Clinton insider says Bill and Hillary will work hard for Barack Obama

[gi4obama]

Some Democrats have worried Hillary Clinton could be the skunk at Barack Obama's convention party, but Clinton insiders say she and her sulking husband are now determined to be team players.

Both Clintons plan to press hard-core supporters all week to end their boycotts and brooding and embrace Obama's candidacy. They will urge their zealots to work for Obama and will make a point in their convention talks of demonstrating the past is over and they are firmly behind an Obama victory, sources said.

"When their speeches are over, there will be no doubt that the Clintons are working hard for Sen. Obama," a Clinton source predicted. "This will be a unified party this week. That is Sen. Clinton's intention."

To that end, Clinton aides have also assembled a 40-person "whip team" - headed by veteran political operative Craig Smith - to quell anti-Obama demonstrators.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/08/24/2008-08-24_clinton_insider_says_bill_and_hillary_wi.html

[SoCalDem]

1. wink-wink-nudge-nudge

know-wut-I-mean:rofl:

[Lex]

2. The Corp. Media has been driving this story that Clinton won't support Obama

and many (even some here) have slurped the story right up and thought it was fact.

[gi4obama]

4. I never thought that.

[BlooInBloo]

3. I've been hearing that "they will" for quite some time now....

It'll be wonderful if they ever do.

[PM7nj]

6. Hillary has been good. It's Bill who is acting like a petulant child.

[gi4obama]

7. "Our floor manager will ensure that no protests will break out,"

This isn't Chicago 1968. What kind of protests?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

14. There are those who have been proclaiming...

Loud and long, that they would do everything they can to disrupt the convention and bring a floor fight. It is one of the central themes of the PUMAs.

[DJ13]

5. Good, then she should tell her supporters she has no plan to run again in 2012

That shouldnt be too hard to say if unity is what she really wants, should it?

[leftofcool]

8. She should predict the future for herself why?

[DJ13]

9. Its not predicting the future, she could even include the phrase "at this time"

But she needs to get it across to her supporters that waiting for 2012 only hurts our party, and our nation, at this time.

[mzmolly]

10. I believe that they

will.

[gateley]

11. I wish they would have done it between then and now - why wait til the last minute? nt

[CreekDog]

12. I've wanted to feel good about the Clintons again

the good feelings still come and go, but i'm waiting for them to come back again.

please Bill and Hillary, do it for the party. please. i volunteered and voted for 2 terms in the 90's, but it was not for you, it was for the Democrats and that's why i'm behind Barack.

[TexasObserver]

13. They made a deal and I expect they will honor it.

The Tuesday night intro by Chelsea, the speech by Hillary, the highlighting the accomplishment on behalf of women, the speech by Bill, and the placing her name in nomination for Thursday night all say one thing: the Clintons and Obama made a deal.

They'll honor it.

[Lex]

15. But the media will still nit-pick the Clintons to death.

No doubt about it. They desperately want a rift between Clinton and Obama.

[Agent William]

16. A small part of me believes that...

The reason the corporate media is fabricating polls to show a dead even race and then claim it is due to stubborn Clinton, is because after the convention when Obama gets a huge "bump" the MSM will claim it was due to the Clintonittes unifying the mainstream democrats. Of course the truth of the matter is that more and more Americans are realizing the truth about the Republicans after the hopefully brilliant convention. A truth that the M$M cannot fathom to run on their airwaves.

[deacon]

17. They gotta, they are on the rug too. They need to deliver or appear as they underminded

the party over self interest. Hillary needs to tells those delegates 'don't make a fool out of me, all our effort will have been for really nothing if it appears like that." She has her work cut out for her.

[Hekate]

18. Well then, Hill has GOT to repudiate the die-hards among the PUMAs & call them out as Repubs!

Did anyone see Tweety working the line on Sunday? "Who ya here for?" and so on.

Several women and men were wearing new Hillary T-shirts and big McCain buttons. They weren't mad; they were as cheerful as all get out. They were having a good time spouting the talking points: "Obama's bad for the country. I'm voting McCain so Hillary can win in 2012" and the rest of it. And everyone there was too polite to call them what they were, which is @#$!% Republicans pretending to be Democrats. If any of them were registered Democrats prior to 12 months ago I'll eat my hat.

It is past time for Hillary to tell it like it is. She has her base, but the ones causing this kind of trouble are NOT Democrats.

Hekate

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

19. Actions speak loudest

I am far more worried about Bill than Hillary. HRC knows that if she is perceived as sitting on the sidelines - particularly if (Providence forbid) BHO loses - that her national political career is deader than Dillinger. Bill at this point gives a shit about nothing but the Clinton name, and it pains me to say that.