the so-called anti-American and unpatriotic sermon of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and I have been accused of been pro-Obama on my blog.



Many of the supporters of Senator Barack Obama were really annoyed and disappointed by the lame excuses of Barack Obama. A poster said Barack Obama lied that he was not present on the day Jeremiah Wright preached the fiery sermon after the catastrophe of 9/11. The misleading untternaces of Jeremiah Wright have made many Americans to doubt the personality of Senator Barack Obama and such erroneous utterances could harm the prospects of the Democratic Party in the presidential election in November.

The burden is the crisis of faith in America and not about racism.
The fact is, Barack Obama lacks sound judgment and from Pastor Jeremiah Wright to his bone-headedness in doing business with Antoin "Tony" Rezko when the Syrian was under Federal Investigation, Americans can see that Barack Obama cannot lead the United States of America.

There is nothing different between Osama bin Laden and Jeremiah Wright.
One uses Islam to attack America and the other uses Christianity to attack America.
Both of them are terrorists who are using religion to preach lies and hate.
Now we can see why and how the Islamic backgrounds of Barack Obama have led him to associate with such fringe elements as Pastor Jeremiah Wright for over 20 years.
His references to the social welfare services of Jeremiah Wright's church are meaningless, because the Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and other Islamic cults also feed the poor, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless and care for the sick, but such charitable acts do not make them angels.
Even devils give alms to the poor.

The Democratic Party should face the grave consequences of the truth of what Senator Barack Obama represents.

Senator Barack Obama is not any "uniter" and is not an agent of change, because he is not a reformist. In fact, if Barack Obama had balls, he would have been a Republican and not a Democrat.

Senator Barack Obama is just another politician with very good political spin-doctors who have been making up the sound bites of his romantic political speeches to spin the majority of ignorant and gullible American voters.

The election of George Walker Bush has made things bad, but the election of Barack Hussein Obama will make things worse.

Only the best is good enough for America.

DNC: John McCain Doesn't Understand the Challenges America's Families Face

6 Mar 2008 17:49 Africa/Lagos


DNC: John McCain Doesn't Understand the Challenges America's Families Face

WASHINGTON, March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

With oil prices hitting a new record high today, people across the country are feeling the pinch. America's working families are struggling with skyrocketing health care, energy, and college costs, stagnant wages, and a foreclosure crisis that has many Americans struggling to pay their mortgages. But John McCain just doesn't understand the challenges working families face and is offering nothing more than a third Bush term on the economy that will leave America worse off.


The candidate who himself admitted "[t]he issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should" and said that the economy is strong has shown time and time again he just doesn't understand the challenges confronting the American people. Asked this week what short-term relief he would offer, all he could come up with was making Bush's budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy permanent in 2010--nearly two years from now. Not only are the Bush tax cuts skewed to the wealthy, as McCain himself argued in 2001 and 2003, but McCain has refused to explain how he will pay for the never-ending war in Iraq while making Bush's tax cuts permanent. Together, they would cost $6.3 trillion over 10 years. [Boston Globe, 12/18/07; Wall Street Journal, 3/3/08; Senate Budget Committee Fact Sheet, 1/24/08]


McCain has backed President Bush's decision to veto a children's health insurance bill, skipped a key vote on the economic stimulus package, and refused to say whether he supports President Bush's threat to veto a Democratic mortgage relief bill. [AP, 2/6/08; Politico.com, 2/6/08; Congressional Quarterly Today, 2/27/2008]


"John McCain just doesn't understand the challenges American families face every day," said DNC Communications Director Karen Finney. "If he did, he wouldn't try to defend and extend Bush's economic policies that have been devastating for America. Instead, McCain offers more of the same out-of-touch policies that do nothing to help working families, and that's the last thing voters want."


McCain Is Sure No Expert On the Economy...


McCain Says He Doesn't Understand the Economy. McCain admitted to reporters "[t]he issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." [Boston Globe, 12/18/07]


McCain's Short-Term Solution For the Economy? Tax Cuts for the Wealthy in Two Years, Of Course. When asked what efforts would have a short-term impact on the economy, McCain responded "In the shorter term, if you somehow told American businesses and families, 'Look, you're not going to experience a tax increase in 2010,' I think that's a pretty good short-term measure. And as far as confidence is concerned, I think if you say, 'Congress is going to cut corporate taxes right away,' if you say that you've got a plan to eliminate the AMT, I think some of those are kind of short-term measures right now." [Wall Street Journal, 3/3/08]


Republicans Postponing Consideration of Housing Bill So McCain Doesn't Have to Make a Hard Vote. "Consideration of the mortgage package was delayed earlier in the week when a debate over the Iraq War lasted longer than expected. At the time, Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., maintained that Republicans were intentionally delaying consideration of the mortgage package so that Arizona Sen. John McCain -- the presumptive GOP presidential nominee -- would not have to cast a vote on the bill before the March 4 Ohio primary." [Congressional Quarterly Today, 2/27/2008]


McCain Skips Vote to Give Tax Rebates to Seniors and Disabled Veterans. "McCain skipped a difficult Senate vote Wednesday on whether to make 20 million seniors and 250,000 disabled veterans eligible for rebate checks as part of a proposed economic stimulus package" despite the fact that he "was actually in Washington -- his plane landed at Dulles Airport by 5 p.m., leaving plenty of time to make the vote." [AP, 2/6/08; Politico.com, 2/6/08]


Cost of "Four More Years" Placed At $6.3 TRILLION. Yesterday's CBO "January Budget and Economic Outlook" showed continued deterioration in the budget outlook with the projected 2008 deficit growing to $219 billion. But as bad as the budget situation has become under the current Republican Administration, continuation of the Republican policies by any of the Republicans on stage tonight will only make things worse. The majority staff of the Senate Budget Committee estimates that funding Republican priorities like making the Bush tax cuts permanent and funding ongoing - and perhaps permanent - operations in Iraq will add $6.3 trillion to the CBO's already dismal ten-year predictions. http://budget.senate.gov/democratic/documents/2008/cbojanupdatefactsheet2008.p df


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Hillary Clinton and John McCain Win The New York Times Endorsements

Senator Hillary Clinton of the Democratic Party and Senator John McCain of the Republican Party have won the national endorsements of The New York Times for the 2008 US presidential election.


Senator Hillary Clinton

Mrs. Clinton sometimes overstates the importance of résumé. Hearing her talk about the presidency, her policies and answers for America’s big problems, we are hugely impressed by the depth of her knowledge, by the force of her intellect and by the breadth of, yes, her experience.

It is unfair, especially after seven years of Mr. Bush’s inept leadership, but any Democrat will face tougher questioning about his or her fitness to be commander in chief. Mrs. Clinton has more than cleared that bar, using her years in the Senate well to immerse herself in national security issues, and has won the respect of world leaders and many in the American military. She would be a strong commander in chief.

~ The New York Times



Senator John McCain

Senator John McCain of Arizona is the only Republican who promises to end the George Bush style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe. With a record of working across the aisle to develop sound bipartisan legislation, he would offer a choice to a broader range of Americans than the rest of the Republican field.

~ The New York Times