Twofer with Gerard Baker - When will Hillary pull out?

Gerry Baker gives us a timetable for Hillary's withdrawal, tells us what McCain's people think about strategy and suggests a Republican Vice President for Obama.

Comments

[anita watts]

She won't pul out neither will she be elected iff she stays on. another victory for the Republicans.

[jean franck]

I never think about this, but a Republican vice President for Obama would be a good card since, Obama's message is focussed on Unity among the both parties. It will also show that we would have a strong leader and good hearted president capable of taking rational foreign decision. It will also break the belief that he is not 100% a patriotic candidate.

[chris in chicago]

Please don't breath so loud!

[mollymarry]

Hillary Clinton will put out when Obama reaches the 2025 delegates.
so why die when you have some life to live.
i don't understand that those people who pretend to be intellectual are trying to tell her to quit. because these people has their own vested interest.
obama was just lucky to get those wins because the republican voters has something to do with it. they wanted obama to be the nominee because it is easier for maccain to beat him in the election. as simple as that. and hillary clinton knew that that is why they are fighting for it.

[David]

Perhaps the view from Middlesex is a little distant, but just as in chess you can play brilliantly, then foul up the endgame, the Clintonian Exit is beginning to look very problematical. There are various ways to bow out with grace, but fighting on in this manner, and I refer to the racial comment this week, is not one of them. Bob Herbert's opinion piece in today's NY Times addresses this. Hillary should heed the torrent of good advice being penned this weekend and protect her reputation before she is overwhelmed by events.

[billybob]

Can anyone remember a woman ever gaveing in to a man, they are all like Hilary born plain stubborn!

[christine portnoff]

People seem to forget that this race is about picking the BEST candidate for a run at the PRESIDENCY. It is not about quitting early, negative campaigning, battering the democratic party..etc. Hillary should stay in until Mr.Obama gets his 2025 candidates. If the democratic party is too fragile to withstand the process to logical conclusion..then so be it! If its front-runner candidate is so easily damaged and made unviable by this process..then so be it..! I have news for the Dems..the games have just begun and this is nothing compared to whats coming up in prime time! What a bunch of snot-nosed cry -babies democrats are! and how dis-illusioned I have become!

[MAX PRIDE]

Hillary Clinton will quit the race on 20/01/2009 the day when Obama will sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America.

It' obvious that voting for Hillary is voting for a new term for her husband, Mr Cliton. Mr Cliton's policy towards africa came with a range of wars and troubles that are still affeting so many people. As far as the world is concerned with the US presidency, we need to vote for a president who wants peace around the world and built a brighter future for the generatios to come. And that would be Mr Obama!!!
Aimé

[JOHN CHUCKMAN, TORONTO]

"People seem to forget that this race is about picking the BEST candidate for a run at the PRESIDENCY."

This is an unbelievably naïve comment.

American national politics are about successfully putting together the strongest coalition of private interests.

And they are about money, lots of it. If anyone "good" happens to make it through the process, it is sheer luck.

"Best" isn't even a consideration if you examine the list of American presidents, mostly mediocrities and political hacks and thugs (Nixon, Ford, Bush, Clinton, Coolidge, Arthur, Harding, Taft, Cleveland, and more), with only a few outstanding people (FDR) along the way.

Now in that sense of best - the best political thug - Hillary would qualify head and shoulders above all comers.

[Daphne Kenward]

Hillary has some bad advisers hence she is in a race that says, the people are not funding her, what she should say to her advisers if you think I can win donate your wages every week to me, and give me all of your money for my campaign, and if they say no get out. Why support someone you would not vote for, that has been the case Republicans have been voting tactically and funding her to win so McCain can have an easy time, when the Rev Wright thing broke they thought they would not have to do it any more but it backfired thats is why she has no money and had to lend herself money for her campaign, get it.Because the Republicans stopped funding her to keep her in the race, and use tactical stratergy.

[Daphne Kenward]

What is Hillary meant to do bankrupt her self trying to win, grow up you fools.

[Geoff Mallette]

Hillary, her strategists, most likely both, completely misunderstood this campaign and the strength (and therefore threat) of Obama. This is completely to her discredit, and to Obama's credit. Obama did not hide his strategy to win this election. He simply chose a good strategy and executed it. Clinton chose a poor strategy, marginalized herself, lost badly.

[JOHN CHUCKMAN, TORONTO]

Geoff Mallette,

That is an accurate assessment.

It is just one more evidence why Hillary does not have the skills and qualities she claims she does.

[samson]

I firmly believe the Republican is much interested and much happier if Obama is the nominee because McCain will surely rap him because he is not very experience and still relay advises from his generals.

[Daphne Kenward]

Molly MARRY, what do you think POLITICS IS ABOUT? if you think politics is about someones sex you can forget it, I could not care less if Hillary was a man or a woman with those stupid policies that 4 year olds could pick holes in I would not be voting for her, the election is about some one to govern and make good decision she can't even come up with an exit stratergy, how is she going to get out of the WAR in IRAQ, if she cant quit out of a race she has no chance of winning, old women are not the best people to decide our future, or the future of the world or old men for that matter. Look at the mess Whose policies created this mess, Take a good hard look at the last 20 years and see who made the mistakes, what could they have done better and vote along those lines. Obama is the man and there is no doubt about it, FOX NEWS will try to sabotage the race, but did not sabotage G W BUSH. Did not associate G W Bush to His own grandfather who supplied oil to NAZI Germany to kill British service men & women for money, & Kill & Gas the JEWS, FOX NEWS nevwr saw anything wrong about that. FOX NEWS did not question the reason BUSH invested so much in DEATH & DISTRUCTION, BUSH fortune come from the mass murder of others, the last time it was the JEWS, this time it is the IRAQI people and his own people. Did FOX NEWS ask the question what is the difference between Bush GRANDFATHER & G W BUSH, there is none JENNA children will be able to link the two it is a family tradition Mass murder for oil money. Hence the price of oil is mega high, Hillary can't bring down the price of oil she owns no oil wells.