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"May be last day I'm involved in campaign", he says
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Date Posted: Mon, June 02, 2008 12:13:20
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That Woman, Miss Lewinsky
's message, "The Clintons don't feel that rules/laws apply to them" on Mon, June 02, 2008 11:40:07
Thomas Edsall at the Huffington Post is reporting:
> Hillary Clinton has summoned top donors and backers to attend her
> speech tomorrow night [3 Jun] in an unusual move that is being widely
> interpreted to mean she plans to suspend her campaign and endorse
> Barack Obama.
> Obama and Clinton spoke Sunday night and agreed that their staffs
> should begin negotiations over post-primary activities. In addition to
> help raising money to pay off some $20 million-plus in debts, Clinton
> is known to want Obama to help out black officials who endorsed her and
> are now taking constituent heat, including, in some cases, primary
> challenges from pro-Obama politicians.
> "This has never happened before," one donor said, referring to the
> personalized request by email to attend the event in New York Tuesday
> night.
> Obama is expected to claim enough delegates to put him over the top
> that night at a separate event in Minneapolis.
> Earlier in the day it was reported that, Clinton staffers were being
> urged by the campaign's finance department "to turn in their
> outstanding expense receipts by the end of the week," another sign that
> the run at the White House was nearing an end. In addition, Politico
> wrote that members of Clinton's advance staff had received calls and
> emails Sunday night, summoning them to New York City and telling them
> their roles on the campaign are ending.
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And this, from an ABC News blog:
> ABC News' Sarah Amos Reports: Speaking to a crowd in Milbank, SD former
> President Bill Clinton admitted that today could be the last time he
> has such an active role in presidential politics.
> "I want to say also that this may be the last day I'm ever involved in
> a campaign of this kind. I thought I was out of politics, 'til Hillary
> decided to run. But it has been, one of the greatest honors of my life
> to go around and campaign for her for president," said Clinton as he
> began his speech.
> It was certainly not a long thought - nor something he seemed to want
> to dwell on. But for a man who has rarely shown even an inkling of
> defeat in the past year, even uttering the words says a lot.
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