WASHINGTON - New York Senator Hillary Clinton and her campaign will throw their support behind rival Senator Barack Obama of Illinois if he “for whatever reason” should win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, a top aide to the former first lady said on Sunday.
“If for whatever reason Senator Obama is the nominee, everyone in this campaign including Senator Clinton will support him enthusiastically,” communications director Howard Wolfson told a conference call.
But Clinton would be the better commander-in-chief and had good chances in the upcoming state-by-state battles to determine who will lead the party’s ticket Wolfson said.
Some observers have expressed concern that the tough campaign between the two historic candidates would divide the party, but Wolfson said members would coalesce around the winner in order to defeat Republican John McCain.
That rare expression of support aside, Wolfson said he did not believe Obama would end up with the lead in the popular vote after the nominating contests were over and he reiterated his position that Obama had not proven he would be the best person to lead the nation.
“We do not believe that he has passed the commander-in-chief test,” Wolfson said.
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Obama needs to publicly resign form his Black liberation Theology Church. It is racists. Jommy carter resigned and quit his church in Plains Georgia when it was proven they were racists.
O’bama is making a fatal mistake by trying to gloss over this man. He sounds just like louis Farakahan….the known anti semitic…The rev Wright is anti american and anti semitic..
Obama can’t lead America…Until he comes clean. I don’t want to put my economic livelihood into his hand,,,,and i clearly don’t want to put Obama’s finger on the Nuke button….It is a matter of judgment.
Obama has made 3 fatal errors of judgment. 1. Trying to buy a house he could not afford…2. Associating with a crook Refko……3. being a memeber of a racists and anti american and anti semetic church….What do you say…
- Posted by brookegI agree, he needs to leave that church, there are plenty of christian churchs that he can feel comfortable with, not this racist one! I also cannot believe that in 20 years he never once heard a tirade from this so called Pastor against whites or America!!
Also, Obama’s minions want Hillary to apologies for Geraldine Ferraro’s comments, yet Obama does not apologies for comments made by this nut job when he specifically made comments against Bill and Hillary. Obama just “repudiated” the pastor “sermon”.
- Posted by AngelicaIf Hillary has experience from being the First Lady, I guess that means Robin Givens has the experience to be heavyweight champ after being married to Mike Tyson..
lulz
- Posted by joeThank you. I only wish that day (Obama winning) was today instead of some date later this year.
Clinton-Bush-Rove-Penn has caused the USA great harm.
Let’s all pray for improvement.
Go Obama!
- Posted by Scotthere are my thoughts on the race in pennsylvania:
http://thevote.abc13.com/2008/03/a-look- ahead-to.html
- Posted by tom abrahamsbarack is not “glossing over” his pastor or his comments. he has denounced the pastor’s comments over & over again.
should all catholics leave their churches because some catholic priests molest children?
you cannot hold barack responsible for someone else’s remarks! you cannot judge someone by a 30-second soundbite! everyone is entitled to their own viewpoint, and no one is obligated to agree with that viewpoint!
this is america, correct?
open your minds, people!
- Posted by christineoh, and by the way, “if for whatever reason” is a really funny qualifier, wolfson!
barack WILL be the nominee because of his ability to inspire, to lead, to unite, and because of his integrity, transparency, brilliance, & honesty. those are characteristics that millions of us CANNOT use to describe clinton!
- Posted by christineBarack Obama for President of the UNITED States of America.
- Posted by PulSamsaraThe general consensus down under is that Obama is what the rest of the World wants in an American president (and by “rest of the World” I mean America’s friends more than anyone).
Funnily enough, even though Hillary was first lady under Bill she is seen by most people down here as being almost the exact opposite of Bill in personality whereas Obama and Bill seem very similar in some ways (although I don’t mean to suggest that Obama is a womanizer). None of us can understand what possible claim Hillary has to foreign policy experience just from being first lady. Isn’t it correct that she never held any form of public office prior to her present one as a senator which began in 2000?? Anyhoo, I guess even Hillary would look like a class act compared to what we’ve recently been subjected to. We are all just praying to God that America has learned some lessons from 8 years of Bush and will not appoint another warmonger like McCain.
- Posted by Tony Kemp“For Whatever Reason” — you mean, like he that won? Like, maybe even after adding in Florida and Michigan and Pennsylvania, Obama 150+ more delegates than Hillary, and a majority of SuperDelegates decided to Go With The Votes, or something crazy like that?
- Posted by IntegrityPleaseGMT, please stop spamming the blog.
I vote for the person that I know.
While Obama is charismatic, Hilary doesn’t need to be. She has been in the office and knows the routine. Intelligence is not judged on having a silver tongue.
Obama is a MEMBER at a church that has a pastor that is racist. If you dont agree with peoples views, you either find another church, or, you get the person removed. The pastor has not been removed and he continues to go.
- Posted by ESTIt is NOTHING but the GREED FOR POWER by Hillary. That simple. Where did come up with $5 Million? The Clintons will stop at nothing, legally or illegally to gain power. They will take advantage of the snail SLOW justice system which will eventually catch them. They have CNN/CBS/NBC which will amplify and lie for them as long as they were able to do so. Not anymore. They are exposed daily by internet. But, they will get away with it as long as the all Left Wing Liberals will let these criminal enterprise to perpetuate.
- Posted by Jeremiah Nicholson