Senator Leahy calls for Clinton to drop out

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT: Sen. Leahy calls for Clinton to drop out
The Vermont senator, a prominent superdelegate, says that 'there is no way' Clinton can win enough delegates to take the Democratic presidential nomination from Barack Obama.
By Johanna Neuman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 28, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today called on Hillary Rodham Clinton to drop out of the presidential race, saying there is no way the New York senator can wrest the nomination from her rival Barack Obama.

"There is no way that Sen. Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination," Leahy, an Obama supporter, said in an interview with Vermont Public Radio this morning. "She ought to withdraw, and she ought to be backing Sen. Obama."

Leahy was the first prominent superdelegate to call on the New York senator to withdraw, but his comments came on the same day that Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean urged superdelegates to make their preferences public.

"There's 800 of them, and 450 have already said who they're for," Dean said on CBS' "Early Show." "I'd like the other 350 to say who they're for at some point between now and the first of July so we don't have to take this into the convention."...

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-campaign29mar29,0,5837464.story

[uberblonde]

1. At least he was polite.

And didn't compare her to Tonya Harding, as Obama and his followers like to do.

[papau]

2. Leahy and Vt Dems are 3 to 1 in favor of Obama - don't give a damn otherwise

[jgraz]

4. But this is a fellow *senator* doing it. How often do they call each other out?

Trust me, this is going to be big news today and into the weekend. Leahy not only called her out, he did it at a time calculated to hit the Sunday bobblehead shows.

[AX10]

3. Leahy should read this:

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/26/obama-has-not-won/

[mikelgb]

5. i see "something is being done." n/t

[DJ13]

6. Last week Richardson, yesterday Dodd, today Leahy

Every day Clinton stays in just to be a spoiler the more the party leaders are telling her to get out.

Maybe one of these days she'll take the hint.

[gateley]

7. What's this about what Dean said???

Asking that the SDs make their preferences public -- what did I miss?

Isnt' this kind of big news?